{"id":8793,"date":"2012-09-23T21:15:22","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T01:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maineracing.com\/wp\/?p=8793"},"modified":"2012-09-23T21:15:22","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T01:15:22","slug":"coby-stakes-his-claim-to-victory-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/2012\/09\/coby-stakes-his-claim-to-victory-lane\/","title":{"rendered":"Coby Stakes His Claim to Victory Lane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maineracing.com\/wp\/index.php\/2012\/09\/19\/governors-off-nascar-race-week-begins-with-wet-and-wild-go-kart-event\/nhms_tag_11\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8766\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/maineracing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/nhms_tag_11-300x65.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"nhms_tag_11\" width=\"300\" height=\"65\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/nhms_tag_11-300x65.jpg 300w, https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/nhms_tag_11.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Points leader picks up first-career win at \u2018The Magic Mile\u2019<\/p>\n<p>LOUDON, N.H. (Sept. 22, 2012) \u2013 Victory Lane has long eluded Doug Coby at the \u201cThe Magic Mile\u201d. On Saturday, the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour points leader finally ended an 18-race winless drought at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, crossing the Granite Stripe first to win an action-packed F.W. Webb 100.<\/p>\n<p>Coby took the lead on a late restart and coasted across the finish line after the caution came out for a hard crash involving Ted Christopher, who was running second and in contention for his sixth career win at NHMS before being taken out by rival Donny Lia.<br \/>\n<!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know if I ever led at Loudon I had a big plan for winning,\u201d said Coby, whose previous best finish at New Hampshire was a third in July. \u201cI was going to be a big jerk and make sure I could keep the league. Turns out I didn\u2019t have to do it that way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lia, Ron Silk, Ryan Newman and Rowan Pennink rounded out the top-five.<\/p>\n<p>It was the fifth win in 12 starts this season for Coby.<\/p>\n<p>Lia picked up his first runner-up finish of the season. After trading paint and positions with Christopher for two laps, Lia tried to cut to the inside of Christopher on the frontstretch under the white flag. Instead of clearing Christopher\u2019s rear bumper, Lia clipped the 24-year modified veteran and sent him hard into the outside retaining wall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s racing. I feel really bad about it \u2013 it was by no means intentional,\u201d said Lia. \u201cI was trying to duck down by him, but it was the worst place you could hit him in the back corner. But that\u2019s it; I don\u2019t want to make a big deal about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Silk sat on the pole and ran near the front all day, but didn\u2019t have anything for Coby and Lia after the final restart.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s disappointing when you run up in the front and you don\u2019t win,\u201d said Silk.<\/p>\n<p>For more details and ticket information on events at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, or to purchase tickets to Sunday\u2019s SYLVANIA 300, please stop by our Ticket Office, visit the speedway website at www.nhms.com, or call our Ticket Hotline at (603) 783-4931.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Points leader picks up first-career win at \u2018The Magic Mile\u2019 LOUDON, N.H. (Sept. 22, 2012) \u2013 Victory Lane has long eluded Doug Coby at the \u201cThe Magic Mile\u201d. On Saturday, the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour points leader finally ended an 18-race winless drought at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, crossing the Granite Stripe first to win [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,6,20,4],"tags":[971,1350],"class_list":["post-8793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maine-racing-news","category-new-england-racing-news","category-nhms","category-latest-touring-news","tag-mhms","tag-whelen-modified-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}