{"id":930,"date":"2009-09-14T15:37:56","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T15:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maineracer.com\/wp\/?p=930"},"modified":"2009-09-14T15:37:56","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T15:37:56","slug":"a-three-week-break-cant-brake-gsrs-diversity-driver-katie-hagar-earning-a-top-ten-finish-at-the-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/2009\/09\/a-three-week-break-cant-brake-gsrs-diversity-driver-katie-hagar-earning-a-top-ten-finish-at-the-99\/","title":{"rendered":"A Three Week Break cant Brake GSRs Diversity Driver Katie Hagar Earning a Top Ten Finish at the 99"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Golden State Racing and their  Diversity Driver, Katie Hagar went back to racing at the Stockton 99  Speedway on September 12<sup>th<\/sup> after having a three week break. <\/font><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">While Katie and the crew had  time off, Katie was able to visit her local town of Damariscotta, Maine  to see Family.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">&nbsp;&ldquo;It felt so good to  be home!. When you wait anxiously for six months, you appreciate your  family more in many different ways. I remember a time when I was In  High School and I couldn&rsquo;t wait to leave Maine&hellip;now, I couldn&rsquo;t  wait to go back, especially to see my Mom&rdquo; Katie stated after just  arriving back to the West Coast. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">&ldquo;It&rsquo;s time to get back  on track; it&rsquo;s like the beginning of the season to me. Take these  last few races in preparation for the Combine&#8230;&rdquo; Hagar commented.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">The #14 machine hit the track  Saturday afternoon at the New 99 Speedway along with twenty one other  competitors. Hagar struggled in the second practice after missing the  first practice due to a dead battery. Fighting a tight car all day and  through qualifying, Hagar started the first 50 lap Main Event last.  Thirty laps into the event, Katie was in eleventh position when the  two cars wrecked in front of her, exiting turns one and two. The #14  team had to call it an early night for the first Main Event in preparation  to make it for the second Main Event.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">In the second 50 lap Main Event  Katie started last, driving her way up the ladder finishing a solid  7<sup>th<\/sup> place finish. &ldquo;I was starting to get impatient with  all the yellow flags, once I took a deep breath knowing that I was back  racing and in the seat&hellip;I said this is what I live for, even through  the struggles. My team and I today had fun and learned some new things  about this other car. In some ways it was disappointing that I couldn&rsquo;t  of given my crew chief a win, since this was his last week with me.&rdquo; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">Katie will return back to Stockton  99 Speedway on September 26<sup>th<\/sup> with twin 50&rsquo;s<\/font><\/p>\n<p> <font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">For more pictures and updates,  you can stay tuned in with Katie at <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.d4d.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\" color=\"#0000ff\"><u>www.D4D.tv<\/u><\/font><\/a><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">  and <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.katiehagar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\" color=\"#0000ff\"><u>www.KatieHagar.com<\/u><\/font><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Golden State Racing and their Diversity Driver, Katie Hagar went back to racing at the Stockton 99 Speedway on September 12th after having a three week break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-england-racing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930","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=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}