{"id":977,"date":"2007-05-07T12:54:03","date_gmt":"2007-05-07T12:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maineracer.com\/wp\/?p=977"},"modified":"2007-05-07T12:54:03","modified_gmt":"2007-05-07T12:54:03","slug":"laquerre-disqualified-from-sportsman-finish-at-thunder-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/2007\/05\/laquerre-disqualified-from-sportsman-finish-at-thunder-road\/","title":{"rendered":"LAQUERRE DISQUALIFIED FROM SPORTSMAN FINISH AT THUNDER ROAD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">WATERBURY, VT &ndash; Thunder Road International Speedbowl officials have announced that stock car driver Joey Laquerre of East Montpelier, VT has been disqualified from his apparent second-place finish in the NAPA Tiger Sportsman division&rsquo;s Merchants Bank feature event on Sunday, May 6.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;Laquerre&rsquo;s car was lighter than the allowed minimum weight requirement in post-race inspection, and was stripped of its finish. &nbsp;Laquerre has been penalized all points and purse money earned in the Sportsman portion of the Merchants Bank event.<br \/>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pete Ainsworth, Jr. of Middlesex, VT crossed the finish line in third place behind Laquerre and winner<br \/>Nick Sweet, and now inherits the runner-up position. &nbsp;Chuck Beede, Kevin Campbell, and Justin Hart complete the revised top five finishers.<br \/>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Thunder Road&rsquo;s 48th season of exciting stock car racing continues with the Casella Waste Management Mother&rsquo;s Day Extravaganza on Sunday, May 13. &nbsp;Post time is scheduled for 1:00pm. &nbsp;For more information, call (802)<br \/>244-6963 or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thunderroadspeedbowl.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)\"><u>www.thunderroadspeedbowl.com<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WATERBURY, VT &ndash; Thunder Road International Speedbowl officials have announced that stock car driver Joey Laquerre of East Montpelier, VT has been disqualified from his apparent second-place finish in the NAPA Tiger Sportsman division&rsquo;s Merchants Bank feature event on Sunday, May 6.<\/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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-canadian-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977","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=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}