{"id":12866,"date":"2012-08-13T16:28:29","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T16:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/?p=12866"},"modified":"2012-08-13T16:28:29","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T16:28:29","slug":"super-dirtcar-series-invades-lebanon-valley-speedway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/front-page-news\/super-dirtcar-series-invades-lebanon-valley-speedway\/","title":{"rendered":"Super DIRTcar Series Invades Lebanon Valley Speedway"},"content":{"rendered":"

Drivers Compete with Two-Time Consecutive Winner JR Heffner for $17,500 Prize<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"WEST LEBANON, N. Y. – Challenge awaits traveling Super DIRTcar Series Big-Block Modified drivers as they move into the series’ eighth round Thursday, Aug. 16, at Lebanon Valley Speedway and battle for the hefty $17,500 winner’s award.<\/p>\n

The past two years the series has invaded the speedway’s high banked, half-mile clay oval, local star JR Heffner piloted his #74 A. Colarusso\/Bicknell Chassis\/Bedell horsepower machine to beat out the likes of Brett Hearn, also a Lebanon Valley regular, current two-time defending series champion Matt Sheppard, and four-time series champion Danny Johnson.<\/p>\n

Although the father of four from Pittsford, Mass., rarely travels with the series, Heffner made winning a series event look easy, leading all 100 laps at last year’s Lebanon Valley Super DIRTcar Series event.<\/p>\n

“I’m honored to win the last two years in a row. I look forward to the race,” Heffner said. “Lebanon is a very tough track and then you bring the Billy Deckers and the Matt Sheppards there – it’s really going to be tough competition among the guys who are already tough competition.”<\/p>\n

Despite these former successes and a good 2012 season putting him fourth in points at Lebanon Valley, Heffner said he cannot predict a third consecutive victory at the “Mr. DIRT Track U.S.A” 100 lapper.<\/p>\n

“I can promise I will give i120 percent to make it happen, but given the competition and circumstances, I can never predict that happening,” Heffner said. “The only thing we can do is bring our A game and see where the cards fall.<\/p>\n

Gates open at 5 p.m. and racing is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. for Thursday’s event, which is presented by Gendron’s Truck Center and Hoosier and includes a Budget Sportsman show.<\/p>\n

For the latest updates on DIRTcar racing, “like” the Facebook page<\/a> or follow the Super DIRTcar Series Twitter feed, @SuperDIRTcar<\/a>.<\/p>\n

EVENT DETAILS:<\/strong>
\nWhat: <\/em>Super DIRTcar Series round eight, “Mr. DIRT Track U.S.A” 100-lap event
\nWho:<\/em> <\/em><\/strong>Super DIRTcar Series drivers and teams
\nWhen:<\/em> 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 16, gates open at 5 p.m.
\nWhere:<\/em> Lebanon Valley Speedway, 1746 US Route 20, West Lebanon, N. Y.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Drivers Compete with Two-Time Consecutive Winner JR Heffner for $17,500 Prize WEST LEBANON, N. Y. – Challenge awaits traveling Super DIRTcar Series Big-Block Modified drivers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"publish_to_discourse":"","publish_post_category":"","wpdc_auto_publish_overridden":"","wpdc_topic_tags":"","wpdc_pin_topic":"","wpdc_pin_until":"","discourse_post_id":"","discourse_permalink":"","wpdc_publishing_response":"","wpdc_publishing_error":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,3,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-front-page-news","category-super-dirtcar-series"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12866"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12868,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12866\/revisions\/12868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}