{"id":4648,"date":"2011-02-06T11:52:52","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T11:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/?p=4648"},"modified":"2011-02-17T18:08:22","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T18:08:22","slug":"pete-orr-memorial-100-at-new-smyrna-is-rained-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/race-results\/pete-orr-memorial-100-at-new-smyrna-is-rained-out\/","title":{"rendered":"PETE ORR MEMORIAL ORANGE BLOSSOM 100 POSTPONED BY RAIN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: #000000; font-size: x-small;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<div><span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: #000000; font-size: x-small;\">By Marty Little<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: #000000; font-size: x-small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div>NEW SMYRNA BEACH, FL. &#8211; With drivers in their cars and ready to begin the  ninth running of the Pete Orr Memorial Orange Blossom 100 Saturday night at New  Smyrna Speedway rain forced a halt to the action. An attempt was made to dry the  track but a second downpour killed the evening and forced track officials to  postpone the event until March 12.<\/div>\n<div>A good field of 28 various type\u00a0late models prepared to do battle on  the lightning fast half-mile oval with Georgia invader Bubba Pollard setting  quick time for the century run. It was Pollard&#8217;s first ever visit to the Florida  East Coast facility but he was not intimidated one bit. Pollard drew a nine pill  which put Justin Larson on the pole and Pollard in the nine slot for the start.  The starting order will remain intact for the March 12 make up date.<\/div>\n<div>The race honors the memory of the\u00a0very popular Pete Orr, an Orlando  area driver,\u00a0who lost his life to cancer at age 46 in November 2002. Orr  himself was a seven time winner of the Orange Blossom 100 event which moved to  New Smyrna in 1989 from the defunct Palm Beach Fairgrounds Speedway where it  began in the 1970s. Oddly enough it was at the tough highly banked half-mile  Palm Beach facility where Orr achieved early success behind the wheel of a 1955  Chevrolet\u00a0in the old Hobby division. Following Orr&#8217;s passing the Orange  Blossom 100 took on Orr&#8217;s name beginning in 2003 and\u00a0quickly became one of  the &#8220;must win&#8221; events at the venerable Volusia County speedplant.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Marty Little NEW SMYRNA BEACH, FL. &#8211; With drivers in their cars and ready to begin the ninth running of the Pete Orr Memorial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[22,16,4,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-new-smyrna-speedway","category-race-results","category-upcoming-events"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4648","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4648"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4651,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4648\/revisions\/4651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}