{"id":135311,"date":"2025-09-05T19:02:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T19:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/135311\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T19:02:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T19:02:06","slug":"former-nascar-driver-ricky-craven-takes-ownership-of-speedway-95-me-performance-racing-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/135311\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NASCAR Driver Ricky Craven Takes Ownership of Speedway 95 (ME) Performance Racing Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former NASCAR Driver Ricky Craven Takes Ownership of Speedway 95 (ME)<\/p>\n<p>Former NASCAR Driver and Maine native Ricky Craven has purchased Speedway 95, Hermon, Maine, from current owner Del Merritt.<\/p>\n<p>Craven will share his plans for the paved oval during the track&#8217;s annual season awards banquet on November 8, including a discussion of 2026 rule packages for the track.<\/p>\n<p>According to published reports, Craven is planning multi-phase renovations for the facility.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speedway95racing.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">speedway95racing.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former NASCAR Driver Ricky Craven Takes Ownership of Speedway 95 (ME) Former NASCAR Driver and Maine native Ricky&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[425,99],"class_list":["post-135311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}