{"id":384640,"date":"2023-02-03T06:02:42","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T20:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=384640"},"modified":"2023-02-03T06:02:42","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T20:02:42","slug":"palacios-places-first-again-in-novice-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/palacios-places-first-again-in-novice-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Palacios places first again in Novice Class"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Vicente \u201cBeng\u201d Palacios celebrates after winning the Novice Class in the 2023 Monster Energy Point Series Race last Sunday at the Cowtown Race Track. (TISHA FERRER)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By the way Vicente \u201cBeng\u201d Palacios has been riding; he won\u2019t be in the Novice Class for long.<\/p>\n

The 14-year-old again dominated the eight-lap Novice Class in last Sunday\u2019s 2023 Monster Energy Point Series Race at the Cowtown Race Track.<\/p>\n

Palacios topped both heats en route to scoring 50 points. \u00a0Christian Camacho was second with 44 points, while Ponce Rasa rounded out third with 40 points.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels good to win the first race of the season and to have a great team to support me is great. What was working for me last Sunday was to get a good start and just ride my race and just ride like its practice,\u201d said Palacios.<\/p>\n

The Dandan Middle School student was able to fend off Camacho and Rasa by using the aforementioned good start in the Marianas Racing Association January race.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just had to get a good start and then I started pulling away little by little. I am dedicating this win to my team and to my family and I just want to say thank you to all the people who have helped me throughout my racing career,\u201d said Palacios, who swapped out his old crf150 for his new yz250f.<\/p>\n

\u201c It is a bigger bike and it has more power,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

In the Intermediate Class, Corry Pangelinan also made a perfect run in the 10-lap race for 50 points. Henry Camacho Jr. was second with 42 points, while Melvin Cepeda was third with 40 points.<\/p>\n

Nakoa Torres and Bentley Koshiro rode alone in the Peewee ATV and the Peewee I classes, respectively, and won the four-lap races without much effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By the way Vicente \u201cBeng\u201d Palacios has been riding; he won\u2019t be in the Novice…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":384631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}