{"id":394830,"date":"2023-06-29T06:02:35","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T20:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=394830"},"modified":"2023-06-29T06:02:35","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T20:02:35","slug":"palacios-drops-another-50-piece-in-novice-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/palacios-drops-another-50-piece-in-novice-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Palacios drops another 50-piece in Novice Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_394810\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-394810\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MRA-pixwb-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MRA-pixwb-1.jpg\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-394810\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beng Palacios topped the Novice Class of the  June competition of the 2023 Monster Energy Point Series Race last Sunday at the Cowtown Race Track.(CONTRIBUTED PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Four races and four wins by perfect 50 points so far for Beng Palacios in the 2023 Monster Energy Point Series Race.<\/p>\n<p>The 14-year-old incoming Marianas High School student won his division in the June competition anew by winning both heats last Sunday at the Cowtown Race Track.<\/p>\n<p>The June race follows his victories in the January, March, and April editions of the race.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last Sunday\u2019s race was the Marianas Racing Association\u2019s first in two months as they took a break following the club\u2019s participation in Guam\u2019s 40th Smokin\u2019 Wheels late last April.<\/p>\n<p>Palacios beat Smokin\u2019 Wheels ATV Enduro race co-winner Christian \u201cHollywood\u201d Camacho and Ponce Rasa who both finished second and third with 44 points and 38 points, respectively.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe win was great. The race was good as it was a good day [for racing]. It\u2019s been a while since my last race but it felt good,\u201d said Palacios.<\/p>\n<p>He said he was able to navigate the treacherous course conditions last Sunday thanks to his experience and performance of his Kawasaki kx250.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe track conditions were crazy. It was very loose and slippery with some big rocks, but I managed to stay on two wheels and fight through the race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Palacios then dedicated his victory to his family, Trench Tech Racing, specifically his sponsors Justis \u201cCuki\u201d Alvarez and his wife, Mari, and Melvin and Eleanor Cepeda.<\/p>\n<p>In the Peewee ATV, Nakoa Torres was the lone rider and got 50 points. Ditto for Elleayah Cruz and Anella Igitol in the Mini I and Mini ATV as they also went home with additional 50 points.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Results of the other classes in the June 2023 Monster Energy Point Series Race will be published in the next issues of Saipan Tribune.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four races and four wins by perfect 50 points so far for Beng Palacios in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":394809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394830","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\/394830","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=394830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}