{"id":409283,"date":"2024-05-21T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=409283"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Corry-claims-Expert-Class-win-in-May","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Corry-claims-Expert-Class-win-in-May\/","title":{"rendered":"Corry claims Expert Class win in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Corry Pangelinan won his second monthly Expert Class race of the 2024 \u201cMOTO IV\u201d Points Race Series after topping last Sunday\u2019s competition at the Cowtown Race Park in Marpi.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old Saipan Sunset Cruise and Saipan Sea Cruise staff nosed out defending Expert Class yearly champion Shane \u201cPikaboo\u201d Alvarez to top the division, 47-43 points.<\/p>\n<p>Pangelinan took Heat 1 after Alvarez sustained a flat tire that dropped him to fourth place. The latter would zoom past the former in Heat 2 but it wasn\u2019t enough as Pangelinan ultimately took the checkered flag.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe track conditions were okay it was just really dry, making it hard to see when someone is in front of you. I\u2019d like to dedicate this win to my family for always supporting me and most especially to my uncle Ponce and aunty Marissa Rasa for lending me their bike. If it wasn\u2019t for their kind heart, I wouldn\u2019t have raced and missed out on points,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Pangelinan also thanked the ERICCO Racing Team, Inas Kitchen, YCO True Value, 670 Rock Steady Shop, TurnKey Solutions, and the tent donation from House Speaker Edmund Villagomez (Ind-Saipan) and Reps. Malcom Omar (Ind-Saipan), Marissa Flores (Ind-Saipan), and Diego Camacho (D-Saipan).<\/p>\n<p>Marianas Racing Association president Ellery Cruz and former MRA president Charles Cepeda finished third and fourth with 42 points and 38 points, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>In the Veterans Class, Justis \u201cCuki\u201d Alvarez won anew with a perfect 50 points, followed by Champi Villacanes\u2019 44 points and Melvin Cepeda\u2019s 40 points.<\/p>\n<p>In the Novice Class, Melvin Cepeda ruled the roost with also a perfect 50 points. Ponce Rasa was second with his 42 points with Matthew Guerrero running third with his 40 points.<\/p>\n<p>Results of the other classes of the May 2024 \u201cMOTO IV\u201d Points Race Series will be published in the next issues of <em>Saipan Tribune.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/9a1a9357e55cbd5a26a718f9148bb50c.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Corry Pangelinan in action in the Expert Class of the 2024 \u201cMOTO IV\u201d Points Race Series last Sunday at the Cowtown Race Park in Marpi.<\/p>\n<p>-CONTRIBUTED PHOTO<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corry Pangelinan won his second monthly Expert Class race of the 2024 \u201cMOTO IV\u201d Points&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409283","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=409283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}