{"id":21457,"date":"2017-03-06T21:32:23","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T02:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/?p=21457"},"modified":"2017-03-06T21:32:23","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T02:32:23","slug":"airborne-park-speedway-2017-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/2017\/03\/airborne-park-speedway-2017-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Airborne Park Speedway 2017 Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Airborne Park Speedway 2017 Schedule<\/strong><\/p>\n

PLATTSBURGH- For the first time in twenty-six years, a full dirt racing schedule is slated for Airborne Park Speedway. <\/p>\n

\tThe 2017 season will feature two premier events along with a number of other high quality racing series and events.<\/p>\n

\tThe most anticipated for the season falls on Thursday, July 6, with the Super DIRTcar Series Big Block Modified Tour. The Mike Perrotte led series averaged 40 cars attempting to qualify for their events in 2016. Last season\u2019s champion, Matt Sheppard is back contending with SDS, including other top runners Tim Fuller, Danny Johnson and Brett Hearn. <\/p>\n

\tSaturday, June 10 will be Empire Super Sprints night. Drivers from both the United States and Canada are expected for this event. Steve Poirier was last season\u2019s ESS champion.
\n<\/p>\n

\tOpening day will be on May 6 with a 7 P.M. post time. The 358 Modifieds will run a regular distance event for $2,000 to win. Also scheduled will be the Sportsman Modifieds, Renegades and Mini Mods. <\/p>\n

\tWeek number two will feature autograph night and the TUSA Mod Lites will be in town on May 20. <\/p>\n

\tThe Memorial Day celebration will occur on May 27 with the Canadian Pro Stock Series as the special on the racing card. Regular racing divisions will be in action that night.<\/p>\n

\tLittle League Night will be held on June 3. Two weeks later, the Rev Star Speed STR and Slingshot SR groups. Kids\u2019 Night will wrap up the month of June on the twenty-fourth. <\/p>\n

\tThe Fourth of July Celebration will occur on July 1 this season, with fireworks and special details to be announced later.
\n\tMid-Season Championships will be decided on July 8 for all regular racing divisions.<\/p>\n

\tThe remainder of July will see Volunteer Fire & EMS night on July 15, a week off for the Clinton County Fair on July 22 and Legend\u2019s Night on July 29. The Dirt Modified Nostalgia Tour will be on hand for Legend\u2019s Night. <\/p>\n

\tAugust 5 is Law Enforcement Night, August 12 will have dump truck races, spectator races on August 19 and a Salute to Our Heroes (Military Night) will cap off the month. <\/p>\n

\tSeptember 2 will be a Labor Day Special and the final point counting event for the 358 Modifieds and Sportsman Modifieds.
\n\tThe DIRTcar Pro Stock Series and a Sportsman special is scheduled for Sunday, September 10. The Rev Star Speed STR and Slingshot SR groups will be back again. More details on this event will follow.<\/p>\n

\tSeptember 24 will be the Leon Gonyo Memorial 358 Modified Special plus the DIRTcar Sportsman Series. The Sportsman Series averaged 48 cars attempting to qualify for each event last season. <\/p>\n

\tThe second annual Robin Branham Crash For Cancer Enduro will be on Saturday, September 30 with a rain date on Sunday. More details will be available for this event.<\/p>\n

\tThe final event of the season will be the $20,000 Demolition Derby on October 14 and 15 at the Clinton County Fair Grounds.
\n\tRegular season events will have a 7 P.M. post time and main gates will open at 5:30 for those races. Ticket prices for regular events will be $12 for adults, $3 for kids ages 6-14 and $25 for a family of two adults and two children. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Airborne Park Speedway 2017 Schedule PLATTSBURGH- For the first time in twenty-six years, a full dirt racing schedule is slated for Airborne Park Speedway. The 2017 season will feature two premier events along with a number of other high quality racing series and events. The most anticipated for the season falls on Thursday, July 6, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airborne","category-new-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21459,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21457\/revisions\/21459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}