{"id":26510,"date":"2020-03-18T11:21:56","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T15:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/?p=26510"},"modified":"2020-03-18T03:22:54","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T07:22:54","slug":"thompson-speedway-motorsports-park-announces-new-date-for-46th-annual-liquid-death-icebreaker-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/2020\/03\/thompson-speedway-motorsports-park-announces-new-date-for-46th-annual-liquid-death-icebreaker-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"THOMPSON SPEEDWAY MOTORSPORTS PARK ANNOUNCES NEW DATE FOR 46TH ANNUAL LIQUID DEATH ICEBREAKER WEEKEND"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>THOMPSON SPEEDWAY MOTORSPORTS PARK ANNOUNCES NEW DATE FOR 46<\/strong><strong><sup>TH<\/sup><\/strong><strong>&nbsp;ANNUAL&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>LIQUID DEATH&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>ICEBREAKER WEEKEND<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>MAY 15<\/strong><strong>th<\/strong><strong>-16<\/strong><strong>th<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>TO&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>TENTATIVELY&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>OPEN RACE SEASON<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/BTKK2N_byzVNTJk-4KwF7fPqnkYxuxvbswmhePIz-fD91B5Es3xl-DwBsxgyDCQfTEu0llG6EJtHKtvZUxhgtHanfNEGDNX7vpV3LreKrgD4I4K97zQ6A55C0UDtMzpEtGRNA2hEsnfx-PoCTyffHWFm2JrRsH7lpjLiNGxFxJr9cX8Pp4km2PGkI-SU3r42fRuQOjqdaH2EyP2U9Jg2ncJh0v1NXaINugGamIoV0PqEwQbM1sfBMaoZXSEJE5CVzsT7s3pFn1M6mHZGye8LzyEmZnLfoD_q7vYhkCWkaamqu-T1F1OfE62k7xjgufb9AdBncERqsHerOOCl9a8hHkdjneCiegL-BHKPWGoxIrlAA6m-OCglo0iIn2e9RKhD2fzyDoG3nVzdUjum9lIEQ-MH8r3IZmfd4GcoJfLaYsUqeuIvphnc2t0G7OHs9Fa57CFJsC3IU7jPw6i9FijnN6hpt3WGPo-ZdOw1tZwjkSoi3zAUpGimv8dmnBJzcl9pUcmbX9JUXsBmsodc64lBLNwO0rUgStApQn09kQ8m8fhjPz3Mc9HHB27oKYuNHoAzPdu--vPp1J4LXPBCXCbMIjT6UF_TpfmjA0AjDDb-wn6iVUaSW6ygXyinxovyhkJG6couNdZVQVnQSXGJz9rv5o3TA3-0MQil5P45071p02ytXTaFjfuhnVVQyfSc=w1484-h1536-no?pageId=117885742654144314464\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"272\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>THOMPSON, Conn. &#8212;&nbsp;<\/strong>After conversations with all stakeholders,&nbsp;Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park announced on&nbsp;Tuesday&nbsp;the new date&nbsp;for&nbsp;the&nbsp;46<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;annual Liquid Death Icebreaker weekend.&nbsp;The prestigious event&nbsp;is now tentatively&nbsp;set to take place May 15-16, including the headlining NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour Death&nbsp;To&nbsp;Plastic 150.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Due to the current COVID-19 outbreak, the date is tentative, as the situation is fluid and changes are&nbsp;occurring&nbsp;across the motorsports industry&nbsp;daily.&nbsp;A full schedule for the event will be released once available.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The original date for the Liquid Death Icebreaker, April 3<sup>rd<\/sup>-5<sup>th<\/sup>,&nbsp;was&nbsp;postponed due to the COVID-19 outbreak, but Thompson Speedway officials were committed to finding the right date&nbsp;and releasing it to the public as quickly as possible.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAfter working with all of the different parties involved, we feel this is the best weekend to run the Icebreaker and kick-off the Thompson racing season,\u201d Terry Eames, the General Manager of Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park, said. \u201cJust like the entire racing community, we are disappointed that we can\u2019t start the race season as originally scheduled.&nbsp;However, we&nbsp;will continue to abide by our Connecticut Governor&nbsp;Ned Lamont\u2019s Executive Orders&nbsp;and CDC suggestions during this time. We fully expect to begin&nbsp;the season with the Icebreaker,&nbsp;May 15-16, and look forward to seeing everyone back at the track soon.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The health of our valued race teams, fans, staff and customers is paramount during the COVID-19 outbreak. We have cleaned the property thoroughly to do our part to stop the spread of the virus and will continue to do so in the future.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THOMPSON SPEEDWAY MOTORSPORTS PARK ANNOUNCES NEW DATE FOR 46TH&nbsp;ANNUAL&nbsp;LIQUID DEATH&nbsp;ICEBREAKER WEEKEND MAY 15th-16th&nbsp;TO&nbsp;TENTATIVELY&nbsp;OPEN RACE SEASON&nbsp; THOMPSON, Conn. &#8212;&nbsp;After conversations with all stakeholders,&nbsp;Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park announced on&nbsp;Tuesday&nbsp;the new date&nbsp;for&nbsp;the&nbsp;46th&nbsp;annual Liquid Death Icebreaker weekend.&nbsp;The prestigious event&nbsp;is now tentatively&nbsp;set to take place May 15-16, including the headlining NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour Death&nbsp;To&nbsp;Plastic 150.&nbsp;&nbsp; Due to the current [&hellip;]<\/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":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connecticut","category-thompson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26510","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=26510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26511,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26510\/revisions\/26511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}