{"id":29190,"date":"2026-05-28T21:15:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T01:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/?p=29190"},"modified":"2026-05-24T21:17:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T01:17:18","slug":"mekkelsen-classic-postponed-to-fathers-day-sunday-june-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/2026\/05\/mekkelsen-classic-postponed-to-fathers-day-sunday-june-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Mekkelsen Classic Postponed to Father\u2019s Day Sunday, June 21"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Thunder-Road.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21637\" style=\"width:104px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Thunder-Road.png 500w, https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Thunder-Road-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Thunder-Road-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After holding out hope for Monday\u2019s original postponement, the weather forecast has become just as gloomy in Central Vermont for Memorial Day. Officials with Thunder Road have made the decision to postpone the 63rd running of the Mekkelsen RV Memorial Day Classic to Sunday, June 21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the summer calendar already filling up quickly for the American-Canadian Tour family of tracks and series, June 21 was singled out as the next available option on Father\u2019s Day weekend. With the move, officials have earmarked the schedule to include pit gates opening at 10:00am, grandstands opening at 11:30am, and a post time of 2:00pm on Sunday, June 21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cUnfortunately, the rain is against us this weekend,\u201d said Thunder Road managing partner Cris Michaud. \u201cWe\u2019re looking forward to an exciting Father\u2019s Day weekend for our family of tracks starting with Five Star Roofing Night on Thursday, the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour at White Mountain on Saturday and now the Mekkelsen RV Memorial Day Classic on Sunday, June 21.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thursday nights at Thunder Road are fast approaching with McGee Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram of Barre presenting the annual Super Thursday opener on Thursday, June 4! The New England Supermodified Series (NESS) returns to the Barre highbanks along with the Maplefields\/Irving Late Models, Lenny\u2019s Shoe &amp; Apparel Flying Tigers and rk Miles Street Stocks! Be there for the start of Thursday Night Racing at Thunder Road with a 7:00pm post time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After holding out hope for Monday\u2019s original postponement, the weather forecast has become just as gloomy in Central Vermont for Memorial Day. Officials with Thunder Road have made the decision to postpone the 63rd running of the Mekkelsen RV Memorial Day Classic to Sunday, June 21. With the summer calendar already filling up quickly for [&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":[26,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thunder-road","category-vermont"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29190","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=29190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29191,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29190\/revisions\/29191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}