{"id":110,"date":"2009-04-16T18:52:35","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T23:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=9076"},"modified":"2009-04-16T18:52:35","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T23:52:35","slug":"napa-tiger-sportsman-tri-state-series-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/napa-tiger-sportsman-tri-state-series-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"NAPA Tiger Sportsman Tri-State Series Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"

NAPA Tiger Sportsman Tri-State Series Announced<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Waterbury, VT <\/em>\u2013 The NAPA Tiger Sportsmen will be hitting the road this year with a touring series of their own. The Tiger Tri-State Series will consist of three 100-lap events in three different states. The opening event will be held at the recently redesigned Airborne Speedway in Plattsburgh, NY on July 11. Canaan Fair Speedway in Canaan, NH will host the second event on August 1st<\/sup>. Canaan featured the Tiger Tour in 2005 with five appearances. Canaan Speedway quickly became one of the favorite racing venues for the Series, often reminding veterans of the old Catamount Stadium in Milton, VT. On August 13, Thunder Road Speedbowl will decide the Series Championship in a 100-lap event for the NAPA Tiger Sportsman challengers.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Tiger Sportsmen have been touring off and on since 1990 with the most recent going back to 2006 when the Series visited Airborne, Sanair in St. Pie, Quebec, with a pair of stops at Thunder Road.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Jason Bonnett of St. Albans, VT finished third in the 2006 Series and is a two-time (2003 and 2007) Airborne Speedway track Champion in the Tiger Sportsman division. \u201cI\u2019m glad the Tour is back. It\u2019s fun to go to different tracks and race different people instead of racing the same track every week. I also like the challenge of adjusting the car to different setups for the different tracks.\u201d Bonnett and 30 other Tiger Sportsmen teams will have plenty of adjusting to do with the new, banked Airborne \u00bd mile, Canaan\u2019s 1\/3 semi-banked oval, and the high-banked \u00bc mile at Barre\u2019s Thunder Road. Bonnett went on to say, \u201cAirborne is going to be a totally different track this year with all the work they are doing over there. It\u2019s going to make it even more challenging and more fun.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Jamy Begor of Mooers, NY finished 9th<\/sup> on the 2006 tour. He said, \u201cIt\u2019s a great idea to run a three race series because you can go to a couple different tracks and it fits the budget. I enjoy going to Thunder Road and Canaan. I even won a Street Stock race at Canaan back when we ran the \u201cStreet Stock tour\u2019!\u201d Begor agrees with Bonnett that Airborne will be challenging. \u201cWe are going to have to throw out all our notes on Airborne because it\u2019s going to be a completely different track,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The NAPA Tiger Sportsmen will begin their regular Thunder Road season when the 50th<\/sup> Anniversary season starts on Merchants Bank opening day, May 3rd<\/sup>. Post time is 1 p.m. The first Tri-State Series race will be July 11th<\/sup> at Airborne Speedway in Plattsburgh, NY.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NAPA Tiger Sportsman Tri-State Series Announced \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waterbury, VT \u2013 The NAPA Tiger Sportsmen will be hitting the road this year with a touring series of their own. The Tiger Tri-State Series will consist of three 100-lap events in three different states. The opening event will be held at the recently redesigned Airborne […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}