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THOMPSON, CT. Thompson\u2019s Icebreaker weekend will offer two special race events on Saturday evening, April 13th<\/sup>.\u00a0 The events will be called \u201cBest of the Rest\u201d events and will be held for the Xtra Mart Limited Sportsman and the Monster Mini Stocks.<\/p>\n The fields in these races will be made up of drivers who raced at Thompson in 2012 but did not finish in the top ten in points at year\u2019s end. Anyone in either division who did finish in the top ten in points will not be eligible to participate in these \u201cBest of the Rest\u201d races.<\/p>\n Fast track Concessions will provide the sponsorship for the Monster Mini Stock 15-lap race and New England Race Fuels will provide the sponsorship for the Xtra Mart Limited Sportsman 20-lap main. These two non-points events will be in addition to the regular Icebreaker races for these two divisions that will be run on Sunday, April 14th<\/sup>. The paddock area will open at 8 am on Saturday, April 13th<\/sup> with practice for all divisions getting underway two hours later. Practice will continue until qualifying begins at 3 pm. General admission grandstands will open at 11 am. Sunday\u2019s schedule has the paddock opening at 9 am with pre race ceremonies slated for 11:45 am. The first race of the 7-race lineup will start shortly after 12 Noon.<\/p>\n In keeping with Icebreaker tradition, the Raceway Restaurant and Lounge will be open both Saturday and Sunday mornings for breakfast and will host the always popular dinner and dance on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ICEBREAKER TO FEATURE \u201cBEST OF THE REST\u201d RACE THOMPSON, CT. Thompson\u2019s Icebreaker weekend will offer two special race events on Saturday evening, April 13th.\u00a0 The events will be called \u201cBest of the Rest\u201d events and will be held for the Xtra Mart Limited Sportsman and the Monster Mini Stocks. The fields in these races will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[196,4163,126,41],"tags":[4165],"class_list":["post-11917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connecticut","category-modified","category-new-england","category-thompson","tag-icebreaker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11917","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=11917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nThompson management feels that they wanted to add these events to the regular Icebreaker line up to show the track\u2019s appreciation for the many years of support that these divisions have shown to Thompson. Commenting on the two special races, Management stated that every race team works very hard all year long but only about 25% of them make it to the top ten and the annual awards banquet. Races like the \u201cBest of the Rest\u201d will give these competitors a shot at a full purse and a chance to be in the spotlight on one of our biggest race weekends. The two \u201cBest of the Rest\u201d races will be run after all qualifying events have been held on Saturday.<\/p>\n