{"id":13883,"date":"2013-07-24T14:00:20","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T18:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=13883"},"modified":"2013-07-24T04:56:36","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T08:56:36","slug":"wiscasset-speedway-to-celebrate-44th-birthday-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/wiscasset-speedway-to-celebrate-44th-birthday-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"WISCASSET SPEEDWAY TO CELEBRATE 44TH BIRTHDAY THIS WEEKEND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/maineracing.com\/wp\/race-tracks\/wiscasset-raceway\/' target='_blank'><img class='alignleft size-medium wp-image-9644' alt='Wiscasset2013logo' src='http:\/\/maineracing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Wiscasset2013logo-300x83.jpg' width='300' height='83' \/><\/a><a href='http:\/\/maineracing.com\/wp\/race-tracks\/wiscasset-raceway\/' rel='attachment wp-att-9644'><\/a>Wiscasset Speedway will present a special race program on Saturday July 27th, celebrating the 44th birthday of Maine&#8217;s fastest track. The race program will showcase all seven of the track&#8217;s weekly divisions and other special ceremonies will take place to commemorate the occasion. <\/p>\n<p>A special pre-race dedication ceremony, honoring track builder \/ founder Wilford Cronk will take place at 5:00pm on the main grandstand side, followed by racing beginning at 5:30pm. Following heat race action the track will hold a driver recognition ceremony on the track during intermission; spotlighting over 50 current &#038; former champions and popular drivers who have contributed to Wiscasset&#8217;s history.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe track will also honor it&#8217;s June Napa Auto Parts Driver of the Month. To cap off the celebration, fans will be treated to a fireworks show at the end of the program. Pit gate opens at 1:30pm; grandstand gate at 3:30pm and pre-race activities begin at 5:00pm. Admission is $5 for adults &#038; children 7 &#038; older. Children 6 &#038; under are free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wiscasset Speedway will present a special race program on Saturday July 27th, celebrating the 44th birthday of Maine&#8217;s fastest track. The race program will showcase all seven of the track&#8217;s weekly divisions and other special ceremonies will take place to commemorate the occasion. A special pre-race dedication ceremony, honoring track builder \/ founder Wilford Cronk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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":[10,88],"tags":[15261],"class_list":["post-13883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maine","category-wiscasset-raceway","tag-wiscasset-speedway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13883","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}