{"id":17499,"date":"2015-01-10T08:19:39","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T13:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=17499"},"modified":"2015-01-10T08:19:39","modified_gmt":"2015-01-10T13:19:39","slug":"historic-racing-returns-thompson-speedway-motorsports-parks-oval-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/historic-racing-returns-thompson-speedway-motorsports-parks-oval-track\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic Racing Returns to Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park\u2019s Oval Track"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/oolgdfg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-17500\" src=\"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/oolgdfg-300x92.jpg\" alt=\"oolgdfg\" width=\"316\" height=\"97\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/oolgdfg-300x92.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/oolgdfg.jpg 406w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 316px) 100vw, 316px\" \/><\/a>The 2015 season will mark the 75th anniversary of Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park, so it is fitting that it would also see the return of historic racing on the 5\/8 mile oval, for the first time since 2012. The Historic Oval Invitational will be a two-day event held on Friday and Saturday, May 15-16, 2015.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The races are open to any race cars built before 2000, and will include Midgets, Sprints, TQ Midgets, Super Modifieds, Champ Cars, Vintage Outlaws, Stock Cars and more.<br \/>\nThe event will also feature a Hot Rod &amp; Classic Car Show on Saturday morning from 10AM until 2PM. The cost to display a car is $10, which includes grandstand admission for the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2015 season will mark the 75th anniversary of Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park, so it is fitting that it would also see the return of historic racing on the 5\/8 mile oval, for the first time since 2012. The Historic Oval Invitational will be a two-day event held on Friday and Saturday, May 15-16, 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"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":[196,41],"tags":[15669],"class_list":["post-17499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connecticut","category-thompson","tag-motorsports-parks-oval-track"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17499","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17501,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17499\/revisions\/17501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}