{"id":4901,"date":"2011-04-20T21:31:50","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T02:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=9076"},"modified":"2011-04-20T21:31:50","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T02:31:50","slug":"dupree-3rd-airborne-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/dupree-3rd-airborne-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Dupree going for 3rd Airborne title"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dupree going for 3rd Airborne title<\/strong><\/p>\n

South Plattsburgh, NY \u2013 Until proven otherwise, defending Ernie\u2019s Discount Tools DIRTcar Modified champion Patrick Dupree of Saranac Lake is the man to beat at Airborne Speedway. Airborne begins its 58th stock car racing season with the Della Auto Group Fast 50 Saturday, May 7.<\/p>\n

Dupree won the 2010 season opener and was the point leader the rest of the way, winning five more races to claim his second Airborne track championship. His car of choice was the older of two machines prepared by his stepfather and car owner Wes Moody.
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\n\u201cThe car\u2019s been done over more than once, but it\u2019s basically a six-year-old TEO chassis,\u201d Dupree said. \u201cI bent it pretty good at Syracuse when I hit a rut and then the car in front of me on a restart. That pinned the wheel and I went straight across into the wall, but I think it\u2019s ready to go now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Airborne has mandated an MSD ignition box that will limit motors to 7600 rpm in 2011. It\u2019s a rule welcomed by Dupree and Moody even as some observers thought their dominance brought the rule about.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will take some horsepower out, but it won\u2019t slow the cars enough to notice,\u201d Moody said. \u201cOur motors are built by Andy Costello. They were never super-high revvers anyway. This will keep the motors alive and keep everybody racing. I think that\u2019s the main idea. The faster cars are the ones that really handle and Patrick\u2019s pretty smooth, so I don\u2019t think we have to be concerned about the new rule. More teams are improving, the competition\u2019s getting tougher, that\u2019s the challenge of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe main goal is to get off to a good start like we did last year,\u201d Dupree said. \u201cI\u2019ve said before that winning races is the goal, but I have to admit it\u2019s pretty nice to come to track and see your name on top of the point standings. You kind of want it all, but being consistent is what gets you championships.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even as the Saranac Country Store\/Fournier\u2019s Farm Equipment No. 24 gets prepped for another title run, Moody\u2019s at work on a new car. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be built with Syracuse and possibly some racing at Oswego and Loudon in mind,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

All five weekly divisions will be in action Saturday, May 7 at the Della Auto Group season opener. Post time is 5 p.m. For further information, visit airborneparkspeedway.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dupree going for 3rd Airborne title South Plattsburgh, NY \u2013 Until proven otherwise, defending Ernie\u2019s Discount Tools DIRTcar Modified champion Patrick Dupree of Saranac Lake is the man to beat at Airborne Speedway. Airborne begins its 58th stock car racing season with the Della Auto Group Fast 50 Saturday, May 7. Dupree won the 2010 […]<\/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":[126,4156],"tags":[15806],"class_list":["post-4901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-england","category-new-york","tag-airborne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4901","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=4901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}