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Airborne Park Speedway looks forward to 2019 season

Airborne Park Speedway looks forward to 2019 season   For immediate release – Airborne Park Speedway – APS – 101518-1     SOUTH PLATTSBURGH – Airborne Park Speedway's plans for the 2019 season – its 66th – are well underway, including the naming of 23-year-old Plattsburgh native Robby Knowles as the track's new promoter.     Knowles has handled a variety of duties and assignments at Airborne for years, principally in a promotional role as an announcer – following in the footsteps of his father Rick and his uncle Rob – and as media director giving him extensive experience working with the track's weekly competitors and various sanctioning bodies and race teams that travel to the Plattsburgh facility for special events.     Airborne's Advisory Board has received the commitment from many of its seasonal and race day sponsors for continued support in 2019 and intends to be proactive in financial and budgetary matters to allow Knowles

RAPHAËL LESSARD PARTICIPERA POUR UNE 3ÈME FOIS AU WINCHESTER 400

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AVIS MÉDIA RAPHAËL LESSARD PARTICIPERA POUR UNE 3ÈME FOIS AU WINCHESTER 400 Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce, le 10 octobre 2018 – Raphaël Lessard, pilote de développement de Toyota, sera  de retour en piste au Winchester Speedway cette fin de semaine pour prendre part à l'événement vedette  de la piste; la 47ème édition du Winchester 400 dans la série ARCA/CRA. Ce sera la troisième participation de Lessard à cette épreuve de 400 tours sur cette piste dans l'état de  l'Indiana qui attire toujours la crème de la crème des pilotes de stock-car. L'an dernier, Lessard avait pris  part à cet événement, et avait grandement impressionné, se hissant dans le Top 5, avant d'être contraint  à l'abandon. Tandis qu'en 2016, il avait mené 46 tours de la course avant d'être impliqué malgré lui dans  un accident à 5 tours de la fin. Cette année, le natif de Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce est bien déterminé à remporter l'épreuve. Le Winchester  Speedway est surnommé "l'ovale

Beauchamp Edges Out Dumblewski in NAPA Super DIRT Week DIRTcar Pro Stock 50

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Beauchamp Edges Out Dumblewski in NAPA Super DIRT Week DIRTcar Pro Stock 50 Posted: 07 Oct 2018 08:47 PM PDT Michael Fry photo OSWEGO, NY — Oct. 7, 2018 — The NAPA Super DIRT Week DIRTcar Pro Stock 50 ended on Sunday with a drag race to the finish after C.D. Beauchamp gave leader Chuck Dumblewski a tap off turn four to conclude a 50-lap battle a mere .017 seconds ahead. The competition heated up on Saturday afternoon with Time Trials as Fonda Speedway regulars Dumblewski and Josh Coonradt laid down a pair of Fast Times, only .008 seconds apart from each other, to set themselves on the front row for Sunday's feature event. Five-time defending Pro Stock 50 Champion Rob Yetman was set to make a run at a six-pack on a chilly Sunday afternoon. Starting on the outside of the second row, he stayed smooth through the first quarter of the race, until a restart on lap 14. Yetman dove into corner number one right on the leaders' tails when the rear end of the car swung around, taking out