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Big Weekend Planned at Airborne Speedway |
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Written by RIck Knowles
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Sunday, 14 September 2008 20:28 |
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Airborne Speedway kicks off a big weekend of events Friday afternoon with the 1st annual Outside Groove.com-Airborne Speedway charity golf classic at the Harmony Golf Club in Port Kent, New York. The event is a 3 person best ball format featuring officials, drivers and fans from Airborne Speedway and the website Outsidegroove.com. 20 teams are expected to tee off Friday afternoon starting at 1pm. Outsidegroove.com czar Gene Gagne will have the honor of striking the first ball. Following play an awards ceremony will be held at Airborne Speedway with prizes donated by Plattsburgh Distributing, Bill McBride Chevrolet, Consolidated Apparel, Price Chopper, MSM Sports and Next Generation vending. All proceeds from the event are being donated to the fund to help pay medical expenses for local cancer patient Colby Lamonda. Airborne Speedway owner Steve Fuller will be presenting a check to Colby at the awards cermony. Fans are welcome to attend and cheer on your favorites.
On Saturday, Airborne Speedway opens its gates for an afternoon of practice followed by time trials for the dirt car modifieds, sportsman and renegades. The track is putting cash on the line for the top time-trial driver in each division. Once the on track activities are concluded the off track fun begins. With plenty of room for weekend camping in the "back field" Saturday night will feature fun, frolic and frivality. A softball game, karaoke singing and many other fun events are planned.
Sunday events will get underway at 1pm with qualifying for the modifieds and sportsman and main events for the renegades, warriors, bombers and the CVRA/DIRT budget sportsman. The modifieds and sportsman will each have 100 lap feature events. Going into the final regular race of the season Patrick Dupree, from Saranac Lake, has won the modified track title. In the sportsman division 25 year racing veteran Bucko Branham has clinched his 1st career track championship. Lonnie Rivers has a 27 point lead over "Little Joe" Daniels. Warrior point leader Butch LaMere holds a 29 point lead over defending champ Rick Doner. 7 time bomber winner Randy "Gilligan" Martin has a 44 point lead and only needs to start the final event of the season.
Airborne Speedway closes out its 2008 campaign on Saturday October 4th with a 200 lap $10k to win enduro that is drawing entries from as far away as North Carolina. Grandstand admission for the enduro is just $2 with all proceeds being donated to the Make a Wish Foundation.
Fall Foliage Schedule of Events
*Schedule Subject to change at tracks discretion
Saturday-Admission $5.00 for everyone!
Gates Open @ 12pm
Practice 1pm-4pm
Time Trials for Modifieds, Sportsman, & Renegades (NOT mandatory) 4pm-5pm
$100.00 to fastest Modified
$50.00 each to fastest Sportsman & Renegade
Sunday-Pit Admission: Members $25.00/Non-Members $30.00
Gates Open @ 9am
Practice 11am-12:30pm
Racing Starts @ 1pm
Adult Admission: $18.00/Kids 6-12: $5.00/5 & Under: FREE
Schedule Of Events
Bomber Feature- 20 Laps
Warrior Feature- 20 Laps
Renegade Feature- 30 Laps
DIRT Sportsman Heats(if needed)
Airborne Sportsman Heats(Handicap)
Modified Heats-Draw for start position & redraw top 12 for feature line up
DIRT Sportsman Feature
Airborne Sportsman Feature- 100 Laps
Modified Feature-100 Laps |
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Last Updated on Monday, 15 September 2008 07:28 |
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Branham clinches first career title |
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Written by RIck Knowles
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Wednesday, 03 September 2008 10:13 |
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Plattsburgh's Bucko Branham is currently in his 25th season of racing at Airborne Speedway. He has competed on the dirt and now the asphalt. Over those 25 seasons Branham has captured more wins than anyone else in that time span. The one thing that has eluded Branham is a track championship.
When the final checkered flags falls on September 21st Branham will officially be crowned the 2008 Airborne Speedway Sportsman Track Champion. Last Saturday night Branham extended his points lead over Shawn Duquette to 63 points. The most points that can be gained in any one event is 50. And with just one points race remaining even those not smarter than a fifth grader know Bucko cannot be denied his crown.
In addition to the track championship, Branham leads the way with 3 victories in the divsion. That is a quite an accomplishment in its own as the competition in the Sportsman division has been fierce all season long. Each week any one of a dozen or so cars is more than capable of picking up a checkerd flag.
Branham is known online as "oldtimer" it wouldnt surprise anyone if this "oldtimer" has many more wins and championship trophies to collect before he finally calls it quits.
Patrick Dupree, from Saranac Lake, not only clinched the Modified championship, he won the 100 lap Labor Day Classic in convincing manner. Runner-up Mike Bruno had a tough night having to deal with a flat tire at the midway point of the race before falling out in the latter stages with a broken axle.
Airborne's other 3 divisions each have 2 points races remaining. 50 lap events on September 13 and the closing event on September 21. Renegade driver Lonnie Rivers extended his lead as Lance Rabtoy's night ended on the wrecker. In the Warrior division Butch LaMere won his 6th event of the season and opened ground on defending champ Rick Doner. 8th grader Josh Terry picked up the win and Randy Martin maintained his points lead in the bomber division.
Airborne is back in action Saturday September 13 with a special 5pm post time.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 03 September 2008 10:38 |
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Modified Track Title Decided Saturday |
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Written by RIck Knowles
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Monday, 25 August 2008 16:19 |
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The Airborne Speedway modified track champion will be crowned Saturday night. Heading into the final points race of the season for the mighty modifieds Saranac Lake's Patrick Dupree leads former track champion Mike Bruno from Rutland VT by just one point. As a result whomever finishes higher in the 100 lap main event will be crowned the 2008 champion.
Dupree picked up the victory on opening week at the Plattsburgh speedplant but has not carried the checkers since. Bruno leads the way in the win category in the modified division. Mike has been driving a backup car since a turn 4 mishap destroyed the teams primary car a few weeks ago.
The sportsman division still has 2 point races remaining. Plattsburgh's 25 year racing veteran Bucko Branham has a large lead over Shawn Duquette. Branham has 3 wins on the season and numerous top five finishes. It would be the first track championship for Branham in his stellar career at Airborne.
The Renegades, Warriors and Bombers each have 3 point races remaining. There is a great battle in the renegades going on between Lonnie Rivers, "Little Joe" Daniels, Lance Rabtoy and Dave Rabtoy. Rivers currently leads the way but with 3 events to go anything can happen. Another fantastic finish is expected in the warrior division. Butch Lamere and defending track champ Rick Doner have switch leads over the past couple weeks. In the bomber division 6 time winner Randy "Gilligan" Martin has the lead and will be very tough to catch.
To access the Motorsports Magazine TV program simply click on visitors then go to area video. We will be adding all of the 2008 Motorsports Magazine shows to the video page. We hope you enjoy them. To purchase a DVD of the full race card from Airborne log onto www.outsidegroove.com or email
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Last Updated on Sunday, 31 August 2008 15:47 |
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