{"id":5315,"date":"2021-06-17T18:57:25","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T23:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcraceway.com\/wordpress\/?p=5315"},"modified":"2021-06-17T18:57:25","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T23:57:25","slug":"neighbor-helping-neighbor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcraceway.com\/wordpress\/neighbor-helping-neighbor\/","title":{"rendered":"Neighbor helping Neighbor"},"content":{"rendered":"

ABC Raceway Helps Halvor Lines Speedway Get \u201921 Season Underway<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

by Nick Gima<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ashland WI, June 12<\/strong> \u2013 In the competitive world of short-track stock car racing, a gesture of neighbor helping neighbor is rare among track promoters. But in this particular case, the gesture was both genuine and generous.<\/p>\n

On May 30, representatives of the Ashland-Bayfield County Racing Association, which owns and operates the ABC Raceway in Ashland, WI, presented a check for $1,200 to the Board of Directors of the Halvor Lines Speedway in Proctor, MN, in a ceremony prior to the Proctor track\u2019s 2021 season opener. The proceeds came from the \u201cPrelude to the Clay\u201d race special held at the ABC Raceway on September 3, 2020.<\/p>\n

The Halvor Lines Speedway had its 48th<\/sup> annual Silver 1000 invitational race event scheduled for that date, but restrictions from local health departments and the State of Minnesota due to the COVID-19 pandemic forced HLS to cancel the entirety of its 2020 race schedule, including the track\u2019s crown-jewel event.<\/p>\n

The idea behind both hosting the \u201cPrelude\u201d event in Ashland and donating a portion of the race\u2019s revenue came from the ABC Raceway\u2019s Board of Directors, led by its president, Eric Erickson. The two tracks, which are situated about 75 miles apart, share many of the same drivers and fans during the stock car racing season, and when the Proctor track announced that it would not be able to host its premier end-of-season event, Erickson and his Board took quick action to plan and schedule a replacement race for that date.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe could not allow a race season to go without one of our sport\u2019s most important races being held in some fashion,\u201d ABC Raceway announcer and Board member Nick Gima said at the check presentation, in reference to the Silver 1000. \u201cThis was just our way of helping our neighbors and friends at Proctor get through a difficult time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Erickson emphasized at the time of the \u201cPrelude\u201d race that the date of the race \u2013 traditionally the Thursday before Labor Day weekend \u2013 belonged to the Proctor track, and that the ABC Raceway Board respected that and had no intention of stealing the date away. But it wasn\u2019t until a couple of weeks prior to the race date that Halvor Lines Speedway confirmed that it could not hold the event, leaving the date open to ABC to run its event.<\/p>\n

The Silver 1000 is the long-standing traditional kick-off to the six-week special-event portion of the stock car racing schedule in the Upper Midwest. It is known to be one of the longest-running invitationals in the country, begun in 1973 with the presentation of one thousand silver dollars to the winner of its Late Model feature.<\/p>\n

At ABC last September, the \u201cPrelude to the Clay\u201d \u2013 a reference to that track\u2019s long-running Red Clay Classic invitational event \u2013 drew a good crowd and 89 participants in three racing divisions to the northern Wisconsin track for what was generally considered a successful event. Ironically, the Red Clay Classic would itself be cancelled due to similar restrictions set upon the Ashland track by its local health officials, as well as the threat of cold, wet conditions, for its scheduled weekend of October 2-3, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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