{"id":6556,"date":"2024-05-17T19:23:31","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T00:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcraceway.com\/wordpress\/?p=6556"},"modified":"2024-05-18T05:41:31","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T10:41:31","slug":"season-opener-canceled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcraceway.com\/wordpress\/season-opener-canceled\/","title":{"rendered":"Season Opener Canceled"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p><strong><em>2024 ABC Raceway Season Opener Delayed One Week<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>by Nick Gima<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ashland, WI, May 17 <\/strong>\u2013 The Board of Directors of the Ashland-Bayfield County Racing Association met on Friday and, after consideration of the conditions of the grounds, made the difficult decision to cancel its 2024 racing season opener, to be presented by Northern State Bank, scheduled for Saturday, May 18.<\/p>\n<p>Late-spring rains have made the facility almost inaccessible until late last week, when work crews put forth their first serious efforts to work the track, clean up and make repairs, and otherwise prep the grounds for the upcoming season. But the unfavorable forecast squelched any further efforts going into what should have been the opening weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The opener program is now slated for Saturday, May 25, at the historic three-eighths-mile red-clay oval just a few miles south of Lake Superior\u2019s Chequamegon Bay.<\/p>\n<p>The change also prompted the Raceway Board to shuffle the schedule just a bit, moving the popular Kids\u2019 Meet the Drivers Night, to be presented by Heartland Communications Group of Ashland and Iron River from the 25<sup>th<\/sup> to June 22, in conjunction with the track\u2019s \u201cRacing for a Reason\u201d Community Night, presented by Northern Clearing Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Combining the chance for fans of all ages to meet their favorite drivers on trackside with free grandstand admission should make for a great family-oriented, fun-filled night in June.<\/p>\n<p>The 60<sup>th<\/sup> season under the direction of the Ashland-Bayfield County Racing Association will include racing in eight different divisions overall, including the five weekly offerings during most of its regular-season programs &#8211; WISSOTA-sanctioned Fuhrman Design Modifieds, Superior Floral Super Stocks, Lightning Storm Graphics Midwest Modifieds and Patsy\u2019s Bar Pure Stocks, plus its own Berglund Design Six-Cylinders.<\/p>\n<p>More information regarding the 2024 season schedule at the ABC Raceway is available on the track&#8217;s website, <em><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abcraceway.com\">www.abcraceway.com<\/a><\/u><\/em>, and via its FaceBook page.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 ABC Raceway Season Opener Delayed One Week by Nick Gima \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ashland, WI, May 17 \u2013 The Board of Directors of the Ashland-Bayfield County Racing Association met on Friday&hellip;<a href=\"https:\/\/abcraceway.com\/wordpress\/season-opener-canceled\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"more-button\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Season Opener Canceled<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsandupdates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcraceway.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcraceway.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcraceway.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcraceway.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcraceway.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abcraceway.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6558,"href":"https:\/\/abcraceway.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6556\/revisions\/6558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcraceway.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcraceway.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcraceway.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}