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Week 1 — Opening Night At Plattsburgh Airborne Speedway

Travis Smith
13 min readMay 13, 2021

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After nearly an entire year of no fans and close to no racing in 2020, Plattsburgh Airborne Speedway, on Saturday night, May 1st, 2021 reopens with fans to a COVID-19 restricted capacity of 750. There were four divisions in action at Airborne: the Limited Sportsman Modified, the 4-Cylinders, the Hartson Total Opening Renegades and the DIRTcar Sportsman Series.

#18 — Blayden Arquette wins Limited Sportsman Modified A Main — Plattsburgh Airborne Speedway — Courtesy of KC Photo Video
#18 — Blayden Arquette wins Limited Sportsman Modified A Main — Plattsburgh Airborne Speedway — Courtesy of KC Photo Video

First, the Limited Sportsman Modified A Main, with 15 laps as the distance, would feature a race that was pretty much decided on the first few laps and would finish with only three cars on the track out of seven that started.

#18 Blayden Arquette would start off strong on Lap one with #411 Mark Fewster hanging with him. He would have some speed but would not be able to maintain that for the rest of the race as #82G Garrett Given would over take the #411 on Lap one.

After a caution on Lap four, the #18 car would start with a commanding lead with the #82G car holding in second. After the midway point, there were only three cars on the track: #18, #82G and #000 Al LaJoice for the rest of the race.

In the final few laps the #82G car would close the gap to around two car lengths but he simply did not have enough time to over take the #82G car. The #000 ended up nearly an entire lap behind the top two.

The final results are: #18 Blayden Arquette would take the win with #82G Garrett Given in second and #000 Al LaJoice in third place. All other finishers did not finish the race: #22 Matt Lemaro in fourth, #04G Dale Gonyo Sr. in fifth and #411 Mark Fewster in sixth.

#28X — Matt Parker wins 4-Cylinder A Main — Plattsburgh Airborne Speedway — Courtesy of KC Photo Video
#28X — Matt Parker wins 4-Cylinder A Main — Plattsburgh Airborne Speedway — Courtesy of KC Photo Video

Second, the 4-Cylinder A Main, with 15 laps as the distance, would be a race with what seemed to have an endless number cautions: seven total cautions for a 15 lap race!

The #76 Josh Blake would be in the pole position and would get out in front with #4 Josh LaPorte Jr. quickly taking second and #13 Nathan Smart overtaking #42 Caleb Tourville on the back stretch for 3rd place but then on the last turn of lap two #45 Josh LaPorte takes the lead with the #76 car right behind him with the #13 car in third…

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