Week 1 — Opening Night At Plattsburgh Airborne Speedway
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.
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.