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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.
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.
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…
