{"id":70873,"date":"2017-05-04T14:52:05","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T20:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/fairgrounds-speedway-set-to-host-sprint-cars\/"},"modified":"2017-05-04T20:52:05","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T20:52:05","slug":"fairgrounds-speedway-set-to-host-sprint-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/fairgrounds-speedway-set-to-host-sprint-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairgrounds Speedway set to host sprint cars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For the first time in nearly 20 years, sprint cars will fire up their engines and compete at Fairgrounds Speedway in Cortez.<\/p>\n<p>Billed as one of the best shows of the decade, races will take place on May 5 and May 6, and several classes of cars will be featured, including hobby stocks, stock cars, sports-mods and modifieds. Each race will be sanctioned by the International Motor Contest Association (IMCA) and drivers will earn points in the IMCA season series.<\/p>\n<p>Doors will open at 6 p.m., and races will begin at dusk. General admission is $15, and family passes that cover five family members are available for $35.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe haven\u2019t had sprint cars at the Cortez track in nearly 20 years,\u201d said track promotor Kevin Faddis.  \u201cIt was a big draw back then, and I wanted to do something different for the fans. It should be a lot of fun.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weekend races promise thrills<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,60,2362],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-70873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-montezuma-county","tag-motor-racing"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70873"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=70873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}