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ABC gets sunk by Mother Nature again, will try again on June 8

ASHLAND, WI (June 1) - They say the third time is a charm. “They” haven’t been hanging around the Northland much this Spring.

Once again, heavy overnight rains created unfavorable conditions at the ABC Raceway, forcing track officials to make the difficult decision to cancel the 60th season opener on Saturday. That’s three straight cancellations to start the 2024 season.

“We’re more disappointed than our fans and racers that we can’t get this season going,” said Raceway Board president Eric Erickson shortly after the vote came down to cancel. “Our people have been working so hard to get this place ready, but the weather doesn’t want to cooperate.”

The program was to include the opening round of the nine-race FastLane Motorsports Northland Super Stock Series, to be presented by the NAPA Auto Parts Stores of Ashland and Washburn. The Series, in its 10th season, will now consist of eight shows over the next two weekends, at eight different tracks in northwestern Wisconsin and northeastern Minnesota, and could draw as many as 80 different WISSOTA Super Stock entries from throughout the Upper Midwest.

ABC is now slated to host race four of the series on Saturday, June 8. Track officials will announce an updated purse structure for that event soon.

ABC Raceway is one of the three charter tracks of the Series – Superior, WI and Proctor, MN are the others – which has hosted or will host FastLane Series races in each of the tour’s 10 seasons. Other tracks hosting programs in this year’s Series are located in Rice Lake and Menomonie in Wisconsin, and in Grand Rapids, Ogilvie and Sauk Rapids in Minnesota.

At the upcoming ABC show, the headlining Super Stocks will be joined by WISSOTA Modifieds, WISSOTA Midwest Modifieds, WISSOTA Pure Stocks, and ABC Six-Cylinders.

More information regarding upcoming events is available at www.abcraceway.com.