{"id":50777,"date":"2014-07-28T07:00:11","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=50777"},"modified":"2014-07-29T07:47:16","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T12:47:16","slug":"drags-back-in-jamestown-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=50777","title":{"rendered":"Record Number Participates Drags In Jamestown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1253\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/drag1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1253\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1253\" alt=\"JDRA photo\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/drag1-300x205.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/drag1-300x205.png 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/drag1-255x175.png 255w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/drag1.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1253\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">JDRA photo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Jamestown (CSi) On Saturday and Sunday the 14th annual Jamestown Drag Races were held at Jamestown Regional Airport.<\/p>\n<p>A record number of participants, were on hand with 159 cars Saturday and 144 cars on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Jamestown (CSi) The <a title=\"JRDA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jamestowndragracing.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jamestown Drag Racing Association\u2019s<\/a> Annual Drag Races are being held this weekend, July 26 &amp; 27, at Jamestown Regional Airport\u2019s runways.<\/p>\n<p>The association gets special permission from the Federal Aviation Administration to use the facility each time.<\/p>\n<p>Both days the time trials start at<strong> 9 a.m.<\/strong> with eliminators starting at <strong>1 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gate and pit admission is $8 for adults with children 6 and under admitted for free.<\/p>\n<p>On hand will be food and ice cream vendors, with R.M. Stoudt providing a large canopy with tables and chairsto allow those in attendance to eat in the shade.<\/p>\n<p>JDRA president, Leon Westerhausen, said about 150 racers are expected for Saturday and about 120 for Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/dragrace2014sat.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-50837\" alt=\"dragrace2014sat\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/dragrace2014sat-300x202.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/dragrace2014sat-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/dragrace2014sat-259x175.png 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/dragrace2014sat.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Also, spectators have the opportunity to a ride in a drag racing car, after spectators fill out a slip and put it in a box that will be under the R.M. Stoudt canopy.<\/p>\n<p>Racers, John Roth and Bob Baumann will take the winners for a ride on the track.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the Jamestown Drag Races, go to<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamestowndragracing.com\/\"><b>www.JamestownDragRacing.com<\/b><\/a><b> <\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown (CSi) On Saturday and Sunday the 14th annual Jamestown Drag Races were held at Jamestown Regional Airport. A record number of participants, were on hand with 159 cars Saturday and 144 cars on Sunday. Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Drag Racing Association\u2019s Annual Drag Races are being held this weekend, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":50837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50777"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50980,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50777\/revisions\/50980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}