{"id":3307,"date":"2010-10-14T02:33:26","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T02:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/?p=3307"},"modified":"2010-10-14T02:33:26","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T02:33:26","slug":"bubba-army-sprint-nationals-return-to-the-sunshine-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/upcoming-events\/bubba-army-sprint-nationals-return-to-the-sunshine-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Bubba Army Sprint Nationals Return to the Sunshine State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by DICK JORDAN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>BUBBA ARMY SPRINT NATIONALS RETURN TO THE SUNSHINE STATE!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"MA31476013-0002\" src=\"aoladp:\/\/MA31476013-0002\/Amsoil_Logo.png\" alt=\"Amsoil_Logo\" hspace=\"5\" width=\"300\" height=\"144\" align=\"right\" \/>The USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car Series opens the 2011 season February 16-19 at America&#8217;s Dirt Track &#8211; Ocala Speedway in Ocala, Florida. The 2nd Annual &#8220;Bubby Army Sprint Nationals&#8221; marks the debut of USAC racing at the 3\/8-mile dirt oval and will be part of the grand week of racing leading up to the 2011 Daytona 500, scheduled February 20 at Daytona International Speedway.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Florida is a great place to be in February and we are all looking forward to the 2nd Annual &#8220;Bubba Army Sprint Nationals,&#8221; says USAC President\/CEO Kevin Miller. Last year&#8217;s events were extremely popular and the area obviously offers many tourist attractions and vacation destinations. We expect and encourage campers who plan to take in the entire week of activity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ocala Speedway is Florida&#8217;s oldest race track and its D-shape gives it a unique quality. Drivers often relate: &#8220;If you can win a race at Ocala, you can win anywhere.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A total of 59 USAC races have been held in the Sunshine State, dating all the way back to February of 1956 when defending Indianapolis 500 champion Bob Sweikert won a 20-lap Sprint car race at Southland Speedway in West Palm Beach.<\/p>\n<p>Damion Gardner opened the 2009 series with victories at East Bay Raceway in Gibsonton, marking the first time USAC Sprint cars had raced on Florida dirt since Rich Vogler&#8217;s 1987 victory at the Florida State Fairgrounds in Tampa.<\/p>\n<p>Gardner is expected to be among top threats for the series championship in 2011, along with 2010 point leader and three-time series king Levi Jones who races for USAC Triple Crown Champion and NASCAR star Tony Stewart.<\/p>\n<p>Special events throughout the four days at Ocala are scheduled for campers and families who will be attending.<\/p>\n<p>More details will be released on this exciting week of racing as they become available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by DICK JORDAN BUBBA ARMY SPRINT NATIONALS RETURN TO THE SUNSHINE STATE! The USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car Series opens the 2011 season February 16-19 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"publish_to_discourse":"","publish_post_category":"","wpdc_auto_publish_overridden":"","wpdc_topic_tags":"","wpdc_pin_topic":"","wpdc_pin_until":"","discourse_post_id":"","discourse_permalink":"","wpdc_publishing_response":"","wpdc_publishing_error":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upcoming-events"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3308,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307\/revisions\/3308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}