{"id":6073,"date":"2011-04-16T22:53:57","date_gmt":"2011-04-16T22:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/?p=6073"},"modified":"2011-04-16T22:57:40","modified_gmt":"2011-04-16T22:57:40","slug":"ocala-speedway-has-been-sold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/front-page-news\/ocala-speedway-has-been-sold\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocala Speedway Has Been Sold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: #000000; font-size: x-small;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<div>By BJ Cavin- Ocala Speedway  Media<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>OCALA, FL-\u00a0 The historic Ocala Speedway has been sold to  nationally syndicated radio personality Bubba Clem, <span><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6075\" href=\"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/front-page-news\/ocala-speedway-has-been-sold\/attachment\/bubbathelovespongesuit-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-6075\" title=\"BubbaTheLoveSpongeSuit\" src=\"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/BubbaTheLoveSpongeSuit1-120x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/span>also known as Bubba The Love  Sponge, and will officially become Bubba Raceway Park after this weekend&#8217;s  scheduled Monster Jam Summer Tour.\u00a0 The sale was officially announced  during the 8 o&#8217;clock hour on Bubba&#8217;s Friday morning broadcast.<span><!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Effective  after Sunday afternoon&#8217;s scheduled Monster Truck Show, the speedway will close  in order for the transition to the new ownership to take place.\u00a0 Bubba  Raceway Park will have a grand reopening on Friday, May 13th, featuring a $5000  to win late model race to be known as the &#8220;Bubba Army Open&#8221; plus other features  to be announced later.\u00a0 A new website, <a href=\"https:\/\/gmx.com\/dereferrer\/?target=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.BubbaRacewayPark.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.BubbaRacewayPark.com<\/a>, should be  up and running within days, and will have an updated schedule of events, plus  further information as to changes coming to Florida&#8217;s oldest  speedway.<\/p>\n<p>And while many things will change, some will not.\u00a0 The  same great racing series that have visited the speedway in recent years will be  back, including those that have made the February Winternationals events so  popular for Florida race fans.\u00a0 In addition, Bubba Clem has announced that  he plans to keep the speedway staff intact as he takes over the operations  there.<\/p>\n<p>Further announcements about upcoming events and promotions will be  coming soon as the transition to Bubba Raceway Park takes place.\u00a0 Mike  Peters and Angie Clifton wish to thank all of the racers and fans who have  supported the speedway during their tenure as owners, and who have helped make  it into a nationally recognized facility.\u00a0 They also encourage everyone to  support the new owner and watch for many exciting changes to come.\u00a0 Mike  Peters will remain on call in an advisory role as the new team takes over the  track.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BJ Cavin- Ocala Speedway Media OCALA, FL-\u00a0 The historic Ocala Speedway has been sold to nationally syndicated radio personality Bubba Clem, also known as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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":[17,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ocala-speedway","category-front-page-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6073","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6073"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6078,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6073\/revisions\/6078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}