Plans are well underway for the 2027 Indoor Auto Racing Championship Series, with dates confirmed for January events in Allentown, PA and Atlantic City, NJ.<\/p>\n
The series kicks off\u00a0with the Allentown Indoor Races inside the PPL Center on Friday Jan. 8 and Sat. Jan. 9, featuring a full program of TQ Midgets, Champ Karts and Slingshots.<\/p>\n
Last year, USAC star Briggs Danner delighted his hometown crowd by scoring his first career Indoor Series victory, while on Saturday, it was Harvard, Mass. drive Matt Swanson claiming an emotional checkered flag in honor of late car owner Jeff Ulrich.<\/p>\n
From there, action shifts to Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall for the 25th running of the NAPA Auto Parts Racing Weekend on Friday Jan. 29 and Saturday Jan. 30. Friday\u2019s program will feature the BlackJack 21 for TQ Midgets, which was introduced in 2024. Saturday night will once again be the prestigious Gambler\u2019s Classic for the TQ Midgets, with Slingshot, 600 Micro Sprint and Champ Kart main events also on the card.<\/p>\n
Last year, Danner once again parked his No. 78 in victory lane following Friday night\u2019s BlackJack 21. Saturday\u2019s Gambler\u2019s Classic produced another first-time winner as Ontario, NY\u2019s Trevor Catalano survived a crowd-pleasing, side-by-side battle with Kyle Lick for the $6,500 score, while Danner claimed his first ever Indoor title.<\/p>\n
An event at Trenton, NJ\u2019s CURE Insurance Arena, which played host to the East Coast Indoor Dirt Nationals for the last seven years and served as the series finale, will not be held.\u00a0\u00a0A suitable date for both the arena and the series wasn\u2019t available, the arena play host to the Trenton Ironhawks ECHL Hockey Team starting this fall.<\/p>\n
Ticket for Allentown and Atlantic City will go on sale Tuesday, September 22.\u00a0Additional information, pre-sale dates and entry forms will be available in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n
Fans are strongly encouraged to purchase through the official series website, IndoorAutoRacing.com<\/a>, to secure the best pricing and avoid inflated rates from third-party resellers.<\/p>\n Event and series sponsorship opportunities are available for all budgets. Interested parties should contact Danny Sammons, [email\u00a0protected]<\/a> or call 609-888-3618<\/a>.<\/p>\n For more information on the Indoor Auto Racing Championship, visit IndoorAutoRacing.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n Also taking place in January is the 41st Pioneer Pole Buildings Motorsports Race Car & Trade Show, promoted by Len Sammons, on Jan. 22-23 at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center in Oaks, PA. The show features hundreds of race cars, displays and industry vendors. For show information, visit motorsportstradeshow.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n Indoor Auto Racing PR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plans are well underway for the 2027 Indoor Auto Racing Championship Series, with dates confirmed for January events…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-277734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}