As I made my way around the internet this week searching for results to compile both the All Iowa Points and the All Missouri Points, I came across some posts on the forum board at Heartland Motorsports in regard to the Scotland County Speedway in Memphis, Missouri. It appears that there will be no more weekly racing at the speedway after last Saturday night's show and since a couple of the posts are from sources I would rely upon (the track announcer and a couple of drivers), I'm going to assume that it is true despite no official announcement.
New promoter Wayne Messamaker appeared ready to make a solid run at providing weekly racing in Memphis this season, but with the unforgiving weather and the continued slow economy he was never really given a good shot at building something up. Sadly, this may be the last attempt at a weekly show at this neat little race track in northeast Missouri for some time to come, but here's hoping that they can still find a way to put on a special event or two each year. This news, along with the announcement this week that 24 Raceway in Moberly will be cutting back to an every-other-week schedule for the remainder of the season means that race fans in that area will have to do some traveling to find some racing on Saturday nights.
And by the way, I still haven't found the results from last Saturday night at Memphis.
As one track closes, another one opens, finally! The Clarke County Speedway in Osceola has been trying to hold their first race for some time now, but the fact that southern Iowa is evolving into being a tropical rain forest has kept that from happening until now. This Saturday July 10th will see the first racing at this new facility and don't forget that, with no lights, this will be some good old fashioned day-racing with action getting underway at 1 p.m. I am hoping to make the trip over for the grand opening and usually I would then try to pair it up with a visit to Corning or Knoxville that night. But my wife, bless her heart, is still trying to "class me up" a bit and will instead have me at the outdoor symphony concert that evening. After all, there will be fireworks at the end, an nobody loves fireworks more than my Christine!
That's it for now, hope to see you tonight at the Harris Clash or somewhere at the track this weekend. Don't forget that the UMP Summer Nationals are at Quincy Sunday night and they will then move to the Spoon River Speedway near Canton on Monday night to run the event that was rained out last night. Also, the Hogan Memorial is this Sunday night at Vinton.
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