More news on Iowa race tracks and their plans for 2015 are coming out and while the northwest quadrant of the state will be teeming with weekly tracks, there will be one less in the southeast corner.
Lee Meyer will return to promote the Wednesday night program at the Buena Vista Raceway in Alta, just west of Storm Lake. Meyer previously promoted the track from 2002 through 2007 and he will now serve as the manager for the Buena Vista County Fairboard as there are more and more tracks each year that are now operated by the fair with someone serving as the race director/promoter.
This will give drivers a unique opportunity to race five nights a week each week under IMCA sanctioning with Alta on Wednesday, Algona on Thursday, Denison or Spencer on Friday, Harlan or Britt on Saturday and either Raceway Park just across the border from Sioux City, or Mason City on Sunday.
Lots of choices......will there be enough drivers and fans to go around to make them all work? Guess that remains to be seen.
Down this direction, just a couple of days after Tipton announced that there will be no weekly racing there in 2015, the Mountain Dew Bloomfield Speedway issued a press release stating that there will be just four nights of racing scheduled in 2015 including back-to-back race nights during the Davis County Fair.
Promoter Chris Eggers gave it a good shot the past couple of years at Bloomfield running a weekly Saturday night show, but likely the economics just didn't work out for him and the fair board apparently did not have any offers that they wanted to, or could accept from other prospective promoters.
I love the track over at Bloomfield! I just wish that it had a little more seating capacity, but it is what it is and anybody who wants to try promoting the place down the road would need to structure the show to what would. And, and this is always a big "and", the drivers and fans would need to understand why things would not be as "big" as they have been in the past.
If "big" worked, then it would still be happening......
I have already shared one idea of how racing could happen at Bloomfield in this entry from a couple of years ago, and I might even have another concept that I might want to pitch them directly hear in the near future.
The ASCS Warrior Region schedule was released today and it included a Friday September 4th date at the Scotland County Speedway in Memphis. Stay up-to-date on the Special events in our area on the Calendar page at Positively Racing. The webmistress will continue to update the page when time allows.
Thirty years ago in February I was at Speedweeks in Florida and while at East Bay Raceway south of Tampa I saw a thirteen-year-old kid by the name of Jeff Gordon compete in a winged sprint car race. He was nothing spectacular on that night, noteworthy only because of his age, but we all know just how big of an impact he has made on the sport of auto racing. Using dirt, and some pavement open wheel racing to make a name for himself Gordon was a "new breed" of driver when he moved to NASCAR and his success opened the door for other drivers to take that similar path. Tony Stewart, Ryan Newman, Kasey Kahne, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Kyle Larson to name a few. 2105 will be Jeff Gordon's last full-time run for the Cup, but he has been careful to not use the word "retire". Either way it is good to see him go out on his own terms and still competing at a high level that he has consistently performed at for more than two decades.
Have a great weekend!
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