Bright blue skies and much cooler temperatures are greeting all of us here in the area on this Saturday morning and the question now is, just how wet are the race tracks that are scheduled to run tonight?
The rains of Thursday and Friday were persistent and quite heavy in many locations and even though today looks like a perfect day for drying, it just might not be enough for some facilities. I am playing the waiting game for my scheduled stop tonight as the Shottenkirk.com Sprint Invaders Season Championship is scheduled to run at 34 Raceway in Burlington. A 9 a.m. check of the track's Facebook page show no new posts wince Wednesday so I am sure that the Laues and the Parrishes are out assessing the grounds right now to see whether or not they will be able to run after taking one last thunderstorm at ten o'clock Friday night.
Marshalltown will run a double show today for their World Nationals with the "day show" starting at 1 p.m. and the finale starting about an hour and a half following the conclusion of the day show.
The four day Yankee Dirt Classic at Farley will be condensed to just two days as they did get Wednesday's opener in, but following rain on Thursday and Friday it will be one BIG show tonight with action getting underway late this afternoon.
After getting Thursday night's preview in the books, the Friday portion of the ASCS Fall Brawl at the I-80 Speedway in southeast Nebraska was washed out and the Kosiski family will run double features for the 360 Sprints tonight to see if one driver can sweep for a $20,000 bonus.
The Peoria Speedway's first ever Fall Classic lost its Friday night opener as well and they will follow up tonight with a full show featuring the UMP Modifieds racing for $10,050-to-win and the UMP Late Models gunning for a $2,000 top prize.
Along with these events and assuming that the tracks can dry out enough for tonight you can catch the Shryock Memorial at Britt, Cheaters Night at Davenport, the first of two nights at Park Jefferson, the World of Outlaws at Deer Creek, the season championship at Clarke County Speedway among several more in the region tonight. We really do live in the best area to be a race fan!!
Hard to believe that we are already seeing some major announcements for the 2016 season!
Al Hejna along with Todd & Janet Staley will takeover the promotional duties at the I-35 Speedway in Mason City obviously changing from the traditional IMCA sanction to USRA. Assuming that the track will continue to run on Sunday nights it does setup a three track swing in the region for the A-Mods with Chateau on Friday and Deer Creek on Saturday as Mason City will dangle a $1,000 top prize for the class. The track will also draw USRA support class drivers from Decorah and Rock Rapids as well as the two previously mentioned tracks so it will be a completely different look at Mason City in 2016.
The GOMUDDY.com National Sprint League's $500,000+ "Cash Bowl" was announced this week and it is a very interesting and innovative concept. I will now look forward to see just how they are going to be able to schedule more than 150 races for next season by December 10th so that drivers can then meet the membership deadline of December 15th.
Positively Racing may have a big announcement soon as well, but I am going to bite my tongue until we have everything set up and linked in on the home page.
I just checked the 34 Raceway page again at 9:40 and still nothing definite, but here's hoping that I see you there tonight! And, if you aren't there, make sure that you attend the track of your choice.
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