Two notebook entries in one week is a bit out of the ordinary, but in about a one hour period just before lunch today there were several changes made to the racing schedule for not only this coming weekend, but in the week ahead as well.
The first one that I saw was the cancellation of the Inaugural Memphis Shootout that had been scheduled for this Friday and Saturday at the Scotland County Speedway in Memphis, Missouri. Pictures from the facility showed standing water from overnight rains and in the original post I noticed that it ended with the words "Stay tuned."
Soon after that came the announcement that the IMCA Frostbusters that were scheduled for next Wednesday through Saturday would be pushed back a week due to a still cold and perhaps wet forecast in the next seven days. So now the Frostbusters will start on Wednesday April 11th at the Lee County Speedway in Donnellson, move to Vinton on Thursday the 12th and then close out the weekend at Marshalltown on Friday and Boone on Saturday.
Shortly after that the Scotland County Speedway followed up by announcing that the Inaugural Memphis Shootout was now rescheduled for next weekend, April 6th and 7th.
Other changes that we came across this morning:
The USAC Sprint Cars at Lawrenceburg Speedway in Indiana this Saturday have been canceled
The Kentucky Blue Grass Bash at Paducah International Raceway has been postponed with a new date yet to be determined.
The Inaugural B-Mod Bedlam at the Salina Highbanks Speedway in Oklahoma has been postponed to next weekend.
Late afternoon addition: The Battle of the Bullring for Friday at US 36 Raceway has been canceled. No word as of 4 p.m. on the Saturday event at the Eagle Raceway
Season openers at the Legit Speedway in West Plains, Missouri, and at Dodge City Raceway Park in Kansas have been canceled for this weekend.
And as announced a couple of days ago the Hawkeye Stock Car Classic at the Adams County Speedway in Corning has been canceled.
Two events in my area are still on with the Thaw Brawl at the LaSalle Speedway scheduled to run both on Friday and Saturday night. Hey, there are icicles and an abominable snowman holding a championship belt on the event flyer so they are not going to let a little cold weather derail them. And at 34 Raceway near Burlington new owner Brad Stevens and Jessi Mynatt are excited to get their first show in the books and they have moved up the start times for the Shottenkirk.com Sprint Invaders. Hot laps will now take the green at 5:15 with racing to follow on Saturday evening. The Lee County rules Late Models will join the Sprints for a two division program that they plan to run off in quick order. So bundle on up and come out for some racing!
There are a couple of other interesting news items out there as well today. For the first time in its long history the Deery Brothers Summer Series for IMCA Late Models will go away from a draw and redraw lineup format and instead use a passing points system in 2018. From the way that the brief press release was written it appears that the heat race winners will draw for the "best spots" with remainder of the top twelve for the feature lineup set by passing points. So in other words if there are four heat races those four winners are guaranteed to start the feature from either the first or second row while the next eight starting spots will be set by the passing points. Personally I think that a guy who starts his heat from eighth and races his way up to second deserves to be in that "draw" more than a pole-starting heat race winner, but somebody will always have something to gripe about with any qualifying format. Hopefully this change will be welcomed by drivers and fans alike this season and the first look at it will come on Friday April 13th at the Davenport Speedway for the Rebel 5K.
Veteran Late Model driver Jim Moon has purchased the 85 Speedway in Ennis, Texas. You may recall that Moon had a short stint as a promoter at the Montgomery County Speedway in New Florence, Missouri, where he had five events in March and April of 2014 before ownership closed the place back down. 85 Speedway remains as the only dirt track in Texas that I have ever seen a race at back in March of 1986 and at the time they ran a class of cars that were similar to the big block Modifieds of the northeast. The feature winner that night as I recall was Gary Wright.
If you choose to go racing this weekend, bundle up and have fun!
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