[Crankin]

Truth in advertising:
A side note to this race is the fact that you are absolutely, positively guaranteed to see less cars than were initially there on the day of the rainout.

History in the making! Never before in the history of auto racing has a sanction not allowed other cars to come to a rain date, if they weren’t on the grounds when the rain came..... Even though no car ever touched the track!?
Which leads to some interesting scenarios.

Scenario 1. Let’s say your 3rd or 6th in driver points, and something happens to your car the week before. Said drivers will not be allowed to race the big finale unless he shows up with the same car. Hence, he will moat likely fall to 5th in points, and receiving less money at the end of the year.

Scenario 2. Car owner is at the initial race with a driver that lives over 6 hours away, when the rain out happens. Driver, like everyone else, never goes on track. Driver can’t make the long trip on the rain date because of work, family, whatever. Said car owner cannot replace driver with another driver of his choice. (unless driver was there the first time).

Scenario 3. Owner has rental ride for guys trying to get experience. Renter doesn’t have the $ this week, and owner can’t replace him.

Scenario 4. The 2018 BADGER Champion, Scott Hatton, unfortunately severely damaged his car a couple weeks ago. If Scott can’t find a ride in a car that was there at the rainout, last year’s champ can’t race in the biggest race of the year???!!!

There are other scenarios, but you get the jist.

Keep in mind that in order to win the “big money”, you had to at least run 5 races as an owner and a driver. So in many scenarios, owner/driver wouldn’t even qualify for the “big money”, and would just run for a regular pay out.... but there not allowed either???

Basically, if everyone showed up at the springfield silver crown race and it rained before hotlaps, no other cars or drivers would be allowed to show up on the rain date. Neat, huh?

Bottom line: a group of smaller minded car owners got all enraged while standing in the rain to discuss the rain date. While in that meeting, some were up in arms that a couple of cars, that are pretty dominant (which is a whole other issue), might show up on the rain date, and steal there “big money”. So they voted to not let anyone come to the rain date, that wasn’t there on the initial day..... even though nobody ever went on track.

I could go on, but it’s long enough, and time is short..... so is life, and I’m one of the cars that fall into one of those ridiculous scenarios that weren’t thought about while they were trying to keep those 2 dominant cars out.
So i, along with some other scenario people will not have cars there. Which is a shame because not only were we really looking forward to it, and the super cool thing the Alexander’s have done, but also the fact that we live a mere 6 miles from the track.
But hey, enjoy the races!