SATURDAY’S WINTER DIRT GAMES XII FINALE RAINED OUT
Ocala, Florida (February 13, 2021)………Saturday night’s USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car Winter Dirt Games XII finale at Bubba Raceway Park has been canceled due to overnight rain and forecasted showers throughout the evening.
Kevin Thomas Jr. (Cullman, Ala.) and Justin Grant (Ione, Calif.) earned the first two victories of the season with the series on Thursday and Friday, respectively, at the Ocala, Fla. 3/8-mile dirt track.
Grant was the high point man over the first two nights of *the Winter Dirt Games Sprint Car events, which saw an event record total of 45 drivers participate.
The USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Cars will resume competition on Saturday night, April 3, at Lawrenceburg (Ind.) Speedway.
USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Justin Grant-153, 2-Kevin Thomas Jr.-142, 3-Brady Bacon-142, 4-Tanner Thorson-135, 5-C.J. Leary-122, 6-Kyle Cummins-109, 7-Jake Swanson-108, 8-Chris Windom-107, 9-Timmy Buckwalter-91, 10-Robert Ballou-91.
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Still waiting for the rain. Picked up my chairs place looked pretty good? forecast change for the better after it was called. Bad decision. no significant rain till 11pm. Why not wait till 4 or 5 to call this?
Originally Posted by duel:
Still waiting for the rain. Picked up my chairs place looked pretty good? forecast change for the better after it was called. Bad decision. no significant rain till 11pm. Why not wait till 4 or 5 to call this?
Let’s just say for the sake of argument they waited and they did cancel it ,how do you think that would go over with the drivers and the car owners ,it wasn’t looking good at the time I know it rained all night on us I woke up this morning looked outside and saw how wet everything was and I knew they were going to call it ,we packed up and left about 10:30 ,damned if you do damned if you don’t
No dog in the fight here but you’d have to think the get it in at all costs meter would be pegged at E given most all the teams have a long drive ahead. Looks bleak let em get on the road home in daylight hours.
[QUOTE=duel;537184] Why not wait till 4 or 5 to call this? I"d say because there were a lot of people who have jobs they need to be back to on Monday, forecast didn"t look good so let the fans, teams head on home in the daytime. Its not like being home in Indiana where you may have a 2, 3, 4 hour drive home in place of a 10, 12 hour drive. I swear some people would bi$ch if they were hung with a new rope.
Getting home would have made no difference. The show should have been run as scheduled. 2 hrs or 3 makes no difference when you are 900 or 1200 miles from home. Again, no rain all day. Or was it a paying the purse issue?
Pits were an absolute quagmire, even at the front/top.
We went through the same on midget weekend. We would not have been able to run midgets on Sunday because it was simply too wet. By the time we ran Monday, we couldn’t get the track to slow down, it was so juiced up from rain 36 hours earlier.
No track wants to cancel their Saturday show. It is the biggest of the week. They all lost both Saturdays, which is a huge loss of income. Yes, that’s right - East Bay & Volusia also cancelled on Saturday.
It sucks. No one wants to cancel, especially the final night.
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