Re: MSCS Haubstadt Sunday Sept 1
 

And just how in the heck does anybody know the rain would end in 10 minutes?

Re: MSCS Haubstadt Sunday Sept 1
 

I can't tell if that's a serious question or not

Re: MSCS Haubstadt Sunday Sept 1
 

They have this tool called RADAR now a days

Originally Posted by Rpracing1:
Front gate was the problem

You are 100% correct bob. Tommy would've lost his ass

Id say the call was questionable at best. Plenty fans and drivers more than willing to wait it out. Very disappointing.

Re: MSCS Haubstadt Sunday Sept 1
 

front gate didn't look like the problem to me but im not the promoter

Re: MSCS Haubstadt Sunday Sept 1
 

i cry foul. they tell everybody to stick around there going to wait it out and as soon as the rain stops they cancel. does anybody look at the radar they were on the pa 15 minutes before they call it saying they were still trying. are they saying that 15 minutes of light rain killed the track. watch the radar, watch the radar.:42::

Re: MSCS Haubstadt Sunday Sept 1
 

and race track promoters wonder why attendance is down? when they do not make the effort to get the race in, people become perturbed and will not come back unless the weather report is perfect. I for one will not set out for a race when there is a chance of rain, unless i'm going to a track where I know the promoter will give it his all to see to it that the race gets in, if at all possible (Lawrenceburg is a good example of that, the promoter has proven that he will make that effort) I won't start naming names as to those promoters :44::44:who have proven they won't!

Re: MSCS Haubstadt Sunday Sept 1
 

i thought a track like tri-state with all the equipment they have would be able to do better than this. this just leaves me wondering why.:11:

Re: MSCS Haubstadt Sunday Sept 1
 

Then the fans would have complained about being there till 2 am...i think it was a good call it was raining all the time they were working on track

Re: MSCS Haubstadt Sunday Sept 1
 

Did any of you track prep experts look at that track before the rain? If you had you would have seen a wet track from being watered for least a week before today I don;t think it was so much what rain had fallin it was what was suppose to come later

Re: MSCS Haubstadt Sunday Sept 1
 

I have to say my self. I live 3 miles away and havent missed a sprint car race there in a long time. Tonight you guys have no freaking clue how bad the track was at 625 it was going to take at least two hours to even get a car on the track. With that little rain that hit at 630 it just totally killed it. With that being said I am very disappointed in the crews effort this year. Everybody wants to get on tommy for sprint week for cancelling that night but it rained for over an hour later that night but I dont get why you wouldnt reschedule the next day you are going to have fans be there and drivers for crying out loud its sprint week. Before everybody jumps on me I know tommy hasnt rescheduled a race as far as I can remember. But times have changed no reason for a short sprint week. Was very disappointed in the early cancellation of the powerI mscs show earlier in the year had great car counts in both divisions that night and amazing crowd. So much for everybody and including myself for bringing up that race on labor day a few years back when it rained 2 inches and we got it in cuz it does no good. You could have rain in the forcast and know you was seeing a race at tri state speedway now you may want to think about other plans if rain is in forcast. Sorry just speak it as I see it. Again let me say tonight there was no way we was racing after that last shower track was to far gone

When other tracks cancell, I don't want to here Tommy could of got it in. Cause we all not he Can't !!!

Re: MSCS Haubstadt Sunday Sept 1
 

I have been to Haubstadt 4 times this year for sprint car events, and have been rained out twice. I know it's 200 miles round trip for me, and some people come from much further away than I, and they are just as disappointed as I am over the cancellations, and as bewildered as to why none of them were rescheduled. I'm sorry, but in my opinion, and my opinion only, I can't figure out why when you have a big event on the card, and mother nature does her thing, why you can't reschedule it for the next night when the weatherman is saying nicer things, and it's an open date. I would have gladly went back tonight for the race that was on the card for last night, and would have surely went back for the other one I was there for when it got scratched. But, then again, I am not a promoter, nor do I own a crystal ball. However, I am the guy that flops down the money to support these events, and I might not be as anxious to go back to Tri State if they are saying only a 30% chance of scattered rain.

Re: MSCS Haubstadt Sunday Sept 1
 

In Tri States defense.I've heard from numerous racing officials raindates rarely draw well.

I admit I knew there was a 30 percent chance of rain before I started my 380 mile round-trip. However that doesn't make it any easier to take when I am driving back up I-69 and the sun is shining to the west. Not the first rainout. Won't be the last.