MMSA at Brownstown 4-28-12
 

The MMSA "Winged Warrior Tour" is scheduled to start the 2012 season sat. April 28th at the Brownstown, IN speedway, all upright 1,000cc, stock bore & stroke Mini sprints are welcome, (600's too), see the MMSA website for rules, etc. Engine tech. & car inspection will be done at the track.
If possible rain or other weather conditions exists, check the tracks website or phone for race status, any cancellation or delays will be posted here and on the MMSA website as soon as announced by track officals.

Bill May

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I'm giving it a 50/50 chance right now.....looks like rain Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

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Hopefully the chances will stay at 30% all week like its saying right now.

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Well, for now, I'm giving it a slim to none chance, that it won't rain, or at the best, be so miserable no one will want to sit in the stands, and have a cold breeze blow up their skirt all night, but I have been wrong before, only that time I was right, I just thought I was wrong! Bob!:5:

It can can until it's a stable 70 degrees!

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Mensendiek Motorsports will be there with 2 cars, Nathan Mensendiek in the #71 Mensendiek Auction Service and Real Estate, Reppert School of Auctioneering, C&G Tool, Kramers Restaurant, Blast Shop, K&N Filters sprinter. Beau Binder in the #71B Mensendiek Auction Service and Real Estate, Mesia Valley Transportation, K&N Filters, Blast Shop, Kramers Restaurant, C&G Tool, Reppert School of Auctioneering Sprinter.


Who else plans on being at Brownstown, Provided the weather cooperates with the racing program this week?

Mike

Looks like my car will not b ready untill later in the 2012 season I have not had enough funding to build the car the way it needs to b built to compete and win in the best mini sprint division around !! I encourage everyone that owns a mini all the best.... "In whatever series you run" be safe,respect one another and ultimately have fun . That's what it's all about .
Scott Bradley. #1x. / #51R.
2009 MMSA champion

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The Heil Motorsports 13E, Elder High School, FOZ will be in attendence assuming Mother Nature cooperates.

Last spring it never stopped raining.....this spring it only rains on Saturdays.

Hope to see everyone.....basking in golden sunshine. ;)

Phil

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Not looking good..........

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Sorry guys freezing in lovely Cedar Rapids. If it pans out hope everyone has fun, see you in May.

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Freezing in lovely Cedar Rapids. If luck holds out hope everyone has fun. Want to be home in May to see everyone.

I don't know about Brownstown, but it's raining buckets In Bloomington!

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Any updates?....Looks like the rain has passed until possibly later this evening. Weather is crappy though....a repeat of last Saturday.

Would be nice to know what is going on before we have to start packing up to leave.

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just a few sprinkles and We are racing...

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Per Promoter, Tim Kiethley a few minutes ago, We are racing tonight.

Bill May

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I think we're going to pass.....looks like rain moving back in around dinner time. Just can't justify driving 2 hours with gas at $3.70 a gallon to turn around and go home again.

Good luck....I hope you get it in.

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The Mensendiek Motorsports team is loaded and heading to Brownstown.

Ready to go racing. Hope to see you at the track.:6:

We are on the way. 2 cars.

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Poured after heats, not sure if they cancelled... Looks like we have atleast 10 new cars... If everyone shows up at once we will prolly average 25.

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yeah they cancelled it :11: why they didnt cancel it sooner when it first started pouring and their was standing water i dont know

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I was watching the radar and you could see a big storm headed straight towards Brownstown around 7:30, looked nasty.

What was the total car count?

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12

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They didnt cancel because it was not rainning when we started racing. We got all but three heats in before it hit. We have waited the rain out before an finished racing but the radar showed another band of rain coming in behind the first one. If we had of cancelled then people would have been on here complaining about us not running because it wasnt raining.

All you can do is try, sometimes it works and sometimes it does not . It would be a tough job being a promoter with weather forecast and making decisions and tryin not to tick people off.. Can't make everyone happy ;( welcome to Indiana weather

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It's tough to make a call like that. Especially when you have commited to racing and you have people at the track.

At around 3:00pm I considered hooking up the trailer and heading out.....then I checked the weather channel and I have to admit they were spot on with their forecast. They showed rain starting again around 6:30 and a couple of nasty storms not long after.

It just looked like one of those days when it could rain anywhere at anytime.

Will we just have a double feature on the next date since our heats were completed?

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The Brownstown website says the program was cancelled, I will contact track officials on monday for exact details, but, I suspect this means no makeup feature, save and use your wristband for pit admitance for the MMSA race on May 19th and there will be no pill draw fee for the cars that paid last night.

Check the MMSA website next week for updated information.

Bill May

Bill, any update on scheduling more non winged races?

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What is a pill draw fee?

Pill draw, is the car entry fee.

Bill when you get a free min will you give me a call, I'm trying to nail down a series sponsor.

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Great to see all the new cars out Saturday night at Brownstown. Bloomington and Brownstown on May 18th and 19th will definitely be the place to be with the Lightning (mini) sprints. I agree with nice weather and all cars showing up we should have at least 20 or 25 cars.