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About 1995 or so, ARCA race at Springfield.
It rained during about the seventh car in qualifying and Rich Hayes actually spun on the frontstretch coming to the green on his qualifying run. It was one of those isolated thundershowers isolated right over the racetrack. They happened to have some construction equipment on display at the fair and they brought out that and everything you could think of to run in the track. It seems like they even timed an 18-wheeler just for grins.
First car out after the delay was Bob Hill, driving for Ken Schrader in a white Kodiak #25 (before the green design, just a plain white car). He broke the track record that stood for about ten years.
Might've been the same year that they scraped all the mud down along the rail with a grader at the Silver Crown race the day before. I remember it starting to rain and the late Kenny Irwin flipped his Wynn's sponsored #4 near the pit entrance and in that mess of mud. I think they rained out until October, that year.
JC
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