My wife and I arrived at Baer Field Speedway at about 4PM this afternoon. We paid the $18.00 admission for this "Gold Cup Event" hoping for a great night of racing. In the past this race has featured winged sprint cars and a touring stock car group. This year HOSS was the sprint car sanctioning body and the rest of the program was basically a weekly Baer Field Speedway show.

They did get hot laps in and some qualifications in before it rained the first time. A short delay followed for some track work and qualifications resumed. Then it rained a second time. People were still coming in even as it was raining. We started to hear that the local TV stations were announcing that the race had been called. The track had still not made any official announcement saying that the event was postponed. Eventually they did make the anouncement and also stated the sprint cars would not be back on Saturday night for the rain date.

To bad we can't control the weather. It has been a tough year getting a race in. Bad enough Mother Nature won again tonight, but it really was a shame that only 11 winged sprint cars showed up for this race. Baer Field Speedway has had on their web site that the rain date for this event would be on Saturday June 25. I feel that it is kinda hard to have a rain date for an event when the feature attraction of the sprint cars won't be a part of the program. I always thought that when a rain date is announced that is the only time your rain check will be honored. It would appear that all the players involved didn't have their ducks in a row when a rain date had been announced and the show that I paid to see won't race on the rain date.

I have been going to races for many years now, and nobody wins on a deal like this. It is very hard to please people. There is always somebody that feels like they that got ripped.

I have been to several asphalt winged sprint car races this year (most have been rained out) and the car have been low. High fuel prices, a bad economy and crappy weather have not helped this. I think asphalt winged sprint car racing has some problems that most race fans know nothing about. Last year the Must See group and HOSS worked together. I was under the impression that is not the case this year. I don't know how three sactioning bodies for the winged asphalt sprint cars is going to work to much longer.

Bill Miller
Ossian, Indiana