[kdobson]

I just got a text from a DII Racer asking why we can't just run past curfew since we've done it on occasion before.

This is a pretty small town with a race track in the middle of a neighborhood. Five Aldermen and our Mayor are educated racers or race fans. At least 3 or 4 of them will be here on Friday watching with us. 1 alderman is a current racer. 1 is an ex racer and former partner of ours in the track. 2 others are at the track regularly as fans and another is the daughter of a long time promoter of the track. Those are the ones who have to field the calls on Saturday morning from the neighbors who can rightfully point out that we are breaking the law. Those are the ones who have to dig up excuses for us to cover our rear with their constituents. They look out for us - and its unfair for us to use them and put them in that position. All of them could look at our schedule and the car count in Belleville tonight and realize we have zero chance coming into the event of finishing on time. I'm not going to go into a race knowing we have a zero chance of not breaking our 11pm curfew. Instead we are going to do what we can to get it done in time.

And as for the police cheif who's job it would be to come out and shut us down and enforce the ordinance? He won a crate late model feature earlier this year.