Sounds like "You know... what?" I assume you would have rather come here and run heat races and sit here all night and sent you home for the feature. When Belleville gets done after 11 in a show they rushed through as quick as possible and they have only 3 classes - with the 3rd class being modifieds with starters instead of sprint cars that need pushed, it's pretty obvious that if we run all of that PLUS another class we aren't going to make it. I've always been concerned about curfew for this event but we just missed by 20 mins last year and when I was asked to include the DII's again - which we don't race here regularly - I did it thinking we could find 20 mins through a few fewer heats throughout the night. Casey's WAR deal on paper looks more popular right now than last year when he was getting it started. There were 7 or 8 more midgets and micros last night than we had last year - which is basically another heat race. And the weather looks to be about 10 degrees warmer than last year with a little more wind which means we need to allow for a little more time to keep the track in shape.

We've raced 2 Sundays in a row and have 2 Wednesdays coming up which are never popular with the neighbors or an alderman who lives down the street. My ability to explain away a night where we race 'till midnight isn't too good right now. The chances of D2's actually running a feature on Friday were less than 50% as I kept track of what was going on in Belleville last night.

Our ordinance provides for a fine of $200 PER CAR that races after 11pm. After a late show I've always been able to show good faith and twist some arms and promise a better effort in the future to keep from paying $4,000 for a 20 car field. But chances are the D2 feature would START after 11 - not just finish after 11 and it's tough to argue with a straight face to race-educated city officials that we did all we could and it was an accident. My job isn't only to look out for this Friday night - it's to ensure that we have years of Friday nights ahead of us.