Since I've been attending Pevely since it opened in 1979 I'll chime in.

The track doesn't get flooded. The access road getting into the facility and the lower parking lot/old drag strip area do flood as backwater from a flooded Mississippi river cause the small Joachim creek, located near the facility, to overflow. If the Mississippi river level gauge in nearby Herculaneum reads 35 or above then the access road to the track is closed.

A very young Bobby Davis Jr didn't make any friends with the local sprint car drivers in the first sprint car race held at the track. He even punted one far out of the track in turn one.

Ray is getting up there in age so I believe it will be a positive change for the raceway. People complain about the fan experience and the old outdated look and run down feel of the grandstand and midway area but doesn't bother me as I only need a dirt track and a place to sit.