Paducah International Raceway scheduled a two night POWRi winged and non winged show tonight and tomorrow night. This event has been on the schedule since the POWRi schedules were announced. $5,000 to win the winged show Friday night and $7,000 to win Saturday night. 11 Winged sprints cars checked in and 5 non winged sprint cars checked. SAD! POWRi cancelled tonight’s show due to “weather concerns”.
Well, despite the fact that it is a beautiful, sunny 90° day here in Western KY, POWRi issued a notice that tonight’s 2nd night of open wheel racing at Paducah International Raceway was cancelled due to “weather”. I feel sorry for all the flack the promoter at Paducah is going to have to incur for this debacle!
WAR is on lifesupport. Only 8 cars for the LOR doubleheader last weekend. With the addition Powri wing 410s the car counts have dropped.MWRA has also taken a portion of the former regulars.The last big hurrah for this series will be the Hockett Memorial in September. I would love to see a new BOSS like series than ran Nebraska,Iowa,Illinois,and Missouri.I won't hold my breath though.
This is a perfect example of over saturation in the wing cars. If I was going to create a successful series,I would want at least 20 teams that are looking for a place to race. You can't just keep robbing them from other tracks and series. As for the WAR guys. For a series that has always been a working mans series, that is a long way to ask those guys to travel. The car counts were pretty close to what I would have expected.