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Cowtown Sprint Nationals Now This Saturday/Sunday

Kennedale TX (10/8/09) by DarinShort.com. Due to the large amount of traveling teams converging upon Cowtown Speedway for this weekend’s Cowtown Sprint Nationals, and with the uncertainty of possible heavy overnight precipitation on Thursday night; the Cowtown Sprint Nationals will now take place, in its entirety, on Saturday October 10 and Sunday October 11.

Here is the summary of this change.

NEW SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:

Thursday Oct. 8 – 5PM to 9PM, Open practice, all race divisions, pit passes $20. Concessions and fuel available.

Friday Oct. 9 – no events scheduled.

Saturday Oct. 10 – Pits open at 2PM, Grandstands open at 3PM. Hot laps at 5PM, races at 5:30PM.

Sunday Oct. 11 – Pits open at 11AM, Grandstands open at 11:30AM. Hot laps at 12:30. Races at 1PM.

HERE ARE THE DETAILS OF THIS CHANGE:

1. All scheduled races and all scheduled purses are still in effect.
2.The THURSDAY night (October 8th) practice is STILL ON, as scheduled from 5pm-9pm. The track is race ready, it’s warm and the sun is out, at the time of writing. Be watching www.CowtownSpeedway.com for any further updates. Main grandstands closed. However, with the forecast for overnight precipitation, all trailers will be asked to leave the pit area after Thursday night’s practice, so we can groom the pit area after the front moves through; which is forecast by Friday morning.
3. The weather forecast for Saturday and Sunday is nearly perfect, with highs around 70 and sunny conditions.
4. Friday night’s scheduled events will now take place, in its entirety, on Saturday. Here’s the revised Saturday schedule:
A. Pits open at 2PM. We may, or may not, allow trailers in the pits previous to this time, if the pit area is still being groomed. That will not be known until Saturday morning, monitor the track website for the latest updates.
B. Grandstands will open at 3PM. (If you purchased 2-day passes: there are no changes to the 2-day advance ticket sales or format. 2-day pass pre-sales will end online Friday night.)
C. Hot laps at 5PM, Races at 5:30PM. (Sprint Heats, B’s, 30-Lap $2000/win A. All other classes run heats and twin qualifying features.)
D. Fan Fest has been removed from the weekend schedule. It will return in 2010.
5. Saturday night’s original schedule is now Sunday. Here’s the revised Sunday schedule:
A. Pits open at 11AM. (We will clear the pits at 10:45AM)
B. Grandstands open at 11:30AM.
C. Hot lap at 12:30, Sprint Heats at 1PM, then B-features for all classes.
D. The track reserves the right to rework the track at any point in the day to insure quality racing. With the weather forecasted to be sunny, but only 70 degrees, it should make for very good racing conditions. The track will do everything in its power to make sure there are good racing conditions.
E. Tentatively, we plan to rework the track after the B features, which we estimate to be from 4-4:45pm.
F. Then we will run all four feature races at approximately 5pm, so racing should be complete by around 7PM. The Winged 600 Championships will be first feature out, followed by the Sprint feature, Topless 100 and Topless Limited Championships.

With the unknown of ‘if’ and ‘how much’ precipitation may occur on Thursday night – coupled with the fact that Friday’s mainly cloudy forecast early in the day, would not allow for adequate drying to get all of the cars pitted early enough to be on time for Friday night’s race.

In summary, we’d rather be safe than sorry. Most importantly, we’ll still get the entire weekend of racing in, under this revised schedule. For tickets, entry list, event flyer and much more, click www.CowtownSpeedway.com – and don’t miss the event of the year, the Cowtown Sprint Nationals!

[Lucky161]

Thanks Darin. The forecast for today said it was supposed to be raining right now, but it's not. Like you say, should be great conditions for saturday and sunday.