Tonight's racing program at the Rush County Fair in Rushville, Ind. has been cancelled due to persistent rain showers and muddy track conditions.
If you did not receive a refund at the track for your pit pass your arm band can only be redeemed for pit admission on July 4th at Rushville. The arm band is not valid at any other MTQRL events.
The next race on the MTQRL schedule is Saturday June 29th at the Montpelier Motor Speedway in Montpelier, Ind.
They tried their best to work the track back in after the rain storm passed, but luck wasn't on their side. The sprinkles and light rain while working on the track didn't help at all.
I'd say about halfway home, I noticed everything looked dry. Once I arrived home, I again thought it looked dry as could be. My wife proceeded to tell me that it hasn't rained a drop! I live maybe ten minutes from the track. It just wasn't meant to be...
Originally Posted by Shawn:
They tried their best to work the track back in after the rain storm passed, but luck wasn't on their side. The sprinkles and light rain while working on the track didn't help at all.
I'd say about halfway home, I noticed everything looked dry. Once I arrived home, I again thought it looked dry as could be. My wife proceeded to tell me that it hasn't rained a drop! I live maybe ten minutes from the track. It just wasn't meant to be...
These pop up showers are isolated and last night was strange. I drove down and it looked really dark by the time I got to the fairgrounds. They were qualifying and I was walking to the grandstands and it started raining. Didn't last all that long but the track was extremely muddy. They tried to scrape some of the mud off and repack it.
Try as they might it was getting somewhat better when it started to sprinkle again and then finally another pop up shower. On the way home it rained lightly for about 2 miles north and then absolutely nothing. The road was dry and it never did rain all the way back home. In fact the sun came out briefly. Hopefully tonight will be better for UMRA.
Mike
Be nice to people on the way up. You might need them on the way down. Jimmy Durante
Yes that was crazy weather. Really sucks to I herd there were 28 cars in the pits. Pit area did look pretty full. I will give credit to the fair board, this is the 3rd time they have been hit with rain before a show this week. Saturday we had over 2inches in less than an hour before my show. In just over 2 hours they had the place ready to go. Then Sunday they got hit before the tractor pull. They were able to get that show in to. I guess last night the luck ended.
One thing that JT didn't mention was that the pits used to be a lot smaller, too. So, talk about looking like a pits full of cars. A smaller pit area with over fifty cars crammed in there.
Also, I believe the pits looking full comment might just be in regards to the field sizes in recent years. They are smaller than they used to be, but it's always a good show with the TQ's, at any track. Almost thirty cars is a healthy field, which I'm fine with the pits looking pretty full comment.
Originally Posted by TqMidget41&84:
Pretty sure mtqrl would have had over 30 cars if it wasn't for the weather. I know of several that stayed home because the radar didn't look good.
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I would totally agree with that. The fact that I got to the track late, but still pulled into the pits with haulers in front of and behind me. That definitely made me believe that there were probably some that decided not to chance it. On the same token, some decided to make the last minute choice to come to the track.
