G2 Radios presents The Waterford Speedbowl Message Board

With the forecast calling for severe storms and flash flooding for tomorrow why doesn't the bowl have a rain date, like maybe Sunday when it's going to be nice?

I agree but it's probably hard to get 3 touring divisions to agree also

Maybe but I figured a huge event like this would be the best time to use a rain date if need be, with all these guys that are coming from all over the place that are here already. I would think they would agree and want to race after the traveling they had to do.

The bowl never plans ahead for rain outs, thats just the way they roll. Funny how then they always end up in a schedule conflict....... Rain dates for special events should be covered in the off season when preparing the season schedule.....jmo

Did it end up raining at the track Saturday?

I spoke to Sid Friday night, to the best of his memory, the Bowl has only raced Sunday once since 1998 as a rain date. if he wants to post the details he can, I dont remember them exactly.

I remember that once, but had to look it up to see exactly when it was (www.sids-vault.com coming in clutch )

http://www.sids-vault.com/stats.php?a=1&b=6&c=5&d=2

It was 2004, the last Saturday night event on the schedule (before Finale Weekend) was on Sat Oct 2, every division except the SK and LM got their features in before the rains came, so they ppd the SK and LM races and ran them on Sunday afternoon. I'm pretty sure that as long as you kept your ticket stub from Saturday, you got in for free on Sunday. I wanna say it was about points, NASCAR points were all final by then, so it had to be for track points... assuming Reed/Gada in the SK's as that went right down to the wire during the Finale the following week.

But the incident in 2004 wasn't a pre-planned, announced rain date prior to the event. If I remember correctly, they made the announcement at the track that Saturday right when they said the night was officially scrapped over the PA, so it was spur of the moment decision.

Also, 2004 example was only about rescheduling Speedbowl divisions. Last Saturday involved 3 touring divisions (4 if you wanna count NEMA lights separately since they run a somewhat different schedule than the NEMA's), so I can only guess it has to do with logistics between all the series as to why they never utilize Sunday as a rain date (although I don't see the big deal, it's only the next day so travel would be the same, you would think??).

No opinion either way, but Gino called me out so that's what I got