[Pat Joffrion]

I cannot control the weather, but I can do something to help the racers. Everyone will get one time trial in the morning, then we will try to run as many rounds as we can get in before the rain sets in Saturday evening.

I have plenty of gas and a good jet dryer for Sunday, but that will not help many of the racers parked on grass (that gets soft in the rain). If we can get in two rounds on Saturday, 75% of the racers would have an opportunity to leave before the rain moves in on us, and we can move those racers still in competition onto higher ground or aspfhalt..

If we did nothing, and just followed the planned schedule, many of the racers would be held over until Monday, and a dozen or more would have to be towed out of thier pits. A lot of racers have to be back at work on Monday, and I made the decision to cancel the CIC and King of the Bayou events on Saturday in order to accomodate the majority of the racers.

In order to avoid this in the future, I am contemplating holding an ALL-RUN Stock/Super Stock CIC race on Thursday, during our track test-n-tune hours. That way, we can get qualifying runs in on Friday, and run class eliminations on Saturday.

I really like treating the crowds of fans to the CIC race format, and I don't like the fact that the weather conditions messed us up this year. Hopefully, Mother Nature will cooperate in the future. Besides, it may be more fun for the class racers to compete in an all-run format.

Pat