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Originally Posted by Michael Beard
Maybe y'all can help me out with something. I had someone message me, "Great job, with the weather you had to work with." A couple people in the lanes on Sunday commented, "The weather probably kept some people home."
As I looked up into the sky, my question was and is, "What weather?" 
The weather did almost exactly what it's done for the last 10 years (actually better than several years), which I charted for everyone over a year ago. We told you what to expect, and that's what it did. While we were down for a couple of sprinkles for a few minutes here and there, it was literally from a couple of singular passing clouds -- historically, that's pretty standard. The weather history reports from this weekend show 0.00 from Thursday through Sunday -- nothing measurable! It was cool and windy. It would've been a little nicer if it wasn't so windy, but seriously, overall it was great racing weather. If you could GUARANTEE the weather that we had Thurs-Sun, I would take it every single time! Now if you're looking for a barometer, that you're probably not going to find...  |
Michael, The weather across much of the eastern two thirds of the USA for the week prior to the race, and the media / internet hype that followed produced the overblown perception (= realty) that the weather is terrible everywhere ie Ohio too. The well publicized flooding of National Trail Raceway in the past was probably a contributing factor. The weather this entire winter has most likely sensitized most people to some degree...my family included. My wife slipped on the abnormally pervasive and abundant ice 8 weeks ago and broke her hip. Three big screws (hardware) and 8 weeks later and she is golf carting around at the Auto Meter Class Nationals. We were not going to let a little boo boo mess up our plans!
Thanks again to The Loose Rocker Team and everyone who took part in this event.