STUPID!

S-T-U-P-I-D!!! Man, did I get to witness a stupid the other day.

Let me set this up here. OK, most of you know I have a history of being involved with being a promoter. Specifically, a bike race promoter. Now, I always planned everything out to a T. I made sure everything was covered and anything that could possibly go wrong was thought of beforehand. Anyone who knows me can tell you that the week/s prior to a race I was busy, stressing, working hard, and not doing anything with them because I was in preparation mode. They will also tell you that on the day before, and the day of, I was all business with no room for humor or joking around. I guess I was pretty serious about putting on a flawless event that everyone would want to come back to.

Now, the other night was supposed to be the big Thursday Night Thunder race at the Hamilton County Fair. This is a big race with high payout and on a night when no other track races so, there were REALLY GOOD drivers traveling from all over the place to race in WC.

When I got off work on Thursday morning it was raining like crazy and I thought the worst. I was supposed to get up around 3 and catch a ride with the race car at 4:30 or so. The pit gate was scheduled to open at 4. Hot laps were scheduled for 6 and racing at 6:30.

So, I woke up at 3 and was thinking that I would be going right back to bed as it would either still be raining or we would have had too much rain to race. The first thing I did was call the track and got a busy signal every time I tried. So, then I called Mike and asked him. He said they were on (This was at 3:20) as scheduled. So I checked the radar (it was all clear and looking good for the night) scrambled to the shower. When I got out I saw Mike had called, so I returned his call.

At 3:30 the races were cancelled! Unbelievable! Are you kidding me! With the pits scheduled to open at 4 they cancelled at 3:30. The reason was that they didn't have anyone to work the pits in and prep the track following the rain. This has got to be the biggest bonehead move I've ever seen as a promoter. It quit raining around 11 or so and there was ample time to prep the track and pits and have a tremendous track to race on. Any race promoter with half a brain would of had it worked and ready or would have cancelled around 1 at the latest.

So now, think about this, there are drivers on the road coming from Marshalltown, Mason City, and many other towns that aren't real close to WC. Most of which are already nearly here or are already here. Can you imagine how P.O.ed the guys were. I know I'd be hot if I just traveled 70+ miles or so to race to find out they're cancelled.

The fair board here has always had kind of a bad reputation when it comes to the race track. Well this year the fair board said they were going to promote the 2 fair races. Al Urhammer, that normally promoted the races was not involved. Thus giving the fair board another black mark on the tally chart.

The race is rescheduled for Tuesday but, is the damage done. I think on Tuesday if I lived in Mason City and I saw any little blip of rain on the radar, I'd probably leave my race car in the garage at home and save my gas money.

Just my opinion! But, I'll be there though because it only costs me about .20 cents to get there.

Thanks for listening to my aggravation and my opinion. God Bless! Be safe!

Random Reading: Think about this one for a bit!

"But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come." John 16:13