(captainblowdri file photo)
Last night was the second night of this four day racing event, called The Gold Cup. The event was billed as “The Tiner Family Classic”. Last night’s program consisted of the USAC/CRA wingless 410 sprint cars, as well as, the Western States/BCRA “mighty midgets”.
There were 50 sprint cars and 24 midgets that showed up for the race.
Thursday turned out to be a very exciting, action filled evening of racing. There was a rolling power outage in the greater Chico area that caused some delays prior to the green flag, temperatures hovering around the century mark, and a few spectacular crashes spread throughout the evening. Early in the very first heat race of the evening, one of the sprint car drivers drove it very deep into turn one, launched himself over the berm, got on his head, then, began rolling with the race rapidly increasing in revolution speed, landing in the catchfence that protects the pit area from the racing action .
Nevertheless, the true entertaining portion of the night was not the wrecks, it was the hot, fast, keenly competitive races that unfolded as the night payed out.
The first two days of this four day event has given me plenty opportunity to work on my redneck!
So for now:
THIS IS YOUR CAPTAIN SIGNING OFF; ROGER, WILCO, OVER, AND OUT!