Stays Too Cold, No Thawing Temperatures, Not Soon Enough!
by Tom Wilson-pma
Sedalia, Missouri
Saturday, 1/25/03
Like with many schools and businesses over the past three weeks, snow and cold temperatures have hampered many aspects. It looked as though the bad weather would step aside to get the “Coliseum Indoor Winter Speedway Kart Racing Series” back in operation this Saturday night in Sedalia, Missouri.
But things didn’t turn out that way.
“We’ve had it happen a few times before over the five years,” promoter Wayne Campbell explains, after working hard through late Thursday evening trying to save the 1/8th mile, dirt track’s surface. “The cold lasted so long this week that the track surface is frozen, and it goes down deep. The temperatures didn’t get high enough today to help us thaw it, even with the heaters running. They’ve also knocked 9 or 10 degrees off of the week’s earlier forecast about tomorrow”.
“If we tried to work and then run on the track the way it is, the conditions wouldn’t be good at all. Actually, impossible. It’s best we just wait another week,” Campbell finalizes.
Race number 10 of the 2002-3 season will fire off next Saturday evening, February 1st.
For more Coliseum Indoor Kart Series information, log in @:
www.coliseumkarts.com
by Tom Wilson-pma
Sedalia, Missouri
Saturday, 1/25/03
Like with many schools and businesses over the past three weeks, snow and cold temperatures have hampered many aspects. It looked as though the bad weather would step aside to get the “Coliseum Indoor Winter Speedway Kart Racing Series” back in operation this Saturday night in Sedalia, Missouri.
But things didn’t turn out that way.
“We’ve had it happen a few times before over the five years,” promoter Wayne Campbell explains, after working hard through late Thursday evening trying to save the 1/8th mile, dirt track’s surface. “The cold lasted so long this week that the track surface is frozen, and it goes down deep. The temperatures didn’t get high enough today to help us thaw it, even with the heaters running. They’ve also knocked 9 or 10 degrees off of the week’s earlier forecast about tomorrow”.
“If we tried to work and then run on the track the way it is, the conditions wouldn’t be good at all. Actually, impossible. It’s best we just wait another week,” Campbell finalizes.
Race number 10 of the 2002-3 season will fire off next Saturday evening, February 1st.
For more Coliseum Indoor Kart Series information, log in @:
www.coliseumkarts.com
