Red Cedar Speedway Postpones Opener

By Ed Reichert

Menomonie WI – Randy Buss, the President of the Red Cedar Racing Association, has announced that the 2008 season opener at the Red Cedar Speedway, scheduled for April 11^th, has been postponed.

While not totally unexpected, there was the slimmest of hopes that the weather would warm up and the racing surface dry out sufficiently that the opener could take place. That was until Monday’s snowstorm put the final nail in the coffin.

“You can’t even see the race track right now, much less race on it”, stated Buss on Monday night.” We’re going to need some warm weather to help dry out the track and the scheduled opener is less than two weeks away. It just isn’t going to happen.”

So, with everything moved back one week, hopefully the 2008 dirt track season at the Dunn Co. Rec Park will commence on Friday night, April 18^th .

Four classes of cars, all racing under the WISSOTA sanctioning banner will compete on opening night including the powerful late models, open wheel modifieds and Midwest modifieds, super stocks in addition to the Red Cedar pure stocks.

The first race is scheduled to take the green flag at 7 p.m. for the thirty fifth straight year of racing at the Dunn Co. oval.

The Red Cedar Speedway is located on Menomonie’s east side on Highway 12 at the Rec Park. For more information on the Red Cedar Speedway, log on to www.redcedarracing.com