Same Old Wet Story at Red Cedar Speedway

By Ed Reichert

Menomonie WI – Once again it was the same song, different verse for the Red Cedar Speedway. For the third straight time, the season opener planned for Friday, April 25^th has been postponed due to heavy rains and wet grounds. Track crews had been unable to get on the track until Wednesday but that was followed by an all day rain on Thursday and there was absolutely no way the track would have been in racing condition by Friday. With that in mind, track officials pulled the plug on Thursday with the hopes that next week things will be much dryer.

The season opener is now scheduled for Friday, May 2^nd at 7 p.m. The May opener will now be the latest start to the racing in a number of years at Red Cedar, but track officials hope that once the season gets started, it will be smooth sailing after that.

Featured this year will be four classes of cars sanctioned by the WISSOTA racing organization including late models, modifieds, Midwest modifieds and super stocks along with the Red Cedar pure stocks.

Along with the lineup of regular racing events, the speedway will host a two day Rumble Series event for late models on July 3^rd and 4^th , the IRA sprint cars on August 22^nd and the year ending 29^th annual Punky Manor Challenge of Champions on September 19^th and 20^th .