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We are very excited to have the best 410's in the west back for the second time of 2010 and only the second time since 2007!

Our team has been putting in long hours to make your next visit a good one and we hope his will be a great lead into our Cotton Classic in October!

The last time GSC was here the fans got to witness one of the closest finishes in GSC history with Tim kaeding edging Jonathan Allard by a foot....WOW!!!!

We look forward to seeing you guys Saturday.

Scott Woodhouse
Kings Speedway
www.kingsspeedway.net
559-381-1439

3/29 Opening Night!
4/11 STP World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series

Its sweet to see the new change to the Logo on the web page didn't look rite with out Kings being in there its tradition ... looking forward to an awesome night of racing on sat!! keep up the good work guys!!

"Dirt's for racing Pavement for getting there" 

Any word on who won at Kings last night?

TK, Tarlton, Zimmerly.

Thanks

It looked like the stands we near full. Likely not a crowd there like that one in years. The track was on the dry side but the Kings staff did a nice job all-around. Hopefully this place is in the long-term plans of the new GSC ownership.

Two 3/8s mile paperclip tracks within 10 miles of each other sounds like it might be economically challenging, but the new people at Hanford have definitely raised the bar on-track and off.

Hanford does not have a fence against the top of the track in any of the corners nor on the back straight. Like many of the older midwest tracks, if the driver overshoots the corners, he simply crosses the cushion berm and does whatever he can to get back onto the track surface (like one did at Manzanita's third mile). That happened six or seven times last night, and prevented a lot of race-ending damage for those drivers... and yellows for the fans.

Despite their almost identical lengths and layouts, the presence or lack of a fence three quarters of the way around makes Hanford and Tulare very different tracks, expecially for those like the Kaeding kids who like to run right up against the walls at Thunderbowl. (Bud runs most of the year with the GSC now; Tim is getting ready to go back to the Outlaws we're told.)

Likewise, the public areas are about as "nice" as those at Ventura and Perris now, which is to say, "nicer" than Tulare's. If there's a comparative downside for the fans at Hanford, it's that most have to walk quite a ways from their cars to the ticket booth, much as used to be the case at Perris a decade ago.

It may a take a bit of experience and trial-and-error to figure out how to deal with that track surface during the summer. It was about 90 degrees at 6:00 pm and about 80 degrees at 9:00 pm. (We all got a nice coat of clay dust during the feature.) Tulare, btw, shuts down after their salute to Indy show, and stays dark until early October, while Hanford runs through the summer.

Both tracks have some very interesting sprint shows scheduled in the fall, including the Cotton Classic (with wingers and non-wingers) at Hanford October 16th, as well as the Trophy Cup for 360 wingers the following Friday and Saturday at Tulare, and the Pacific Coast Nationals with the USAC-National and CRA cars -- plus the USAC National and West Coast Midgets -- November 13th.