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September 09, 2008 at
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September 12, 2008 at
12:00:30 PM by hook
All races at Ark-La-Tex Speedway for this Saturday, September 13th have been called off due to Hurricane Ike. We may add a date for or get to run the Sprint Series of Texas before the end of the 2008 season.
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That was taken by Scott's Custom Art at Ark-La-Tex back in April the day Marty Stanford of McKinney, Texas won his first Sprint Car race. The Sprint Series of Texas has provided a way for racers to get into full-sized, v-8 powered, winged, World-of-Outlaw-like Sprint Cars and made it both affordable for the tracks and teams and exciting and enjoyable for the fans and drivers.
Before April 12th, I had seen the SST like once in the early days of the series somewhere (can't remember where anymore, they all run together in my mind these days!) but that April night at Ark-La-Tex was simply awesome!
It was a great track for the Sprints much like it was when SUPR ran at Ark-La-Tex in May with Rob Litton and Lee Davis swapping the lead around all over the track. In fact on way more nights than not, Ark-La-Tex in 2008 has seen side-by-side racing at any spot on the track and no matter what class is on the track.
That night, the sprints could run anywhere. Top, bottom or middle. If you caught another car, you just picked a line and went for it! The SST rules though keep the cars so close, that they were having 2 and 3-wide battles all over the place. Maybe 2 cautions max in the feature was all they had. At the last WoO Sprint race I went to (and IMO WoO Sprint Car racers are the bravest drivers on the planet!), the cars were so hooked up and SO fast, that they really couldn't pass much. Side-by-side was out of the question. If a pass was made, you better not had blinked or you missed it and at $30+ per grandstand ticket, that's an expensive pass to miss!
Not so with The Sprint Series of Texas though! They proved to me in April, that they are a professionally run series that does a fantastic job of PUTTING ON A SHOW!
Marty Stanford of Stanford Trucking (I think they still have about 5 Modifieds running around out there!) did get his first win that night but since then, he's added another one over Labor Day weekend at Grand Prairie Speedway.
Marty's not alone however. Shane Clement, who won loads of Modified features over the years at tracks like Paris, Super Bowl and Grayson County, scored an SST Sprint Win at Cowtown Speedway in July. He ran second at Speedarama at an SST show with 30 Sprint Cars in attendance earlier this year too! Car counts with SST have had as many cars as SUPR gets with maybe a few more on average. Shane returns to Ark-La-Tex on Saturday night!
And one of the original WoO competitors from the 70s and 80s -- Shane Carson of Oklahoma -- can still flat-out drive a race car! He was on hand at Ark-La-Tex back in April and has run many of the SST shows this year in the #1 car. Hopefully, THIS Shane joins us again Saturday Night as well!
We're going to keep one eye on Hurricane Ike this week but for now, plan on being at Ark-La-Tex Speedway Saturday night for one whale of an event! They are taking Ike farther south this morning. Better for us, not so good for Victoria and or Corpus Cristi Texas. Hopefully, these fronts we're getting now will force this Hurricane into the least populated areas of the northern Mexico coast.
If you want to learn more about the Sprint Series of Texas, just click on the banner below:
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September 10, 2008 at
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Well, now we have two eyes on Ike!
Saturday night, the center of Ike is predicted to most likely be in College Station, TX but, the wideness of "the prediction cone", puts the range limits anywhere between Del Rio and Lake Charles.
That's a big range! Del Rio would mean no effect on us while Lake Charles probably means a postponement if it comes in that far east. We'll keep watching.
The most likely path means we start getting the rain around Sunday morning and we get the show in. Thursday and Friday are sunny and hot with a high around 90. Clouds increase Saturday, cooler, high 82, with a 30% of isolated showers and then Sunday, it's 50% right now.
Looks like we have a good chance of racing. Track phone: 318-375-3470 or 318-218-9430. www.arklatexspeedway.net
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September 12, 2008 at
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POSTPONED!
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