Apologies to Gendel

I was packed and fully ready to roll out the door on Wednesday, March 30th. I was planning to head South to the Southern Iowa Speedway to catch round one of the Frostbuster, an event I have attended for the past few years and have always enjoyed.

However, I had also been monitoring the weather forecast for a few days previous to the event and everything I saw gave me "pause." I checked one last time on Tuesday night and then decided that I would roll out of bed early on Wednesday morning and make my final decision. The a.m. hours on Wednesday showed nearly a 100% chance of rain before race time and multiple sources were saying the same thing. Since I have been running all over Hades this Winter and into the Spring and my racing budget is far from bottomless, the last thing I needed was to head South to the Hawkeye state, hit rain and spend the evening holed up in some over priced motel biding my time until Thursday morning. So I grudgingly decided that I would pass on this race, something that I do seldom, but with the belief that I would see rain at Osky before race time and it would all make sense.

As the day progresses and Osky stayed dry, I grew increasingly agitated. However, I still believed that some "big time" storms would cook up over Missouri and Kansas and that Osky would still be wet before race time. As race time grew near and the storms blew up, unbelievably they were all managing to split the Osky area and leave the track high and dry, even though in many directions around the track it was storming heavily. The radar screen indicated the Osky should be able to get their show in and that is the point that the "F-Bombs" were hurled at my innocent computer screen!

For promoter Mike Van Genderen, he may have well been praying that the rains would indeed hit him. I have not spoken to anyone that was at the races, but with all the bad weather in the area and the dire forecast, I can't imagine that the crowd was any too large. In fact, staring at the dreadful forecast he was facing, he might have well canceled early if not for what had happened the previous weekend at Donnellson.

The car count turned out to be anything but special but likely the result of the weather which no doubt kept many of the racers' cars still in the garage, rather than make a drive to the track for nothing. In any event, they did race and I made my first strategic "boo-boo" of 2016, something that hopefully won't be repeated soon but that's not a guarantee by any means.

Good for Mike V. that he got his show in, hopefully he made a few bucks and I will sometime again make a stab at seeing some racing at the big Mahaska County half mile.