09/20/2004

RAINS SETUP MARATHON THIS UPCOMING SATURDAY

    Heavy rains from the remnants of hurricane Ivan stormed through Riverhead Raceway late Saturday morning flooding much of the facility and forcing promoters Barbara and Jim Cromarty to postpone the Miller Lite night racing. What the rain did was set-up a marathon season finale this Saturday September 25th, which will find a combination of two shows in one.
    The September 18th program, including the Full Size School Bus Demolition Derby and the National Demolition Derby will be incorporated into this weeks Enduro series program. An energetic undertaking to say the least, but Barbara and Jim Cromarty knowing how much the Chargers and Blunderbusts look forward to the 50-lap, non points races did not want to disappoint drivers in those classes, as well the Figure Eights and Super Pro Trucks.
    The schedule will be as follows for Saturday September 25th. Pit gates will open at 10:00 am, with practice for the four stock car divisions to start at 11:45. Spectator gates will swing open at 1:00 pm. Times trials for the Chargers, Blunderbusts and Super Pro Trucks will go green at 2:00 pm, with feature events for all three to follow and be joined by the 25-lap non-point Figure Eight feature. That will take care of the stock car portion of the rained-out program from this past Saturday.
    Then the Enduro program, including the 12-lap NY Team Federal Credit Union Train Race will be presented. In order to save time the 2nd 8-Cylinder Enduro will now be incorporated into the first 8-Cylinder race and the Car Rollover Contest has been canceled. Joining the 8-Cylinder Enduro will be the Grand Enduro, 4-Cylinder Enduro, 4/6-Cylinder Truck Enduro and the 6-Cylinder Enduro, which may be combined with the 8.
    Once all the Enduro racing has been completed it will be time to wreck some Full Size School Buses in a Demolition Derby, as "Slim" Jim Donaldson of Shirley looks for a clean sweep in 2004 in the wild and entertaining event. Last, but certainly not least will be the annual National Demolition Derby Championship as the best of the best from the tri-state area will fight to the finish with a $1,500 payday on the line for the winner.
    In the event of rain Saturday September 25th, this entire show will be run Sunday September 26th with the pits opening at 10:00 am. A quick round of stock car practice would start at 11:45 if the Sunday date is needed and the time trials would be moved up to 12:30 pm on the rain date.
    For further information please call the Riverhead Raceway office at 631-842-RACE or look us up at www.riverheadraceway.com.

Sources:  Bob Finan/Riverhead Raceway PR
Posted:  September 20, 2004