Rice Lake Speedway 2023 Opener Postponed
By Ed Reichert
Rice Lake WI, April 18 – With a wet and cold week ahead with perhaps a dash of snow promised by the weather experts for northern Wisconsin, the owners of the Rice Lake Speedway, Dave Adams and Mitch Hansen, have decided to postpone by seven days the scheduled opener for the Rice Lake Speedway. Originally planned for Saturday night, April 22nd, the opening night will be pushed back one week to Saturday night, April 29th.
All five WISSOTA sanctioned classes that normally race at the speedway will be on the opening night schedule which will include Pure Stocks, Street Stocks, Midwest Modifieds, Super Stocks and Modifieds. A good field of cars is promised for the opener as the extra seven days will allow those teams not quite ready to make final preparations while others are more than ready and chomping at the bit to get the racing season started.
Pit gates will open at 4 pm with the grandstands opening at 5 pm. Draw cutoff is 6:30 pm with racing slated to begin at 7 pm. Opening night action will also see the cars judged for the Best Appearing awards in each class with the winners announced the following week.
The practice night slated for April 19th will now be held on Wednesday night, April 26th with practice slated from 6-9 pm.
Regular five division action is scheduled for the opening two weeks of the season before the first special event which will take place on Saturday night, May 13th as the Late Models will join the action with the annual running of the Trackside Collectibles 40 paying two thousand dollars to the winner of the WISSOTA Late Models. This will be the first of three visits for the Late Models during the 2023 racing season.
The complete racing schedule is available on the speedway website at www.ricelakespeedway.netand the latest track information will be posted on the speedway face book page. Contact Dave Adams at 715-205-2861 ot Mitch Hansen at715-205-1122 with any questions.
