Rice Lake Speedway Wet; Fireworks Next Saturday
By Ed Reichert
Rice Lake WI, June 26 – Rain settled in over the Indianhead region of northern Wisconsin on Saturday afternoon and with it not moving through with any great speed, the conditions forced track owners to cancel the Saturday night racing program at the Rice Lake Speedway. Both the scheduled Kid’s night activities, including the bike drawings and the $1,000 to win Street Stock special as a part of the racing program, will be rescheduled. At this time, those dates have not been finalized but as soon as they are, they will be made available through official releases and posting to the track’s face book page. Drivers and fans should watch for this announcement in the coming days.
In the meantime, attention focuses to this coming Saturday night, July 3rd, for the annual Firecracker special at the track. A full five division program will be presented including WISSOTA sanctioned Modifieds, Super Stocks, Midwest Modifieds, Street Stocks and Pure Stocks and of course, the highlight to the program will be the fireworks display, long a tradition at the track. Since the early 1960’s, the fourth of July weekend has seen the speedway present a great fireworks show as a part of their holiday program and this will be the case once again this year.
Fans are encouraged to arrive early on Saturday and get their seats as a large crowd is expected for this annual tradition. Another tradition at the track on this weekend is the annual Barron County Relay at the Races and that will be held again as a part of the program. Rice Lake Tourism will be the presenting sponsor for this year’s Firecracker special.
Race time is set for 7 pm and for any additional or late breaking news relative to the track, please check the speedway face book page or the track website atwww.ricelakespeedway.net.
On the following week, the July 10th race will highlight the second No Mystery feature race when the Super Stocks will be racing for a $1,000 top prize.
