Speed Zone Under Water For Second Straight Week
June 1, 2004

OSHKOSH, WI – Continued heavy rainfall during the past week has left the Powercom Speed Zone under water and forced track officials to cancel the racing action Tuesday night, June 1st.

It marks the first time in track history that back-to-back weeks have been scrubbed due to wet weather.  The greater Oshkosh area received over nine inches of rain during the month of May making it one of the wettest months on record.  The entire Sunnyview Expo Grounds is currently saturated.

“We need to have a long stretch of dry weather to help us out,” said Wisconsin Motorsports’ General Manager Rex Melius.  “We got rained out at Powercom Park here in Beaver Dam both Saturday and Monday and now it’s two weeks in a row at Oshkosh.  Hopefully this weather pattern will break shortly.”

Powercom Park was scheduled to have a regular racing program on Saturday night, May 29th and follow that with a twin bill with sprint cars and late models on Memorial Day.  Both programs had to be cancelled.  The weekend marked the fourth straight rainout at Powercom Park and, coupled with the Speed Zone, six straight overall for the two tracks run under Wisconsin Motorsports, Inc.

“Pretty good for baseball, six in a row, but terrible for racing,” Melius said.  “Hopefully with the month we have coming up we will get some good weather.  There are some big specials coming up.”

Racing will return to the Powercom Speed Zone in Oshkosh on Tuesday night, June 8th with a full regular program and continue the following week.  The track will be dark on Tuesday night, June 22nd, as Country USA takes over, and then return to racing with a special Interstate Racing Association show on June 29th.

Powercom Park will see the World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series invade for a huge night of racing on Saturday, June 12th.  A strong field of local drivers will battle the Mean 15, the WoO battle cry in 2004, for a full program.  

The night’s activities will be part of what has become a great sidebar story for the traveling tour as Craig Dollansky and Steve Kinser will return to battle.  Dollansky and Kinser recently got into it at an event in Minnesota and verbal, along with physical, jabs have been shot from both sides.  Kinser currently leads the season long points with Dollansky in tow.

NASCAR Nextel Cup bad boy Tony Stewart will hit the high banks at Powercom Park on Tuesday night, June 22nd as he competes in the Prestige Custom Cabinetry Superstar Showdown.  Kasey Kahne, another Nextel driver, will also partake in the action along with one of the best fields of modifieds to assemble in Wisconsin in 2004.

Tickets are currently on sale for both the World of Outlaws event and the Superstar Showdown.  Contact the track office for more information by calling (920) 887-1600 or www.wismotorsports.net.