zippy65

Friday night at Thunder Mountain Speedway in Brookville, PA will see the 2nd annual Eric Witherite Memorial paying $3000 to the winner. The 30 lap main event will pay $300 to start also. Boom Briggs and Jared Miley have the two ULMS wins on the year at Thunder Mountain. Miley is expected to be on hand.

As I said before. I can not answer the question of wreckers. I was just trying to point out that as I sit in the stands and see that something is different or seems out of place, before I jump on the bashing bandwagon I at least try to think rationally. That means unless I would talk to staff directly to ask why only one wrecker,I would not assume that it is an issue. Not my business. Maybe he could have called in some other company to assist. I don't know, I didn't ask him. Maybe he did try to get another wrecker and couldn't. I don't know, I didn't ask him.And what you find wrong at one track you will find wrong at all tracks from time to time. No track is perfect and no track is without it's problems. 

First let me address the no announcer  question. The night before (Thursday Night) we had huge bad storms roll through. Some pretty bad lightning and torrents of rain. The lightning struck at the track and put out the whole PA System. In the words of the announcer "It was fried". So I guess that answers why no National Anthem as well. I can't answer about why they didn't raise the flag even though no Anthem could be played. 

They did wonders with a track that just the night before was totally underwater. Another quote . "At midnight you could have Kayaked across the track."

Only the lights at turn one went out because that one breaker overheated and shut down. As soon as it cooled enough the lights came back up and the race resumed.

Maybe the other wrecker was on another job. I don't know for sure but before I would cry about it I would think that for some reason the other one could not be there. 

I can not answer everyone's questions because I don't have anything to do with the track. I just go to watch the action.

I will give the staff credit for doing what they could to get the night in after a very bad night of weather that was unrelenting for quite some time.

Maybe some of you do not know this. Thunder Mountain Speedway's officials had nothing to do with the ULMS series on Friday night.

The ULMS has their own officals that take control of the late models from the time trials , to the heats , to the B-main (if their is one) and on to the feature. 

So , the problems you may have with how things were run please don't blame Thunder Mountain or the officals. Thunder Mountain runs a good show every week.