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Originally Posted by ianacole
VICTORY!!! (I have a strong desire to post the Nemesis video  ) |
Fun fact: that video was at my local track - RPM.
Not so fun fact: RPM is currently under water for the
THIRD time this yr. The owner had pretty much given up after flood #2 in May but a couple of volunteers had been cleaning the track up on their own dime. They've only been able to host a few outlaw drag races to raise money. Nothing on the road course all yr. Hard to survive when $$$ are only going out, not in.
Several of our club members went out to RPM in late July to check out how the road course was doing. Amazingly the track had not been scoured by the 2 floods. Just some weeds growing in the cracks in the asphalt. They had cleaned them from the front straight and T1-T7, but still had T8-T15 to go. The paddock was a mess but not yet their priority. Our goal was to host a 1 day DE on Oct 12. We were willing to look past a few inconveniences to be able to pump some needed $$$ into their coffers. To incent people to come we set the price at $100. Based on the contract with RPM, we needed 24 cars to break even. We didn't know how many would actually register, but we were going to donate any profit to RPM. As of 9/18, we had 25 people registered, with a bunch waiting along with a bunch who were just hearing about the event and wanting to register. It looked like we were going to have a large batch of cars.
And then the rains came...
We got another blast of heavy rain locally late last week as well in northeast Neb / northwest IA. RPM quickly submerged for the 3rd time from the surge in the Missouri river. There's no way it will be dry / safe by Oct 12. We had to cancel. I don't know their financial situation, but we're very worried RPM will go under. It would be a shame to lose our local track. Keep RPM in your thoughts. They're having a tough year.