Shreveport Pro-Am called off

Jim Cimarolli · 05-14-2011, 08:03 PM

I was there, it was pretty sad. Beautiful weather, kind of windy, but nice and cool.
They just couldn't get a handle on the track no matter how hard they tried.
Rumor was that the track had previously been sandblasted to clean it.
I don't know what they did, but I can say that the surface of the track, at least the starting line area that I walked out and looked at was kind of like a sponge. Flat places about as big as a quarter, but just as much area that was below the surface. Maybe the sandblasting dug out all the "butter", and left the stones on the surface that had been ground previously.
Anyway, I want to commend Robert Kornegay and the employees of Thunder Road Raceway and the IHRA staff and for their efforts to make it right, and for the decision by the division director Frank Kohutek to call the event and refund everyones entry fees in full.

05-14-2011, 08:03 PM	#2
Jim Cimarolli Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Sulphur Springs Texas Posts: 743 Likes: 146 Liked 166 Times in 46 Posts	Re: Shreveport Pro-Am called off I was there, it was pretty sad. Beautiful weather, kind of windy, but nice and cool. They just couldn't get a handle on the track no matter how hard they tried. Rumor was that the track had previously been sandblasted to clean it. I don't know what they did, but I can say that the surface of the track, at least the starting line area that I walked out and looked at was kind of like a sponge. Flat places about as big as a quarter, but just as much area that was below the surface. Maybe the sandblasting dug out all the "butter", and left the stones on the surface that had been ground previously. Anyway, I want to commend Robert Kornegay and the employees of Thunder Road Raceway and the IHRA staff and for their efforts to make it right, and for the decision by the division director Frank Kohutek to call the event and refund everyones entry fees in full.