Opportunity to race a 2-day, $20,000 to win event at a GREAT TRACK but ACT NOW!!!

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POSTPONED until July 27th through 30th. Too cold in Minnesota right now...

If this is what you want, you better enter ASAP! It's a 14-hour drive from say Charleston, West Virginia to the Iowa-Minnesota border for this one -- 2nd weekend of April. As a minimum, you'll have to drive up on Thursday, race Friday and Saturday (hope for no weather issues!) and drive back on Sunday.

What's the up side? Oh it's good....about as good as it gets!!!

Qualifying nights are Wednesday, April 6th, Thursday the 7th and Friday the 8th. Finals are on Saturday the 9th. PLEASE note that the RAINDATE/WEATHER DATE for this show is July 27th through the 30th just in case.

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Enter now and pick Friday and you'll have to pay the entry, travel costs to southeast Minnesota and back and 2-days worth of pit passes for you and your crew. Like I said though, the upside is HUGE! A mains paydown starts at $20,000-12,000-7000-5000-4000-3000 down to $1500 to start (complete paydown below). 30 CARS START THE A! The first non-qualifier in the B-main AND C-main each get $1000 with $700 just to start the B and $600 just to start the C. The D pays $500 to start, the E, $450, F $400, G $350 and H $300 just to start.

And in this qualifying format YOU LOOSE NOTHING BY RACING JUST FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. (except a shot at a 'mulligan' which is explained in the entry form below and I'll talk about that deal more in a later post!). The same amount of points are available each night and only one night counts. So, you CAN BE THE NUMBER ONE QUALIFIER of all 3 nights on any of the nights including Friday night. There ARE hot lap sessions prior to the heat races EACH night! See how this can be a legitimate 2-day, $20,000 to win event???!!!

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If you've never been to Deer Creek Speedway....OUTSTANDING FACILITY! Truly is and I've seen a few race tracks in my day. The equipment is 2nd to none and I saw with my own eyes what THAT Deer Creek crew can do at last year's USMTS Fall Jamboree. Terrible floods in southeast Minnesota on September 22nd and 23rd, 2010. 6 and half inches of rain at the track on the 23rd alone. Deer Creek overran it's banks and they had to move haulers and campers away from rising water. Not one but four pumps kept draining the infield and when they were able to start working the track they had all the graders, tractors, tillers, sheep-footers and packers you could possibly want or have at any dirt track in the country. On Friday, Sep 24th at 1PM we practiced for 2 hours. We raced at the advertised start time of 6:30 on Friday, 5:30 on Saturday and 4:30 on Sunday -- on the dot! And the TRACK WAS SMOOTH with 3 and 4-wide racing ALL 3 NIGHTS FROM START TO FINISH. They didn't have to on one of the nights, but they reworked the track very quickly before the B-mains on the other two. It worked like a charm. They know just what to do with that race track and they have the equipment AND they know how to use it! If ANY TRACK can pull this off that far north in April, Deer Creek Speedway CAN DO IT!!!

Deer Creek is a wide, well-banked small 3/8 mile black dirt track. Looks and races beautiful with great concessions and staff too! You'll love it...

Make sure you watch the TV series 'Dirt Knights' starting THIS SUNDAY, January 2nd at 6PM eastern, 5PM CST on the Versus Network which features six modified teams as they chase the USMTS championship in 2010. One or more of the episodes will feature Deer Creek Speedway. This World Modified Dirt Track Championship is a non-points USMTS event run with USMTS staff and rules. They are some of the best I've seen too.


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Today's the last day to enter at the $250 rates so..get-r-done!!!

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Several UNOFFICIAL notes here:

-- 111 entries now in.

-- the rain dates have changed. It's now July 27th-30th. Won't be any snow then, lol!

-- the $250 rate has been extended to Jan 31st. TODAY!

-- Wednesday and Thursday each have their initial 50 cars. Surprisingly, only 11 guys so far have made this a 2-day show with Arkansas's Johnny Bone, Jr. leading the Friday entry list.

-- So far, racers from Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, New Mexico, California and New York have entered this race! Join them TODAY!!!

-- Almost all the Wednesday and Thursday cars have paid the extra $100 for a mulligan. I would think a team in the top 20 in points would want to 'stick'. That should - I say 'should' because you don't really know how the passing points will turnout for sure after three nights - put them in at least the $500 to start D main. I don't think you want to risk being in an H if you are already in the D or close to it. Only the top 6 each night know for sure where they are.

-- Once the total car count is known and Wednesday is done, USMTS will try and move enough cars over to Friday and make the car count for Thursday and Friday be as close to the same as possible. There will be a bit of a guessing game there as they will not know for sure how many cars will 'stick' with Thursday's point total and how many will throw it out and use their Mulligan. Some are on a waiting list, waiting for Friday to fill up so they can get on Wednesday or Thursday and buy a mulligan too.

-- But, Friday-only cars have the same chance at the pole or the top 18 Friday night as the other nights do. This is a very legitimate 2-day, $20,000-to-win, $150,000 total purse race. And through midnight tomorrow, you can still enter for $250. $300 after that. $400 at the gate. Travel Thursday or Friday if you're close enough. Come back Sunday or Monday. Maybe just one or two days off from work this way or minimal vacation use/favor use anyway.

-- if the car count goes over 150, more 'H' mains will be added so as long as you race in one, you're guaranteed at least $300 back on Saturday.

Call USMTS for official info! www.USMTS.com

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The average high in southeast Minnesota for April 6th through 9th is 50 and the average low is 30 (we'll take it!) with a record low of 5 in 1936 on April 6th and 8 in 1997 on April 9th...ouch.... BUT...

The record HIGH temps were in 1991 when for three straight days, the temps hit the MID-to-UPPER EIGHTIES!!! That'll work!!! If not, there's always July....

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Last I heard, there were around 140 entries with none other than 'Kid Rocket', Josh Richards being one of them! All but about 15 or so were on Wednesday & Thursday and all but one or two bought a 'mulligan' which means they can throw out their first night's result and try on one of the other two. So a lot of those cars will end up racing Friday too.

That being said, you still have a LEGITIMATE SHOT at both the pole and this $20,000 win or another good paying spot by running it as a 2-day show. $150,000 Modified purse ON A 2-DAY SHOW!!! At Deer Creek, passing is easy! The passing point winner can come from any one of the three nights. For all I know, he may still be selling entries and mulligans for Wednesday and Thursday too. Gas prices may keep you home this summer. Might as well take a shot at this one while you can!

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Did you miss Dirt Knights on Sunday? It's OK if you did because it replays this Thursday at 4PM CDT, 5PM EDT. Why is it more special than the other episodes? They're all special. It's a great series. But this one featured the first Dirt Knights footage from Deer Creek Speedway in the 2nd half of the show. There will be a lot more from Deer Creek later as the series ends there at the Fall Jamboree when The Hunt concludes. But if you haven't seen Deer Creek yet, check out Dirt Knights THIS Thursday!!!

Less than 4 weeks to go now!!!

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Deer Creek coming up on Dirt Knights!!! Osky was in the last episode only Deer Creek races left in the Hunt at this point so that will be the track over the rest of the Dirt Knights series, season one!


And from USMTS media....

SPRING VALLEY, Minn. -- This winter has lasted for what seems like an eternity to race fans throughout the Great Plains and Upper Midwest, and it appears that Mother Nature is reluctant to release her grip on the Land of 10,000 Lakes.

With wet and bitter cold weather forecasted for Southern Minnesota next week, officials from the Deer Creek Speedway and United States Modified Touring Series have reluctantly postponed the inaugural World Modified Dirt Track Championship.

The most-talked-about event in dirt track racing is now scheduled for Wednesday through Saturday, July 27-30.

“Racing is supposed to be fun,” said USMTS President Todd Staley. “If it wasn’t fun, none of us – the fans, the drivers and the track promoters – would go through the personal and financial expense, hard work and risk that we do for this sport.”

The National Weather Service is calling for nighttime temperatures in the 30s, with a good chance of rain and possibly snow throughout next week.

“Unfortunately, even if the weatherman is wrong and we don’t get any precipitation next week it is still going to be uncomfortably cold and that will not be fun for anybody.”

Other than the change of dates for the blockbuster event, everything else remains the same for the.

To date, a record 145 different drivers from 23 different states have added their name to the list of possible one-armed bandits that will leave Deer Creek Speedway on July 30 with the $20,000 top prize.

In addition to the whopping $20,000 going to the winner, each of the 30 main event qualifiers will pocket a minimum of $1,500.

While the race will be sanctioned and officiated by the United States Modified Touring Series, the World Modified Dirt Track Championship will be a non-points USMTS race that features a one-of-a-kind qualifying format.

Drivers can register to qualify on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday. Racers registering for Wednesday or Thursday may also purchase a “mulligan” that allows them to qualify a second day if they aren’t satisfied with their result on the first day.

If they take a mulligan, however, they forfeit the result from the first night of qualifying.

Those who register for Friday will get just one qualifying day, but all drivers return on Championship Saturday to compete in feature races.

Group time trials will be staged each day on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. The top six qualifiers in each heat race will be inverted for starting positions in their heat races.

Points will be awarded each night for time trials, heat races, “B” Mains and the “A” Main with the top six in overall points each night being locked into the $20,000-to-win World Modified Dirt Track Championship main event on Saturday night.

The highest overall points earner during the three days of qualifying will earn the pole for the Saturday's “A” Main, second most points in the middle of the front row, third most points on the outside of the front row and so on for the 18 qualified drivers.

Saturday’s program will feature an “alphabet soup” of main events with the highest non-qualified points earner on the pole of the “B” Main and the lowest points earner from the previous three days at the back of the “H” Main (or lowest main event staged).

Six drivers will advance from each main event to the next, with 12 cars advancing from the “B” Main to the “A” Main to create a 30-car starting field for the championship race that will feature a three-wide start.

Nearly $100,000 has been earmarked for Saturday’s “A” Main alone, with a total purse of more than $160,000 posted for the four-day extravaganza.