It is amazing what can happen at Capital City Speedway when Mother Nature gives us a clear warm night. Strongco Night saw our best attendance of the year and turned out to be an exciting night for many different reasons.
The Uniglass Ziebart Car Show Series hosted by Larry Way came back to CCS after a 1 year layoff and showed us they love coming to CCS. We had 55 cars come out and showed off their great looking cars on the track during intermission. You would have thought that we had the drag strip open again after a couple of lengthy burnouts by a couple of hot looking Barracuda's owned by a father and son team. In speaking with Larry, they all had a great time being back at CCS and we fully expect to see them back again next year. Thanks again go out to Larry Way for agreeing to come this year to CCS and to Wayne Young for helping get Larry and the car show series back. We will see you all again next year.
Thursday morning I got a call from a lady who told me a wonderful story. Her son is a regular at CCS and has been trying to get her out to CCS for several years now. Unfortunately, she was recently diagnosed with cancer and her chemotherapy schedule had her in on Wednesday's which made her normally too sick and too tired to attend. She wanted to come to the show so badly she made arrangements to change her chemotherapy schedule so she would be able to come down last Wednesday. She said she was so happy to finally get out to the track that she was crying like a baby in the line up outside the track. She made it through the lengthy program on Wednesday and said she had the time of her life and is going to keep the new schedule so she can come back again this week. Thank you for sharing your story with us. I apologize to her as I did not get her name, and from the excited tone of her voice, I think she forgot to tell me. CCS wishes you all the best in your battle with your cancer and we all hope you will get to come back and see us again for many, many years to come.
I would like to thank JR Fitzpatrick, Dave Connelly and Patrick Burke from the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series for coming down to the track on Wednesday. Dave Connelly brought us down his car and had it on display at the front gate, and did a few hot laps for us at intermission. His stay with us was short as the car had to get on its way to Montreal for the big race this weekend. JR Fitzpatrick was scheduled to run Mike Hennink's Thunder Car but unfortunately JR blew it up in practice. Nolan Gould, one of our Mini Stock drivers, offered up his car for JR to drive for the night. JR said he has never had the opportunity to race a front wheel drive car before but it didn't take too long for him to work it all out. JR showed his driving abilities and won the feature race. We will work on this again next year and try to make it even bigger and better.
If you were at CCS on Wednesday night you would have witnessed one of our Four for Fun drivers, AJ Dickie, take a hard lick into the wall during the feature race. The ambulance was out on the track for a while giving him medical attention on the infield. AJ Dickie was then taken to hospital for observation and was admitted. They kept him there until today and he was released this afternoon. I have spoken with AJ and Al Dickie (his Father) and they have started building a new car for him. Watch for his new car over the next two weeks.
I would like to thank all of our first time guests, as we had many new people out to watch. I hope you all had a great time and we hope to see you all again very soon.
Thanks go out to STRONGCO for their support this year on putting on a great night of entertainment for all to see. We hope to see you back with us again next year.
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