

To see our full rainout policy Click Here If you were at the races Friday, May 13th when we rained out, keep your black armband for the pits and your receipt for the grandstands ane bring that back for admission into one of the next two races. If you can handle a little more excitement you will want to stay for the 18 lap Figure 8 race after the full show of Street Stocks, Pro Stocks, Late Models, IMCA Modifieds and Bomber Stocks. We're starting the night off with your favorite Street Stock drivers dueling it out to see who will come out in front after starting the the 33 lap main event 3 wide. As the trailer lost a wheel, the mannequin lost his head, and the hideous apparition dragged by the catch fence, rattling his fishing pole along the chain link like a kid with a stick.Get ready to kick your weekend off with an action packed night of entertainment! This Friday, May 27th is jam packed with racing that will keep you on the edge of your seat. One race I saw had a mannequin of a fisherman standing in a boat. Wheels and sparks fly, and the air is filled by a snowfall of Boat Particles of questionable origin (fibreglass? asbestos?). Havoc ensues as the decrepit water craft's inevitable decay is hastened by hot laps around the half-mile oval. Junker boats are strapped to equally squalid trailers, hooked up to bomber-class stock cars and let loose on the oval.

Pete now host bus races!) Buses are decorated many folks just graffiti 'em up with spray paint, but some copy the paint schemes of their NASCAR favorites, or add cartoons of screaming kids in the windows.īoat 'n' Trailer races are actually much more spectacular. Drivers include real school bus drivers, drivers from the racing divisions, and a few who actually have their own custom racing buses and who travel the circuit (I have heard that tracks from Jacksonville to St.

At Orlando Speedworld, there are two types of unusual races I have been to: School Bus Figure 8 Races and Boat 'n' Trailer Races, usually the final event of a full card of stock car racing.įigure 8 School Bus Racing is pretty self-explanatory: a bunch of school buses run on a figure-8 course, trying to avoid hitting one another in the crossover, avoiding tipping over in the turns, or blowing surprisingly fragile engines.
