{"id":5828,"date":"2011-04-02T02:25:02","date_gmt":"2011-04-02T02:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/?p=5828"},"modified":"2011-04-02T02:26:45","modified_gmt":"2011-04-02T02:26:45","slug":"ocala-speedway-succumbs-to-heavy-rains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/race-results\/ocala-speedway-succumbs-to-heavy-rains\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocala Speedway Succumbs to Heavy Rains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: #000000; font-size: x-small;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<div>by BJ Cavin- Ocala Speedway Media<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>OCALA, FL-\u00a0 While racers and  fans might think that a rainout on a beautiful weather night is some sort of  April Fools joke, the unfortunate truth is that the Friday, April 1st program at  Ocala Speedway was washed out by torrential rains that fell through much of the  week, resulting in a muddy track that could not be dried out in time for  racing.\u00a0 So on a day where the sun shined brightly and temperatures were in  the 70&#8217;s,\u00a0things will be dark and quiet at Florida&#8217;s oldest speedway  tonight.\u00a0Some estimates show that up to 5 inches of rain fell on Ocala  Speedway over Wednesday and Thursday, which led to the Friday cancellation.<\/p>\n<p>While this week&#8217;s races fell victim to the wet conditions, the Mini  Stocks will get a reprieve and will be added to the schedule for Friday, April  8th.\u00a0 In addition to the Mini Stocks, fans will see action from the Late  Models, Hobby Stocks, Amsoil V8 Thunder Stocks, and the Gladiators.\u00a0 Other  than the Mini Stocks being added to the schedule for next week, there are no  plans to make up any of the other canceled races.<\/p>\n<p>And April 8th will be  the final night of regular racing at Ocala Speedway before the Monster Jam  Summer Tour returns with the top monster trucks in the nation live, up close,  and in person, performing on the infield at America&#8217;s Dirt Track.\u00a0 For  ticket information, or to see the complete racing schedule, please visit us  online at <a href=\"https:\/\/gmx.com\/dereferrer\/?target=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.OcalaSpeedway.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.OcalaSpeedway.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by BJ Cavin- Ocala Speedway Media OCALA, FL-\u00a0 While racers and fans might think that a rainout on a beautiful weather night is some sort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"publish_to_discourse":"","publish_post_category":"","wpdc_auto_publish_overridden":"","wpdc_topic_tags":"","wpdc_pin_topic":"","wpdc_pin_until":"","discourse_post_id":"","discourse_permalink":"","wpdc_publishing_response":"","wpdc_publishing_error":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ocala-speedway","category-race-results"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5828"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5832,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5828\/revisions\/5832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}