{"id":9858,"date":"2012-02-18T15:51:14","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T15:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/?p=9858"},"modified":"2012-02-18T15:51:14","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T15:51:14","slug":"rain-delays-world-of-outlaws-sprint-car-season-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/series\/rain-delays-world-of-outlaws-sprint-car-season-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain Delays World of Outlaws Sprint Car Season Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Showers force a doubleheader on Sunday with Saturday\u2019s show as scheduled at Volusia<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Volusia-2-17-006.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9859\" title=\"Volusia-2-17-006\" src=\"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Volusia-2-17-006.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"351\" height=\"177\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shawn Miller, BARBERVILLE, Fla. &#8211; Feb. 17, 2012 &#8211; Mother Nature was a villain Friday night at Volusia Speedway Park.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of rainstorms washed out the World of Outlaws season opener in Barberville, Fla., shortly after qualifying had concluded at the 41 <sup>st<\/sup> annual UNOH DIRTcar Nationals Presented by Summit Racing Equipment. Tomorrow&#8217;s race will remain as scheduled with Friday&#8217;s event set to resume on Sunday afternoon. Hot laps begin at 12:30 p.m.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s always disappointing to have that happen, but there&#8217;s nothing you can do about Mother Nature,&#8221; twenty-time World of Outlaws champion Steve Kinser said. &#8220;There is always tomorrow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kinser and 36 other premier drivers qualified with Dale Blaney posting the fastest lap of 12.981 seconds. Joey Saldana qualified second best with a time of 12.983, Brian Ellenberger was third at 13.055, Brad Sweet fourth at 13.058 and Danny Lasoski rounded out the top five with a lap of 13.079 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>However, as the event neared Opening Ceremonies, a storm dumped all over the track and the packed crowd. A couple of minor mists continued to dampen the facility during a four-hour delay. The track crew worked diligently and the racing surface was close to ready when the final storm ended the event around 11:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the rest of the 41<sup>st<\/sup> annual UNOH DIRTcar Nationals Presented by Summit can be ordered online by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?llr=ziqiokcab&amp;et=1109330843561&amp;s=67540&amp;e=001mXmCfCIdd8a3YE0VSuTrsIB7Cx7yFDlKviB-X5kTnl07LgogIY_vZrh4XGVNgeNUHg6MK4BWFNn8pUjbtd3ju4op82qANCKEBUL14zYPruA5dBReijVEbKnf6zqyotF7dh5wjs6mkfw=\">WorldofOutlaws.com\/tickets<\/a>, by calling 877-395-8606 or purchased at the track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Showers force a doubleheader on Sunday with Saturday\u2019s show as scheduled at Volusia Shawn Miller, BARBERVILLE, Fla. &#8211; Feb. 17, 2012 &#8211; Mother Nature was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"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":[22,3,1,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-front-page-news","category-series","category-volusia-speedway-park"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9858","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9858"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9864,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9858\/revisions\/9864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}