I just want to give you all a heads up that the Manawa race is not looking good for this weekend. Unfortunately the ice has 3-4 inches of bad ice (crystallized), and to remove it would cause a large drain area for Saturday when the weather warms up.
We also have lost about 80% of our land parking area for our trailers. I will only have room for about 25 to 30 large trailers in the parking lot, which is now blacktop. Lake parking is an option, but I don't know how many of our racers would be comfortable with that, after the resent weather and temp changes.
I would love to say that we are good to go, but at this point, I don't feel good about it. Definitely no Sunday racing at Manawa, and doubtful for Saturday also.
This group has worked so hard to try to give us a place to race, but Mother nature is just not cooperating at all.
Sorry to have to give you all bad news, but I want to alert you in advance. Final decision will be Thursday morning, but I am 90% no run.
Dean Bennett
Update to Dean's post, it has now been confirmed the race is CANCELLED for Saturday the 27th. This Snodeo group has done a great job to try to put this on, but in the end the weather just did not work out.