There will be no races today June 7th at the Seymour Speedway. A great deal of standing water at the track with cloudy skies will not help dry it out in time for racing.

This is the first rain out at Seymour for the 2009 season.

June 14th is the next race at Seymour Speedway with racing getting underway at 6PM sharp!

The 2009 Racing season for the Kelsey Racing Team is about to get underway weather permitting this Sunday May 3, 2009 @ 6 PM at the Seymour Speedway in Seymour, Wisconsin.

You will find the Kelsey Coatings sponsored # 65 machine in a new class this year! The very exciting and action packed IMCA Stock Cars!

IMCA is the acronym for: International Motor Contest Association

You can learn more about the IMCA at IMCA.com

The Seymour Speedway has a new website as well and has changed it’s name (domain name) to SeymourSuperSpeedway.com .

We hope to see you at the track for a little fun under the sun and enjoy the roar of race cars again. Stop down in the pit’s after the races and enjoy a cold beverage with the team. It’s been a long winter with alot of changes and it’s Race Season again!!

The Street Stocks kicked off the feature portion of the program with Bob Czarapata taking the point for the first 2 laps before T.J. White moved into the top spot. White stayed in front for 6 laps while the field sorted out right behind. Harley Simon moved into the lead on lap 9 with Paul White following into the runner up spot. The leaders ran side by side for a couple laps before White took the lead. Simon stayed right behind with Bill Kelsey moving into third with T.J. White, Derek Lecker and Todd Everard in tow.

Over the final laps, the battle between Simon and Kelsey allowed White to open a slight lead, until a late race caution on lap 18 set up a wild finish. Under green for the final 2 laps, Kelsey made a run on the outside of Simon for second and the pair tried to sandwich the leader out of turn 2. White pulled ahead with Simon retaking the second spot. White was still leading entering the final lap. Out of the second turn, Simons car exploded in a cloud of smoke, Kelsey was running right behind and slammed the rear of Simons car, breaking the radiator. The mix of oil from Simon and water from Kelsey, caused a wild scramble entering turn 3 as the caution came out to end the race a lap early. White claimed his second straight feature win and in doing so, became the new point leader. Simon was the cause of the caution which gave Kelsey the second place finish. Lecker was third, Jeremy Wiitala fourth, Samantha Olson fifth and T.J. White sixth.
 

The Kelsey racing team is very excited as the start to the 2008 season has finally come around. Last week on Sunday, Seymour held it’s car show and practice session.

The weather worked out well and there was a great turn out for the car show and for race practice. The 2008 Kelsey racing machine took 2nd place in it’s class for the car show! A special thank you goes out to Quartz Graffix and the great job they did with the vinyl work on the car this year!

Practice started out "ok" for the #65 machine. On the first run, Bill had reported some "Popping" coming from the motor, but ran the 5 laps allowed and transfered some good info to the team on the handeling of the car.

Back in the pits, the crew tuned the car with a couple air pressure changes and a new set of spark plugs. Bill would return to the track for another test run. The good news from the start of the second run, the Popping was gone. Around the 3rd lap of the practice run, the car had a spurt of power which threw Bill off a little. This caused Bill to loose control of the car and do a half spin in corner’s 1 and 2. After getting it going in the correct direction, it was hammer down to finish out the next couple laps and tune some more on the car.

Coming out of turn number 4 on the very same lap, the #65 machine went up in a large billiow of white smoke, as the motor exploded with parts and pieces going out the back of the motor and the test session came to an early end. This explained the sudden burst in extra power, as Bill thinks that is when the motor started to let go.

This was the 2nd year in a row the team had lost a motor in practice, but a different motor is in and ready to go for tonights opening night. The races start at 6PM sharp at the Seymour Fairgournds, in Seymour Wisconson and it appears to be a perfect day/night for racing at the Seymour Speedway. Tonight’s program will  includes Budweiser IMCA Mods, IMCA Stock Cars, Seymour Street Stocks, Sound Check 4 Cylinders & the IMCA Sport Mods.