{"id":3939,"date":"2022-05-07T12:21:03","date_gmt":"2022-05-07T16:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/volusiaspeedwaypark.com\/?p=3939"},"modified":"2022-05-07T18:44:24","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T22:44:24","slug":"mother-nature-wins-the-day-on-mothers-day-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/volusiaspeedwaypark.com\/news\/mother-nature-wins-the-day-on-mothers-day-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Racers&#8217; Memorial Cancelled, Mother Nature Wins The Day on Mother&#8217;s Day Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Throughout the week, Volusia Speedway Park had been a place for bright, cloudless and warm sunny days. That was until Friday night, when a torrential downpour and a tornado warning put the race weekend in peril.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the morning of race day, it looked as if the track wasn\u2019t hit hard enough with rain and still raceable. At 10:30AM, a harder but less time consuming rainstorm passed through, meaning the end for the track\u2019s chances of hosting the annual running of the Racers\u2019 Memorial.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is never doom and gloom though, as the World\u2019s Fastest Half Mile will be hosting the Top Gun Sprint Car Series on May 14th. General admission is $20. Children aged 12 and under are free. Gates will open at 4:00 with Hot Laps at 6:00. Racing will follow opening ceremonies at 7:00. You can also watch all the coverage live on DIRTVision if you aren\u2019t able to make it to the show.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout the week, Volusia Speedway Park had been a place for bright, cloudless and warm sunny days. That was until Friday night, when a torrential downpour and a tornado warning put the race weekend in peril. &nbsp; In the morning of race day, it looked as if the track wasn\u2019t hit hard enough with rain &#8230; <a title=\"Racers&#8217; Memorial Cancelled, Mother Nature Wins The Day on Mother&#8217;s Day Weekend\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/volusiaspeedwaypark.com\/news\/mother-nature-wins-the-day-on-mothers-day-weekend\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Racers&#8217; Memorial Cancelled, Mother Nature Wins The Day on Mother&#8217;s Day Weekend\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":2634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[23,16,240],"class_list":["post-3939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-rain","tag-rainout","tag-storm"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Racers&#039; Memorial Cancelled, Mother Nature Wins The Day on Mother&#039;s Day Weekend - Volusia Speedway Park<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/volusiaspeedwaypark.com\/news\/mother-nature-wins-the-day-on-mothers-day-weekend\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Racers&#039; Memorial Cancelled, Mother Nature Wins The Day on Mother&#039;s Day Weekend\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Throughout the week, Volusia Speedway Park had been a place for bright, cloudless and warm sunny days. 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