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The Art Of The Rain Out At Your Local Track | Kenny Wallace Show · Kenny Wallace Media

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  The art of a local rain out at your dirt track or your asphalt
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  track. What does it take nowadays in
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  2025 to rain your local track out?
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  You would be surprised, but let's go back into the past just
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  a little bit. So right now I'm here at
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  Mcalister's Deli right here in Arnold, MO.
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  And as you can tell, look, look at these clouds.
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  Now we're gonna talk about the art of a rain out at your local
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  racetrack. OK, nice. 360 here just got done
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  raining. Not, not a big rain whatsoever.
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  Not, you know, Kenny Dobson up there in Jacksonville, IL, He's
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  got a sold out World of Outlaw race and he just put on the
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  Internet, hey, we just got a good rain, but it's over and
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  we're racing tonight. But there's one reason Kenny
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  Dobson is racing tonight, because the World of Outlaws is
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  sold out. He sold all the tickets out.
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  We got to get this race in because he's already got the
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  money #1 now for the local promoters that have it all on
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  the line. And they got a little 10
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  thousand $20,000 purse. They got to hope you show up and
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  they got to hope cars come or else they're going to lose their
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  ass and they're going to have to shut this track down if they
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  keep that up. So you need to show up.
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  Let me tell you a quick story on the art of a rain out at your
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  local racetrack. This is a true story.
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  Right now I'm in Arnold, MO about 10 years ago.
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  I'm living in Charlotte, NC, but my dirt shop is here in Arnold,
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  MO and I am 30 miles from Tri-City Speedway in Granite
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  City, IL and it's pouring here in Arnold, MO, but I'm 30 miles
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  from the racetrack. It's pouring and I and I got on
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  the Internet and I said, oh darn it.
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  I'm I'm bummed out. I flew all the way here from
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  Charlotte and it looks like we are rained out at Tri-City
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  Speedway in Granite City, IL. My phone rings cause Tammy
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  Gundaker, the owner of the racetrack, she saw that post and
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  she said, Kenny, why did you get on the Internet and say that
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  we're rained out? I said, Tammy, it's been pouring
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  here. She says, Kenny, it's sunny
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  here. And I said, but you're only 30
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  miles away. Oh, it hasn't rained there, but
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  it's rained here. I learned my lesson that day.
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  I learned that back in those days, the weather apps weren't
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  that great and you watch the weather, but you didn't believe
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  it. People would go to the racetrack
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  and confirmed whether there rained out or not.
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  Back in my day, we'd go to the racetrack and we'd wait in our
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  car if we're going to be rained out or not, right, Respond right
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  here. Back in our day, we would go to
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  the racetrack, we would drive there, we'd waste the money on
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  the gas and we'd wait in our car because we're dirt racers, we're
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  cheap. We're not going to pay to get
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  in. Even though they'd give us the
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  rain ticket and we could use it at the next race.
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  We wanted that money, damn it. In our day we would go to the
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  racetrack and we're going to look with our own eyes.
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  Oh, it's raining. Yep, we're rained out now.
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  Nowadays we look, look at the net Thunder.
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  Nowadays we get on the Internet and they go, hey, it's going to
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  rain. It's going to rain.
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  And that, my friend, it's that simple.
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  So nowadays, local race tracks have to cancel because of a
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  forecast. It might not rain now.
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  It's raining here in Arnold, but the ground's already dry and it
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  hasn't even rained over in Tri-City Speedway in Granite
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  City, IL right now. It has not rained over there.
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  However, there's a forecast. And when these meteorologists,
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  when they forecast these rains, that means you.
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  We all say, well, we're not going to go.
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  It's going to rain out, but what happens if it doesn't rain?
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  What happens if it does not rain?
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  Farmer City Council today, Tri-City Council today.
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  These tracks, I'm going to defend them.
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  They had to cancel. You know why?
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  Because it's threatening weather and you weren't going anyway.
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  And then some, sometime later tonight, you're all going to get
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  on the Internet and go. We could a race.
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  Well, hell, you weren't coming anyway.
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  Sometimes it was better back in the day because you'd go to the
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  racetrack and you all were there and it was packed.
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  And if it rained, well, then we were rained out.
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  Now you won't even go. And that is the art of a rain
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  out. And it will shut a racetrack
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  down. My brother Mike said something
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  to me years ago. He goes, you know, these people,
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  if they forecast a recession within a recession, what
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  happened? Sometimes when people talk
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  negatively and they forecast something, well, then it
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  happens. So nowadays, even if it doesn't
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  rain at your racetrack, Your local weather forecast has
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  simply rained the race out. We can't race 'cause there's a
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  negative forecast and you're not showing up.
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  All right, I hope you all understand that I love Tri-City
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  Speedway in Granite City, IL I love Farmer City.
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  Some of these race tracks they simply have to cancel because
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  there's a negative forecast and you weren't coming anyway.
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  I miss the old days. We just go to the pit gate.
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  Hey, it has a rain here, Let's race.
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  And it was packed.