10/05/2026
It’s that time of year. The crew is at work. Mike Kingma is cleaning and winterizing vehicles. Tammy is doing inventory and cleaning. Maggie is draining the grease and also cleaning. It takes about 2 weeks to get all the cars, equipment, batteries, water lines, pond pumps, restaurant equipment all ready for winter. Linda and Joe just got here for more helpers. It was the worst year for weather….it rained 14 times this year on Friday night or Saturday to mess up the track which made for an exhausting year. I feel like Mother Nature beat us up pretty bad and I’ve never been happy about losing the 26th Annual Firecracker 50 this year. This years July 4th was actually on Saturday and it was Americas 250th Birthday. We will make up this race next year. We will have (2) Firecracker 50s on separate dates in 2027! O.k. Back to work.