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16:10

Today's pictures have now been posted; you can view them from the Event Index page. Because we had so little on-track action today we have included a number of bonus pictures from Saturday and Sunday.

14:25

The race has been called since there is still rain in the air and another bank of cloud coming. So now we're going to have a spot of lunch and then we'll post some pictures. Stay tuned.

14:11

Just as the first pair of Real Steel Street Eliminator cars got to the bleach box it started to rain heavily. Stay tuned.

14:10

Junior Dragster eliminations round 1 winners: Pete Walters (8.54) 8.830/62.41, Matt Seamarks (8.00) 8.247/73.41, Scott Hauser (7.90) 7.985/82.27, Rosie Hunt (10.79) 10.980/57.92, Jayne Kay (8.00) 8.062/82.12, Joe Kellett (8.90) 9.103/71.09 bye, Nick Mugridge (7.95) 8.044/78.67, Vicky Molden (7.90) 7.996/82.12

14:00

Junior Drag Bike eliminations round 1 winners: Scott Collier (12.90) 13.28/47.67 bye, Giselle Moor (12.30) 13.012/54.15 bye

9.50 Bike eliminations round 1 winners: Fred Furlong 9.785/126.15, Richard Sawatzki 9.620/137.43, Dave Burfitt 9.649/125.55, Greg Skett 9.822/144.46, Andy Burfitt 9.666/147.24 bye, Shaun Spiers 9.628/131.29, Carl Atkinson 9.705/143.35 bye, Chris Jones 9.619/141.07

Richard Sawatzki pulled a 0.001 reaction time in this round.

Super Street Bike eliminations round 1 winners: Scott Baldwin 10.634/104.06 bye, Jamie Sneddon 8.056/170.00, Steve Venables 7.425/194.43, Gary Bowe 8.205/177.24, Graham Balchin 8.558/141.39 bye, Nigel Barker 8.123/183.68

13:45

The Junior Drag Bikes are in the pairing lanes, and 9.50 Bike and Super Street Bikes have been called to the lanes.

13:15

The sun is still out and the track is looking pretty good. We are expecting racers to be called to the pairing lanes between 13:30 and 14:00, stay tuned.

12:20

Simon has just posted today's first set of pit notes, which you can access via the Event Index page.

The rain has stopped and right now the sun is out and the track crew are back at work. A Riders' and Drivers' meeting has been called for 12:30 and Simon has just gone off to attend that so stay tuned and we'll let you know what comes out of that.

11:55

It's amazing how often this happens but the racing surface was dry and was in fact being sledded, and then it started to rain again. Right now it's raining quite heavily. Stay tuned and we'll let you know what happens next.

10:00

Good morning and welcome from Shakespeare County Raceway for our coverage of the Springspeed Festival brought to you in association with American Car Imports.

The Webster Race Engineering/MPM Oil webcam is on-line and broadcasting a picture every sixty seconds, and will stay on-line throughout the weekend until the track closes today. You can access the webcam via the Event Index page.

The traditional Raceday Hello to our US correspondents Ed O'Connell and Kathy Hileman who are tuned in from Rye, NH. Hello also to our good buddy Sharkman and also to Gittli Koller who is tuned in from Bavaria.

If you've checked out the webcam you will have seen that we have a wet track. The rain started late last night and the heavy drizzle persisted until about ten minutes ago. The track crew are already out working hard on the track. So stay tuned and as soon as there is a change in our status we'll be back with the news.