In what has become an unfortunate Saturday ritual this season, fans were scattering as the rains began to fall during the August 2nd racing program at the Holland NASCAR Motorsports Complex. After two events were completed, Mother Nature forced the cancellation of the rest of the slated program. This marks the seventh event this season at Holland which has been affected by the weather. Holland rain checks from August 2nd will be honored for the August 9th racing program.

In the racing that was completed, a pair of defending divisional champs each captured their third wins of the season. Ashley Kirchberger of Buffalo, NY took advantage of a re-start with three laps remaining to race by Mae Urban for the lead and the win in the 15 lap Thiel Motorsports Queen Bees go, while Jason Eck of Buffalo came back from an early race incident to squeeze by Bill Lutz on the final lap of the 12 lap Alliance Auto Recycling Figure 8 Car event.

Scheduled racing for the NASCAR Sunoco SST Pro Modifieds, LAMOT Late Models, Carquest Chargers, Native Pride Pro Fours, Thiel Motorsports Hornets, and the Cup Lites Series fell victim to the rain.

As a prelude to the regular racing program, a pair of previously postponed special events managed to get completed. Jim Suttell of East Aurora, NY took the win in the Veterans Race to the Flag, postponed from June 14th, while Kevin Steffan from the Pembroke, NY Central School District captured the victory in the Teacher Feature race, postponed from May 31st. In each event, pre-registered veterans and teachers took to the oval in Speedway provided 4-cylinder strictly stock racers. Funds raised from the Veterans Race to the Flag will benefit the “Wounded Warriors” Fund, while the Teacher Feature funds will benefit special projects at the home school districts of the competing teachers.

RESULTS SUMMARY – 8/2/08: