Hearing from a couple people that Marysville has canceled the rest of their season and they are looking for a new promoter.
Sadly there was a fatality at the track last night in one of the classes,
http://www.appeal-democrat.com/sports/event-98089-inaugural-driver.htmlInaugural truck race turns deadly
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August 15, 2010 01:01:00 AM
Appeal-Democrat
A driver was killed Saturday night at Marysville Raceway Park after a crash in the inaugural event of the track's new semi truck racing class.
The name of the driver could not be confirmed before deadline.
The wreck occurred late Saturday evening during the penultimate event at the facility off Simpson Lane in Linda. Billed as the "1st ever IBRRA Big Rig Truck event," the driver's turquoise semi became tangled with another race truck.
"It got together with another truck and it flipped over with devastating results," said track announcer Bob Burbach, who added that it is the first fatality in the track's 68-year history.
The truck landed upside down in the middle of the infield, where it was surrounded by squad cars from the Yuba County Sheriff's Department.
Prior to the truck race, the night had already been defined by pair of nasty wrecks on the quarter-mile clay oval.
There were two sprint car crashes that had one driver taken away with serious burns and another flipping so violently that his car left the track after flying over the retaining barrier in turn three.
In the Pro-4 feature, Gary Eckman's car experienced a mechanical failure, which made him crash into Mike Smith. The duo both flipped their cars on the side on the front straightway and Smith's car caught fire.
At first he yelled "get me out," then as the flames inched closer, progressing from the front of the car to the cockpit, he undid his restraints and contorted his body to escape the wreckage. Both drivers were unharmed.
Then on the first lap of the Pacific 360 feature, a multi-car pileup was given its exclamation point when Richard Brace Jr. went from driving more than 100 mph to flying over the track's wall. He too would be fine, and played to the crowd as he walked to the pits.
"I just closed my eyes and hung on," he said.
Marysville's Jeff Olschowka went wire-to-wire to win the super stock main event and thwarted Misty Castleberry for the second time in three weeks in the mini stock feature at Marysville Raceway Park.
Olschowka persevered in a highly competitive mini stock main event that saw him, Castleberry, who won 10 races in a row earlier this season, and Jason Clayton jockeying for the lead in the 20-lap race.
Castleberry, who has a commanding points lead in the championship standings, held off Olschowka, a driver moonlighting in the series, for the majority of the race before he slid past her on the exit of turn two.
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