Stock car racing will return to Caribou in 2022

Although it was at first bundled on the Professional All Stars series 2020 agenda, Spud Speedway had to relinquish the date because of to COVID-19 with crowd dimensions limits of 200.

Couple of users of the large crowd viewing DJ Shaw earn the 2019 Firecracker 200 would in their wildest goals think about that the racing earth would be signing up for each individual other amusement location with restricted enterprise — or none at all — thanks to the ongoing pandemic.

Aside from the confined crowd measurements, one more problem for the racetrack positioned only 11 miles from the U.S.-Canadian border was the shutdown in cross border journey. Canadian enthusiasts ordinarily consist of 30-35 p.c of the crowd at distinctive races at the Caribou keep track of, according to monitor operator Troy Haney. Without the need of the lovers from Canada, any event at the observe demands to be intently scrutinized considering the fact that in the close the keep track of desires to make cash to remain alive and feasible.