No matter what race promoter Lyle DeVore does at Albany Saratoga Speedway he can’t win against the rain.  Last weekend DeVore suffered another cancellation  at the Malta oval.

“It’s very frustrating but it’s out of our hands,” said DeVore regarding his battle with Mother Nature.  “It’s out of our control and all we can do is just try to make the best of it.”

Moments between raindrops don’t seem to last long lately and that isn’t helping DeVore, who is also responsible for getting AS’s sister track, Lebanon Valley Speedway, race ready as well.

“We had rain on Monday, rain on Tuesday and today the track still needs to dry out before you can even think about working on it and then it is going to rain again tomorrow,” said DeVore on Wednesday afternoon from his office at the West Lebanon property.  “I am going to do everything humanly possible to race on Friday.  The fans want it, we want it ― and the drivers haven’t had a chance to get any momentum going this year.”

Otherwise, DeVore is happy.

“We’re happy with what we’ve done so far this year,” said DeVore.  “We appreciate all the fan and drivers’ support and we are hoping for a stretch of good weather ― when we race it’s been good but we just don’t do it enough ― it’s  so frustrating.”

Join DeVore and team on Friday night when they host the rescheduled ‘Mike Ronca Memorial’ event.  Ronca’s familiar #7 will be the theme for the second annual event.  A $100 bonus will be awarded to the leaders of lap 7 for all divisions while the Sportsman race will offer $700 to the race winner.  The Modified purse has $700 added and bonus money for the second and third place finishers in the Modified feature event as well.