IMPORTANT PDRA SCHEDULE CHANGE / NEWS

Bradenton, FL – After numerous phone calls and tough decisions over the past two weeks, PDRA and Bradenton Motorsports Park, unfortunately regret to inform everyone that the Inaugural Mel Bush Motorsports Sunshine State Shootout event has been canceled for 2015. Due to circumstances beyond our control or Bradenton Motorsports Park’s control unseasonably like wet weather has forced drainage issues near the finish line unable to be repaired at this time in prelude to our once scheduled Oct. 1-3, 2015 event.

Both track promoters, the entire Bradenton Motorsports Park race track staff have been working tirelessly for the past two weeks in an attempt to repair the race track back to their great track performance standards. Unfortunately this huge repair will not be completed in time for our PDRA 2015 race in Bradenton, FL.

The next event for PDRA (following DRAGSTOCK XII) will be at Virginia Motorsports Park, Oct. 22-24, 2015 for our 2nd annual Brian Olson Memorial PDRA World Finals presented by Mel Bush Motorsports. The PDRA Series (as we proved in 2014) will complete the season ending points battle and the entire World Finals event that weekend, Oct. 22-24 at VMP, even if we (PDRA) are forced to utilize Sunday or Monday.

We apologize with heavy hearts, as does “BMP” that this decision has had to be made. We sincerely appreciate all the huge support from our loyal racers, fans, sponsors and all that make this wonderful series such a success. We will see you here this weekend, Sept. 10-12 at “The ROCK”.

Bradenton Motorsports Park will for sure be included within our exciting 2016 racing season schedule!

————————————————————-

Message below via Bradenton Motorsports Park officials…

Wednesday, September 9, 2015 Update

To the Bradenton Motorsports Park Racing Family-

First, we cannot express strongly enough our sincere, heartfelt appreciation for the overwhelming support, encouragement and offerings of assistance from our drag racing family! We are truly moved and motivated by you.

As many of you are aware we have had record rain this summer which has resulted in track sinkage across a narrow section at the 1/4 mile area of the track as well as confined, intermittent top level surface damage. We have been working diligently with engineers and contractors to repair the race surface back to its world-class condition as soon as humanly possible. We have developed a great plan and are confident that the end result will actually be an even better race surface. After the repairs are made at the 1/4 area of the track, we will do a full track grind followed by a full track polish, resulting in the best race surface finish available.

Timing- We have all of the vendors lined up to repair, surface, grind and polish. Equipment deployment plans are being finalized with some of the large specialty equipment coming from outside of Florida. Based upon all of the tasks, which must be completed and completed with excellence, our completion date estimate is October 1st. This results in the very unfortunate need to cancel the October 1st-3rd PDRA event at Bradenton Motorsports Park.

We would like to thank the entire team at PDRA for their support and professionalism in working with us on this issue. Based upon the schedule for repairs the parties have collectively decided to move the PDRA Motorsports Sunshine State Shootout to 2016 at Bradenton Motorsports Park. The date will be announced with the entire PDRA 2016 schedule announcement.