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It’s 2:40 p.m. and AMA Pro Racing and Infineon Raceway officials are meeting to decide the status of today’s on-track activities at the Sonoma, California racetrack.

The sun is shining but the situation is not as simple as not having rain falling.

Water is seeping up through cracks in the track surface and is running across the line in several corners.

AMA Pro Racing’s Ron Barrick took three-time AMA Superbike Champion Mat Mladin out to look at the track and it is Mladin’s opinion that the track was in no condition to run.

Track officials took reporters out to look at the situation in turn 3.

Despite the fact that the sun is shining, water continues to flow out of adjacent hillsides and push up through the track, a legacy of over an inch of rain last night.

Best estimates are that the seepage problem will abate and the track will be raceable in about 24 hours.