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It’s 10:30 a.m. local time at Infineon Raceway and the only on-track activity is a parade of ambulances, cars, trucks, scooters and two police dirtbikes (!) trying to dry out the track. The parade has made progress in eliminating some of the biggest puddles on some parts of the course but the track surface is still very wet as a result of heavy rains that started last night and continued on and off into the morning.

The new section of pavement in the esses is still under several inches of water, and the parade is actually detouring around that section by using the old course; work crews with brooms, a sweeper truck and a fire hose are trying to get water and mud off the new pavement.

A new schedule will obviously have to be formulated…