The Southern Iowa Speedway is set to open the 2020 Racing season on the ½ mile dirt track located on the Mahaska County Fairgrounds. Wednesday, May 20th the first racing action of the season will be held featuring five classes of race cars, Stock Cars, Sportmods, Hobby Stocks, Sport Compacts and Non-Winged Sprint Cars will all be in action. The warm up session will get underway at 7:15 pm with a full program of racing to follow. Tune into 104.9 KBOE, kboeradio.com or the KBOE radio app to hear all of the live racing action from Southern Iowa Speedway, all season long. Jeff Kropf will be on the call.
Due to the Governors guidelines restricting race tracks under the Covid-19 Pandemic, the grandstand will be closed for this first night of racing. Fans that wish to stay home will also have the option of watching the racing action online, on Done Right TV. Fans can sign up for the night of racing without purchasing a membership but a one time fee will be charged.
The pit gate will open at 5pm and each race team will be allowed to have ten people admitted to the infield. The SIS officials are asking all competitors to please pre-register for the nights racing at www.southerniowafair.com.
All social distancing guidelines will be enforced, it is certainly the hopes of the SIS Fair Board and Race Committee that this event will be successful and we will be able fully open and entertain our dedicated race fans very soon.
