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Riverhead, NY May 9th
By Bob Finan
With a projected 90% or better chance of rain over Long Island Saturday, Riverhead Raceway management announced Friday afternoon the May 9th NASCAR Local Racing Series powered by O’Reilly Auto Parts Scout Night program was rained out. While making the announcement, Connie Partridge and Tom Gatz revealed Scout Night will now join America’s Military Service night Saturday May 23rd, complete with a Fireworks spectacular that was recently added.
“As the week wore on, the rain that was supposed to arrive Sunday kept moving up into Saturday.” John Ellwood track GM reflected “and not only was the system moving faster, but it also came with a 90 plus percent chance of rain. With it being Mother’s Day weekend and all, we felt it better to call the show Friday so families could perhaps make Saturday plans with Mom”. Looking ahead Ellwood noted, our Scout Night offer now moves to the May 23rd America’s Military Service Night salute”. The divisions set to race May 9th will not have those races made-up.
When further discussing May 23rd, Ellwood was excited to announce another addition for the America’s Military Service Night program, “we are adding a Fireworks spectacular for that night, we’ll salute our military and welcome the long-awaited unofficial start of summer at Riverhead Raceway” Ellwood disclosed. Ed Rubio, a familiar face at Riverhead Raceway is the President of Special FX Wizard Inc, a Long Island based fireworks firm. Special FX Wizard Inc. has over 36-years of industry experience working on many of the world’s most notable fireworks performances around the globe. Special FX Wizard Inc. will bring that vast expertise and state of the art technology to Riverhead Raceway for their May 23rd presentation.
To view the entire 2026 schedule of events please visit http://www.riverheadraceway.com, emails reach us at office@riverheadraceway.com, out phone number remains 631-842-RACE.
