The Estevan Motor Speedway season opener will arrive with an afternoon race on May 2.
President Lynn Trobert expects a great turn out for the first race of the season.
“I expect a big crowd. Everybody’s ready to go racing and our car count should be good because we will be the first track to run a race in our circuit,” she said.
She expects there to be at least 50 cars among the four classes, which include International Motor Contest Association (IMCA) hobby stock, stock car, modified and Wissota late models.
The first three classes will race every regular program and the late models will be at the speedway on specified dates.
For the upcoming race season, Trobert expects there to be new drivers racing at the track.
“We’re going to have a lot of new drivers … I don’t know who they are, but it sounds like we got a lot of the younger people coming with cars, so that’s all good,” she said.
Trobert also expects there to be experienced drivers who have never raced at the Estevan speedway before as well as drivers who have but haven’t been there for a while.
“With the new people coming on board, that brings new people to the stands, because everybody wants to see their friend or whoever race,” she said.
This will be the 16th season at the Estevan Motor Speedway and Trobert believes it will be a good one.
“Hopefully, the weather will hold out for us, and I think people will come out. It’s stuff that’s done at home … and it’s local drivers. And a lot of people, I think, will be wanting to just come out and support the track,” she said.
After the first race of the season, the speedway will know how many drivers to expect for the rest of the summer. Trobert mentioned most of the drivers at that first race will return for the majority of the races throughout the season.
Since the race season occurs throughout the summer, Trobert hopes that people will make time to come out to the speedway.
“We’re hoping people will stay around (Estevan) this year and watch our racing, and we’ll have some good shows,” Trobert said.
