Well from floods to dust, in 25c sunshine we set the track out at Haresfield and had a fantastic layout set out, but the land owner was against this and we had to use 75% of the existing old track which was hard and dusty.
The land owners grandson did a great job watering the track the best he could and we managed to complete all races, again this was a hard old school track which didn't go down well with the younger riders but the older riders loved it.
Well all was looking fantastic for the bank holiday event track ready to be power harrowed and 2 water bowsers ready to water the track.
We arrived at the track on the Friday and it was raining hard we started to put the barriers out and rechecked the weather and could not be leave what we were seeing, torrential rain was forecast for the whole weekend lightening and flooding, no one seen that coming as the rest of the country was in glorious sunshine.
We took a final track inspection and discovered that the track had been rotavated the previous day and was open to the rain and was now 12" deep all the way round the track and with the weather now being forecast bad all weekend we had no choice but to cancel the event.
Well for those of you that know Marshfield its like any old school track takes a lot to maintain and if the weather has been kind it rides hard and fast.
This time we had the dry weather but the track hadn't recovered properly from the good Friday event, not everyone's cup of tea but its a thinking track but all blocks of racing were completed.
The track since then has had a lot of new soil brought in and covered the top half of the where its needed most.
We do want to go back there next year but we need reassurance from the land owner that it will be in perfect condition first.