Lights out at Gateway??

[NickFalzone]

all I saw was the NASCAR.com headline. Apparently they had to put off the CWTS race until tomorrow afternoon, because they could not get the lights on tonight. wtf happened?

[slorydn1]

A major transmission line into East St Louis burned up and the local power company said after about 2 hrs messing around with it that it would take most of the nite to fix... The whole area around the track was without power.

[edv]

If these are "Stock" cars (or trucks) they maybe they should have "Headlights" LOL

[NickFalzone]

I understand the fairly high power requirements, but one would still think that they would have some sort of backup generator available for this type of situation, no?

[slorydn1]

Nah-I don't think there's a back up generator large enough to fully light a 1.25 mile speedway, as well as run the scoring tower, caution lights, A/C, the infield care center, etc,etc,etc.

The did have enough gerenrator power to run about a third of the lights, just enough for fan safety in the stands.

[Mark in Oshawa]

Nah-I don't think there's a back up generator large enough to fully light a 1.25 mile speedway, as well as run the scoring tower, caution lights, A/C, the infield care center, etc,etc,etc.

The did have enough gerenrator power to run about a third of the lights, just enough for fan safety in the stands.

That would be it. Bad timing and luck on NASCAR's part I guess...