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STURGEON BAY - Momentum matters in auto racing. One strategy for a race car to turn consistently fast laps on an oval track is maintaining and building on its momentum.
It also matters to John Sternard and his partners in promoting auto racing at The Hill Raceway. For them, the 2021 season is largely about regaining the momentum lost when the entire 2020 season was canceled by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The third-mile clay oval at the Door County fairgrounds in Sturgeon Bay is set to open its 10-race season Saturday night, and Sternard said the hope is for the track s attendance and car counts to pick up where they left off in 2019, and grow even more.
The percentage of tests for COVID-19 coming back as positive, a metric used by many health departments to measure how well a community is fighting the spread of the virus, again rose dramatically in Kewaunee County and remained at a high rate in Door County and the state of Wisconsin during the week from Jan. 5 to 11.
The number of positive tests in each county remained steady in that time, but the rate of positive tests in each county was about one-third of all results: 35.5% in Kewaunee, up from 21.9% for the week ending Jan. 5; and 33.2% in Door, comparable to the 33.7% weekly rate as of Jan. 5. The World Health Organization has said that a positivity rate of more than 5% is concerning because it means testing isn’t widespread enough to capture the spread of the virus among the general population. The counties positive percentage numbers mirror the statewide figure of 34.6%.