The big countdown to Charlton’s re-opening will tick over for an extra two days with the club’s meeting moved from Friday to Sunday.
Forecast 45-degree heat has seen the long-awaited re-opening rescheduled to a twilight meeting on the Sunday, a move welcomed by club president Joey Thompson.
“It’s a great result,” Mr Thompson said. “We’ve been looking at the weather for a while, the lowest it got to was a forecast of 42 and I thought ‘this is not good’. We went into overdrive to change from the Friday.”
The re-opening is set to be a huge day for the club, which has undergone a significant redevelopment that has seen it be race-free for almost 18 months.
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“We’ve been working pretty diligently,” Mr Thompson said. “We have focused on staying in contact with our members, increasing membership despite not racing, we are at 580-odd members and I reckon we will crack 600 this Sunday.
“We just want to get racing. We’ve got a number of projects to get too, even more facilities, but on Sunday we have a significant building that will be open, a big lawn area, new trees, the revamped viewing area. The whole complex is six to eight metres off the track – you will feel like you are part of the action.”