Persistent rain and cool temperatures won big on Sunday at the 65th Bakersfield March Meet at Famoso Dragway. As a result, the Group 1 and 2 categories will return to complete their divisions on Monday morning. The Top Fuel dragsters will run their eliminations at the California Hot Rod Reunion in October. 

Overnight rains wreaked havoc on the event schedule, throwing the race schedule two hours behind. Several of the sportsman categories got in a round of competition, and three of four pairs in the Funny Car division were completed before the rain began to fall again. There was a break in the precipitation where the race could continue. 

The Famoso Raceway staff nearly had the track dry when the rain began falling again. This proved to be the nail in the coffin for the day. 

"Very disappointing," said Famoso Raceway Director of Race Operations Mark Dawson. "We really wanted to get this day in. After having such a high on Friday and Saturday with good racing, Today was just not our day to get it done.

"The top end of the track was just too cold, and we couldn't get it dry enough. With the sun going down, it just isn't going to get any warmer. It's safer for us to postpone Groups 1 and 2 to tomorrow. We will figure out everybody else later."