GREETINGS FROM MARGARETTSVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA

 

 

VERY SPECIAL CONGRATULATIONS!!

A few Trackchaser Reports ago I mentioned that Carol had completed her NCAA tournament bracket all by herself.  I marveled at how many women could and would do that.  Her entry was not the really BIG news.  That little trackchaser ended up winning the entire basketball pool!

 

There were 51 entrants.  She went with UCLA as her championship pick.  Even though they fell short in the championship game, she had accumulated enough points along the way to win the pool.  Now I’m hoping she might throw a crumb or two of her winnings my way.  I did give her a copy of the newspaper so she could complete her bball research!  Personal congratulations can be sent to me and I will forward them to Carol (Thanks Leon!).

 

 

NCAA BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT UPDATE

As most of you know, the NCAA basketball Final Four weekend was held this past Saturday and Monday in Indianapolis, Indiana.  The family’s favorite team, the UCLA Bruins, was one of the final four teams out of more than 200 college teams eligible in Division 1 basketball.

 

Because of some special trackchasing responsibilities in Charlotte on Saturday, I couldn’t attend this event in person or even watch it on TV.  Therefore, my plans were to “TIVO” the games on both Saturday and Monday and watch them upon my return to California starting on Monday night.  I can shut myself off to the outside world for a day or two, so I don’t learn the outcome of some major sporting event when I’m out trackchasing.  Then, when I return home, I’ll watch it on TIVO just like the event was live.

 

Through late Sunday afternoon, my plan was working perfectly.  The two semi-final games on Saturday had been played and I had no idea what the outcomes were.  Carol knows when I am “TIVOing” special events and doesn’t let the “Cat out of the bag.”

 

By early Sunday evening, I had completed four hours of my five-hour return trip drive from the Margarettsville track back to the Charlotte airport.  I was cruising through Durham and decided to check my phone messages.  In hindsight, that move would not support my TIVO strategy.  I had messages from three different people congratulating me on UCLA’s Saturday victory!

 

Now the “Cat” really was out of the bag.  I decided to call our most avid Bruin fan, son J.J. to learn more about our win.  He had been in Indianapolis for Saturday’s game and would be going to the Championship game on Monday night.

 

To make a long story about a paragraph shorter, he sold me on the idea of driving to Indianapolis to see UCLA play Florida in the big game.  He told me that with LSU and George Mason losing, there were lots of fans looking to unload their tickets.  He was right.

 

I hope my fellow motorists who I had to cut off on Interstate 40 by crossing over four lanes of traffic to take the exit to Indianapolis understand.  I had to get to that basketball game.  I also hope that all of my Trackchaser Report readers understand the need to be absolutely impulsive at times and do those “Once in a lifetime” things that only come along only every other year or so!

 

Going to the game would obviously disrupt both my travel plan and my “Vacation and Entertainment” budget.  This situation comes with impulsive behavior.  I had planned to return to California on Monday afternoon from Charlotte.  I would now be returning two days later on Wednesday.  The tough part about that is that I have another trackchasing trip scheduled for a Thursday departure back to the southeast.  I will be in California for just 12 hours before I must leave our San Clemente home for another trip!

 

My travel “Partners” would not react favorably to my impulsive behavior.  First off, American Airlines would charge me a $100 “Re-ticketing” fee for changing my plans and flying home on Wednesday, not Monday.  Actually, I didn’t think that was too bad.

 

I’m always telling you how much I like the National Rental Car folks right?  Apparently, they needed to be compensated heavily for me to have the right to keep their Chevy Impala for two more days.  My original three-day rental was set for a total fee of only $92.  What would two more days cost?  How about an extra $178!  I could have returned the car to the airport Sunday night and got a different car but their wasn’t time to get back to Charlotte for the exchange.

 

The “Detour” to Indianapolis was about 1,200 miles out of the way.  You can do the math on the extra gasoline.  The trip would also require two extra nights of hotel and two more days of food.

 

Getting a ticket to the event would not be a problem.  First, I could take my friend, Ed Montgomery, up on his offer for a complimentary ticket to the event.  Of course, J.J. would now have to come up with a ticket but that would not turn out to be a problem.

 

I had already driven eight hours today getting too and from my Sunday track in Margarettsville.  It was now 6 p.m. and I would need to drive 600+ miles in the next 24 hours to get up to Indy.  With a quick stop at the Steak n’ Shake for some power food I was on my way.

 

Did you know there are some heavy-duty mountains between Durham, North Carolina and Indianapolis, Indiana?  Me neither!  Although it was dark, I could tell I was in the mountains.  It was also raining now.  I pushed on until about 1 a.m. and made it to Charleston, West Virginia.  

 

From there it was only about 5-6 hours to Indy.  I slept in until 10 a.m.  When I left the hotel, it was sunny with the temperature in the high 60s.  I started listening to sports talk radio on XM and many folks were picking the Bruins to win the big game.  Things were looking up.

 

That good weather feeling would turn out to be the highlight of the day.  As I continued to drive northward, I noticed a disturbing piece of information appearing on the dashboard of the National Rental Car Racing (and very expensive) rental car.  The temperature was dropping.  It started out at 68 degrees and with me in shorts.  The temperature would drop all the way down to 41 degrees!  Hey!  This is April and it’s in the middle of the day!

 

I did not have any long pants with me.  It is my belief that men should not carry long pants with them on a trip.  My original plan called for only visits to the Carolinas and there was no need for long pants there.  I really don’t like to visit anywhere where the weather doesn’t support the wearing of short pants AKA “Golfing trousers.” 

 

The trauma from these Siberian weather conditions necessitated a stop at Wal-Mart.  There I would purchase some pleated “Docker” type trousers for the more than reasonable price of $14.77.  I should have rented my car from Wal-Mart!

 

I pulled into Indianapolis at 5 p.m.  The game was scheduled to begin at 9:17 p.m.  The logistical part of things was working perfectly.  Son J.J., arriving from a different direction, made it to my parking garage within five minutes of me and we parked nearly side by side.

 

You all know the police have trained “Hostage negotiators.”  J.J. is a trained “Ticket negotiator.”  He was trained by one of the best.  Me!

 

The Lewis’ went to work.  J.J. has received his ticket training all over the world.  His rookie training session was at the 1989 Major League baseball all-star game in Anaheim, California.  He was 14 years old.  His ticket negotiating graduation class would be held a few years later, also at the Major League baseball all-star game, this time in Baltimore, Maryland.  He has since applied his skills at a variety of sporting events all around the world.

 

When you go to major sporting events such as the NCAA Final Four there are two types of scalpers.  There are professionals and amateurs.  I am not trying to make any racial statements, but the professionals are almost always black people and the amateurs are almost always white people.  Sorry, if anyone might be offended by this, but that’s just the way it is.

 

The professional ticket sellers are the “Nordstrom’s” of ticket selling.  They often have very good merchandise but at very high prices.  I try to avoid these people.  They are in this to make a profit and I don’t want to pay their profit.

 

On the other hand, the amateur ticket sellers are the “K-Marts” of ticket selling.  Like K-Mart, they don’t know what they’re doing.  Even though they usually sell crummy merchandise, you can sometimes pick up a great bargain.

 

J.J. was meeting up with three other UCLA friends.  We had two ticket buying opportunities.  First, we needed to get J.J. a ticket.  Secondly, if we could we wanted to upgrade his three friend’s “Upper lever 300” tickets to “Lower level 100” tickets.  We set about our task for the next two hours.

 

Did I mention the weather conditions were deplorable for such activity?  It was 40 degrees.  The wind was blowing up to 30 M.P.H.  It spit rain (snow?) intermittently.  There’s a very good reason that while living in the Chicago area back in 1983 I went to my company and told them if they didn’t move me back to California I was going to quit.  The weather was terrible.

 

The professional scalpers ask high prices.  They try to make you feel stupid if you question the value or location of their tickets.  No problem with that.  They’re only doing their job.  Our job is to tell them they are asking way too much for their tickets and to having a seating chart proving they are exaggerating about how good their seat locations really are.

 

Neither J.J. nor I have a problem doing this.  The ticket professionals respect our background in the ticket buying and selling business and some interesting conversations can take place.

 

However, we are not interested in buying from professionals.  There are few bargains to be found here.  We are looking for the amateur ticket seller.  We’re looking for that stray sheep who wanders too far from the flock.  When we see that opportunity, we will separate that sheep from his group forever!

 

We want the ticket seller who doesn’t really understand the market conditions for the ticket that he/she is selling.  By the way, there are very few women selling tickets in situations like this.  I did get minorly hoodwinked at the Martinsville Speedway from a female seller.  She portrayed herself as a sheep when she was really a lion.  I got the ticket at a reasonable price, in a good location but she was a scalper when she pretended to be a tourist.

 

There were more ticket sellers at today’s event than buyers.  That is because each of the four teams in the final four gets about 10,000 tickets.  After two of the team’s lose on Saturday, their fans aren’t that interested in going to the Monday game.  Face value for tickets in the upper level is $85.  We weren’t able to get four lower level tickets together for J.J. and his friends.  They just weren’t available. 

 

That being the case, J.J. was able to purchase an upper level ticket where he could get into the stadium and still sit with his three friends.  What did he pay for an $85 face value ticket to one of the major sporting events in our country?  Ten bucks!  That’s right, only 10 dollars.  J.J. is a ticket master at the young age of 31.  He is grooming a few protégés such as Brian Moody in this somewhat lost art.  We Lewis’ are serious about only a few things, but ticket buying and selling is one of them.

 

I was interested in going to the NCAA championship game for two reasons.  First, UCLA was playing in the game.  Secondly, I wanted to round out my live sports viewing resume.  That resume now includes:

 

-        Baseball World Series (New York, St. Louis, Oakland)

-        Major League Baseball All-Star game (Anaheim)

-        NBA Basketball Finals (Seattle)

-        Football Super Bowl (Pasadena)

-        Indy 500 (Indianapolis)

-        Master Golf Tournament – practice round (Augusta)

-        NCAA Championship Game (Indianapolis)

 

I guess the Kentucky Derby and National Hockey League Stanley Cup Playoffs remain for me.  I think I’ll start with the Kentucky Derby.  I can wear shorts there and Carol always looks good in a sundress.  Speaking of Carol……

 

I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that J.J. and I tried to get the other big Bruin fan in our household to the game.  She’s actually not a “Big” Bruin fan but a “Little” Bruin fan.  That would be “Trackchasing’s First Mother” AKA wife Carol.

 

It was extremely short notice to get her to the game.  She might have to take an all night flight.  Even if she were willing to do that, space availability was limited, and tickets were in the $600 price range.  In the end, we decided it wasn’t worth it.  She would have to accept some quality Final Four souvenirs.

 

There are several souvenir sellers in and around the stadium.  Immediately after the game, they sell commemorative t-shirts for the winning team.  One store had these shirts on display for BOTH teams before the game was even played!  Obviously, 50% of the shirts were going to be useless. 

 

I asked the woman what they did with the loser’s shirts.  She told me, “The NCAA takes them all back, holds onto them for a couple of years and ships them to Africa so little kids there can wear them.  If we return one less of the loser’s shirts to the NCAA than we received, we lose our license.”

 

I guess the UCLA winning shirts will be worn in a couple of years by small African children.  The Bruins did not win the game.  Actually, they were never in it.  They lost to the Florida Seminoles by a 73-57 score.  There were many more Florida fans than UCLA fans.  I must admit the Florida fans I saw were gracious in victory.  They’re not like those usc ASSHOLES.  By the way, if usc was playing Iraq, I don’t know who I would root for.

 

I must admit something regarding my support of UCLA basketball.  Three years ago, my favorite UCLA basketball coach, Steve Lavin, was fired after seven years on the job.  I really liked Lavin and was disappointed to see him leave.  Carol and I had met and talked with him at booster meetings and at road games.  He is now a sportscaster on ESPN.

 

As a protest to that firing, until tonight, I have never really rooted for the Bruins in my heart for the last three years.  I’ve actually rooted for the other team to make them look bad.  It’s time to get over that.  I am now back to officially cheering on the Bruins from the bottom of my heart.  Three years is long enough to hold a grudge against those misguided S.O.B.s, etc., etc.  It’s just too bad that the first game where “I’m back” turned out to be a UCLA loss in such a big game.  Nevertheless, the Bruins played several games further into the tournament than anyone expected (except Carol of course!).

 

I enjoyed watching the game with Ed Montgomery.  It’s fun to watch the game with another knowledgeable college basketball fan.  I was also pleasantly surprised to learn that Ed had used the RANLAY Racing professional auto buying strategy with success.

 

Trackchaser Report readers have been exposed to this tried and true method to save literally thousands of dollars when buying a new car.  Ed and several others have now used the program that I have used on my last five cars.  Great seeing you Ed and look forward to hooking up somewhere along the trackchasing trail this summer.

 

Ed has been following my trackchasing exploits for a long time.  He made a noteworthy comment to me during the game about my trackchasing.  Ed said, “It will be interesting to see if you keep trackchasing as hard as you have after you reach the number one ranking in trackchasing.”  I would respond to that comment with this.  If and/or when I do achieve the #1 ranking, it will be interesting to see what my future trackchasing plans are.  You’ll just have to stay tuned to see what happens.  I know some of my fellow trackchasers are waiting with bad breath.

 

Watching a basketball game inside a domed football stadium is a different experience.  The tournament is run by the NCAA.  They don’t allow any commercial advertising in the stadium and no beer is sold.  Maybe that is why the Florida fans were so well behaved!

 

Sadly, as will be reported below I dropped my digital camera on Saturday.  It will now have to go back to digital camera rehab (for the second time).  Therefore, I will have no still photos to show you at www.ranlayracing.com of my Final Four trip.  I guess you will have to wait for the DVD to come out because I did get several outdoors images of the scene with my video camera.

 

I didn’t get out of the game until after midnight.  Surprisingly, I was able to score a Motel 6 stay just 50 miles south of Indianapolis.  I’ll drive all day on Tuesday back to Charlotte.  Then, I’ll fly nearly all day on Wednesday getting back to San Clemente.  Then both Carol and I will leave the family home in San Clemente at 4:30 a.m. on Thursday morning for a cross-country trip back to very near Charlotte and that trackchasing thing starts all over again. 

 

Yes as I often say colloquially, “Trackchasing don’t have to be fun to be really, really fun!”

 

Due to my trip to the Final Four and the fact that I will be home for just 12 hours, I will not have time to post pictures from this trip.  I will do my best to post them upon return from my trip to Memphis.  However, when I return from Memphis, I will be leaving for Northern Ireland within 48 hours.  Upon returning from Northern Ireland and the U.K., I will have just 36 hours at home before I must leave for a Palm Springs golf tournament.  I will then have a leisurely five days at home before my next trackchasing trip.  Thanks for your indulgence.  I know several of you enjoy seeing the trip photos.

 

 

PEOPLE/STRATEGY/TRAVEL NEWS

The Strategy

Tracks racing on Sunday are the most difficult to find when attempting a Friday-Sunday trackchasing trip.  Of the 1,234 tracks, I still have not seen in the U.S. and Canada, only 46 of them race on Sundays.  About half of those 46 tracks race on a weekly basis.

 

Today’s track is what is commonly referred to as a “Go-kart” track.  The only trackchaser countable class in a typical go-kart event is the Senior Champ Kart division.  Margarettsville Speedway does not normally race on Sunday and they do not normally include Senior Champ Karts in their regular program.

 

However, thanks to the RANLAY Racing Research Department, it was discovered that the Margarettsville Speedway was BOTH racing on Sunday, April 2 and racing Senior Champ Karts as part of the American Kart Racing Association. 

 

I develop my three-day trackchasing trip plans by first looking at where I can go on Sunday.  If I can find a Sunday track, it’s much easier to fill in tracks on Friday and Saturday.  That’s what happened with this trip.  By the way, Fridays are getting more difficult to schedule but nothing like Sundays.

 

 

The People

This is rural country.  It’s so rural that my cell phone flashes, “No network” at the track.  That’s rural.  Margarettsville is nearly on the state line of North Carolina and Virginia.  Most folks up here have the Ward Burton Virginia accent.  This is one of the most unusual accents you will find anywhere in the United States.  Leon, how come you don’t talk like that?

 

 

The trip

Listen to how this trip went and tell me if you want to be a trackchaser.  I left my Saturday night track after the last of seven feature events was completed.  It was 11 p.m.

 

Today’s Sunday track was a five-hour drive from the East Lincoln Motor Speedway in Stanley, North Carolina. I wanted to cover some of the drive on Saturday night.  That would make Sunday’s drive a little easier, especially since I would be losing an extra hour to the beginning of daylight savings time.

 

At a go-kart event, there are usually about 20 different classes of karts involved.  Each class has its own practice sessions, qualifying and races.  Of course seeing only a practice session does not count the track for official trackchasing rankings.  Qualifying sessions don’t either.  Only an actual race will allow a trackchaser to add the track to his worldwide total.

 

I arrived at the Speedway at 1 p.m.  There wasn’t any action at the track when I got there.  Soon the karts came on the track for practice.  A little while later, the karts hit the track for qualifying.  These timed laps determine where each kart will start in their one and only race of the day.

 

Finally, at 4 p.m. the first race got under way.  The countable Senior Champ Karts did not have their race until 5:03 p.m.  That means I was at the track for more than four hours until I saw the one and only trackchaser countable race of the day out of 13 different classes.

 

Following the race, it was another five-hour drive back to Charlotte.  That meant I would have driven 10 hours round-trip, been at the racetrack for four hours and seen one five-minute race!  Now, do you want to be a trackchaser?

 

Oh!  I forgot to mention the “West Coast Trackchaser Penalty.”  What is that you ask?  Since the vast majority of racetracks are in the Midwest and East, I must travel significant distances to reach the mother lode of racetracks. 

 

Therefore, after I had made such a great effort to get to the Margarettsville Speedway I would not get back home to San Clemente, California for AN ADDITIONAL 24 HOURS following my arrival into Charlotte.  Of course, that was best case scenario BEFORE I decided to go Indianapolis.  The “West coast” penalty is not really a big deal to me.  It happens on nearly every trip I make.  If my last race of the trip ends on a Sunday, as an example, I don’t get home until late Monday night, a day later.

 

There is never enough time to catch an airplane back home following the last race of the trip.  That means I must usually drive several hours back to my originating airport, grab a hotel, and then fight through airport security the next day, fly 4-6 more hours (usually with connecting flights) before landing in Southern California and another hour’s drive home.  Actually, the “West Coast Trackchasing Penalty” makes my trackchasing even more fun because I know any trackchasing achievements I get required my full effort.

 

 

 

RACE TRACK STATS:

MAGARETTSVILLE SPEEDWAY, MAGARETTSBILLE, NORTH CAROLINA - TRACK #1,014 – 4/2/06

This track was my 29th to see in North Carolina.  This gives me a 9^th place ranking just one track behind P.J. Hollebrand.  Guy Smith leads the state with 63 tracks.

 

 

 

 

RACE TRACK NEWS:

MAGARETTSVILLE SPEEDWAY

The Margarettsville Speedway is a nice little layout.  It was started in 1993.  According to the track website, the track “Was initially built to test stock cars. It was used exclusively for that purpose until someone suggested that it would be a great place to race go-karts. The idea was a success.

Margarettsville Speedway is sanctioned by the World Karting Association (WKA) The track hosts both regional and national events each year for the WKA as well as the Virginia Dirt Karting Association (VDKA) and the North Carolina Dirt Karting Association (NCKRA).

The quarter-mile banked dirt track is fast. It features long straight a ways with plenty of run-off room for safety. It is wide enough to run four karts side by side. The track will turn as black as asphalt during the heat of a race. There are 13 racing class divisions for racers five years of age and up. “

 

Trackchasing rules are not very compatible with go-kart racing.  With only one countable class racing at most events, it means there will be a lot of downtime.  The first official “Racing” event from the track’s point of view was a bicycle race!  Don’t laugh; it paid $125 to win!!

 

That bike race, run for a distance of two laps, started at 3 p.m.  The Senior Champ Karts were the eighth class to race today out of 13 overall classes.  It could have been worse.  There could have been more classes racing and the champ karts could have been racing later in the program. 

 

The Senior Champ Karts had only four entrants today.  There shouldn’t be too many cautions with that amount of racers.  There were none, even though one kart did spin, but kept going without a yellow flag.   The Senior Champ Kart fast timer ranked 12^th among the 13 fast timers from all classes.

 

With the announcer continually telling the crowd that “We know everyone has a long drive home, so we’re going to keep the program moving,” the program continued to drag!  They didn’t start the 20-lap feature events until nearly 4 p.m.  This group was NOT doing much to keep the program moving.

 

The flat kart racing events were the best.  They had as many as 15-20 racers in an event and were much faster than the Senior Champ Karts.  I’m happy to get this track added to my list.  It’s not that close to many airports and they don’t have countable racing often.

WEATHER CONDITIONS

It was outstanding weather for racing today.  A nearly cloudless sky greeted the racing competitors with a temperature of 68 degrees.  You can’t beat that.

RENTAL CAR UPDATE:

The National Rental Car Racing Chevy Malibu has a very annoying driver’s side window.  Each time I lower it a loud screeching noise reminds me I’m driving a domestic automobile.  A car with 4,000 miles on it should not have this problem.

 

This trip covered an unexpected 1,997 driving miles.  I stopped for gas five times and paid an average price of $2.61 per gallon.  The Chevy Impala gave me a solid 27.9 M.P.G. in fuel mileage at an average cost of 9.4 cents per mile. 

 

 

 

LIFETIME TRACKCHASER STANDINGS UPDATE:

These worldwide trackchasers are within 100 tracks (plus or minus) of my current trackchaser total.

 

1.  Rick Schneider – Bay Shore, New York - 1,038 (+24)

2.  Allan Brown, Comstock Park, Michigan – 1,021 (+7)

3.  Randy Lewis, San Clemente, California – 1,014

4.  Guy Smith, Effort, Pennsylvania – 1,011 (-3)

5.  Andy Sivi, Clairton, Pennsylvania – 1,007 (-7)

6.  Gordon Killian, Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania – 996 (-18)

 

 

 

Other notables

 

These worldwide trackchasers are within 10 tracks (plus or minus) of Carol’s current trackchaser total.

 

40.  Mike Knappenberger, Reading, Pennsylvania - 244 (+10)

41.  Don McAuley, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada - 235 (+1)

42.  Carol Lewis, San Clemente, California - 234

42.  Andy Ritter, Mansfield, Pennsylvania - 234 (+/- 0)

44.  Colin Casserly, Stevenage, England 232 (-2)

45.  Bernie Harlen, Goshen, Indiana - 229 (-5)

 

 

2006 TRACKCHASER STANDINGS

1.  Randy Lewis, San Clemente, California - 23

2.  Ed Esser, Madison, Wisconsin – 18

3.  Mike Knappenberger, Reading, Pennsylvania - 10

3.  Paul Weisel, Orefield, Pennsylvania – 10

3.  Gordon Killian, Sinking Springs, Pennsylvania – 10

6.  Rick Young, Maxville, Ontario, Canada - 9

6.  Roland Vanden Eynde, Vilvoorde, Belgium – 9

8.  Roger Ferrell, Majenica, Indiana – 8

9.  Guy Smith, Effort, Pennsylvania – 6

9.  Will White, Quakertown, Pennsylvania – 6

9.  Bob Schafer, Oshkosh, Wisconsin – 6

 

 

 

Thanks for reading about my trackchasing,

Randy Lewis

Trackchasing’s #1 trackchaser of the 21^st century

 

Trackchasing doesn’t have to be fun to be fun.

 

 

 

 

 

CUMULATIVE TRAVEL DISTANCES:

AIRPLANE

Santa Ana, CA – Dallas, TX – 1,236 miles

Dallas, TX – Charlotte, NC – 934 miles

RENTAL CAR

Douglas International Airport, Charlotte, NC – trip begins

Anderson, South Carolina – 117 miles

Westminster, South Carolina – 142 miles

Stanley, North Carolina – 401 miles

Margarettsville, North Carolina – 678 miles

Indianapolis, Indiana – 1,363 miles

Douglas International Airport, Charlotte, NC – 1,997 miles - trip ends

AIRPLANE

Charlotte, NC – Chicago, IL – 576 miles

Chicago, IL – Santa Ana, CA –1,749 miles

 

 

Total air miles – 4,495 miles

 

Total auto and air miles traveled on this trip – 6,492 miles

 

 

TRACK ADMSSION PRICES:

Anderson Motor Speedway – $10

Westminster Speedway – Free!

East Lincoln Motor Speedway – Free, again!

Margarettsville Speedway - $10 (+$5 parking)

 

Total race admissions for the trip – about $20

 

 

 

Past trackchasing stories are available at:

www.ranlayracing.com

 

Official trackchaser standings can be viewed at:

www.trackchaser.com  

 

Some of my standings data comes from trackchaser.com

 

 

 

 

 

UPCOMING TRACKCHASING PLANS

Why not stick with the south just a little bit longer?

 

 

 

 

RACETRACKS VISITED IN 2006 (** not the first time to visit this track)

 

992.  Watermelon Capital Speedway, Cordele, Georgia - January 14

 

993.  Cross Roads Motorplex (asphalt oval), Jasper, Florida - January 15

 

994.  Norfolk Scope Arena, Norfolk, Virginia - January 20

 

995.  Qualcomm Stadium, San Diego, California - January 21

 

996.  Oregon State Fair & Expo Center, Forster Livestock Arena, Salem, Oregon - January 28

 

997.  Morosso Motorsports Park, Jupiter, Florida – February 4

 

998.  Thunderbowl Speedway of Ocala, Ocala, Florida - February 4

 

999.  Cross Roads Motorplex (dirt oval), Jasper, Florida - February 5

 

1,000.  Auburndale Kartway, Auburndale, Florida - February 10

 

1,001.  Ocala Speedway (asphalt oval), Ocala, Florida - February 12

 

1,002. Speedworld Speedway, Surprise, Arizona - February 19

 

1,003. Lowe’s Motor Speedway (1/5 mile asphalt oval), Concord, North Carolina - February 25

 

1,004. Concord Raceway, Concord, North Carolina - February 25

 

1,005. Antioch Speedway, Antioch, North Carolina - February 25

 

1,006. Green Valley Speedway, Gadsden, Alabama - February 26

 

1,007. East Bay Raceway (inner oval), Gibsonton, Florida – March 17

 

1,008. Volusia Speedway Park West (1/6M oval), Barberville, Florida – March 18

 

1,009. Speedway Park, Fruitland Park, Florida – March 18

 

1,010. Sand Mountain Speedway (road course), Fort Meade, Florida – March 19

 

1,011. Anderson Motor Speedway, Anderson, South Carolina – March 31

 

1,012. Westminster Speedway, Westminster, South Carolina – March 31

 

1,013. East Lincoln Motor Speedway, Stanley, North Carolina – April 1

 

1,014. Margarettsville Speedway, Margarettsville, North Carolina – April 2