GREETINGS FROM NEWTON, IOWA

 

 

 

ALL PICTURES HAVE BEEN UPDATED FROM THIS TRACKCHASING TRIP AT WWW.RANLAYRACING.COM

 

I WOKE UP IN MONOMENEE, WISCONSIN THIS MORNING.  THIS IS WHAT TRANSPIRED TODAY.

 

 

 

 

PEOPLE/STRATEGY/TRAVEL NEWS

 

 

The Strategy

                                                                                        

I come to each and every one of my readers with a serious trackchasing ethical question.  I’m going to ask that you send me a brief message regarding your feeling on …………. sharing.  Let me give you some background on what I mean by “Sharing.”

 

We go out to dinner from time to time with another couple.  The woman, whom I’ll call “Merry”, has frequently told us she doesn’t like to share.  She tells us that she grew up in a large family and if you shared, you didn’t get your own share.  Now I don’t know if Merry is kidding or not.  I just know that I have never had a bite of her lasagna.

 

Recently, amongst trackchasers there has been some discussion about the sharing of future track dates.  Some trackchasers are adamantly in favor of sharing dates.  Others do not verbally share their disdain for sharing.  They let their actions do the talking and don’t share any dates.

 

I’ll give you an example.  There is a trackchasing threesome of Mssrs. Ed Esser, Jack Erdmann and Roger Ferrell.  All three of the gentlemen rank in the top 25 trackchasers.  Ed and Jack are both in the top 10.  To look at the outward appearances of these three, you might think of them as unassuming and upstanding people.  I’m not saying they are not.

 

For years, this threesome has spent the better part of each and every day researching future track dates.  They then combine their research for the sole benefit of just their threesome.  This has changed somewhat in the recent past but not much.  When this behavior was at its zenith, I didn’t care for it at all.  At the time I was sharing all of my near term racing plans as well as providing more than a thousand dates to www.trackchaser.com and ultimately to my own site at www.ranlayracing.com.

 

As time went by, I began to resent the efforts of these three less and less.  I finally recognized that they were doing all the work that produced their results.  Why should they share the outcome of hours of sitting in front of a computer with someone who didn’t spend any time researching dates and weren’t sharing anything themselves.

 

I often compare the trackchasing competition with NASCAR.  In the NASCAR Nextel Cup series, there are probably about ten major owners.  Each of these owners has 2-5 different cars on the track at the same time.  You may know some of these famous teams by name, i.e. Hendrick Racing, Roush Racing, Richard Childress Racing, etc.

 

To my knowledge Hendrick Racing does not send a messenger over to Roush Racing (even though their buildings are close enough to do so) every time they discover some new competitive advantage.  In the middle of a race, I’ve never known them to share what they are experiencing on the track.  Actually, I wouldn’t expect them too, would you?

 

In the world of trackchasing, like NASCAR, there are various allegiances of just a few people.  Yes, it’s just like Hendrick Racing and Roush Racing.  Some of the back markers think the leading teams are up front simply because they have more resources.  They grouse that if they had the same resources they would be running for championships just like the “Big” teams.  Does anyone ever stop to ask the question, “How did Rick Hendrick get to this level?  Did he start at the bottom and work his way up?”  Of course, the answer is yes he did.

 

The trackchasing group has an email conference that is tied into “Yahoo Groups.”  There are about 100 people in the conference.  A large share of the active members of the trackchaser group is on the distribution list of my Trackchaser Report.  An additional number of trackchasing folks read the TR via my website.  Nevertheless, active trackchasers still account for a distinct minority of all TR readers.

 

The trackchasing group moderator is Andy Ritter.  I believe he told me the other day that a person does not need to be a member of the conference in order to read any message that has appeared in the group since it began in 1999.

 

It’s all there in black and white.  You can read each and every one of the messages yourself.  I would estimate that no more than five of the top 25 trackchasers has ever shared more than 25 dates in their trackchasing Yahoo group lives.  Therefore, we have never had much history of sharing in the group, ever.

 

I have another personal experience with a young woman I will call, “Carroll.”  Carroll  believes that people should work and not receive free handouts.  From the feedback I get, several readers adamantly support this point of view.  She believes that no one is ever going to go out and produce their own subsistence if they can get it from someone else for free.  I agree with that.  I think this is one of the reasons our children have been so successful on their own.

 

I’ll give you more example to prove this point about interacting with the competition from my past professional life.  Most of you know that I retired from Procter & Gamble after nearly 30 years of service.  What you may or may not know is that P&G is one of the most conservative and ethically respected of any firm doing business in the world.

 

We were never allowed to talk to our competitors.  We could not go out to lunch with a buyer if one of our competitors was going to be present.  If a buyer ever gave us any competitive information, we were required to turn it into the company with a full description of where we got it and WITHOUT looking at it.  Each and every year, every employee would have a personal audit.  During my audit, I would have a one on one interview with a company attorney. 

 

I would have to answer the same questions.  Have you met with any competitor’s this year?  If so, what did you talk about?  Did you ever discuss pricing with any competitors?  Did you ever discuss anything with a competitor that might put the company in a ethically compromising position?  Now, I ask you.  At your place of work, did you ever have such experiences?  As I said, we had these meetings each and every year.  Given my corporate background, I have even gone to the effort to block the email addresses of certain trackchasers so I won’t be influenced by their competitive information.

 

 

So now, we come full circle.  Back to the original question, what is your view on sharing competitive information?  Should trackchasers give up every date to the most obscurely located track they find?  Should they give up the competitive advantage they’ve worked hard to achieve?  You, the reader, will be the judge.  Just drop me a line and let me know what you think.

 

I will continue to offer thousands of dates on my website.  Will every date that I know about make it to the site?  Probably not.  However, if I do find some unusual date and go there I will report my results in a timely fashion.  This way any hardworking or even those ner’ do well individuals for that matter can go to that track next year if they want.  That’s the way I’ve had to do it with the Esser/Erdmann/Ferrell threesome and it hasn’t hurt me one bit.

 

 

The Trip

 

In trackchasing, you have to take what you can get.  I had my heart set on finally seeing the Rapids Speedway in Rock Rapids, Iowa today.  I have had this track on my firm schedule about five times and due to various problems, including weather, I’ve had to drive in a different direction.  This trip would not be any different.  A call too one of my local newspaper friends yielded the news that it was raining in the Rock Rapids area and the forecast didn’t look good.

 

Last night’s hotel in Menomonee didn’t have wireless internet.  Therefore, I parked on the street and used the local Super 8 Motel’s connection.  I was parked just a few yards from the motel’s office.  Everything was going well, until the motel manager came out to mow the grass.  Every couple of minutes his mowing would take him within inches of my passenger side door.  He probably had a good idea of what I was doing sitting in my car next to his wireless router with my laptop on, where else, my lap!

 

I found a good trackchasing alternative.  The Iowa Speedway was running their inaugural event at their “NASCAR” style 7/8 mile new track.  I had really wanted to save this track for some sunny SUNDAY afternoon.  However, I was in a pinch and would have to burn the Iowa Speedway’s oval track earlier than I had planned.

 

Their races were scheduled to begin at 8 p.m.  I was four and a half hours away and it was only 1 p.m.  It seemed like I had all the time in the world.  When the traffic to the track had me stopped on Interstate 80, 14 miles from the track, I thought that might be a problem.  However, things cleared up nicely and I arrived at the track at 7 p.m., just in time to beat the setting sun and take some pictures.

 

It turns out my travel woes were just beginning.  Frequent readers of the TR know that I like to maintain an aggressive travel plan on these trips.  I figured if the races got over at a reasonable hour, like maybe 11 p.m. or so, I could drive for two hours after the races, get some sleep, drive another hour and play golf at the Players Club at Deer Creek in Omaha on Saturday morning.  With this plan in mind, I made a 9:36 a.m. Saturday morning tee time.  Following golf I would then embark on a day/night trackchasing double that would require an additional 411 miles of driving for the day.  Yes, as my grandma used to say, “Sometimes your eyes are bigger than your stomach.”  Not really, Grandma, but thanks for the compliment.

 

The Iowa Speedway races didn’t end until midnight.  My plan for golf still might work.  I was off to Avoca, Iowa’s Motel 6 where I had made a reservation with my cell phone earlier in the day.  Do you ever really look forward to staying in a Motel 6?  Well, me neither but this was the NEW Motel 6 in Avoca.  I had seen this motel being built.  It had wireless internet.  That’s sort of like a Toyota Corolla having a satellite navigation system!

 

I pulled into the motel’s parking lot at 2 a.m.  I got all of my bags organized in the parking lot and made my way to the lobby to check-in.  Once inside I met a nice enough (all the people in Iowa are nice) woman named Brenda.  However……..Brenda couldn’t find my reservation.  The parking lot hadn’t looked that full.  I told her not to worry about looking for my reservation.  It was 2 a.m.  Just give me a room and let me go to bed.  I have golf in the morning.

 

Brenda must have been thinking, “Now hold on Mr. California pants.  They trained me to look for your reservation and I’m going to find it in my computer.  Just cool your jets.”  I waited patiently while “Brenda” continued to try to sharpen (possibly establish) her computer skills.  After a few more minutes, she seemed proud of herself.  “Nope, you don’t have a reservation,” she proudly exclaimed.

 

I seem to run into more and more people in life who are very ill prepared for what they encounter on a daily basis.  However…….the more ill prepared they are, the more certain they seem to be about what they think they know.  Maybe this attitude is what made them so ill prepared for life in the first place.

 

“O.K., Brenda, how about if you just give me a room and we’ll call in a night?” I said.  This was easier than reaching across the check-in desk and grabbing her head and pounding it repeatedly on the hotel “Ask for service” bell.  “Nope, we don’t have any rooms,” she replied cheerfully.  “You don’t have a reservation.  If you did, your name would be on the screen with a little blue thingy next to it.  See if you can lean over you can see I don’t have your name and there’s no little blue thingy.”  Brenda, if I lean over the desk you won’t be happy!

 

I had asked the Motel 6 reservationists to email me the confirmation when I reserved the room this afternoon.  I popped open my laptop and used the hotel’s wireless connection.  Yes, right next to Frank Eich’s 1,100^th track congratulations were the details of my reservation.

 

Brenda was impressed.  “How do you like your Dell,” she offered.  Brenda, it’s past 2 a.m.  Do you want to talk computers or give me a room?  She wanted to give me a room but she didn’t have any.  I pointed out what some of her options were.  She called the manager who lived on site.  It was now 2:30 a.m.  I love to have managers awakened at 2:30 a.m.  That’s why they earn the big bucks.

 

He wasn’t of much help.  He told Brenda to call local hotels and see if they had availability.  Brenda hung up.  “He wants ME to make these calls.  He could have come down here and done it himself.”  No, the level of customer service is not what it was at the spa and resorts in Hawaii.

 

Brenda came up with a Super 8 Motel just six miles away.  The price was about the same and they had a non-smoking king bedded room.  That would have to do.  Before I left the Motel 6, I got all of the information I thought I might need to fight the credit card charge that I will get in a month for tonight’s “Non-room.”  Although Brenda told me I wouldn’t get charged, I have a tendency not to believe her.

 

Now, as it approached 3 a.m., I arrived at the Super 8.  No, the room was not a non-smoking room.  “I told the Motel 6 lady it was a smoking room,” was about the best my new Super 8 contact, “Janet” could come up with.  O.K., Janet just give me a key and let me get some sleep.

 

Of course, Janet could not find any plastic keys.  She knew the manager kept them somewhere but after she had opened nearly every cabinet in the place there were no keys to be found.  “How about if you just let me in my room now?  When you find the keys, make me one and slip it under my door,” I suggested.  Yes, that would work for Janet and it would work for me.

 

Needless the say with it now being 3 a.m., I was not going to get up and drive 60 miles for a 9:36 a.m. tee time.  Golf was out.  With a bad weather forecast, golf is a “Maybe” for Monday.  I may end up hauling my sticks all this way for nothing.  Yes, this is the trackchasing lifestyle.

The People

 

I want to thank God for giving me the patience not to be rude with people like Brenda, even under the most trying of circumstances.

 

 

RACE TRACK STATS:

IOWA SPEEDWAY #1,105 – 9/15/06

This was my 59th lifetime track to see in the Hawkeye state.  I love to watch racing in Iowa.  I believe they have the best overall short track racing of anywhere in the world.  I now have a fourth place ranking in the state.  I won’t be challenging for third for a few years (12-track deficit.)  Those E&E boys (Esser/Erdmann) lead the state 77-76. 

RACE TRACK NEWS:

 

IOWA SPEEDWAY

 

Where do I begin to tell the story of the Iowa Speedway?  Just fifteen short months ago, the site was a cornfield.  Today it is a state of the art, 7/8 mile asphalt oval that looks a lot like NASCAR’s Richmond Raceway.

 

Tonight is their first ever event.  I could feel an excitement in the air.  I pulled into the flat grassy field they were using for the parking lot.  Considering the slow traffic I was in during my approach from Interstate 80, I thought it might take longer to be parked.  However, when I came up to Newton, Iowa’s exit #168, I was the only car getting off out of all the cars that made up the nearly bumper-to-bumper traffic.  That was strange.

 

The grass parking lot had received rain recently.  The surface had the consistency of my Tempurpedic mattress at home.  There is a good deal of rain forecasted for the remainder of this weekend.  The parking lot surface was so spongy that even a little bit of rain would make it a quagmire and these people, including me, would never get out.  They were calling for rain after midnight.  I hoped we wouldn’t get of the wet stuff until I got out of that parking lot.  We didn’t.

 

Tonight’s event was being called the “Soy Biodiesel 250.”  Yes, we’re in Iowa and they grow a lot of soybeans and corn.  Yes, they want to sell those products and if making a “Fuel” is the best way to do it, then that’s O.K. with these Hawkeye people.

 

The Hooters Pro Cup was the sanctioning body for tonight’s 37-car 250-lap race.  The facility is excellent.  The lighting makes the racing look like it’s happening in the day.  The place seats 38,000.  I would estimate a little more than half the seats were occupied.  That was somewhat disappointing.  I figured that on the first night they would have a sell out.  Maybe the drawback was that I had never heard of virtually any of the drivers.  If I had never heard of them, then I suspected most of tonight’s fans had really never heard of them.

 

The race was scheduled to start at 8 p.m.  The temperature was 70 degrees most of the night.  That doesn’t sound too bad until you attach a 20-25 M.P.H. wind to it.  That made it a bit cool for a golf shorts wearing Californian.

 

All of the food concessions had long lines.  I finally bit the bullet and got in a 20-person deep line for a “Jennie’s State Fair Grinder.”  I’m glad I did.  In not too long I was chowing down on a Subway sandwich type delight with a large amount of spicy beef, mozzarella cheese, onions and peppers.  For $6.50, it was a tasty value.

 

I brought along my “Need 1” ticket sign.  However, in small town venues like this, people are not used to buying and selling tickets.  Go to Yankee Stadium or Fenway Park and there are more people buying and selling than not.  Maybe that’s why I like Iowans so much.

 

If it had not been getting dark and if I didn’t want to hurry up and get inside to take pictures in a fading sunlight, I would have stayed outside to buy a ticket off an individual.  I relish the opportunity to rape and pillage some unsuspecting farmer out of a portion of his live savings by offering a pittance for the ticket he paid too much for. 

 

Alternatively, I see my role as a “Savior.”  Here’s a farmer who has one too many tickets.  If no one buys the ticket from him, he may not be able to feed his children.  He might not be able to make the mortgage.  Then the banker will come out to the property and put a “Foreclosure” sign on the front porch.  Yes, if I could buy a ticket from the farmer I might save the farm!

 

However…..I have www.ranlayracing.com readers who demand quality photographs on their favorite website.  There was no time to negotiate with farmers.  I plunked down my well-used MasterCard and told the lady to give me “The best seat in the house.”  Soon I was sitting in section 404, row 31, seat 17.  However…..there were some annoying fans near me and I went over two sections to my left and sat all by myself.  Here I could stretch out, get all my cameras and radios just the way I wanted them and enjoy the race.

 

As I said, this place is state of the art.  They have the first ever “Soft walls” that are not build in front of an existing concrete wall barrier.  The turns have graduated banking like Irwindale Speedway has.  That means the lower groove is banked 12 degrees; the middle groove 13 degrees and the top groove 14 degrees.  This promotes two and three wide racing and it works for the Iowa Speedway.

 

The seating is made up of shining silver and blue aluminum grandstands with seat backs.  There’s plenty of legroom and every seat in the house seems to have an excellent view of the track.  The Iowa Speedway even has an inner oval similar to the Texas and Atlanta Motor Speedways.  They also have a road course.  I guess I’ll be coming back to Newton at least two more times.

 

With this being the first night of racing, there were a lot of dignitaries to recognize.  Several of them felt the need to speak.  The governor was there along with the U.S. senators and local House of Representatives.  Rusty Wallace, the track’s designer got the best ovation.  They didn’t start all of this “Hoopla” until 8 p.m.  I thought it would have been better, no make that much better, if they had done all of this political stuff BEFORE the 8 p.m. start time.

 

At 8:27 p.m., they had the ribbon cutting.  This was done by Rusty Wallace.  Finally, they did start the race.  They had “Competition yellows” at lap 10 and again at lap 30.  They didn’t know how the new track was going to be on tires, so they wanted to stop and check.  At 9:25 p.m., they had completed just 37 of the 250 laps.  It wasn’t looking that great for tomorrow morning’s golf!

 

I spent most of the night listening on the my race scanner radio to the track’s Director of Operations.  He made the calls for yellow flags, etc.  This guy did his work with precision but they had way too many yellow flags.  During the first 200 laps, they did not have one single spin and wreck.  That’s very unusual in this type of racing.  However………during the first 200 laps, they had about 10 caution flags, mainly for debris.  This does not make for an entertaining program.

 

I also took a good deal of still photos and video.  At one point, I was standing up taking video all by myself in an empty section of the grandstand.  A security guard came up and asked “Is that a video camera?”  How does one answer such a question?  I can’t tell you what my reply was.

 

The race ended at about midnight.  That’s waaaaaaaaaaaay too long for an 8 p.m. starting time for just 250 laps.  Maybe I’ve just gotten used to watching these races on TIVO where I can easily move past the lengthy delays.

 

I noticed two things in tonight’s crowd.  First, virtually no one was wearing a race-scanning headset.  This meant they were rookies.  Secondly, there was an abnormally large amount of couples at the race tonight.  I can make a simple prediction that I’m virtually certain will come true.

 

With only a half filled grandstand on opening night, this track may have a hard time attracting crowds in the future.  Yes, they were going up against Friday night high school football, but this was a smallish crowd.  Many of the ladies won’t come back again anytime soon.  They aren’t going to sit out in the cool weather for more that five hours, walk in a muddy parking lot and stand in long lines for food.  The next big race will have a decidedly more just male audience because of this phenomenon.  If the program isn’t more exciting, the males will then begin to give up their season tickets in a few years.  We’ll see if I’m right.

 

I did see one guy’s t-shirt that seemed to sum up my approach to life.  It read, “Life’s journey is not to arrive safely at the grave in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways totally worn out, shouting, “Oh shit, what a ride.”  Nuff said.

 

Following the race, it was the great land rush to get out of the parking lot.  The muddy ruts were 12 inches deep in some spots.  There was little light and lots of cars.  There were no designators like “Goofy” or “Mickey” like some parking lots have.  I kept pressing my remote key to see if I could get some headlights to go on.  Finally, it worked and I was off.  Rapid Speedway, you’re still on my list.

 

 

 

WEATHER CONDITIONS

 

After sitting in a 20-25 M.P.H. wind for the better part of five hours, I feel like my nose is a lot closer to my ear that before the race began.

RENTAL CAR UPDATE:

 

I’m using the National Rental Car Racing Chevy Impala on this trip.  I’ve trashed it inside already and the trip is not even half over.

 

Thursday total driving miles – 177

Friday total driving miles –  457

 

 

 

LIFETIME TRACKCHASER STANDINGS UPDATE:

 

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

 

1.  Randy Lewis, San Clemente, California – 1,105

2.  Guy Smith, Effort, Pennsylvania – 1,060 (-45)

3.  Rick Schneider – Bay Shore, New York - 1,057 (-48)

4.  Gordon Killian, Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania – 1,025 (-80)*

5.  Andy Sivi, Clairton, Pennsylvania – 1,024 (-81)*

6.  Allan Brown, Comstock Park, Michigan – 1,021 (-84)*

7.  Ed Esser, Madison, Wisconsin – 935 (-170)**

 

 

* Warning, you are within 50 tracks of being removed from this list.

 

** Special exemption.

 

 

 

 

Other notables

 

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

 

35.  Sammy Swindell, Bartlett, Tennessee – 279 (+2)

36.  Carol Lewis, San Clemente, California - 277

37.  Dale Danielski, Onalaska, Wisconsin – 269 (-8)

38.  Bob Schafer, Oshkosh, Wisconsin - 267 (-10)

 

 

 

2006 TRACKCHASER STANDINGS

 

1.  Randy Lewis, San Clemente, California - 114

2.  Ed Esser, Madison, Wisconsin – 77

3.  Mike Knappenberger, Reading, Pennsylvania - 72

4.  Roland Vanden Eynde, Vilvoorde, Belgium – 60

5.  Paul Weisel, Orefield, Pennsylvania – 59

6.  Guy Smith, Effort, Pennsylvania - 55

7.  Roger Ferrell, Majenica, Indiana – 54

8.  Carol Lewis, San Clemente, California – 47

9.  Allan Brown, Comstock Park, Michigan - 44

10. Pam Smith, Effort, Pennsylvania – 43

 

 

 

 

Thanks for reading about my trackchasing,

Randy Lewis

#1 Trackchaser Living West of the Mississippi

 

Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did.  She just did it backwards and in heels!

 

CUMULATIVE TRAVEL DISTANCES:

 

AIRPLANE

 

Los Angeles, CA - Minneapolis, MN – 1,530 miles

RENTAL CAR - MINNEAPOLIS

 

Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport – trip begins

Rice Lake, Wisconsin – 124 miles

Newton, Iowa – 506 miles

TRACK ADMSSION PRICES:

 

Rice Lake Speedway – $15

Iowa Speedway - $45

 

 

 

 

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

 

How often does one get the chance to see the Chicago Bears play during one of the trips?  I’m going to see the “Monsters of the midway” while I have the chance.

 

Trackchasing’s First Mother will be hitting the trackchasing trail soon after a 39-day layoff.  She has Sammy Swindell is her sights.

 

 

 

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

 

1,015. Sunny South Raceway, Grand Bay, Alabama – April 7

 

1,016. Barber Motorsports Park, Leeds, Alabama – April 8

 

1,017. Coldwater Raceway, Coldwater, Alabama – April 8

 

1,018. Talladega Short Track, Talladega, Alabama – April 8

 

1,019. Ballymena Raceway, Ballymena, Northern Ireland - April 14

 

1,020. Oulton Park, Little Budworth, England - April 15

 

1,021. Somerset Rebels Banger Raceway, Rooks Bridge, England - April 16

 

1,022. Mendips Raceway, Shipham, England - April 16

 

1,023. Oval Raceway, Angmering, England - April 17

 

1,024. Arlington Stadium, Eastbourne, England - April 17

 

1,025. Southside Speedway, Midlothian, Virginia - April 28

 

1,026. Motor Mile Speedway, Radford, Virginia - April 29

 

1,027. Wythe Speedway, Wytheville, Virginia - April 29

 

1,028. Summit Point Raceway, Summit Point Circuit, Summit Point, West Virginia - April 30

 

1,029. Old Dominion Speedway – inner inner oval, Manassas, Virginia - April 30

 

1,030. Shenandoah Speedway, Shenandoah, Virginia – May 4

 

1,031. Bridgeport Speedway (inner oval – front), Bridgeport, New Jersey - May 5

 

1,032. Empty Jug, Hawley, Pennsylvania - May 6

 

1,033. Oakland Valley Race Park, Cuddebackville, New York - May 6

 

1,034. Thunder Mountain Speedway, Center Isle, New York - May 6

 

1,035. Motocross 338, Southwick, Massachusetts - May 7

 

1,036. Glen Ridge Motorsports Park, Fultonville, New York - May 7

 

1,037. Calumet County Speedway, Chilton, Wisconsin - May 19

 

1,038. Grant County Speedway, Lancaster, Wisconsin - May 20

 

1,039. Blackhawk Farms Raceway, Rockton, Illinois - May 21

 

1,040. The Milwaukee Mile (Road course), West Allis, Wisconsin - May 21

 

** Angell Park Speedway, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin – May 21 (new track Carol only)

 

1,041. Park Jefferson Speedway, Jefferson, South Dakota - May 25

 

1,042. Superior Speedway, Superior, Wisconsin - May 26

 

1,043. Brainerd International Raceway, Brainerd, Minnesota - May 27

 

1,044. Canby Speedway, Canby, Minnesota - May 27

 

1,045. Crawford County Fairgrounds (figure 8), Denison, Iowa - May 28

 

1,046. Tri-State Speedway, Sisseton, South Dakota - May 29

 

1,047. Sheyenne River Speedway, Lisbon, North Dakota - May 29

 

1,048. Spring Mountain Motorsports Ranch, Pahrump, Nevada – June 3

 

1,049. The Bullring at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Las Vegas, Nevada – June 3

 

1,050. Hibbing Raceway, Hibbing, Minnesota – June 6

 

1,051. Buena Vista Raceway, Alta, Iowa – June 7

 

1,052. Lebanon Midway Speedway, Lebanon, Missouri – June 8

 

1,053. Rocky Top Raceway, Coal Grove, Ohio – June 9

 

1,054. Midvale Speedway (oval), Midvale, Ohio – June 10

 

1,055. Midvale Speedway (figure 8), Midvale, Ohio – June 10

 

1,056. Spring Valley Raceway, Millport, Ohio – June 11

 

1,057. Rialto Airport Speedway, Rialto, California – June 17

 

1,058. Lawrenceburg Speedway (figure 8), Lawrenceburg, Indiana -  June 20

 

1,059. Lawrenceburg Speedway (temporary oval), Lawrenceburg, Indiana -  June 20

 

1,060. Thunder Mountain Speedway, Knox Dale, Pennsylvania -  June 21

 

1,061. State Park Speedway, Wausau, Wisconsin -  June 22

 

1,062. Dodge County Fairgrounds Speedway, Beaver Dam, Wisconsin -  June 23

 

1,063. Lucas Oil Speedway (oval), Wheatland, Missouri -  June 24

 

1,064. Lucas Oil Speedway (figure 8), Wheatland, Missouri -  June 24

 

1,065. Tri-City Speedway, Pontoon Beach, Illinois - June 25

 

1,066. Lake Ozark Speedway, Eldon, Missouri - June 29

 

1,067. Poplar Bluff Speedway, Poplar Bluff, Missouri - June 30

 

1,068. Indianapolis Motor Speedway (road course), Indianapolis, Indiana – July 1

 

1,069. Rush County Fairgrounds, Rushville, Indiana – July 1

 

1,070. Rock Castle Speedway, Mount Vernon, Kentucky – July 2

 

** Windy Hollow Speedway (oval), Owensboro, Kentucky – July 2

 

1,071. Heartland Park Topeka (dirt oval), Topeka, Kansas – July 3

 

1,072. Thunderhill Speedway, Mayetta, Kansas – July 3

 

1,073. Little Valley Speedway, Little Valley, New York – July 13

 

** Twin State Speedway (oval), Claremont, New Hampshire – July 14

 

1,074. Twin State Speedway (figure 8), Claremont, New Hampshire – July 14

 

1,075. Canaan Speedway (asphalt oval), Canaan, New Hampshire – July 14

 

** New Hampshire International Speedway, Loudon, New Hampshire – July 15

 

1,076. White Mountain Motorsports Park, North Woodstock, New Hampshire – July 15

 

1,077. Legion Speedway, Wentworth, New Hampshire – July 15

 

1,078. Devil’s Bowl Speedway, Fair Haven, Vermont – July 16

1,079. Stafford Motor Speedway, Stafford Springs, Connecticut – July 17

 

1,080. Little Log House Speedway, Hastings, Minnesota - July 28

 

** Elko Speedway (outer oval), Elko, Minnesota – July 28

 

** Elko Speedway (inner oval), Elko, Minnesota – July 28

 

** Elko Speedway (figure 8), Elko, Minnesota – July 28

 

1,081. Chickasaw Big Four County Fairgrounds, Nashua, Iowa - July 29

1,082. Buffalo