GREETINGS FROM AYNOR, SOUTH CAROLINA AND THEN DILLON, SOUTH CAROLINA

 

 

 

 

Don’t miss my interview on WLAR with “Jalopy Jack.”  It can be accessed by calling 718-707-1052.  The interview will be on the “hot line” through Wednesday, April 18, 2007.  In this Q&A with Jalopy Jack, I discuss my United Kingdom trackchasing experiences.

 

 

 

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I WOKE UP IN HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA THIS MORNING.  THEN I WENT TO SLEEP ALONG INTERSTATE 20 ON THE WAY TO THE HARTSFIELD-JACKSON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (ATLANTA).  THIS IS WHAT TRANSPIRED TODAY.

PEOPLE/STRATEGY/TRAVEL NEWS

 

The Strategy                                                                                    

 

My primary trackchasing strategy is simple and straightforward.  I will do whatever it takes to see a new track as long as it is honest, moral and meets all current trackchaser rules.

 

Actually, I learned how effective this approach could be in business years ago when I was just 23 years old.  Somewhere along the line I figured out that a boss at work preferred having someone who would do “whatever it takes” rather than someone who always had a million excuses on why something couldn’t be done, would be difficult to do or was not worth the effort. 

 

When my bosses asked me to do get something accomplished, I simply went about doing it without giving them anything to worry about.  Surprise!  My bosses loved this approach and rewarded me over the years with more responsibility and more money.  Of course, other than a small trackchasing stipend, I gave all the money to Trackchasing’s First Mother and her children.  Yes, you are getting pearls here, but only you can open the clamshell.

The Trip

 

I’m trying to beat the weather this weekend.  I have already been snowed out of even trying to go to Colorado on Saturday.  I was nearly rained out last night in Huntsville, Alabama.  One of the worst spring storms in some time is bearing down on Atlanta.  I was planning to catch a Georgia track tonight, Saturday.  However with the forecast that would not be a good choice.

 

Therefore, I have elected to go to the Eastern edge of South Carolina just a few miles from the Atlantic Ocean.  I can’t go much further east to avoid this storm.  I have both an afternoon South Carolina track and an evening South Carolina track on the docket.  With the storm, tracking west to east through Texas, Mississippi, and then Alabama it will be tight to get both tracks in.

 

My flight this morning left Huntsville at 6:40 a.m.  (4:40 a.m. San Clemente time).  For some reason the flight that was once wide open was now filling up fast.  It turns out an American Airlines flight had cancelled and some of those passengers were now trying to get on my flight.  Those dirty rotten #$%%^@#.

 

The Huntsville International Airport, like most small regional type airports offers free wireless internet.  I checked Delta’s website and found that I was thirteenth on the standby list and there were nine seats available.  I might not get on this flight after getting up so early!

 

In the world of “standby” flying being thirteenth with nine seats, remaining is not the end of the world.  You see the airline routinely sells more tickets than the plane has seats.  The airline knows that a certain number of folks won’t show up.  I count on those “sick, lame and lazy” people as we used to call them in the Marine Corps to sleep in, miss their turn to the airport or have their dog eat their paper ticket.  Those folks are the ones who didn’t quite get the drill as noted above in the strategy section.

 

True to form, the plane went off with a few empty seats despite being overbooked initially.  I must admit I was a bit worried.  If I missed this flight, I could always rent a car.  However, even if I MADE this flight I was still going to have to drive nearly 350 miles one way once I made it to Atlanta.  If I missed this flight, my one-way drive from Huntsville to Aynor, South Carolina would be about 565 miles.  I might not have made the race on time with that driving distance.

 

With this realization, I began to explore opportunities in Oklahoma.  The rain had just left there.  There were a few Saturday night tracks in the Sooner state I could make on time.  I was reluctant to give up on my planned South Carolina double so I hoped I would get on that plane.  I did.

 

Once in Atlanta, I picked up my rental car.  As I was exiting the gate, I was told my car was on a “hold” status.  I had never heard of this before.  I had all of my stuff in this car.  My GPS unit was hooked up.  I was ready to go.  Nope!  I was being told I wouldn’t be taking this car even though it had been placed in the “Executive Selection” area.  So, off I went to get another car.  I certainly hope this 15-minute delay would not mean the difference between getting a new track and not.

 

Once I had selected a car that I could leave the lot in, I faced a 350-mile one-way drive to a go-kart track.  I didn’t even know for certain if they would even have any countable machines racing.  Sometimes you just have to travel on faith and intuition.  Of course, I would not be writing this TR if they didn’t have any countable cars show up.  The track did have four countable karts out of about 75 competitors.

 

My travel today would not be complete with a simple early morning flight and a 350-mile drive.  Following today’s afternoon show and tonight’s evening track, yes the second half of a day/night trackchasing double, I would then have to drive back to the Atlanta airport. 

 

I figured I would get out of the evening track by 10 p.m. at the earliest.  The drive back to the airport would be 5-6 hours.  Of course, if I had no trackchasing activity planned for Sunday, I could just get a hotel and sleep in before making the drive.  However, if there is a track to visit and I can make it there while they are still racing then I will do “whatever it takes.”

 

With that in mind, I had planned an 8:38 a.m. Sunday morning departure to Denver from Atlanta.  I can catch a Sunday afternoon race just north of Denver and with any luck be home in San Clemente by late Sunday night.  If that entire plan works, I will have seen four new tracks on one of the worst countrywide weather weekends of the year and still have been away from home for just two nights.  It doesn’t get much more productive that that.

 

There was a minor inconvenience involved with this gem of an idea.  If my Saturday night track ended at 10 p.m., it took me six hours to drive to the airport, and my flight left at 8:38 a.m. well,  ……………… as I always like to say you can do the math.

 

That meant there would not be enough time to get a hotel tonight.  The minor plus was that this helped my overall trackchasing budget numbers.  The more significant negative was that I would be having a third consecutive night of little sleep.  I got only five hours of sleep on both Thursday and Friday night.  Tonight, Saturday, I will try to sneak catnaps along Interstate 20 rest areas.  I don’t like to do it this way but sometimes it’s my only choice.  Atlanta’s airport security is one of the slowest and most congested in the country.  I will have to be at the airport by no later than 7 a.m.  That means I will have three full hours to take those naps.

 

 

 

Special BBQ Report

 

Maurice’s Gourmet Barbeque (www.mauricesbbq.com) – I-20, exit #55, somewhere in South Carolina

 

At the special request of a Georgia reader, I will try to offer my critique of BBQ restaurants I encounter along the trackchasing trail.  Maurice’s huge interstate billboard advertisement attracted me to this restaurant.  I always stop to eat on the way to the track, regardless of how close I am cutting it with the track’s starting time.  Folks have said I will someday miss a track doing this but I never have.

 

I figured that Maurice’s would be right off the interstate.  Wrong!  The restaurant was located nearly 10 MILES off the interstate.  Even with GPS, it was difficult to find.

 

Maurice’s has more than ten locations in South Carolina.  For me, that is not a good sign.  I like the one off locations.  Maurice’s BBQ was established in 1939.  They say they cook BBQ, “the same way George Washington did at his Mt. Vernon home.  We slow cook for 24 hours over hickory coals.  We baste our hams with our delicious golden sauce.”

 

I never ate any of George Washington’s BBQ but if it tasted like Maurice’s I’m glad I never did.  Today’s location was definitely off their game.  I ordered ½ pound of BBQ chopped pork, one pint of BBQ baked beans, a ½ dozen hush puppies and a large Diet Coke.  No, I was not eating for two!  This order set me back some 13 bucks.  I figured if the BBQ was good, I could use it for my supper later in the day.

 

The server asked me if I wanted the baked beans hot or cold.  I told her I wanted them hot.  I grabbed my to go order and several pieces of Maurice’s “literature” (described below) and hightailed it for the Low Country Kartway.

 

It was a challenge opening all of the to go containers while I was driving but I did it.  I stuck my fork into the baked beans for my first bite.  Surprise!  The top portion of the baked beans was warm but the center was ice cold.  I’ve had sno-cones that weren’t this cold.  The BBQ pork was smothered in a yellowish sauce that looked like baby #$%^.  It didn’t taste much better.  The hush puppies were large but overly fried.  Even my Diet Coke didn’t taste right.  My final grade for Maurice’s:  D-

 

Maurice seems to have his own religious and political agenda.  There were several free handouts available at the counter for consumers to read.  One was a press release dated March 28, 2007 detailing how the Supreme Court of South Carolina had denied Maurice Bessinger’s request for Certiorari in his case against Bi-Lo and other grocery stores who had removed his sauce from their stores.  Mr. Bessinger had sued the chains for removing his products from their stores based solely on the content of his personal political opinions.  If you want to discuss this further please give Mr. Bessinger a call at 803-791-5887, ext 16.

 

The store also provided free copies of the U.S. Constitution, a pamphlet titled God’s Gift and a Maurice’s BBQ take out menu.  I read them all and learned that one can purchase a whole BBQ pig that serves 100 people for just $399 with a three-day notice among other things.

 

 

 

 

 

The People

 

I observed an interesting people situation as I approached the Dillon Motor Speedway.  Dillon, South Carolina is a very rural somewhat impoverished looking small town in eastern South Carolina.  When I drove into town, I noticed something unusual.  There were only black faces in town.  These folks were definitely on the lower end of the economic totem pole.  I had seen towns like this in the Carolinas when I would ride the bus up from Camp Lejune, North Carolina to Washington, D.C. when I was stationed there a long time ago.

 

It wasn’t long after my entrance into town that I noticed the sign for the Dillon Motor Speedway.  They were re-opening the track for the first time since the 60s, according to an old timer I spoke too.  Once I entered the track’s property, I saw one of the largest short track crowds I had seen in a very long time.  It looked like the folks who had risked a total remodel of a formerly dilapidated speedway were going to be rewarded.

 

Dillon was a small town.  Nearly everyone I had seen in town was black.  They had a huge crowd at the track.  Nearly every face at the track was white.  I wondered why that was.  Didn’t black people like auto racing?  Didn’t the track market to its local residents?  There was probably something deeper going on here than the local residents’ entertainment preferences or the track’s marketing program.  It’s too bad we Americans have not been able to fix this racial divide a long time ago and not just in the South.  

 

 

 

 

 

RACE TRACK STATS:

 

LOW COUNTRY KARTWAY, AYNOR, SOUTH CAROLINA - TRACK #1,174

 

DILLON MOTOR SPEEDWAY, DILLON, SOUTH CAROLINA - TRACK #1,175

 

The Dillon Speedway was the back half of my fifth day/night trackchasing double of the season.  This was my ninth trackchasing double in just 28 overall days of trackchasing in 2007.  This is excellent trackchasing production.

 

These were my 14^th and 15^th lifetime tracks to see in the Palmetto state.  This moved the highest-ranking female trackchaser, Pam Smith, in the state where the state tree is the Cabbage Palmetto, into sixth place while I moved up one spot into fifth.  This gives me one more state finish point in the all-important National Geographic Diversity lifetime standings.  As a reminder, each state finish point equals .02 points in a chaser’s overall score.  I now trail Andy Sivi by eight tracks for the fourth place position.  That’s a lot with what I have left in South Carolina to see.  John Moore leads the state with a hefty total of 35 tracks. 

 

 

RACE TRACK NEWS:

 

LOW COUNTRY KARTWAY

I have looked at the Low Country Kartway website (http://www.lowcountrykartway.net/) in the past.  They race go-karts here, but it never looked like any of the racing was countable by trackchasing standards.  Therefore, I never put much effort in trying to make a visit.

 

However, this weekend, they were running a special event sanctioned by the South Carolina Divisional Dirt group.  They planned to have Senior Champ karts racing today.  As long-time readers and www.ranlayracing.com viewers know, Senior Champ karts have a roll cage, which makes them resemble a midget or sprint car more than a flat go-kart.  If I saw the Senior Champs race, this track would count.  If I drove all this way and no Senior Champs showed up, then I would be out of luck.

 

Today, there were four Senior Champ “heavies” and four Senior Champ “lites.”  The difference between these two classes is about 25 pounds of weight.  There were not eight Senior Champ racers here today, there were only four.  The drivers simply added or deleted weight to make the weight required for their division.

 

When I arrived at the track it was sunny and 75 degrees.  The rainy weather was bearing down, but it had not reached here yet.  I was greeted with a $15 admission charge.  That was high, but again race tickets are a very small part of my overall trackchasing budget.  I paid the fee gladly to get a new track.

 

The Low Country track is a nice one.  The slightly banked 1/5 mile dirt oval has lights, a concession stand and a good P.A. system.  They even broadcast the P.A. over FM channel 88.7.   Unfortunately, the announcer does not tell the crowd anything about the racing.  He simply yells as the racers to get on the grid and threatens them with the statement that the race will go on without them if they don’t hurry up.  Of course, this is the “glass is half-empty” approach that many tracks use.  That’s too bad.

 

I took a quick walk through the pit area.  There weren’t many Senior Champs, but there were enough.  Qualifying had been advertised as starting at 12 noon.  I arrived at 3 p.m.  Qualifying had been completed and they were at intermission.  There would be no heat racing today, only features.  Each class with four cars or more would run a 20-lap race.  Cars with less than four cars would race for 15 laps.  I watched the first version of the Senior Champ features and headed for the exit.  Little did I know that I must have barely missed the appearance of another highly ranked worldwide trackchaser.

 

 

 

DILLON MOTOR SPEEDWAY

 

There are very few new racetracks opening up in the United States nowadays.  There are more oval tracks closing each year than new ones opening.

 

Technically, the Dillon Motor Speedway is not a “new” track.  One local fan said the track last ran as a dirt track back in the 1960s.  The new owner told the crowd the place was a real dump when he decided to resurrect it.

 

Tonight was opening night for the brand new asphalt track.  They had a sold out crowd.  They did a lot of things right so that all of those people could enjoy the program.  First, they started on time!  Yep!  Nobody starts on time.  They were ahead in my book right off the bat.

 

The track is a 3/8 mile high-banked asphalt oval.  The track is smooth and has white lane markers painted all the way around.  The lighting system is very good and the P.A. is robust.  The announcer knows what he’s doing.  He kept the crowd informed and entertained without being chatty. 

 

I was also impressed with the behind the scenes work the track’s management was doing.  I listened to their conversations over the race scanner.  They worked hard to keep the show moving when there was a caution flag delay.  They also did something else that added to the efficiency of tonight’s program.  It wasn’t something that I like seeing done, but 99.9% of the crowd wasn’t aware of it.  They told the flagman what to do 100% of the time.  I don’t believe he would have scratched his butt if he had not been told too.

 

This type of flagman direction is being done more and more.  When done properly it can create a consistent program.  It did tonight.  At one point, three drivers jumped the start.  The flagman was told by the race organizer, over the track’s radio (frequency 464.8000), to wave the black flag at each competitor individually.  This would tell the driver’s they would be in trouble in they jumped the start again.

 

While this was going on, the announcer made a big deal to the crowd about how “our tough-minded flagman” was chewing out the drivers with his black flag.  As each car drove by the flag stand and received the black flag warning, the announcer played it up that this flagman was not going to take any monkey business and he wasn’t to be messed with.  The crowd looked on knowingly that THEIR flagman was in charge!  In reality, his every move was being orchestrated by the race organizer.  This was a great move by the track.  It looked to me that the flagman was not very experienced.  The race organizer was.  Good call by the track.

 

This was a good show, but not a perfect show.  The line to get food was long.  At the beginning of the night, there must have been 60 people in line trying to buy food from just two windows.  Later in the evening, I stood in a line of about 15 people.  My wait was probably ten minutes.

 

I was greeted by a hearty concession fellow about my age.  My “bologna burger” was excellent.  My server did try to overcharge me by one dollar.  I know he didn’t do it intentionally.  A bologna burger and 20 oz. Diet Coke in a plastic bottle for $3.50 was more than reasonable.

 

The track was a bit short on cars.  The four-cylinders ran twelve cars for about 25 laps.  Then just five street stocks came out and ran a 35-lap feature.  That race was followed by six modified type cars running a 40-lap feature.  The final race I stayed for was the Seneca Premium Cigarettes truck class.  Eleven trucks raced a 75-lap feature.  I REALLY like these southern asphalt tracks that run a features only format.

 

I had a 325-mile drive overnight to make so I didn’t stay for the Allison Legacy Legends feature.  One of the fans told me that Donnie Allison’s grandson was racing as well as Larry McReynolds son.  NASCAR fans will know what I’m talking about.

 

Surprisingly, the long races with very few cars were actually pretty good.  No, I do not think the races should have been this long with such a small field of cars, but they really weren’t bad.  It will be interesting to see how this track does if a traveling class like the Seneca trucks or Allison Legacy series is not there to bolster the car count.

 

Without a good car count, the crowd will fall off.  Without a good crowd, the purse can’t be paid very well and then the car count will fall off some more.  When the crowd learns that over the long haul the cars aren’t coming to the track, then they won’t come.  I’ve seen this cycle repeat itself time and again at tracks all over the country.  I wish the Dillon Motor Speedway the best of luck.  They are off to a good start.

 

I did run into a prominent trackchaser from Madison, Wisconsin.  This was my first contact in 2007 with him.  I’ll have more to tell you about him in the “People” section of my next Trackchaser Report.

 

 

 

 

WEATHER CONDITIONS

 

The weather was most pleasant for both of my afternoon and evening tracks today.  It’s about time.

RENTAL CAR UPDATE:

 

I’ll be going with the National Rental Car Racing Chevy Impala for today’s less than 24-hour rental.

 

Friday total driving miles –  62

 

Saturday total driving miles – 3 (Saturday morning in Huntsville) and 717 (Atlanta on Saturday and early Sunday morning)

 

 

I traveled a stout 717 miles in less than 24 hours with this baby.  I paid an average fuel price of $2.78 giving me a 10.7 cent per mile fuel charge.  The Chevy provided fuel mileage of 26.0 M.P.G.  The car cost only 3.6 cents per mile to rent, all taxes included. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 – 1,175

 

2.  Allan Brown, Comstock Park, Michigan – 1,106 (-69)*

 

3.  Guy Smith, Effort, Pennsylvania – 1,090 (-85)*

 

7.  Ed Esser, Madison, Wisconsin – 992 (-183)**

 

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

 

** Special exemption.

 

 

 

 

LIFETIME NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC DIVERSITY STANDINGS

 

2007 (current thru 3/26/07)**

 

 

1. Randy Lewis, San Clemente, California – 7.00

2. Gordon Killian, Sinking Springs, Pennsylvania – 7.08

3. Allan Brown, Comstock Park, Michigan – 7.55

 

**Until the end of the year, NGD rankings are unofficial.  Rankings are affected not only by the leader’s activities but also by other trackchasers impact on the leader’s position in each state. 

  

 

 

Other notables

 

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

 

31.  Carol Lewis, San Clemente, California - 310

 

32.  Chris Economaki, Ridgewood, New Jersey – 302 (-8)

 

33.  Gary Jacob, Turlock, California – 301 (-9)

 

 

 

 

 

 

2007 TRACKCHASER STANDINGS

 

1.  Randy Lewis, San Clemente, California - 37

 

2.  Ed Esser, Madison, Wisconsin – 27

 

3.  Mike Knappenberger, Reading, Pennsylvania - 17

 

4.  Carol Lewis, San Clemente, California – 15

 

5.  Guy Smith, Effort, Pennsylvania - 13

 

6.  Rick Young, Maxville, Ontario, Canada - 8

 

6.  Roger Ferrell, Majenica, Indiana – 8

 

8.  Gordon Killian, Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania – 7

 

9.  Linda Rixon, Watford, England – 6

 

9.  Spike Rixon, Watford, England – 6

 

9.  Paul Weisel, Orefield, Pennsylvania – 6

 

 

Tracks have been reported by 30 different worldwide trackchasers this season.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for reading about my trackchasing,

 

Randy Lewis

#1 Trackchaser Living West of the Mississippi

The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all. 

 

 

 

CUMULATIVE TRAVEL DISTANCES:

 

AIRPLANE

 

Santa Ana, CA – Atlanta, GA – 1,919 miles

Atlanta, GA – Huntsville, AL – 151 miles

 

RENTAL CAR – HUNTSVILLE

Huntsville International Airport – trip begins

Huntsville Speedway – 31 miles

Huntsville International Airport – 64 miles

 

AIRPLANE

 

Huntsville, AL – Atlanta, GA – 151 miles

 

RENTAL CAR – ATLANTA

 

Hartsfield International Airport – trip begins

Low Country Kartway – 347 miles

Dillon Speedway – 389 miles

Hartsfield International Airport – 717 miles

 

 

 

TRACK ADMSSION PRICES:

 

Huntsville Speedway – $10

Low Country Kartway - $15

Dillon Motor Speedway - $12

 

 

 

 

 

 

Past trackchasing reports are available at:

www.ranlayracing.com

 

 

Official trackchaser standings can be viewed at:

www.trackchaser.net

 

 

Some of the data in this report comes: www.trackchaser.net

Garmin GPS

 

 

 

 

 

 

UPCOMING TRACKCHASING PLANS

 

I don’t believe there has ever been a trackchaser who has followed up a small car race in South Carolina with a small car race in Colorado.  There has been now! 

 

 

 

 

 

RACETRACKS VISITED IN 2007 (** not the first time to visit this track)

 

 

1,139.  Meremere Dirt Track Club, Meremere, New Zealand - January 1

 

1,140.  Meeanee Speedway, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand - January 1

 

1,141.  Top of the South Speedway, Richmond, New Zealand - January 2

 

1,142.  Woodford Glen Speedway, Christchurch, New Zealand - January 3

 

1,143.  Robertson Holden International Speedway, Palmerston North, New Zealand - January 5

 

1,144.  Taupo Motorsports Park, Taupo, North, New Zealand - January 6

 

1,145.  Waikaraka Park International Speedway, Auckland, New Zealand - January 6

 

1,146.  Angels Stadium of Anaheim (inner oval), Anaheim, California - January 13

 

1,147.  Angels Stadium of Anaheim (outer oval), Anaheim, California - January 13

 

1,148.  West Valley Speedway, Surprise, Arizona - January 14

 

1,149. Sandia Motorsports Park (road course), Albuquerque, New Mexico - January 28

 

1,150. Grand Prix De Lanaudiere, Lavaltrie, Quebec, Canada – February 3

 

1,151. Ste-Eulalie Ice Track, Eulalie, Quebec, Canada – February 4

 

1,152. St Guillaume, St Guillaume, Quebec, Canada – February 4

 

1,153. Caldwell Rodeo Arena, Caldwell, Idaho – February 10

 

1,154. Balsam Lake Ice Track, Balsam Lake, Wisconsin – February 18

 

1,155. Northeast Pond Ice Track, Milton, New Hampshire – February 24

 

1,156. Lee Pond Ice Track, Moultonborough, New Hampshire – February 25

 

1,157. New Hendry Country Speedway, Clewiston, Florida – March 3

 

1,158. Florida Sports Park, Naples, Florida – March 4

 

1,159. Honeoye Lake Ice Track – Road Course, Honeoye, New York – March 10

 

1,160. Houston Raceway Park, Baytown, Texas – March 16

 

1,161. Houston Motorsports Park, Houston, Texas – March 16

 

1,162. Dawgwood Speedway, Chatsworth, Georgia – March 17

 

1,163. Toccoa Speedway, Toccoa, Georgia – March 17

 

1,164. Tazewell Speedway, Tazewell, Tennessee – March 18

 

1,165. Malden Speedway, Malden, Missouri, Tennessee – March 23

 

1,166. Dacosa Speedway, Byhalia, Mississippi – March 24

 

1,167. Swinging Bridge Raceway, Byram, Mississippi – March 24

 

1,168. Florence Motor Speedway, Florence, South Carolina – March 25

 

1,169. Foothills Raceway, Easley, South Carolina – March 30

 

1,170. Mileback Speedway, Gray Court, South Carolina – March 30

 

1,171. Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Florida – April 1

 

1,172. Vegas Grand Prix, Las Vegas, Nevada – April 8

 

1,173. Huntsville Speedway, Huntsville, Alabama – April 13

 

1,174. Low Country Kartway, Aynor, South Carolina – April 14

 

1,175. Dillon Motor Speedway, Dillon, South Carolina – April 14