TODAY’S HEADLINES

 

Find out how I ended up in British Columbia on Sunday afternoon when that was not part of the plan...................more in “The Trip”.

 

There has been a shake-up in positions #2 and #3 in the 2007 standings ………………..details in “2007 Trackchaser Standings”.

 

Are you smarter than a fifth grader?  Can you answer Smokin’ Bob’s questions? ……………….more in “The People”. 

Click on this link or paste it in your browser to take you to today’s Trackchaser Report via my website at www.ranlayracing.com

 

http://www.ranlayracing.com/1216sunvalleyspeedway.htm

 

 

GREETINGS FROM VERNON, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA.

 

I WOKE UP IN ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO THIS MORNING.  I WENT TO SLEEP IN MERRITT, BRITISH COLUMBIA.  I RETURNED TO SAN CLEMENTE ON MONDAY.  THIS IS WHAT TRANSPIRED TODAY.

PEOPLE/STRATEGY/TRAVEL NEWS

 

The Strategy     

 

Today, I had 24 hours of unplanned time.  One might think that a retiree has lots of unplanned time.  I don’t.  I wanted to put that time to good use, so I figured I would fly to a foreign country and add one more track to my lifetime list.  Then, just like the guy who works a nine to five job, I was back home on Monday night after “work”.

The Trip

 

Frequently, the “trip” is the most exciting part of the trackchasing hobby.  O.K., USUALLY it’s the most exciting part of the trip!  That was the case today.  Let me refresh your memory on how this all came about.

 

On Saturday night, I left the racetrack in rural northwestern New Mexico at 10:30 p.m.  I drove nearly 200 miles to my hotel in Albuquerque.  A quick check-in allowed me to get to sleep at just before 2 a.m.  My wake-up call came too early at 5:10 a.m.  Facing massive crowds at airport security, I barely managed to make my 6:30 a.m. United Express operated by SkyWest flight.

 

This was a simple 676-mile trip.  My flight was scheduled to land in Los Angeles at 7:30 a.m.  I really didn’t have any plans at home on Sunday.  With barely three hours of sleep, I wasn’t going to play golf today.  There were no specific plans for the day at all.  I started to think.  I don’t really want to just lay around the house all day on a Sunday.  I had no chores to do.  I never have any chores to do at home.  That’s just the way Carol runs things.

 

Just minutes before we landed I came upon an idea.  Was there anywhere in North America where I could still see a new track today?  I checked my RANLAY Racing scheduling database.  This is a closely guarded batch of information that is ultimately the nerve center here at RANLAY Racing.  For Sunday, I saw races being held in Alaska, Connecticut, France, Iowa, Mississippi, New York, Ontario and Pennsylvania at tracks I had never visited.  Those would not work.  I wasn’t going to fly back across the U.S. after I had just flown 700 miles west to SoCal.

 

However, there was one new track opportunity that caught my eye.  The Sunvalley Speedway in Vernon, British Columbia was racing tonight.  Could I make it to British Columbia?  As soon as the plane landed, I called Alaska Airlines.  They had some seats available on an 8:15 a.m. departure to Vancouver.  It would be tight but I might make it.

 

At the Los Angeles International Airport each major airline has its own “wing”.  When you leave one airline’s wing, you must leave security and re-enter security again at the other airport’s wing if you are changing airlines.  It turns out the United Airlines terminal (#7) and the Alaska terminal (#3) are about as far apart as is possible at LAX.

 

I would estimate the two terminals are one mile apart.  Nevertheless, and after having only three hours of sleep, I decided to try for it.  I was wearing my deck shoes with no socks.  These are not long-distance walking shoes!  They can wear out the bottoms of one’s feet pretty fast.

 

My walk took me outdoors.  I was weaving through parking lots and occasionally walking along the sides of active roadways at a rapid pace.  If you’ve seen an L.A. cab driver recently, you might imagine home dangerous walking in the road around here is.

 

It was a 15-20 minute walk.  In order to make my plan work I would have to get my boarding pass from the Alaska Airlines’ computer kiosk.  Then I would have to clear airport security in less than five minutes.  Even if that part of the equation worked flawlessly, I would make the flight’s gate with less than five minutes before the scheduled departure.

 

When I finished the Olympic fast walk from the United terminal to the Alaska terminal I was faced with something unexpected.  The place was a zoo.  Alaska Airlines was having some kind of a problem.  There must have been 150 people in a line that wound all the way outside the building.  These people were simply trying to check their bags!

 

I could bypass all of these folks by using the kiosk to get a boarding pass.  I would not be checking bags.  If these systems worked I would pass up all of these people.  Alaska Airlines’ systems failed me.  For some reason the kiosk was not working.  The computer screen told me to “see a customer service agent”.  There was no time to do this.  The line in front of customer service had more than 100 people in it.  I was not going to make the 8:15 a.m. departure to Vancouver.  Maybe I should just give up and go home.

 

I checked my “Skyguide” aka “OAG” to see when the next flight to Vancouver on Alaska Airlines was.  They had a flight leaving at 10:30 a.m.  It was now 9 a.m.  I still needed a boarding pass to clear security.  The kiosk was not working.  An airline employee told me to get in the customer service line.  I looked over there again.  There were still more than 100 people in that line being serviced by three customer service agents.  I would never be able to stand in that line and make a flight that left in 90 minutes.

 

What should I do?  Should I give up?  Should I just lay down in the corner and go to sleep?  Or, should I keep trying until there were absolutely no more alternatives left?  You may have guessed what I did.

 

If you said, “Don’t give up Randy.  We’re pulling for you.  We want you to get every new track you possibly can,” then you’re my kind of person.  I did not give up.  I got creative.

 

Midwest Airlines is in the same terminal as Alaska Airlines.  I made a cell phone call to Midwest.  They gave me a reservation on one of their LAX to Kansas City flights.  I then walked up to their ticket counter with my newly captured confirmation number and received a boarding pass.  I used this Midwest boarding pass to clear security and enter the terminal that also was home to Alaska Airlines.  Pretty clever, huh?

 

Once past security, I then had to convince an Alaska Airlines customer service rep to change my Alaska ticket’s “to/from” designators.  In my world, I order flight coupons with a specific “from location” and a specific “to location”.  That’s a requirement from my sponsors.  It is somewhat difficult to get this changed.  The woman I was working with told me it was only the second time she had made such a change in nine years!

 

Now I was on a flight that would get me non-stop into Vancouver at 1:30 p.m.  I was making progress.  Once I landed in Vancouver, it would be a 290-mile drive up to the track in Vernon.  That drive should take me about five hours.  The track’s program was scheduled to begin at 7 p.m.  By the time I cleared Canadian customs and picked up my rental car, I would have just enough time to make it.

 

However, even a good plan can encounter a few bumps in the road.  When I entered the customs area at the Vancouver airport, the huge hall was jammed with more than 1,000 people.  Yes, now I know how the folks at Ellis Island must have felt.  This was going to be a problem.

 

An hour later I had weaved through a serpentine line that would have made the Pirates of the Caribbean Disney ride operators envious.  The Canadian customs agent had the normal question, “You’re coming to Canada for just one day to see the races?”  Well, ya!  I told her I went all over the world seeing racetracks.  “Ever seen the Indy cars up here,” she asked.  As a matter of fact, I haven’t but I would leave that for another day. 

 

Even though our plane had landed 30 minutes early, the customs backup had put me 60 minutes behind.  It was now 2 p.m.  I had a five-hour drive ahead of me for a program that was starting in five hours.  I had had just three hours of sleep last night.  These numbers were not adding up very well.  Despite all of this, I had to make it to the track or this entire effort would be wasted.

 

I turned on my GPS and set it for Vernon, British Columbia.  It gave me an estimated time of arrival of 8:12 p.m.  That didn’t sound good.  I would just have to drive faster to make up the deficit.  The GPS is really good at projecting driving times.  It seems to me like it wouldn’t be able to do that, but it does.  I can be four hours from my destination and if I don’t make any stops, I will arrive within a minute or two of what the GPS unit projected the moment I took off.

 

If I drive faster than the speed limit, I will be able to reduce my ETA by a minute after a few miles.  If I encounter unexpected traffic, my ETA will increase by the amount of the traffic delay.  I tried to drive fast but I was dragging.  About midway in the trip, I was forced to take one of my patented 12-minute power naps.  These naps are great for me.  It took me about seven seconds to fall fast asleep in a Canadian rest stop.  Exactly eleven minutes and fifty-three seconds later I was awakened from a dead sleep and on the road again.  Don’t worry, this is all part of the trackchasing hobby.

 

I was concerned about an ETA that still called for an 8 p.m. arrival or so.  The remaining mileage to my destination didn’t seem like it would take me that long.  I tried to drive faster.  Why was the GPS’s computer telling me it was going to take two hours to cover the remaining sixty miles?

 

Then, it dawned on me.  I had not changed the GPS time from Mountain time that I was on in New Mexico to Pacific time where I was at now.  When I made that change, the GPS happily (I’m assuming) told me I was now going to arrive at the track at nearly 7 p.m., exactly when the track would begin countable racing.

 

This relieved me greatly.  I was so relieved I was able to stop at a Wendy’s for 15 minutes.  I could miss a heat race for some food.  I could plan to eat at the track, but so many short tracks have such bad concessions, I didn’t want to take that chance.  I pulled into the track at 7:18 p.m.  They were completing their second heat race.  It had been a busy 24-hour period.  During that time, I had driven about 400 miles in New Mexico.  I had driven nearly 300 miles in Canada.  I had stood in an international customs area for an hour.  I had flown 700 miles from New Mexico to California and another 1,000+ miles from California to British Columbia.  I had been at New Mexico tracks for five hours and slept for three hours.  Yes, I’m thinking the same thing you must be thinking “Ain’t this trackchasing fun!”

 

 

 

 

The People

 

I meet a number of fun and interesting people along the trackchasing trail.  Tonight, was no exception.  I didn’t know what to expect from the Sunvalley Speedway.  Several tracks in off the beaten path locations like this are pretty basic.  I guess that is what I was expecting tonight. 

 

You can imagine my surprise when I entered tonight’s track and heard one of the best short track sound systems ever.  On the other end of that system was a fellow I would later come to know as “Smokin’ Bob”.  Bob was the track announcer.  As is my normal practice, I passed up my “trackchaser press release” to the press box.  Right at that moment, the race was stopped to clean up a major on track accident.  This gave “Smokin’ Bob” time to tell the crowd a little bit about the hobby of trackchasing.

 

He told them what types of tracks counted and which ones (demo derbies, drags and motorcycle races) don’t.  He covered the worldwide trackchaser standings through the first five places.  He then told the crowd what a fun thing this must be to do and invited me up to the tower.

 

We talked for a few minutes.  He told the crowd that “Randy’s wearing a black shirt with “Harrah’s” written on it.  When you see him in the stands tonight go up and say hi”.  Several people did.  “Smokin’ Bob” did an excellent job all night with the announcing duties.  He even visited with the winning drivers after each race.  During intermission, he came down and visited with the kids.  He had bags of popcorn for each child who could answer his questions.

 

He started out with questions, like “what is circumference of the world in kilometers to the nearest whole number?” and “what is the population of Pakistan?”  He eased up a bit and soon the popcorn was all distributed.

 

During the vintage car feature event, the track promoter, Bob Newcombe, came up and introduced himself.  He gave me all kinds of background information about the track. 

 

He and his partners built the track just six years ago.  The people who own the track are in the concrete and asphalt paving business.  That explains why so much of the track has an asphalt paved surface as well as the huge poured concrete spectator seating area. 

 

Bob has some very creative ideas that I have never heard before.  Rather than deal with a host of drivers in each racing division that races here, he came up with the idea of having each division form their own “club”.  Each club elects a president and Bob deals with only the club’s president.

 

He pays a purse to the club and they decide how the money will be divided up.  Pretty creative and efficient, I would say.  He told me his “headaches have decreased by about 100%” since he came up with the club idea.  I asked him what the purse was for the street stocks only division that had 12 competitors racing tonight.  The street stocks get $2,500 per race night.  That sounded more than fair to me based upon other purse numbers I’ve seen for similar classes.  He also mentioned he normally gets about 25 street stocks on a regular night of racing.

 

There are no large cities anywhere close to this track, but Bob did tell me the population within 50 miles or so is 170,000.  The track has a major stock car show on tap in two weeks.  The race will be televised on Canadian TV.  They been pre-selling tickets for this race.  How many do you think they’ve sold?  How does 4,000 sound!  For a short track in an area like this, that’s huge.  It was fun talking with Mr. Newcombe, I learned a lot.  He was equally impressed with someone who could go all over North America and the world doing what I do.

 

 

 

 

PROVINCE RANKINGS

This was my 5th lifetime track to see in British Columbia.  That keeps me in the trackchasing lead up north here in British Columbia, Canada.  Carol is right behind with three BC tracks.  This gives her the runner-up spot in this province. 

 

Surprisingly, only 13 trackchasers have ever made it up here.  Only 13 official trackchasing visits have been recorded in British Columbia by trackchasers not named Lewis.  I am the only trackchaser to have ever made it to the Sunvalley Speedway.  

 

 

 

 

RACE REVIEW – SUNVALLEY SPEEDWAY

 

Today was July 1, Canada Day.  Canada was celebrating its 140^th birthday.  Tonight’s show included only two divisions, the Canada Vintage Racing “old coupes” group and the street stocks.  There was a surprisingly large crowd on hand to watch just these two classes.  I would estimate there were 1,500 people or more on hand.

 

Each car ran two heat races and a feature event.  The 1930s coupes are the type of racecar I grew up with at the Peoria Speedway.  They ran a 25-lap feature and the 12 street stocks ran a 40-lap feature.  Yellow flag laps counted in the street stock event.

 

I suspect tonight’s racing classes were picked to allow fans to have their racing fix before all of the Canada Day fireworks started around town.  If that was the plan, it worked well because it doesn’t get dark here until around 10 p.m.

 

For a track that was build from nothing just six years ago, this place is becoming a showpiece.  I was most impressed with their ability to pre-sell 4,000 tickets to an event being held here in two weeks. 

RACE TRACK STATS:

 

SUNVALLEY SPEEDWAY – TRACK #1,216

 

Track details

 

Website:  http://www.sunvalleyspeedway.com/

 

Weather:  It was a beautiful evening for racing with temps in the low 70s.

 

Track type and surface:  asphalt oval

 

Length:  3/8- mile

 

Grandstands:  The place seats about 7,000.  There is a large poured concrete grandstand in front of the multi-story press box.  Additionally, there are several 15-row high wood bleacher grandstands.

 

P.A.:  One of the best I have heard anywhere.

 

Announcer:  “Smokin’ Bob” covered it all with enthusiasm.  His interaction with the crowd and the drivers added to the program.  He even had his own take on U.S./Canada political topics.

 

On time:  I arrived 18 minutes late so I don’t know if they started on time, but I suspect they did.  The entire two-division show was finished by 9:15 p.m.  It wasn’t even dark by them.

 

Pit area:  Located in the infield of the track. 

 

Classes:  There are no regular weekly classes at this track.  Tonight, they had about 15 Canadian vintage racers (mainly 1930s coupes) and 12 street stocks. 

 

Radio Frequency:  Didn’t bring my scanner on this trip.

 

Concessions:  The track featured “poutine” a Canadian staple.  Poutine is a concoction of French fries, cheese and brown gravy.  I rarely miss a chance to eat this stuff, but I figured eating fries at Wendy’s just minutes before was enough fried potatoes.  However, I did not eat any “mini-donuts” at Wendy’s.  For three dollars Canadian I received 12 small donuts and enough brown sugar to put a diabetic in shock.  I first started eating these little devils back in my Ascot Park days and hope I never stop.

 

Scoreboard:  No

 

Extras:  This is a quality track that offers several extras.  They have an RV area where spots have been sold out for the entire season around turns one and two.  There were two major souvenir areas and a modern concession stand.

 

 

 

 

 

 

RENTAL CAR UPDATE

 

Vancouver – Sunday-Monday

 

I would be driving the National Rental Car Racing Chrysler 300 today.  The trim on this car in nearly identical to the Dodge Charger.  However, for some reason, the Chrysler 300 seemed to ride better.  The car had a sunroof but no satellite radio.  I enjoyed this car.

 

I drove it 584 miles (935 kilometers).  I paid an average price of $3.79 per gallon.  Yes, fuel in Canada is expensive.  The Chrysler 300 gave me a solid 27.1 M.P.G. in fuel mileage at a cost of 14.0 cents per mile.  The car cost only 9.9 cents per mile to rent, all taxes included.  

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for reading about my trackchasing,

 

Randy Lewis

British Columbia’s #1 Trackchaser

On the plains of hesitation lie the bleached bones of millions who, when within the grasp of victory sat and waited and waiting died.

 

 

 

 

 

 

AIRPLANE

 

Los Angeles, CA – Albuquerque, NM – 676 miles

 

 

RENTAL CAR – ALBUQUERQUE

 

Albuquerque International Airport – trip begins

Aztec, New Mexico – 182 miles

Aztec, New Mexico – 187 miles

Albuquerque International Airport – 384 miles

 

AIRPLANE

 

Los Angeles, CA – Vancouver –1,081 miles

 

RENTAL CAR – VANCOUVER

 

Vancouver International Airport – second portion of trip begins

Vernon, British Columbia, Canada – 290 miles

Vancouver International Airport – 584 miles – trip ends

 

AIRPLANE

 

Vancouver – Los Angeles, CA – 1,081 miles

 

 

 

Total Air miles – 2,838 (I have flown over 75,000 miles during the 2007 trackchasing season)

 

 

Total auto and air miles traveled on this trip – 3,806 miles

 

 

TRACK ADMSSION PRICES:

 

Kart Kanyon Raceway - $8 (included pit pass)

Aztec Speedway – $7 ($2 senior discount)

Sun Valley Motor Speedway - $10 Canadian

 

Total racetrack admissions for the trip – $24

 

 

RANKINGS

 

 

LIFETIME TRACKCHASER STANDINGS UPDATE:

 

There are no trackchasers currently within 100 tracks of my lifetime total. 

 

1.  Randy Lewis, San Clemente, California – 1,216

 

 

 

 

Other notables

 

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

 

29.  Tom Schmeh, Knoxville, Iowa – 330

 

30.  Carol Lewis, San Clemente, California – 325

 

30.  Dwight Bucks, Topton, Pennsylvania – 325

 

 

 

2007 TRACKCHASER STANDINGS

 

1.  Randy Lewis, San Clemente, California - 78

 

2.  Roland Vanden Eynde, Vilvoorde, Belgium - 57

 

2.  Ed Esser, Madison, Wisconsin – 54

 

4.  Mike Knappenberger, Reading, Pennsylvania – 38

 

5.  Carol Lewis, San Clemente, California – 31

 

6.  Guy Smith, Effort, Pennsylvania - 24

 

7.  Gordon Killian, Sinking Springs, Pennsylvania – 21

 

7.  Paul Weisel, Orefield, Pennsylvania – 21

 

9.  Pam Smith, Effort, Pennsylvania – 21

 

9.  Roger Ferrell, Majenica, Indiana – 19

 

Tracks have been reported by 37 different worldwide trackchasers this season.

 

 

LIFETIME NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC DIVERSITY STANDINGS

 

2007 (current thru 6/29/07)**

 

 

1. Randy Lewis, San Clemente, California – 6.65

2. Gordon Killian, Sinking Springs, Pennsylvania – 6.86

3. Allan Brown, Comstock Park, Michigan – 7.57

 

**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. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 from www.trackchaser.net

and my Garmin GPS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

UPCOMING TRACKCHASING PLANS

 

It is time to return home for the Fourth of July fireworks in San Clemente.  Don’t worry, I plan to see a few more races during the second half of this year’s trackchasing season.  Maybe I’ll see you at one of these tracks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

1,176. Valley Dirt Riders, Berthoud, Colorado – April 15

 

1,177. Antelope Valley Fairgrounds, Lancaster, California – April 22

 

1,178. Sertoma Speedway, Tularosa, New Mexico – April 27

 

1,179. Sandia Motorsports Park (outer oval), Albuquerque, New Mexico – April 28

 

1,180. Sandia Motorsports Park (inner oval), Albuquerque, New Mexico – April 28

 

1,181. Hollywood Hills Speedway, San Felipe Pueblo, New Mexico – April 29

 

1,182. Meridian Speedway, Meridian, Idaho – May 11

 

1,183. Diamond Mountain Speedway, Vernal, Utah, Idaho – May 12

 

1,184. Rocky Mountain Raceways (oval), Salt Lake City, Utah – May 12 

 

1,185. Rocky Mountain Raceways (figure 8), Salt Lake City, Utah – May 12

 

1,186. Modoc Speedway, Modoc, South Carolina – May 18

 

1,187. Possum Kingdom Super Speedway, Belton, South Carolina – May 19

 

1,188. Laurens County Speedway, Laurens, South Carolina – May 19

 

1,189. Fairplex at the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds, Pomona, California – May 20

 

1,190. Lowes Motor Speedway (inner oval), Concord, North Carolina – May 24

 

1,191. Lowes Motor Speedway (road course), Concord, North Carolina – May 24

 

1,192. Madison International Speedway (inner oval), Oregon, Wisconsin – May 25

 

** Madison International Speedway (outer oval), Oregon, Wisconsin – May 25

 

1,193. Thunderbird Stadium (figure 8), Bremerton, Washington – May 26

 

1,194. Thunderbird Stadium (oval), Bremerton, Washington – May 26

 

1,195. Whispering Pines Motorsports Park, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada – May 27

 

1,196. Magic Valley Speedway, Twin Falls, Idaho – May 28

 

1,197. Owyhee Motorcycle Raceway Park, Boise, Idaho – June 1

 

1,198. Race City Motorsports Park, Calgary, Alberta, Canada – June 2

 

1,199. Edmonton International Raceway, Wetaskiwin, Alberta, Canada – June 2

 

1,200. Castrol Raceway, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada – June 2

 

1,201. Hidden Valley Motorsports Park, Drumheller, Alberta, Canada – June 2

 

1,202. Boyd’s Speedway, Ringgold, Georgia - June 8

 

1,203. Fayette County Fairgrounds, Washington Courthouse, Ohio - June 9

 

1,204. Brush Creek Motorsports Park, Pebbles, Ohio - June 9

 

1,205. Brown County Speedway, Russellville, Ohio - June 9

 

1,206. Vinton Speedway, Vinton, Ohio - June 10

 

1,207. Hilltop Speedway, Millersburg, Ohio - June 10

 

1,208. I-70 Speedway – dirt (outer oval), Odessa, Missouri - June 13

 

1,209. L A Raceway, La Monte, Missouri - June 14

 

1,210. Valley Speedway, Grain Valley, Missouri - June 22

 

1,211. Jamaica Raceway, Jamaica, Iowa - June 23

 

1,212. Calhoun County Fairgrounds (figure 8), Rockwell City, Jamaica, Iowa - June 23

 

** Hamilton County Speedway, Webster City, Iowa – June 23 (new for Carol only)

 

** Iowa Speedway (outer oval), Newton, Iowa, Iowa – June 24 (new for Carol only)

 

1,213. Butler Motor Speedway, Butler, Missouri - June 24

 

1,214. Kart Kanyon Raceway, Aztec, New Mexico - June 30

 

1,215. Aztec Speedway, Aztec, New Mexico - June 30

 

1,216. Sunvalley Speedway, Vernon, British Columbia, Canada – July 1