TODAY’S HEADLINES

Today’s trackchasing was all about Carol as she attempted to do what no other woman trackchaser has ever done...................more in “The People”.

 

Our portable GPS unit is the best piece of technology I have ever had.  However, today it almost cost me a track………………..details in “The Trip”.

 

Ever had a $16.50 milkshake that weighed six pounds?……………….more in “Trackchasing Tourist Attraction”. 

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GREETINGS FROM HUNTERSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA AND THEN SHIPPENSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA AND FINALLY HAGERSTOWN, MARYLAND.

 

 

 

 

 

TRACKCHASING TOURIST ATTRACTION

 

Yes!  See below.

WE WOKE UP IN LAUREL, DELAWARE THIS MORNING.  AFTER WE WENT TRACKCHASING IN BOTH PENNSYLVANIA AND MARYLAND, WE WENT TO SLEEP IN MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA.  THIS IS WHAT TRANSPIRED TODAY.

PEOPLE/STRATEGY/TRAVEL NEWS

 

 

 

 

The Strategy     

 

There are several different objectives I have ongoingly in trackchasing.  I may be trying to get more tracks than anyone else does in the lifetime standings or for an individual season.  I might be trying to lead the prestigious National Geographic Diversity rankings or get ahead in an individual state.

 

However, today’s trackchasing did not have as much to do with me as it did “Trackchasing’s First Mother” aka wife Carol.  She has her own trackchasing objectives.  One of those is to see racing in all 50 of the United States.  Please take a look at “The People” section to learn more about Carol’s quest to see racing in each of our 50 United States.

 

 

 

 

 

The Trip

 

Our portable GPS unit is absolutely indispensable.  We can be in the heart of a major city trying to leave, the GPS unit painlessly takes us on a series of rights and lefts, and soon the city is in our rearview mirror.  I don’t think the non-user can fully appreciate its value until it has been used for a day or two.

 

When we want to drive to a certain location, there are three ways to enter the info.  The best way is to use the exact address.  However, if you don’t know the exact address, you can enter the city location.  That will at least get you near enough to your location that you can use your own intuition or some local knowledge to get you the rest of the way.

 

There is a third way to find some locations.  We can go into the machine and enter a location by name, such as “Jimmy Carter Presidential Library”.  If the attraction is big enough or well known, it is likely to be in the GPS database.

 

Today we used this third option and plugged in the name, “Hagerstown Speedway”.  In hindsight, this was not a good idea.  I had a problem using this approach earlier in the year and now I know it’s some sort of systemic issue that will have to be monitored closely in the future.

 

We were on a tight time schedule.  We had just left the Hunterstown Speedway following their countable racing.  We had just enough time to get Carol to the Hagerstown Speedway for their scheduled start at 7 p.m.  After dropping Carol off, I would continue on to the Shippensburg Speedway in Pennsylvania.  If everything went according to plan, I would arrive there at 8 p.m.  The Shippensburg program started at 6 p.m., but the plan would still get me there in time for most or all of their feature events.

 

I was driving and Carol was reading off the directions as we went along.  We were closing in on the Hagerstown Speedway or so we thought.  The plan had us perfectly on our time schedule.  By the way, when I follow GPS directions, I don’t pay much attention to where I’m at.  I never bring paper maps with me anymore.

 

Soon the GPS told us we were arriving at the Hagerstown Speedway.  Things didn’t look right, unless the Hagerstown Speedway was now located in the heart of a residential neighborhood where kids were jumping on a trampoline and splashing around in an above ground pool!

 

We were NOT at the speedway.  As a matter of fact, it was nearly 7 p.m. and we were 57 MILES from the Hagerstown Speedway!!  Oh my!  I pulled over to the side of the road and used my laptop’s Rand McNally mapping software to get us back on track.  I’m not going to use the GPS’ “enter an attraction’s name” feature again until I can assure myself of its reliability.  Peters family……what up?

 

To put it politely, it was now panic time.  I could certainly get Carol to her Maryland track on time, but my trip to the Shippensburg Speedway was now in jeopardy.  Carol offered to bypass her new track in Maryland so we could go directly to Pennsylvania.  I wouldn’t hear any of that.  She was on this trip to get a new track in a new state and she would.

 

I hustled us along.  We arrived at Hagerstown at 8:07 p.m.  I bade farewell to Carol as she disappeared behind the admission gate to the track.  Yes, she was on her adventure.  She was making trackchasing history.  She was the first woman to ever see a new track in a new state while unaccompanied.

 

I was lucky in one respect.  The Hagerstown Speedway is located just 3-4 miles off Interstate 81.  It’s a quick 35-40 miles up that interstate to the exit for the Shippensburg Speedway.  That track is located just 0.2 miles off exit 29.  The entire trip took me just 40 minutes or so while traveling at the equivalent of a Chevy Impala’s mach one speed.

 

I arrived at 8:53 p.m.  The Shippensburg Speedway’s program had begun at 6 p.m.  I was definitely cutting it close.  When I pulled in, I had to make way for a racecar hauler that was leaving the track.  The sun had set just minutes ago.  It was starting to get dark.  I jumped out of the car and rushed into an open paddock.  I saw most of the cars in the pit area already sitting on their trailers waiting to head home.

 

I breathlessly asked a woman carrying a clipboard, how many races were left.  “There’s only one race left, our slick track feature event.  They are watering the track now, and it will start in a few minutes,” she told me.  Wow!  This was a lot closer than it should have been.

 

After taking a few pictures in the pit area and around the facility, I sat down next to a gregarious man, who was the spitting image of Mike Knappenberger’s older brother.  Of course, he was a handsome devil.  This fellow, a former late model (’57 Ford) racer from upstate Maine, gave me the lowdown on what goes on at the Shippensburg Speedway.  It had been quite a trip, but I would be able to get two countable Pennsylvania tracks today.

 

I had only one other thing to remember to do.  When I had dropped off Carol at the Hagerstown Speedway her final words were, “Don’t forget to come back and get me!”  Of course not.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TRACKCHASING TOURIST ATTRACTION

 

CHICK AND RUTH’S DELLY, ANAPOLIS, MARYLAND

 

The gift Carol gave me for Father’s Day is going to be a great source of Trackchasing Tourist Attractions.  When you’re traveling you never know where the really good places to eat are located.  I really want to avoid chains, unless I have absolutely no time to stop.  I was lucky to have my copy of Roadfood with more than 600 listings of the best barbeque joints, lobster shacks, ice cream parlors, highway diners and much, much more with me.

 

Chick and Ruth’s Delly is located in the heart of downtown Annapolis at 165 Main Street.  Annapolis is the capital of Maryland and home to the U.S. Naval Academy.  Although it was steamy hot, it was a sunny day and the area was packed.

 

Chick and Ruth’s is certainly one of a kind, cramped and full of life.  Imagine having a full-sized deli located inside a passenger train car!  It’s a lot like that.  As the book says, we would be eating “cheek to jowl” with our fellow diners and we were.

 

I had the crab dip that was sinfully delicious.  The dish featured moist French bread for dipping in a baked crab dip that had a real kick too it.  I quenched my thirst with several refills of cherry Diet Coke.  Carol went with the corn beef hash and eggs.  There were huge chunks in corn beef, which I snuck from her at every opportunity. 

 

I wish we had more time and I had more room for excess calories.  Chick and Ruth’s offers a “colossal milkshake”.  It costs $16.50 and weighs six pounds!  The super colossal Reuben sandwich goes for $28.50.  A picture of it showed a full-sized dinner plate with various deli meats stacked more than a foot tall.  This was quite a place and I have the pictures to prove it at www.ranlayracing.com.  I love my Roadfood book.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The People

 

Currently Carol ranks 31^st in the world trackchasing standings.  She’s been making good progress and passing a few people during the past several years.  There are still four women who rank higher than Carol in the lifetime standings.

 

As luck would have it, these four women rank consecutively in positions 20^th through 23^rd.  Pat Eckel of Easton, Pennsylvania leads all women with 544 tracks.  Eleanor Weidman from Rensselaer, New York follows closely with 540 tracks.  Nancy Brown of Comstock Park, Michigan has 501 tracks and Pam Smith from Effort, Pennsylvania currently has 486 tracks.

 

Carol has a long way to go to reach the overall quantity of tracks that each of her fellow female competitors has achieved.  However, Carol’s geographic diversity achievements rank her very far up the list of women chasers.

 

There are nine trackchasers who are members of the 50-state club.  All of those people are men, except Nancy Brown.  Nancy, along with her husband Allan, operates a racing business that takes them all over the country selling a racetrack directory.  Therefore, Nancy’s business has been the primary reason she has traveled so extensively.  Her business connection does not take away in anyway her geographic achievement.  She put in the miles and deserves 100% credit for being the only woman to be a member of the exclusive 50-state club.

 

The other women still have a long way to go in order to gain admission in the 50-state club.  Pat Eckel has 41 states, Eleanor Weidman has 39 states and Pam Smith has 37 different states to her credit.  These are all very respectable totals.  Will one of these women be the first to join Nancy Brown in the 50-state club?

 

Not if Carol has anything to do with it!  Today, Trackchasing’s First Mother picked up her 47^th lifetime state, Maryland.  Not only did she strengthen her grip on second place in states seen, she did something in trackchasing that has never been reported on before.

 

Carol became the first woman to ever see a new track in a new state while unaccompanied.  All of the woman mentioned above are wives of leading male trackchasers.  In the entire history of trackchasing dating back to the very first race in the early 1900s, a woman has never ventured out on her own, into the wilderness if you will, to see a new track in a new state until Carol did today.

 

While Carol was trackchasing in Maryland, I wasn’t even in the state.  Carol’s Maryland conquest was the noted Hagerstown Speedway, certainly a top 40 ranked U.S. track.  I had been to the Hagerstown Speedway all the way back in 1982.  On a cold October day, I saw Jerry Inmon in the #D7 win the late model feature.

 

Today, I was off to Pennsylvania to increase my trackchasing totals.  I would have loved to have been with Carol when the green flag dropped on her first countable race at her first ever track in Maryland.  However, the competitive pressures of trackchasing at the upper levels are too great to be able to take a night off.

 

If you would like to send Carol a congratulatory note, her email address is bruintrio@yahoo.com.  I am certain she would enjoy hearing from you.

 

In the meantime, the RANLAY Racing travel department is busily looking for trackchasing opportunities in the three states that remain before Carol can join the 50-state club.  Those states are Alaska, Louisiana and Rhode Island.

 

 

 

 

 

 

CAROL’S COMMENTS

 

I was glad the Hagerstown Speedway has a large seating area.  This way I could grab a seat and not feel like anyone was staring at me.  (Editor’s note:  When I arrived at Hagerstown to join Carol much later in the evening, I noticed several predators positioned near Carol waiting for an opportunity to introduce themselves to Trackchasing’s First Mother.)

 

It’s hard to believe I’m the first woman to see a new track in a new state by myself.  It was good to get Maryland out of the way.  I may have to do this more often.  (Editor’s note:  Of course, Carol would have to establish her own trackchasing expense budget in order to go trackchasing solo.)

STATE RANKINGS

This was Carol’s first ever track in the old line state.  She now occupies a tie for 32^nd place in the state that calls the Baltimore Oriole its state bird.  Guy Smith leads the rankings here with 13 tracks.

 

The track(s) we saw in Pennsylvania were Carol’s third in the Keystone state.  They were my 61^st and 62^nd in the state that calls the Ruffed Grouse its state bird.  No, the state bird should not be confused with any of the state’s foremost trackchasers. 

 

Carol now holds sole possession of 47^th place in Pennsylvania.  Even though I have 62 tracks in this state that is only good enough for a 23^rd place ranking.  Unbelievable!  Guy Smith leads here with an incredible 166 tracks.

RACE REVIEW – HUNTERSTOWN SPEEDWAY, HUNTERSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA

 

I called the promoter on the way to today’s track.  I knew they would be racing about 20 classes of go-karts.  The track’s website shows the order that each class will appear.  The promoter told me the senior champ karts would be racing near the end of all of those classes.

 

He and I agreed that if Carol and I showed up by 4 p.m. we would not miss the champ karts.  One thing led to another and we didn’t arrive until 4:30 p.m.  No problem, the champ karts did not race until nearly 6 p.m.

 

In the meantime Carol and I picked a nice spot in the shade and watched several go-kart classes race.  There was no charge for admission, so we got more than our money’s worth.  There were good car counts (for kart racing) in all classes, however the flagman was much too quick with the yellow flag.

 

The facility is just like a good quality dirt oval except on a smaller scale.  I would really like to see, make that hear, kart tracks announce their activities and try to appeal to the spectator a little more.  As soon as the six-car senior champ kart race was in the books, we were off to the second half of our day/night trackchasing double.  Carol’s back half of her double would be in Maryland and mine would be in Pennsylvania.

RACE TRACK STATS:

 

HUNTERSTOWN SPEEDWAY – TRACK #1,219 (CAROL’S #328)

 

Track details

 

Website:  http://www.hunterstownspeedway.com/

 

Weather:  It was 90 degrees.  However, we sat under a shade tree with a nice breeze.  We were very comfortable.

 

Track type:  oval

 

Surface/length:  Dirt, 1/5-mile

 

Grandstands:  We sat in a five-row aluminum bleacher type grandstand that was covered in shade from several large trees.

 

P.A.:  Not much good.

 

Announcer:  Only used to call racers to the grid.

 

On time:  There were just two countable classes racing today.  They raced near the end of the program.

 

Pit area:  Located behind the front stretch.

 

Classes:  There were about 20 classes of karts.  There were just six senior champs that raced in the race we saw.  It looked like there might be a second class of senior champ karts a couple of races later, but the promoter had told me there was just one senior champ kart class racing today.

 

Radio Frequency:  I normally don’t use my scanner when I am trackchasing with Carol and didn’t today.

 

Concessions:  I had a sno-cone but the fresh cut French fries looked good.

 

Scoreboard:  No

 

Extras:  A high quality small car track, like most of its genera are.

 

 

RACE REVIEW – SHIPPENSBURG SPEEDWAY, SHIPPENSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA

 

I guess I was lucky to see any racing tonight at the Shippensburg Speedway.  I arrived at 8:53 p.m. for their program that was scheduled to begin at 6 p.m.  I was somewhat surprised that the entire program had been completed except for one race.

 

As I walked through the pit area, without having to pay, I surveyed the cars that were already on their trailers.  This was a down-home bunch, but I would have liked to have seen them race.  There was just one race left.  That race would be a 15-minute affair for nine “slick track” competitors.

 

The track’s management had two large water trucks giving the quarter mile banked dirt oval a good soaking.  They must have watered the track for at least 20 minutes.  I was told they run this type of race about once a month.  I guess if I had arrived on one of the other non slick track weekends, I would have been too late for any countable racing whatsoever.

 

The nine cars that made up the slick track group were a homely bunch.  They looked like demo cars.  There was a good deal of crashing, banging, sliding, stalling and spinning before the white flag and then the checkered flag came out to end the program.

 

I had arrived at 8:53 p.m.  I was leaving the facility at 9:33 p.m.  I had been at the track for just 40 minutes, but they were the right 40 minutes.  During that brief time, I took lots of photos in the fading light, had a big bowl of chili beans, met a local resident and former Maine-based driver and got my countable race in.  Life was good, but now I had to jet back to the Hagerstown Speedway to see if Carol had been kidnapped or whatever.

RACE TRACK STATS:

 

SHIPPENSBURG SPEEDWAY – TRACK #1,220

 

Track details

 

Website:  http://www.shippensburgspeedway.com/

 

Weather:  It was a most pleasant evening for racing by the time I arrived at 8:53 p.m.

 

Track type:  oval

 

Length/Surface:  1-4-mile, dirt

 

Grandstands:  There was bleacher grandstand seating and well as fixed plastic molded seats.  Several fans sat in their own lawn chairs.

 

P.A.:  Not very good.

 

Announcer:  I could hardly hear anything the announcer was saying.

 

On time:  I have no idea.  I do know the program was supposed to begin at 6 p.m.  By 8:53 p.m., they had only one race left to run.

 

Pit area:  Located beyond the backstretch and off of turns three and four.

 

Classes:  They had mini-sprints, some low level stock cars and the slick track (demo type cars) racing tonight.

 

Radio Frequency:  I did not bring my scanner into the track.

 

Concessions:  I was starving.  I went with a $2 bowl of chili that was long on the chili beans and short on meat.  Nevertheless, I liked it.  The chili along with a plastic bottle of Diet Coke went for just $3.25.  In a “first-ever,” I noticed the track was serving TWO kinds of bologna sandwiches.  They had “sweet” bologna and “LaBaron” bologna!

 

Scoreboard:  Are you kidding me?

 

Extras:  Not a lot of extras here.  At least I didn’t need to pay to get in.

 

 

 

 

RACE REVIEW – HAGERSTOWN SPEEDWAY, HAGERSTOWN, MARYLAND

 

I’ll give my impression of the Hagerstown Speedway and Carol’s comments will appear in, where else, “Carol’s comments”.  This is an impressive track with excellent car counts and quality racing.

 

I pulled into the parking lot at about 10:15 p.m.  It looked like the ticket booth was still selling tickets, but fans were already starting to leave.  I walked past the man at the track’s entrance as if I owned the place.  Either he was intimidated by me or asleep.  After having been to two tracks already today, it didn’t seem right that I should have to buy a ticket after 10 p.m.

 

The straights are long at this half-mile dirt oval.  I’m guessing the late models get up to speeds of 130-140 M.P.H. on this track.  Whatever they do, I know they are fast.  I was disappointed the track’s P.A. system was not any better than it was.

 

The lighting is state of the art.  The track’s organization is outstanding.  Hagerstown Speedway is definitely one of those “top 40” U.S. tracks.  Yes, it’s a good one.

 

I was most pleased for Carol.  She had been the first woman, earlier in the evening, to ever get a new track in a new state while unaccompanied.  She may be small in stature, but she can hold her own.  Congrats to Carol on her 47^th state.

RACE TRACK STATS:

 

HAGERSTOWN SPEEDWAY – CAROL’S TRACK #329

 

Track details

 

Website:  http://www.hagerstownspeedway.com/

 

Weather:  It was a most comfortable summer evening in Hagerstown, Maryland.

 

Track type:  oval

 

Length/Surface:  ½-mile, dirt

 

Grandstands:  This is a big-time high quality dirt oval.  There seating capabilities are huge.  The place probably seats between five and ten thousand.

 

P.A.:  Surprisingly the P.A. system was really bad.

 

Announcer:  Could barely here the announcer.

 

On time:  I assume so.  Carol showed up at 8:07 p.m. for the scheduled 7 p.m. start.  I joined here at about 10:15 p.m.

 

Pit area:  Located the infield of the track.  I like it this way.  None of the infield traffic blocked our view of the backstretch.

 

Classes:  Several classes of stock cars including late models (35), late model sportsman (24) and pure stocks (30).  It was difficult to tell the late model class from the late model sportsman class.  The only difference was that the late model class had bigger trailers!

 

Radio Frequency:  I normally don’t use my scanner when I am trackchasing with Carol and didn’t today.

 

Concessions:  Carol had a chicken sandwich and a bottle of water.  (Editor’s note:  What fun is it to eat like that?)  She also said the funnel cake with apple filling looked good.  I asked her why she didn’t get one.  She told me, “It was enough for four people.  But the fat guy next to me had one!” 

 

Scoreboard:  Yes

 

Extras:  The lighting was fantastic and the seating area gave everyone lots of room to enjoy the races.

RENTAL CAR UPDATE

Washington, D.C. – Friday-Monday

 

We will be driving the National Rental Car Racing Chevy Impala this weekend.  The car has XM satellite radio and two power adapters.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for reading about my trackchasing,

 

Randy Lewis

Alberta’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 – Washington-Dulles – 2,285 miles

 

 

RENTAL CAR – WASHINGTON, D.C.

 

Washington Dulles International Airport – trip begins

Middleford, Delaware – 142 miles

Georgetown, Delaware – 157 miles

Hunterstown, Pennsylvania – 355 miles

Hagerstown, Maryland – 451 miles (Carol arrives)

Shippensburg, Pennsylvania – 491 miles

Hagerstown, Maryland – 531 miles (Randy arrives)

 

 

 

 

 

TRACK ADMSSION PRICES:

 

Delmarva Motorsports Park - $5

Georgetown Speedway - Free

Hunterstown Speedway - Free

Hagerstown Speedway - $10 (For informational purposes only.  Carol’s expenses are not included in my trackchasing budget.  I did not have to pay to get into the Hagerstown Speedway)

Shippensburg Speedway - Free

 

 

 

 

 

 

RANKINGS

 

 

LIFETIME TRACKCHASER STANDINGS UPDATE:

 

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

 

1.  Randy Lewis, San Clemente, California – 1,220

 

 

 

 

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 – 329

 

31.  Dwight Bucks, Topton, Pennsylvania – 325

 

 

 

 

2007 TRACKCHASER STANDINGS

 

1.  Randy Lewis, San Clemente, California - 82

 

2.  Roland Vanden Eynde, Vilvoorde, Belgium - 59

 

3.  Ed Esser, Madison, Wisconsin – 56

 

4.  Mike Knappenberger, Reading, Pennsylvania – 40

 

5.  Carol Lewis, San Clemente, California – 35

 

5.  Paul Weisel, Orefield, Pennsylvania – 35

 

7.  Guy Smith, Effort, Pennsylvania - 28

 

8.  Pam Smith, Effort, Pennsylvania – 23

 

9.  Gordon Killian, Sinking Springs, Pennsylvania – 21

 

10.  Roger Ferrell, Majenica, Indiana – 20

 

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

 

Just one more Pennsy track to see.  Then it was off to Michigan for me and San Clemente for Carol.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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