TODAY’S HEADLINES

You will not be able to believe what some of my trackchasing fellow competitors have been up too.  Do not miss it...................more in “The People”.

 

Belgium trackchaser, Roland Vanden Eynde has completed his United States trackchasing visit.  Read about his Peoria Journal Star Interview before his trip started ………………..details in “Trackchaser Newspaper Stories”.

 

Why would Randy fly home and then get on another airplane just to retrieve his car?……………….more in “The Trip”. 

We spent the afternoon at a most unusual Trackchasing Touring Memorial location……………….more in “Trackchasing Touring Memorial”. 

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/july682007.htm

 

TRACKCHASING NEWSPAPER STORIES

Peoria Journal Star

Motorsports Section

Thursday, June 21, 2007

 

 

 

Race tracks are thrill of this chase

 

Belgium track chaser, who has visited 551 tracks worldwide, will see Peoria bullring Monday

 

 

BY DON BAKER

OF THE JOURNAL STAR

 

Many interesting stores exist about how different people get hooked on motorsports.

 

For Roland Vanden Eynde of Vilvoorde, Belgium, it happened when he was 12 years old.

 

That moment came while he was watching a televised broadcast of the 1966 French Grand Prix.

 

Fast forward to June 3 of this year and he has now watched racing events at 551 different tracks around the world.  On Monday, he will add his first visit to the Peoria Speedway to that impressive list.

 

Eynde is currently ranked 16^th in the world as an official track chaser in number of tracks visited for a racing event and is the highest ranking European track chaser.

 

Eynde speaks five different languages and understands three others.

 

“No other members of my family have any interest in racing,” Eynde said, “so I didn’t watch my first live racing event until 1971.”

 

“I didn’t know about track chasers until I did an internet search in 2002.  By then I had already watched thousands of races on close to 200 tracks.”

 

Becoming an official track chaser got him interested in visiting other tracks.

 

“Once I became a member of track chasers, I started diversifying my race visits,” Eynde said.  “I have now watched races in 35 different countries on all inhabited continents.”

 

His visits include tracks in New Zealand, Tunisia, Malaysia, Finland, Poland, Estonia and Ireland among others.

 

“Nowadays, I go to between 80 to 90 new tracks a year, most of them in my native country and its neighboring ones.”

 

Eynde does take extended racing trips, such as the one he has now embarked upon.

 

Since, according to Eynde, half of all the race tracks in the world are in the United States, he is concentrating on some of those.  Weather permitting, Eynde hopes to see at least one track per day from June 14 through July 1 in the United States.

 

He normally takes 15 to 20-day trips during which he visits as many tracks and sees as many races as he can in a short period of time.

 

“If I can successfully execute my plan,” Eynde said.  “I will add at least 30 countable tracks.”

 

Eynde chose the UMP Summer Nationals at the Peoria Speedway on Monday for two reasons.

 

“I chose the Peoria Speedway first because the race in on a Monday and there aren’t many choices for that date and because Randy Lewis raves about his former hometown track,” Eynde said.

 

Lewis, formerly of East Peoria, resides in San Clemente, Calif.  He is the No. 1 track chaser in the world, having visited 1,201 tracks as of June 3.

 

Eynde says he has no long-term goals as far as track chasing goes.

 

“I like all kinds of motor racing and I think variety is the spice of life,” Eynde said.  Being from a very small country, I like to get acquainted with different cultures and use my language skills.  My other hobbies are photography and travel.  By going to different tracks, I’ve discovered parts of countries I would have never stopped at otherwise.”

 

Add Peoria to that list soon.

GREETINGS FROM WHITESBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

 

 

 

 

 

TRACKCHASING TOURING MEMORIAL

 

Yes!  See below.

WE WOKE UP IN MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINA THIS MORNING.  WE WENT TO SLEEP IN FLORENCE, KENTUCKY.  THIS IS WHAT TRANSPIRED TODAY.

PEOPLE/STRATEGY/TRAVEL NEWS

 

 

 

 

The Strategy     

 

The overall trackchasing strategy is simple.  Get all the tracks you can, while having fun and minimizing travel hassle and keeping expenses to a minimum.  The only problem with this line of thinking is that all of the above conflict with each other.  However, that is also what makes the hobby of trackchasing so much fun.

The Trip

 

People can be interesting.  There are some folks that think because I fly to the racetracks I visit, the entire travel part of this hobby is a piece of cake.  On the other hand, there are some people who read these words and groan just thinking about what it takes to make these travel plans work, let alone having to actually do them.  Yep!  That’s what I like about folks.  People can look at the very same data and come to exactly opposite conclusions.

 

Today’s plan will provide the pundits on both sides of this argument some fodder to digest.  The original plan was to drive from today’s track, the Blanket Hill Speedway, to the Pittsburgh airport.  This was only a one-hour drive.  We had our hotel, located just one mile from the airport, reserved for Sunday night. 

 

However…….I failed to properly anticipate the demand for air travel following the Fourth of July.  This year the Fourth fell on a Wednesday.  Our flight from California to Washington, D.C. on Friday was wide open.  All of the flights I looked at for Friday had plenty of seats.  I didn’t figure flying home on Monday from Pittsburgh would be much of a problem.  Wrong!  When I checked things out on Sunday morning, I discovered it would be difficult if not impossible to get out of Pittsburgh on Monday morning.  The flights looked terrible.

 

While Carol drove, I went into “super travel detective” mode.  My primary motivation was a simple directive offered by “Trackchasing’s First Mother”.  She said, “You TOLD me you would get me home on Monday.”  I think she wanted to elaborate further, but then I told her, “I understand your point.  There will be no need to discuss this further.  If I don’t get you home on Monday, then you can offer further feedback.”  I sensed she wanted to say more, but she didn’t.  Now the pressure was on me to perform.

 

I had to figure out which airports were still within driving distance from where we were at 8:30 p.m. in Western Pennsylvania.  I then coupled that information with which of those airports had airlines that we could fly on, that were flying toward California and that had open seats following a major summer holiday.  Yes, as I was doing this, I dreamed of the life of a driving trackchaser.  Their destiny was in their own hands.  They simply needed to keep it between the white lines and they would be home soon.

 

I considered Dayton, Columbus, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C. and Cincinnati.  I settled on Cincinnati, although I made a backup reservation on Southwest Airlines in Columbus, Ohio.  I picked Cincinnati because Delta Airlines has a hub in that airport.  They have zillions of flights leaving from there.

 

There was only one problem.  All of those flights were overbooked.  The only way we would get on any of those planes was if they were going to be leaving with at least two open seats.

 

I considered flying from Cincinnati into Orange County, San Francisco, Ontario, Burbank, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Oakland, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Albuquerque and several other places.  Believe it or not, and I know many of my friends will have no problem believing this, I developed an Excel spreadsheet to organize all of the combinations.

 

There were a few other minor problems.  Our tickets for Monday’s future travel had been express mailed to our hotel in Pittsburgh.  We would have to stop by there to pick up the tickets even though we would no longer be staying at this hotel.  The road system in and around the Pittsburgh airport is one of the worst in the country. 

 

After we stopped there, it was an additional four hours of driving beyond Pittsburgh to Cincinnati.  We arrived at our hotel near the Cincinnati airport (Florence, Kentucky) at 2:45 a.m.!  I had checked the availability of every flight flying west.  The best option was a flight into Orange County, California.  If we made that flight, we had one other problem.  Our car was parked at the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).  When we went to bed the Orange County flight was overbooked by three seats with two standbys, us!

 

We awoke at 5:30 a.m.  If you’re counting, that’s less than three hours of sleep.  That’s O.K. with me, but it’s a bit stressful for Carol.  Would your spouse be up for a hobby that routinely called for 3-4 hours of sleep?  No, I didn’t think so.

 

We had one sliver of good news when we awakened.  My laptop told me there were now eight seats open on the flight to Orange County rather than three seats oversold.  I did not relay this message to Carol, because I didn’t want to get her hopes up.  We made the flight.  I was saved from the slings and arrows of outrageous consequence that could have come sailing my way if I had not gotten Trackchasing’s First Mother home today.

 

Our travel issues, were not totally behind us.  I still had to figure out a way to get our car that was parked at LAX, some forty miles away.  SkyWest Airlines flies little 30-seat prop planes back and forth between Orange County and LAX. 

 

That’s how I got our car at LAX.  I hopped onto one of these little prop jobs and flew 36 air miles up to LAX.  That’s right!  We flew into the Orange County, California airport, just 30 miles from our home in San Clemente and then I FLEW to another airport just to get our car!  Who in the world does things like this?  Maybe nobody. 

 

 

 

 

 

TRACKCHASING TOURING MEMORIAL

 

UNITED FLIGHT #93 MEMORIAL – SHANKSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA

 

Today we had the opportunity to see the crash location of United’s flight #93 from the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.  I had been to this location shortly after the disaster, but I wanted Carol to see this with her own eyes.

 

A full-scale permanent memorial is being designed and construction will begin in 2008.  The memorial is scheduled to be completed in 2011 in time for the 10-year anniversary of this crash.  If you would like to learn more about this project, check out this website, http://www.flight93memorialproject.org/default.asp.

 

The crash site is in very rural Pennsylvania farming country.  I have several pictures on my website at www.ranlayracing.com of the current temporary memorial and surrounding area.

 

Today was a beautiful, sunny and windy day.  A volunteer group has been established to give talks about what happened.  Just as we pulled into the makeshift parking lot, one of these talks was beginning.

 

I took a few notes from the woman’s presentation.  The plane hit the ground at a speed of 563 M.P.H.  The plane’s black box was buried 25 feet underground.  Only 12% of the 40 passengers were identified by their remains, the others had to be identified by DNA.  Some 92% of the remains were never recovered.  A priest at the scene said that family members should think, “cremation”.  The plane was carrying seven crew, thirty-three passengers and 7,000 pounds of jet fuel at the time of impact.  United flight #93 had been delayed by 40 minutes from its original departure time.  The first plane to hit the World Trade Center made impact just four minutes after United flight #93 took off.  If flight #93 had been delayed another few minutes, it likely would never have taken off as all planes were grounded.  The terrorists did not act until flight #93 had been flying for 45 minutes. 

 

I’m very interested in this type of thing and the information provided was both sobering and sad.  If you get the chance and have an interest is learning more about this terrible day in our nation’s history, I recommend you pay Shanksville, Pennsylvania a visit.

 

 

 

 

The People

 

Trackchasers are busy running around the country since it’s the middle of the summer.  When I went to sleep tonight, I had 83 new tracks under my pillow for the 2007 season.  I’m going to be perfectly honest with you.  I have no idea how I’ve been able to lead the season totals for each of the last four years considering the lengths some of my fellow trackchasers will go to see a new track.  By way of example, I provide the following.

 

Roland Vanden Eynde, Europe’s leading trackchaser, just completed a nearly three-week vacation to the United States.  During this trip, he managed to add 26 new tracks to his totals.  Yes!  That’s right, TWENTY-SIX new tracks!  This has resulted in Roland vaulting into second place in the 2007 standings.

 

You’ve heard me talk about Wisconsin’s Ed Esser in the past.  Ed lives in Madison, Wisconsin.  While I was home attempting to enjoy some family time away from the world of trackchasing, Ed went to Casper, Wyoming to trackchase on the Fourth of July.  It’s more than 1,000 miles ONE-WAY from Madison to Casper!!  Ed now ranks just three tracks behind Roland in the ’07 standings.  Ed is currently in seventh place in the worldwide rankings, but I suspect he will rise as high fourth or fifth by the end of this season.

 

Then we have Pennsylvania’s Guy Smith.  Guy just went over the 1,100-track mark.  Congratulations to him on such a great achievement.  He’s only the third trackchaser to ever do that.  It’s likely that Guy will move into second place in the world rankings in the next month or two.  He’s currently only seven tracks behind Allan Brown.  If and when Mr. Smith reaches second place, the staff at RANLAY Racing is prepared to publish a complete expose on his chances of becoming the World’s #1 Ranked Trackchaser.

 

Several other trackchasers, back in the pack, are tramping about our country in the search of new tracks.  You can go to www.trackchaser.net to read more details.  One of the tabs I most enjoy on this site is the “recent new track visits”.  This section of the site shows where trackchasers have been lately.

 

While reading the information provided from this tab at the trackchaser site, I came across the most unusually named countable track I have ever seen.  We have tracks with names like the Suicide Circle Speedway, Dirt Devil’s Speedway, Watermelon Capital Speedway and the Little Log House Speedway.  However, Roger Ferrell’s most recent new track adventure takes the name cake.

 

Where did Roger, and presumably his lovely wife Brenda spend the Fourth of July?  They went to the “Sand Lake Sewage Treatment Grounds Course” for a night of racing entertainment.  You big spender, Roger!  Yes, somehow this track has passed the intense scrutiny of Trackchaser Commissioner Will Whites eyes and been added to Roger Ferrell’s grand total of tracks visited.

 

I go only guess what type of racing the Sand Lake Sewage Treatment Grounds road course would provide.  I suspect the track had plenty of twists and turns.  I wonder what they had to race around on this road course?  Just when I thought some of the racetrack food I tasted was not up to snuff, I can only imagine what the concessions were like down at the sewage treatment grounds.  Maybe Roger will share some details with RANLAY Racing Trackchaser Report readers.

 

Anyway, you can see what I’m up against.  I’m trying to win my fourth consecutive season trackchasing championship.  No one has ever done that in the history of modern day trackchasing.  In the next couple of weeks, I will provide my analysis of trackchasing’s top ten after the first sixth months of the 2007 season.  This analysis has come to be highly anticipated and it will not disappoint this year.  I wish all of my fellow competitors good luck and safe travels.  I hope they all get a chance for a podium finish, albeit with their feet firmly planted on one of the lower tiers.

 

One more thing……….as I have mentioned in the past, I cannot and will not be held responsible for any trackchaser who blows his/her lifetime retirement savings on this crazy hobby in an attempt to keep up.  I must repeat that only discretionary funds should be used for trackchasing.  The “Trackchaser Retirement Entitlement Savings Program” is already severely under funded as reported from the gleaming white multi-storied trackchasing headquarters building in Quakertown, Pennsylvania.

 

 

 

 

 

STATE RANKINGS

The track we saw in Pennsylvania today was Carol’s fourth in the Keystone state.  The Blanket Hill Speedway was my 63^rd lifetime track here.  I am in 21^st place in the state.  In order to get a top 10 ranking in Pennsylvania, I would have to have 95 tracks!  There are nine trackchasers with more than 100 tracks each in Pennsylvania.  Nevertheless, I like a challenge and someday I might crack the top 10 here.

 

RACE REVIEW – BLANKET HILL SPEEDWAY, WHITESBURG, PENNSYLVANIA

 

The Blanket Hill Speedway is a small car track.  As is the case with several tracks, this was not the first time I was at this track.  A few years ago, I pulled up on a nice afternoon only to find out they had been rained out from the wet stuff of the night before.  That was disappointing. 

 

The Blanket Hill Speedway is a regularly scheduled Sunday night show.  I hate to burn those, but I had no choice.  I don’t have many Sunday night programs remaining to see.

 

Before we arrived at the track, we ate at the House of Hunan Chinese Restaurant in nearby Ford City, Pennsylvania.  I can only recommend that you don’t make the same mistake we did.  Do not eat there.  I have no idea why I keep trying these Chinese buffets in small rural towns.  They are terrible and give Chinese food a bad name.  To top it all off the proprietors were the most sullen and non-friendly Chinese restaurateurs we had ever seen.

 

This track started late.  I wasn’t very happy about that, because I knew we were looking at a five plus hour driver after the races.  The locals didn’t seem to mind.  I guess they didn’t have far to go after the races.

 

The crowd was a motley crew although well-behaved.  Elsewhere in this report, I will describe their physical appearances.  They watered the track after the national anthem and then took 30 minutes to run the track in.  Why don’t you just shoot me?

 

The highlight of the day was the racing lawnmowers, although this is a non-countable class.  They had 6 stock tractors, 3 modified tractors, 16 270cc micro sprints, 4 quads and 15 mod-lites racing today.  I like those mod-lites.

 

The racing wasn’t bad given the unnecessary delays.  We were glad to get this track in and get on the road.  I must say I had put far too much time into getting the Blanket Hill Speedway added to my trackchasing list.

 

 

 

 

CAROL’S COMMENTS

 

I’ve never seen racing lawnmowers before.  The benches were newly painted, I always like a clean track.  The burgers looked huge.  I wish the micro sprints had self-starters.  The P.A. worked well although the announcer missed a bet by not entertaining the crowd with your trackchasing hobby.

RACE TRACK STATS:

 

BLANKET HILL SPEEDWAY – TRACK #1,221 (CAROL’S #330)

 

Track details

 

Website:  http://blankethillspeedway.net/

 

Weather:  It was warm, with temps at about 89 degrees.

 

Track type:  oval

 

Length/Surface:  1/4 – mile dirt

 

Grandstands:  Smallish 10-row wooden bleachers

 

P.A.:  Average.

 

Announcer:  Not very professional and provided limited information.

 

On time:  Bad!  They advertised racing to begin at 6 p.m.  On a Sunday night with their patrons, presumably having to go to work tomorrow morning, you might think they would start on time.  Wrong!  The National Anthem played at 6:44 p.m.  The first race went off about 30 minutes after than.

 

Pit area:  Located beyond  turns three and four.

 

Classes:  They had racing lawnmowers and quads.  The countable classes included 270cc Micro Sprints and Mod-Lites.

 

Radio Frequency:  Didn’t use the radio.

 

Concessions:  We only had drinks but the hamburgers other folks were eating looked huge.

 

Scoreboard:  You’re kidding right?

 

Extras:  It was a well-behaved crowd that seemed to have spent a good amount of their disposable income on tattoos and ear-piercings.  I can’t be too critical of these folks.  Where I hang out, these appearances would be appalling.  However, I can’t imagine anyone in their right mind would be interested in portraying a frightening appearance to their friends.  I can only conclude these people spend most of their time with other people who do not find these personal appearances as objectionable as I do.

 

 

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.

 

We drove the car 1,177.  We paid an average price of $2.92 per gallon.  The Chevy Impala gave us 24.0 M.P.G. in fuel mileage at a cost of 12.1 cents per mile.  The car cost only 0.001 cents per mile to rent, all taxes included.  That’s because my three free days or rental knocked the charge down to a manageable $1.21 for the three-day rental!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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)

Blanket Hill, Pennsylvania – 811 miles

Cincinnati International Airport – 1,177 miles

 

AIRPLANE

 

Cincinnati, OH – Orange County, CA – 1,877 miles

Orange County, CA – Los Angeles, CA - 36 miles

 

 

 

Total Air miles – 4,198

 

 

Total auto and air miles traveled on this trip – 5,375 miles

 

 

 

 

 

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.)

Shippensburg Speedway - Free

Blanket Hill Speedway – $5

 

Total racetrack admissions for the trip – $10

 

 

 

 

 

 

RANKINGS

 

 

LIFETIME TRACKCHASER STANDINGS UPDATE:

 

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

 

1.  Randy Lewis, San Clemente, California – 1,221

 

 

 

 

Other notables

 

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

 

29.  Tom Schmeh, Knoxville, Iowa – 330

 

29.  Carol Lewis, San Clemente, California – 330

 

31.  Dwight Bucks, Topton, Pennsylvania – 325

 

 

 

 

 

2007 TRACKCHASER STANDINGS

 

1.  Randy Lewis, San Clemente, California - 83

 

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 – 36

 

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

 

I decided it’s time to pick up the pace a bit.  I don’t want to discourage my fellow trackchasing competitors, but it’s time to put the hammer down.  I hope they will just surrender peacefully and not jeopardize their retirement portfolios in a quest to keep up the frenzied pace.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

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