DAY 9 – WORLD GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP SUMMER TRACKCHASING TOUR

TODAY’S HEADLINES

 

Today’s World Golf Championship Summer Trackchasing Tour golf tournament wrapped up today.  It was a struggle...................more in “Trackchasing Tourist Attraction”.

 

My technology weapons help shoot down a new track …………..details in “The Trip”.

Trackchasing doubles really increase my trackchasing productivity. …………..details in “The Objective”.

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/august3142007.htm

 

GREETINGS FROM JACKSON, MICHIGAN AND THEN SPRINGPORT, MICHIGAN.

 

 

 

 

MARK AND I WOKE UP IN LANSING, MICHIGAN.  HE FLEW HOME TO PHOENIX AND I WENT TO SLEEP IN JOLIET, ILLINOIS.  THIS IS WHAT TRANSPIRED TODAY.

 

PEOPLE/STRATEGY/TRAVEL NEWS

 

 

 

 

The Objective 

 

Tonight would be my second consecutive traditional trackchasing double.  I love getting doubles and this was my 33^rd trackchasing double of the 2007 season.  Here is a summary of my doubles to date:

 

Day/night – 16

Same location – 7

Traditional – 4

Blended doubles without a feature at both tracks – 3

Blended doubles with a feature at both tracks – 3

 

Not every trackchasing double fits the precise definition of one double type or another.  In those cases, I simply put the double in whatever category it most closely resembles and move on.

 

Without my GPS unit’s massive capabilities, I never would have garnered a double tonight.  I have only had “Dusty”, my Garmin GPS for a short time, but she (this comes from Carol) has already added extra tracks to my total.  Maybe, I do have an unfair advantage.

The Trip

 

We’ve been putting some miles on the Avis Rental Car Racing Pontiac Grand Prix.  I’m really surprised at rental car companies.  First, they let you cancel with no notice and no penalty.  Hotels and airlines don’t let you do that.

 

Secondly, they let you drive the rental cars as far as you want.  I average nearly 250 miles per day driving my rental cars.  On this trip, the average per day, for 12 days, will be about 450 miles per day!

 

Yesterday Mark and I drove about 700 miles and still got a trackchasing double.  Following the race at Rothbury last night, we drove about 100 miles to Lansing.  We got up early and drove another 100 miles to the golf course near Detroit.  Then we spent five hours on the golf course in 90-degree temperatures. 

 

After golf, it was time to drop Mark off at the airport for his return home.  I then took off for my evening of trackchasing.  This involved another 100 miles of driving or so.  After my second new track of the evening, I drove more than 200 miles down to Joliet, Illinois, arriving at the hotel at past 2 a.m. Eastern time.

 

I once again made it through Chicago via Interstate 80 unscathed, although I certainly benefited from going through at past midnight on a Saturday night.  Getting to Joliet now will allow me to drive another 375 miles on Sunday morning, so I can arrive into Columbia, Missouri by 2 p.m.  Why do I need to get their by 2 o’clock?  That’s when Tiger Woods tees off on the final day of the PGA Championship.  I want to be comfortably seated in my hotel room (even though I will be forced to watch the match on a non-high definition TV) for that first tee shot.

 

Does the above travel schedule seem daunting to you?  I am simply trying to be an “active senior”.  Actually, I don’t really think of myself as a senior because this amount of activity is more than just about anyone I know of any age is willing to do.  Nevertheless, if I’m going to accept those senior discounts, then I guess I’m a senior!

 

 

 

TRACKCHASING TOURIST ATTRACTION

 

LAKES OF TAYLOR GOLF CLUB, TAYLOR, MICHIGAN

 

 

Recall that my brother Mark and I are playing a 54-hole match play golf challenge officially dubbed the “World Golf Championship Summer Trackchasing Tour”.  This event has been spread over three days and played on three different championship golf courses.  Today was the third and final day.

 

Also recall, that after the first two days, I held a hefty four-hole advantage in our match play contest.  I am currently a seven handicap.  Mark does not carry an official handicap but might be a 25-30 or so.  This means on a typical day I might shoot 78-82 and he might shoot 95-105.

 

I don’t want to tell you that I was over confident but I could almost feel the weight of the championship trophy in my hands.  Mark has never beaten me in anything that I can recall.  I figured he would choke his guts out on the final day of our championship.  Let the games begin.

 

It was a warm day with temperatures reaching about 90 degrees.  For the first time on this trip, we were paired with two fellow golfers.  We played with a very nice man and woman (not related) who were advertising executives.  They both worked for separate agencies and handled the Ford Motor Company.  Ford is on the verge of going out of business because they have built sub-standard cars and paid their workers too much.  Remember, companies are in business to make a profit and right now Ford is losing their butt.

 

Nevertheless, we were here to play golf.  Mark was getting a one stroke per hole handicap.  That meant if we both got the same gross score on a hole, he would win that hole because of his one stroke handicap.  We were playing the white tees.  They measured 6,386 yards.  The course carried a slope rating of 122 and a course rating of 70.7.  This golf course is located less than ten miles from the Detroit Metropolitan Airport.  Several of the holes are directly under the inbound flight path.

 

Mark and I both bogeyed the first hole a 391-yard par 4.  He made an incredible up and down from far off the green.  With his handicap advantage, he had reduced his deficit from four holes to three.  On the second hole, a 327-yard par 4, Mark made a par while I made bogey.  My advantage was now reduced to two holes.

 

On the fourth hole, we both made par but with Mark’s one stroke handicap, he was able to narrow the 54-hole match difference to just one hole in my favor.  I won the sixth hole, but Mark won both the seventh and eighth holes with gross bogeys.  The match was now tied after 44 holes of play.

 

I was still confident.  I expected Mark to choke.  I increased my advantage to one hole up a couple of times until we finished the 13^th hole all square (even).  It was getting down to crunch time now.

 

The 14^th hole was a 421-yard par 4.  We both made gross bogey.  Mark was now one hole up in the match!  Oh my!  Yes, oh my!  I fought back on the 15^th hole, a 414-yard par 4 to win and even the match once again.

 

Our advertising executives were fully engaged in our match.  I think they were secretly rooting for Mark after they saw me make him putt an 18-incher.  I also don’t believe they knew Mark was getting a one-stroke per hole handicap.

 

There were three holes remaining.  We were all tied.  The 16^th hole was a 408-yard par 4.  Yes, this course had some long holes.  I could not get up and down from just off the green.  We both made gross bogeys.  Mark was now up by one hole with two to play.

 

The 17^th hole is a 177-yard par 3.  Check out www.ranlayracing.com for a beautiful picture of this hole.  A lake runs the entire length of the hole on the right side.  The green almost looks like an island green.  The pin was tucked in pure championship Sunday fashion (although this was Saturday) on the right side just 15-20 feet from the lake.

 

Mark was first to play.  He hit a towering four-iron that was to the right side of the pin.  As the ball came down, it was impossible to tell whether it would catch some grass or fall into the water.  He landed on grass by less than a yard!  I bailed out to the left.  We approached the green.

 

I chipped from off the green to within two inches.  My putt was conceded.  Mark’s ball was in some light but troublesome rough just two feet from the disastrous water and some 25 feet from the pin.  He chose to putt his ball.  His put left him short by five feet.  I reminded him that if he made the putt, he would be the champion.  If he missed the putt, the match would continue to the 18^th hole with him being one hole up.

 

The ad executives held their breath in a collective hush.  Mark stood over his putt for what seemed like minutes.  He drew the putter back and brought it forward.  The putt rolled along at a perfect pace and dropped into the cup, dead center.  Mark was the champion!  Mark had done the impossible.  On championship Saturday, he had come from four holes behind to win “2 Up”.

 

I offer my full congratulations to my brother.  He played the best round of golf I have ever seen him play.  His gross score was 93.  I didn’t play lights out, but still shot an 81 and lost six of the 17 holes we played in today’s match. 

 

A great time was had by all.  Mark was most pleased with his accomplishment and well he should be.  I can’t wait until we can do it all over again.

 

 

 

The People

 

It was a pleasure to have my brother Mark along for the past five days of this trackchasing trip.  We have been “racing” together many times but never for so many consecutive days.  I know that he got a new appreciation for what it takes to trackchase at this level.

 

The travel plan can be full enough each day with simply getting from track to track.  This can and does often involve getting too the hotel late at night, getting up early, driving most of the day and then going to the races.

 

Mark’s trip had some extra challenges.  First, we caught one of the hottest and muggiest weeks of the year.  That is not to be unexpected in late July/early August but the weather conditions were extreme even for this time of year.

 

During his five-day visit, we played three rounds of golf.  When you take five hours or so out of each trackchasing day to spend at the golf course that puts some extra pressure on getting from point A to point B of the trackchasing plan.  Couple that with playing golf in these humid conditions and you’ve got a complete day.

 

Mark was in full agreement with my forecast that when you arise each morning and get ready for the day, you feel like a million bucks.  By the end of the day after 500 miles of driving and being out in the elements for several hours, you feel like only about $900,000.

 

Speaking of money, Mark and I spent some time talking about his retirement financial plan.  Mark doesn’t do well in this area and he knows it.  Actually, MOST people don’t do well with the subject of retirement planning.  It’s just that some people know they are not good with this and some don’t.

 

For some unknown reason, I was blessed with ability for numbers.  Ever since early grade school, I was always the math champion with flash cards and math problems.  Maybe that is where son Jim got the ability to get a perfect score on the college math SAT test…..twice!  On the other hand, maybe it was because his mother was a nearly straight A math major in college.

 

Financial planning and thus retirement planning is not that tough.  That being said, Tiger Woods might say driving the golf ball some 350 yards down the middle of the fairway under championship conditions isn’t tough….if you can do it.  I guess retirement planning must be pretty tough since so many people have a hard time with it.

 

I can only offer this piece of advice.  It you don’t want to work until you’re 100 years old or you don’t want your lifestyle options severely limited in retirement by a lack of good financial planning, get some help.  It all starts with a budget and goes from there.  Good luck!

 

STATE RANKINGS

Tonight I saw my 63rd and 64th lifetime tracks in the Wolverine state.  I am now in a tie for 6th place with Rick Schneider and Jack Erdmann here.  I trail P.J. Hollebrand’s 68 tracks for fifth place.  Allan Brown leads in Michigan with 154 tracks.

RACE REVIEW – JACKSON SPEEDWAY (DIRT OVAL), JACKSON, MICHIGAN – TRACK #1,252

The Jackson Speedway is one of those tracks in my portfolio where I had to return a few times to see all that they offered.  This speedway is a “small-car” track that caters to flat karts and mini-sprints.  They have a road course, a flat concrete oval and a nearly flat dirt oval on the inside of the concrete track.

 

Tonight would be my third visit to the Jackson Speedway.  My first trip out here came on the weekend of Kristy’s law school graduation from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.  That would have been in the summer of 2001.  It was a scorching hot day.  The graduation was scheduled to start in the late afternoon.  I made it to the Jackson Speedway track in mid-afternoon only to find them practicing.  There was no time on that trip to see any countable racing.

 

I returned to the Jackson Speedway some four years later on August 13, 2005 intent on seeing countable racing on both the dirt and concrete ovals.  I did see racing on the concrete oval, but the rains came before they could race on the dirt oval.  I did salvage a double that evening by driving north to the Owosso Speedway.

 

Now it was two years later.  This year the Jackson Speedway runs their concrete oval races in the afternoon and their dirt races in the evening.  I called ahead and was told the “heats start at 7:15 p.m. and the features at 8 p.m.”  I am such a gullible person.  I do my very best to speak in factual terms.  You would not believe the pains I go to in these reports to give you 100% accurate information.  Therefore, I find myself constantly disappointed when I believe someone makes a specific statement about someone or something that is untrue.  So many people are so imprecise or dishonest with their communication.  I’m not sure which is worse being imprecise or dishonest, although I know dishonest is really the worst by far.

 

As you might have guessed, the program did not come off as my telephone contact had promised.  I arrived at the track by 7 p.m.  I was hoping to see the heats and a feature or two before driving the 28 miles up to the Springport Motor Speedway for the second half of my trackchasing double.

 

The first countable race did not run until 8:30 p.m.!  They had 16 600cc mini-sprints and 10 270cc mini-sprints for the adults.  They also had some kid karts and a 600cc-restricted class. 

 

This is a first class racing facility.  The flag stand would make 90% of the tracks I visit envious.  The one major flaw is the P.A. system.  It is nearly non-existent.  The small grandstand can seat 75-100 people.  Don’t those folks deserve to hear which class and what driver is on the track?

 

I stayed for the heat races at the Jackson Speedway dirt oval.  This included 4-5 countable races in caged racing machines driven by adults.  I figured that since this was my third trip to the Jackson Speedway, I had put all of the time into this place that it deserved, especially after the program started more than an hour after it was promised to begin.

 

 

RACE REVIEW – SPRINGPORT MOTOR SPEEDWAY, SPRINGPORT, MICHIGAN – TRACK #1,253

I left the Jackson Speedway at a little past 9 p.m.  I only had 28 miles to drive to get over to the Springport Motor Speedway.  I figured I would make it in the shade.  I was thinking I might get to see every one of the feature races at Springport.  That thinking would be incorrect.

 

Michigan is a very rural state.  The back roads can leave a bit to be desired.  It was dark when I left the Jackson Speedway.  I did not have a paper map with me.  I simply plugged in the address for the track that I had gotten from the track’s website during my pre-planning stage into my GPS system.

 

After driving for just a couple of miles, I found myself on dirt roads!  In some spots, the trees were so thick they provided a complete canopy above the Avis Rental Car Racing Pontiac Grand Prix.  This far out in the country there were no streetlights.  It was dark.  The roads were bumpy.  I motored on.

 

I felt like an airline pilot who was flying in the clouds and navigating by instrumentation only.  When “Dusty” told me to turn I turned.  At the appointed time, I was told to look for the address I had programmed in “on the left”.  As if by some divine intervention, a bank of lights appeared up on the left.  It was the Springport Motor Speedway.

 

I grabbed a parking spot near the ticket booth.  The track’s management was no longer charging admission at nearly 10 p.m.  That was a good thing…..or was it?

 

I looked up at the back of the large grandstand seating area.  There did not seem to be very many butts in the seats.  That was a good thing…..or was it?

 

The announcer was telling the crowd that the sportsman feature was about to begin.  I grabbed a seat in the sparsely populated grandstand.  Just as I sat down, the announcer told the crowd that “all food items have been reduced to $1.00 until they are gone”.  I immediately jumped to my feet like a man trained to “hunt and gather”.  This announcer was talking about my dinner.  That was a good thing…..or was it?

 

You know that in life when you encounter some positive or negative, that positive or negative can actually turn out to be exactly the opposite of what you thought it would be.  That was the way it was tonight went.

 

I didn’t know it at the time, but maybe the reason that they weren’t charging admission or there was a small crowd in the stands was that this was the LAST RACE OF THE NIGHT!  Yes, had I arrived 10-15 minutes later I would have missed the whole show.  This is REALLY the definition of a “traditional” double.

 

I didn’t know it at the time, but getting an order of chicken fingers and French fries for just a dollar each wasn’t the bargain I thought it was.  These entrees were cold and for the most part tasteless.  The funny thing about these refreshments was that the announcer had told the crowd, “We have all food items reduced to one dollar while they last.  There’s no need to rush on down there.  Sit down and watch this race first”.  Wouldn’t a comment like that lead you to believe there was more racing to follow?

 

As it was, the sportsman feature event of 25 laps ran off quickly with less than 10 cars entered.  I was left alone to eat some overcooked and stale chicken fingers and fries as the fans filed out of the grandstands.

 

It was now a most pleasant evening.  I ate what I could of my trackchasing delight and pondered the success of the day.  I had a wonderful round of golf with my brother, we had a nice Mongolian BBQ late lunch, I got to see a trackchasing double and now I was enjoying a fully fried dinner at 11 p.m.  I was staring down a 200+-mile drive through Chicago before I would hit the sack at nearly 3 a.m. current time.  No, as they say, “life don’t get no better than that”.  Enjoy your retirement with whatever you do!

 

RENTAL CAR UPDATE

 

Omaha – Friday-Wednesday (12-day rental)

 

When I decided to go with Priceline.com to get me rental car, I saved about $175.  However, my Avis Rental Car Racing Pontiac Grand Prix did not come with XM radio.  When I rent from National, I almost always get a car with XM satellite radio.  After ten days in the car, I am seriously wondering whether the Priceline savings was worth it.  It’s a real hassle not getting good reception and/or quality programming on the local AM/FM stations.

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for reading about my trackchasing,

 

Randy Lewis

Alberta’s #1 Trackchaser

I live in my own world.  People know me here.

 

 

 

 

 

AIRPLANE

 

Orange County, CA – Denver, CO – 845 miles

Denver, CO – Omaha, NE - 472 miles

 

 

RENTAL CAR – OMAHA

 

Eppley Field – trip begins

Washington, Kansas – 154 miles

Maxville, Iowa – 475 miles

Coon Rapids, Iowa – 546 miles

Newton, Iowa – 817 miles

Springfield, Nebraska – 993 miles

Fremont, Michigan – 1,777 miles

Fremont, Michigan – 2,187 miles

Corunna, Michigan – 2,435 miles

Wellsboro, Pennsylvania – 2,980 miles

Coopersville, Michigan – 3,609 miles

Rothbury, Michigan – 3,645 miles

Jackson, Michigan – 3,948 miles

Springport, Michigan – 3,976 miles

 

 

 

 

 

TRACK ADMSSION PRICES:

 

Washington County Fairgrounds - $8

Maxville Fire Department Figure 8 - $8

Carroll County Fairgrounds - $5

Iowa Speedway - $10 (pit pass)

Sarpy County Fair & Rodeo Arena - $10

Newaygo County Fairgrounds - $9

Newaygo County Fairgrounds - $9

Shiawassee County Fairgrounds - $13 ($3 fair & $10 figure 8)

Tioga County Fairgrounds - $10 ($3 fair & $7 figure 8)

Coopersville Festival Grounds - $10

Winston Motor Speedway – Free

Jackson Speedway - $5

Springport Motor 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 – 1,253

 

 

 

 

Other notables

 

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

 

 

29.  Carol Lewis, San Clemente, California – 333

 

30.  Tom Schmeh, Knoxville, Iowa – 330

 

31.  Dwight Bucks, Topton, Pennsylvania – 328

 

 

 

 

2007 TRACKCHASER STANDINGS

 

1.  Randy Lewis, San Clemente, California - 115

 

2.  Roland Vanden Eynde, Vilvoorde, Belgium - 69

 

3.  Ed Esser, Madison, Wisconsin – 68

 

4.  Mike Knappenberger, Reading, Pennsylvania – 53

 

5.  Pam Smith, Effort, Pennsylvania – 43

 

6.  Guy Smith, Effort, Pennsylvania - 41

 

6.  Paul Weisel, Orefield, Pennsylvania – 41

 

8.  Carol Lewis, San Clemente, California – 39

 

9.  Gordon Killian, Sinking Springs, Pennsylvania – 24

 

9.  Roger Ferrell, Majenica, Indiana – 24

 

Tracks have been reported by 39 different worldwide trackchasers this season.

 

 

 

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

 

Tomorrow night I plan to visit a track that has been on and off my schedule many times.  I’m talking about the Double X Speedway in California, Missouri.  I’ll be glad to finally see the track, although I hate having to burn a regularly scheduled Sunday night track to get it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

** Peoria Speedway, Peoria, Illinois – June 25

 

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

 

1,217. Georgetown Speedway, Georgetown, Delaware – July 6

 

1,218. Delmarva Motorsports Park, Middleford, Delaware – July 6

 

1,219. Hunterstown Speedway, Hunterstown, Pennsylvania – July 7

 

1,220. Shippensburg Speedway, Shippensburg, Pennsylvania – July 7 (Randy only)

 

** Hagerstown Speedway, Hagerstown, Maryland – July 7 (new for Carol only)

 

1,221. Blanket Hill Speedway, Whitesburg, Pennsylvania – July 8

 

1,222. Lincoln County Fairgrounds (figure 8), Troy, Missouri – July 13

 

1,223. Pike County Speedway, Pittsfield, Illinois – July 13

 

1,224. Iowa Speedway (road course), Newton, Iowa – July 14

 

1,225. Mitchell County Fairgrounds (figure 8), Osage, Iowa – July 14

 

1,226. Scott County Fairgrounds (oval), Scottsburg, Indiana – July 15

 

1,227. Barry Expo Center (figure 8), Hastings, Michigan – July 16

 

1,228. Lycoming County Fairgrounds (figure 8), Hughesville, Pennsylvania, Michigan – July 17

 

1,229. Delaware County Fairgrounds (figure 8), Muncie, Indiana – July 18

 

1,230. Delaware County Fairgrounds (oval), Muncie, Indiana – July 18

 

1,231. Van Buren County Youth Fairgrounds (road course), Hartford, Michigan – July 19