DAY 2 & 3 – CAROL AND RANDY’S COLLEGE FOOTBALL MOUNTAIN  WEST TRACKCHASING TOUR

 

IMPORTANT NOTICE

 

Kyle Ealy, Editor of the Hawkeye Racing News, is the first person to submit photos of my all-time favorite driver, Darrell Dake.  You can see them by clicking on the “Darrell Dake in memory” tab at my website, www.ranlayracing.com. 

 

I now have more than 10,000 photographs on my website.

TODAY’S HEADLINES

 

Do you enjoy competing?  What is competition anyway?....................more in “The Objective”.

 

One of the major highlights of our trip was meeting up with Ann Forkey.  Who’s Ann Forkey? …………..details in “The Objective”.

This trackchasing trip added two Trackchasing Tourist Attractions to our long list of non-racing visits. …………..details in “Trackchasing Tourist Attraction”.

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/sep14162007.htm

 

 

GREETINGS FROM NORTHPORT, WASHINGTON.

 

 

 

 

WE WOKE UP IN BLACK FOOT, IDAHO THIS MORNING AND WENT TO SLEEP IN SPOKANE, WASHINGTON (SAT/SUN) BEFORE RETURNING HOME TO SAN CLEMENTE ON MONDAY.  THIS IS WHAT TRANSPIRED TODAY.

 

 

 

 

PEOPLE/STRATEGY/TRAVEL NEWS

 

 

 

 

The Objective 

 

Saturday and Sunday were a couple of very unusual trackchasing days.  As you can see this was “Randy & Carol’s College Football Mountain West Trackchasing Tour”.  As the tour’s title might suggest we were going to be seeing some college football.

 

I am certain that nearly everyone reading this has seen a football game in person.  That being the case, I’m going to contend that there are two ways to watch such a game.  First, you can be an observer.  An observer watches the game without much interest in who he/she wants to win the game.  They are simply out for a nice day or night of gridiron action.

 

The second way to watch a football game is as a fan.  In this circumstance, you have a direct interest in the outcome of the game.  You want your team to win.  You want your coach and players to do everything that is possible and within the rules of the game to insure success.  When you are a fan, you are actually part of the competition.  You suit up in your team’s favorite colors and cast a wary eye on the opposition’s fans who are also dressed in their team’s colors. 

 

If you don’t think being a fan is competitive, let me provide you two examples.  Carol and I traveled to Corvallis, Oregon to watch our Bruins play the Oregon State Beavers in football.  We were in a short line of cars waiting to park in a local resident’s yard.  The yard might have held 12-15 cars.  The car directly ahead of us was carrying UCLA fans.  When the car parker saw the UCLA fans he refused to let them park in his yard!  I saw what was happening and immediately told Carol to start hiding our UCLA shirts and hats.  She was successful and we were able to park.

 

On another occasion, I visited Blacksburg, Virginia for the Virginia Tech-Syracuse football game.  I was wearing an orange Syracuse t-shirt.  When I went into the almost 100% Virginia Tech clad bathroom, two gentleman who were nearly my age blocked my access to the men’s room while about six of their buddies entered.  Yes, being a fan can be competitive.

 

I play golf nearly every Tuesday and Thursday with a group of 15-30 men.  Most of these men are older than me.  Many are in the 75-80 age range.  We each pay $20 to be part of the “game”.  We all play be the rules and do our best on every shot.  When the golf is over, we join each other for lunch at our club and compare scores.  The best shots of the day win the lion’s share of the money.

 

Here’s the point of all of this.  If you care about the outcome of a contest you have a stake in, then you are a competitor.  If you don’t care about the outcome and are merely an observer, then you’re not part of that competition.

 

In the world of trackchasing, we have some people who maintain they are not competing.  I would simply ask them if they care where they rank or not.  Do they care how their results stack up against their fellow trackchasers?  If they couldn’t care less, then they are not competing.  On the other hand, if they know what their rank is and the rank of those near them in the standings, then they probably are competing.

 

I’ve been competing all my life.  I was in two basketball leagues beginning in the second grade.  I have played competitive high school sports at the varsity level in a 2,000-student high school.  When I entered college, the search for good grades was a competition against my fellow students especially when the grading system was done on the Bell curve.  When I entered the business world, I was competing against fellow employees for the next job with more responsibility and higher pay.  Today I compete against 80-year-old men who want to beat me in golf as badly as I want to beat them.

 

Here’s the great thing about competition.  It’s not a bad thing!  Let me repeat that.  Competition is not a bad thing.  You can compete against yourself or you can compete against others.  There is nothing wrong with comparing your results against your own expectations or against other people.  I have the best time chatting at lunch with guys 25 years older than me just minutes after I was trying to make a 25-foot birdie putt to take money out of their pockets.  I am continually amazed at those people who see competition as some sort of a bad thing.  In trackchasing, we have people who say they are not competing, when their behavior suggests otherwise.

 

That approach reminds me of a small child who finds out they cannot have something when all along they were trying their darndest to get it.  Then they cry that they didn’t really want it in the first place and really weren’t trying in whatever endeavor was at hand.

 

There is certainly nothing wrong with simply playing a practice round of golf with nothing of value on the match.  There is certainly nothing wrong with attending a sporting match where you really don’t care what the outcome is going to be.

 

However, I will submit that you will have a richer life when you “put it on the line” from time to time no matter how big or small your risk might be.  It probably won’t kill you and it’s unlikely to kill your fellow competitor.  You will learn to do your very best and then see how that compares against other people who were trying to do their very best.  When the competition is finished, you will both congratulate each other on the effort and look forward to the next chance to compare your results with your fellow competitor.  Dare I say, you will be competing.

The Trip

 

We woke up in Blackfoot, Idaho today.  We had a 200-mile drive or so on tap to reach Salt Lake City and the University of Utah.  We’d be spending the afternoon there watching the Utah Utes of the Mountain West conference play our UCLA Bruins of the Pac-10 conference.  Game time was 3 p.m.  I’ll share more about this outing in the Trackchaser Tourist Attraction section.  Don’t miss the photos of this outing at www.ranlayracing.com under the “Trackchaser Reports” tab.  Then click on “UCLA at Utah Football”.

 

Our plan following the game on Saturday was to hot foot it back to the Salt Lake airport for a flight to Spokane, Washington.  Depending upon which flight we caught we would either land in Spokane at 8 p.m. or 9:30 p.m.  We were planning on going to the Spokane Raceway Park.  The track is located just three miles from the airport.  If we caught the earlier flight, we would surely make a program that was set to begin at 7 p.m.  If we had to take the later flight, it might be touch and go about seeing any racing at Spokane Raceway Park.

 

Fortunately, I had the good sense to make a call to the track in advance.  Sometimes I call and sometimes I just take the word of the track’s website.  Even though the website told me they would be racing tonight, the track’s phone contact told me they were not racing.  That changed the plane plan a good deal.  Now there would be no great pressure to get from the football game to the airport in record time.  I’m glad I called, but once again somewhat disappointed in the organizational acumen of the short track auto racing industry.

 

 

 

The People

 

You frequently read about me visiting friends all over the country and the world when I go trackchasing.  Today I was able to visit with a friend in Salt Lake City who lives less than 25 from me in California.  We rarely see each other at home, but we frequently see each other at UCLA sporting events like the football game today in Salt Lake City.

 

I’m talking about Ann Forkey.  Ann is both a UCLA alumni and a huge UCLA sports fan.  She is also a loyal reader of the Trackchaser Report.  I believe the last time I saw Ann was at last year’s UCLA-Notre Dame game in South Bend, Indiana.

 

Ann and I worked together at Procter & Gamble.  I retired in 2002 and Ann is looking at retiring in the not too distant future.  Today Carol and I were fortunate to have lunch with both Ann and her friend, Patty.  It was great catching up with Ann and her doings.  She’s a world traveler, so coming to Utah was a rather tame trip for her.  Ann, Carol and I most enjoyed visiting with you and Patty.  Too bad the game turned out the way it did!

 

 

 

TRACKCHASING TOURIST ATTRACTION #1

Rice-Eccles Stadium, Salt Lake City, Utah

 

According to fans I talked too today, UCLA coming to play the University of Utah in Salt Lake was the biggest “name” school to ever pay a visit to the Rice-Eccles Stadium.  UCLA was a 14-point favorite so it should have been a pretty easy game for us.

 

My friend Ann already had her tickets.  She got them when she purchased her UCLA season tickets.  The drawback to this plan is that the tickets the home school (Utah) gives to UCLA fans are usually in the end zone or down low in the corner of the stadium.  That’s was exactly the case today.  Most of the powder blue shirted UCLA fans were seated in the first few rows near the end zone.

 

I prefer to take a more aggressive tact.  Does that surprise you?  Even though this was the biggest home game in the history of the University of Utah, I prefer to just show up and buy my tickets.  This way I am very likely to get better seats and I don’t have to commit to going to the game until the day of the game.

 

The stadium layout is modern and beautiful.  The stadium capacity is a bit more than 45,000.  Most of the seats offer theatre style seating in comfortable plastic formed chairs.  The only drawback to the entire arrangement was the parking.  We had to park more than a mile from the stadium.  This was most problematic because of Carol’s recent foot surgery.  Although as frequent readers of the Trackchaser Report realize, she is a real gamer.  She did her best “Chester” impression from Gunsmoke and kept up the entire way.

 

I had my now famous “need 2 tix” sign ready to do its work.  In less than five minutes, I came across a fellow with two tickets that he described as “being on the 50 yard line”.  Of course, in “scalpereeze” that means the seats are probably on the 10-yard line!

 

I was skeptical after my somewhat recent experience at the NCAA final four about this offer.  The tickets had a face value of $50.  He was offering to sell them for $40 each.  Now why would someone be selling $50 tickets for $40 to the biggest game in the history of the school that were located on the 50-yard line.

 

You know what they say, “if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is”.  Nevertheless, I live on the edge.  I have also had extensive training in the art of negotiating.  When the seller told me he was selling the tickets for $40 each, I used what is called in the negotiating world, “the explosive no”.  What I told him in real English was, “I wasn’t looking to spend that much”.  Now I am a real stickler for the truth.  However, negotiating is a game.  The “truth” can be massaged a bit by both sides.  In reality, I was willing and expecting to pay more than $50 for $50 seats.

 

He reminded me these tickets were on the 50-yard line.  I offered to pay him $35 a piece for the tickets.  He accepted.  Now we had tickets with a face value of $50 on the 50-yard line to the biggest game in the school’s history.  That’s not bad for 30 minutes before game time.

 

We entered the stadium.  The ticket taker accepted our tickets.  That meant they weren’t counterfeit or stolen.  We were in the stadium.  Our seats were in row 60.  There were 64 rows in the stadium, so we were high up, but not too high.  Our view was outstanding.

 

Were the seats on the 50-yard line?  No, not quite.  Nevertheless, we were on the 43-yard line.  In the world of ticket scalping that is WAY ahead of the game.  I can only attribute this stroke of near honesty to the predominant Mormon population that dominates Salt Lake.  Now it was time for the game.

 

UCLA entered this game as the 11^th ranked team in the country.  Utah had lost their first two games to Air Force and Oregon State scoring less than ten points per game.  Utah was unranked.  This made the UCLA Bruins a 14-point favorite.  This game should not have been too difficult for us.

 

I would say that 99% of the fans wore a reddish orange Utah shirt of some kind.  Other than the Indianapolis Colts blue, I have never seen so much of one color.  This is what you are likely to find with a “small market” team.  Folks in L.A. couldn’t care less if they have an NFL team.  Folks in markets like Salt Lake go bananas over a school like the University of Utah.  It’s hard to figure.

 

Carol and I wore our UCLA colors.  I’ve found that in football and basketball, UCLA has a target on its back.  Usually when we come to the visitor’s stadium or arena we are the biggest name school on their schedule all season.  That was the case again today.

 

I’m going to make a long story short regarding the details of the game.  We did not win.  We did not come close to winning.  It has been a long time since I have seen one football team dominate another like Utah dominated UCLA. 

 

We were behind 17-6 at halftime.  Early in the third quarter we threw a long pass that our receiver returned to the Utah one-yard line.  The only problem was our receiver fumbled the ball into and out of the end zone from the one-yard line, which gave the ball to Utah.  I don’t understand this rule.  If we fumble the ball at the one-yard line out of bounds to the side, we keep the ball.  If he fumbles the ball forward through the end zone we lose the ball.  Nevertheless, as per the rules we lost the ball.

 

We then lost all chance of winning.  The final score was 44-6!!!!!!  I will wager there is not another school that enters a game this season as 14-point favorite and loses by 38 points.  This might be the worst loss, relative to the opponent, in the history of UCLA football. 

 

Generally, I must congratulate the Utah fans on their overall behavior.  Of course, we did have to have one Utes’ fan sitting directly in front of us who had to stand on nearly every good Utah play and there were plenty of them.  I must say this, no matter how well UCLA does Carol and I simply applaud and never rub it in the faces of our opponents.

 

One woman who had not said a word to us all game leaned forward from behind and patted me on the shoulder.  “You’re not cheering very much”, she said.  That was probably uncalled for given the fact that we had been sitting quietly in our seats all game.

 

On the way out, we were in a sea of red shirts.  I was amazed that no one said a word to us as Carol sported a bright yellow UCLA shirt and I had my baby blue and yellow Aloha UCLA shirt.

 

College sports fans are competitive.  They sport their team’s colors and cheer for the team.  If you’ve ever been in this environment you know what I’m talking about.  Today we went into the lion’s den and came out a little worse for the ware.  What should you do when you entered a competition and gotten your butt beat.  The answer is very simple.  Congratulate the winner and go back and improve your game.  Congratulations University of Utah, you played a great game and deserved to win.  Your fans were for the most part above average.  Good job, mates!

 

 

 

TRACKCHASING TOURIST ATTRACTION #2

Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington

 

We would not be leaving the Spokane area until Monday afternoon.  This gave us the chance for a Trackchasing Tourist Attraction.  We decided to visit the Gonzaga (Gone-ZAG-uh) University campus.  Gonzaga is a Jesuit school of 4,150 students.  Their most notable graduates include Bing Crosby and John Stockton.  This is a private university where tuition and room and board will run about $32,000 per year. 

 

I enjoy visiting college campuses.  As a college sports fan, I’ve seen games on TV for most of the bigger schools in basketball and football.  I really get a kick out of seeing the basketball arenas and football stadiums in person. 

 

 

Today, Carol and I paid a visit to the McCarthy Athletic Center, which opened in 2004.  According to ESPN this arena is frequently considered among the very top “arena atmospheres”.  The Zags have been ranked in basketball’s top 25 most of the time in recent years.

 

Any trip to a college campus is not complete without a trip to the campus bookstore.  I couldn’t leave without a Gonzaga t-shirt.  Our campus visit was somewhat brief but a very worthwhile TTA.

 

 

 

 

STATE RANKINGS

I know that many of you are aware that I am trying to become the #1 ranked trackchaser in each of the 13 Western states (x California).  I’ve been having pretty good success with this goal.  I now hold at least a tie for first place or better in eight of those Western states.

 

You also may have noticed that Carol and I made a trip to Washington back in May.  At the conclusion of that trip I tied Allan Brown with 18 tracks in Washington state.  I was feeling good about my results here until I noticed that Allan had made a special return trip to Washington.  During this trip he saw his 19^th lifetime Washington track.  That scoundrel!  This put me back in second place.  I couldn’t stand for that very long and waited patiently until I could return to the Evergreen state.

 

Today I did just that and recorded my 19^th lifetime state in Washington.  Once again, I am in a tie for first place with the aforementioned Mr. Brown.  We each have a safe lead, for the moment, over third place Gordon Killian’s third place total of 15 tracks.  This goes to show that you can never rest on your laurels.  If you do, you will get passed.

 

This was Carol’s sixth Washington track.  She moves up from ninth place to a sixth place tie with Paul Weisel and Bing Metz among others.

 

 

RACE REVIEW

NORTHPORT INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY, NORTHPORT, WASHINGTON,  – TRACKS #1,274 (CAROL’S TRACK #341)

Today we would be trackchasing on Sunday afternoon, my favorite time of the week to watch racing.  The Northport International Raceway is a most unique track in a most unique location.  I wish every racing fan reading this had a chance to visit here.

 

This track is located in extreme northeast Washington.  The track is less than ten miles from the Canadian border.  This is heavily forested country with Washington’s famous Evergreens dominating the landscape.  What was most noticeable about the scenery were the extreme drought conditions this area is facing.   

 

Seattle in northwest Washington, gets more rainfall than most of its residents would like.  However, the northeast portion of the state is a semi-arid climate.  They get much less rain.  It looks like it hasn’t rained here in a very long time.

 

Today’s track is in such a rural location that our GPS unit, “Dusty” had us traveling on gravel roads to get here.  Imagine a huge meteor fell from the sky with a circumference about the same as half-mile dirt track on the outside.  A meteor that size would create quite a hole.  The Northport International Raceway resides in a hole that might have been made by such a meteor.  Don’t miss the pictures at www.ranlayracing.com.  They are some of the most unusual track photos I have ever taken.

 

At this track most fans watch from their cars or the back of their pickups while perched along the rim of this track bowl.  When we entered the grounds, we were wise enough to ask where the best place to watch would be.  The woman ticket taker told us to avoid parking over the front stretch.  “That’s where it really gets dusty,” she told us.  She could not have been more right.  The wind blew steadily and strongly from the third turn toward the first turn.  We watched from the comfort of the National Rental Car Racing Pontiac Grand Prix’s interior just above turn four.  We might have parked in an even better place had we chose to be above turn three.

 

There were four classes racing today.  The car counts were small, but I didn’t mind.  The classes included mini-stocks (4), fever fours (7), street stocks (9) and modifieds (11).  The program started on time at 1 p.m. with the playing of both the United States and Canadian national anthems.  Each class ran a trophy dash, one or two heats and a feature event.  The last feature of the day, for the modifieds, took the green flag at 3:45 p.m.

 

This track does not have lights.  That doesn’t matter since they race on Sunday afternoons and it stays light for a very long time this far north during the racing season.  The P.A. was good if you sat in front of a speaker.  The track’s announcer appeared inexperienced and didn’t provide very much commentary.

 

The racing was nothing to write home about, although I loved the track’s overall ambience.  I see so much racing, that I have come to prefer ambience over racing.  The one most notable feature about this track were the dry conditions that resulted in dust……….and more dust.

 

The track’s surface most resembled the consistency of baking flour.  There was nary a cloud in the sky and temperatures were in the 75-80 range.  They watered the track after every race or two.  This created a sloppy and slick surface for about two laps.  Many cars actually raced with mud flaps covering their rear tires.

 

However, it did not take long for the moisture to evaporate and the huge plumes of dust to shoot off the rear tires of these racers like huge rooster tails.  I was happy we were able to sit in our car during these near brown out conditions.  Fortunately, I guess, the wind blew strongly clearing out the bad air for at least a few seconds until the cars raced down the backstretch. When they got to turn three, once again a huge dust cloud would blow itself across the track and apparently in the direction of Canada beyond turn one.

 

The track closely resembles the Eagle Race Track in Republic, Washington located about 75 miles from here.  Eagle races every other week on Saturday and Northport races every other Sunday.  I think the same cars race at both tracks.  I don’t remember Eagle being as dusty as Northport was today.  They were both unique tracks, by just about any point of comparison.  I recommend each, if you can get there, to my trackchasing colleagues.

 

Just before we left the track, I fired up my laptop.  I was surprised to get an internet connection from the comfort of my rental car’s interior.  From that point, I made our airline reservations on line for tomorrow’s return flights to SoCal.  I then did a Google search for a Chinese restaurant in Spokane where we would dine for the evening.  Isn’t technology wonderful!

 

 

 

 

CAROL’S COMMENTS

This is the dustiest track I’ve been to in 2007.  The dust was choking.  I’m glad we were able to sit in the car and watch these races.  I don’t know how the few people sitting in the grandstands can stand it.  This is a most picturesque location, but it looks tinder dry.  The chicks parked next to us are really into the racing.  They’re doing a better job of describing the action than the track announcer.

RENTAL CAR UPDATE

 

Spokane – Saturday (2-day rental)

 

We picked up our National Rental Car Racing Pontiac Grand Prix late on Saturday night at the Spokane International Airport.  I suspect that Saturday night is the quietest night of the week at our nation’s airports.  Even though I am in airports all the time, I am rarely there on Saturday nights.  Spokane is a “small market” location.  That means they don’t have the services their big brother urban markets do.  What did that mean to me tonight?  No XM radio in our rental car!  This was a particular burden since we were driving in such remote country for most of this trip.

 

We drove the Grand Prix 291 miles.  I paid an average price of just $2.84 per gallon.  The GP gave me 24.8 M.P.G. in fuel mileage at a cost of 11.5 cents per mile.  The car cost 19.5 cents per mile to rent, all taxes included.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for reading about my trackchasing,

 

Randy Lewis

Alberta’s #1 Trackchaser

Jesus loves you, but I’m his favorite.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AIRPLANE

 

Orange County, CA – Salt Lake City, UT – 588 miles

 

 

RENTAL CAR – SALT LAKE CITY

 

Salt Lake City International Airport – trip begins

Idaho Falls, ID – 255 miles

Salt Lake City International Airport – 507 miles - trip ends

 

 

 

AIRPLANE

 

Salt Lake City, UT – Spokane, WA – 547 miles

 

 

RENTAL CAR – SPOKANE

 

Spokane International Airport – trip begins

Northport, WA – 124 miles

Spokane International Airport – 291 miles - trip ends

 

 

AIRPLANE

 

Spokane, WA – Salt Lake City, IL – 547 miles

Salt Lake City, IL – Orange County, CA - 588 miles

 

 

Total Air miles – 2,270 miles (4 flights)

 

 

Total auto and air miles traveled on this trip – 3,068 miles

 

 

 

 

 

TRACK ADMSSION PRICES:

 

Noise Park Raceway - $10

Northport International Raceway - $10

 

 

Total racetrack admissions for the trip – $20

 

 

 

 

 

RANKINGS

 

 

LIFETIME TRACKCHASER STANDINGS UPDATE:

 

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

 

1.  Randy Lewis, San Clemente, California – 1,274

 

 

 

 

Other notables

 

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

 

28.  Max Allender, Des Moines, Iowa – 349

 

29.  Carol Lewis, San Clemente, California – 341

 

 

 

 

2007 TRACKCHASER STANDINGS

 

1.  Randy Lewis, San Clemente, California - 136

 

2.  Roland Vanden Eynde, Vilvoorde, Belgium - 85

 

3.  Ed Esser, Madison, Wisconsin – 77

 

4.  Mike Knappenberger, Reading, Pennsylvania – 71

 

5.  Pam Smith, Effort, Pennsylvania – 49

 

6.  Paul Weisel, Orefield, Pennsylvania – 48

 

7.  Carol Lewis, San Clemente, California – 47

 

8.  Guy Smith, Effort, Pennsylvania - 44

 

9.  Gordon Killian, Sinking Springs, Pennsylvania – 38

 

10.  Roger Ferrell, Majenica, Indiana – 32

 

Tracks have been reported by 40 different worldwide trackchasers this season.

 

 

 

LIFETIME NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC DIVERSITY STANDINGS

 

2007 (current thru 9/12/07)**

 

 

1. Randy Lewis, San Clemente, California – 6.61

2. Gordon Killian, Sinking Springs, Pennsylvania – 6.65

3. Allan Brown, Comstock Park, Michigan – 7.69

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

Next Saturday at 7:15 p.m. I will be sitting in my seat in section 21, row 77 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.  I’m hoping the UCLA Bruins can rebound from yesterday’s more than disappointing loss when they match up against the Washington Huskies.  It’s awfully difficult to go trackchasing after Labor when there are virtually no mid-week shows and when I have to be in California on Saturday night.  Nevertheless, I plan to add at least one new track next week.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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