Most of my trips originate from "LAX".  That's the three letter airline code for the Los Angeles International Airport.  LAX can be a bit of a jungle but they have great air service to everywhere. 

 Flights leaving LAX head West over the Pacific Ocean.  Those flights with an final destination to the East of Los Angeles then make a big left turn over the ocean and begin their Eastward journey.  Often the coastline can be very picturesque during this turn back across the country.

 Although I normally don't spend much time looking out the window, this is my view when I do.  These new wing "tips" have been added to help save fuel.

 As you might expect in middle America, the Mid America Motor Speedway has a simple sign.

 The grandstands were simply 2" x 10" boards attached to ground poles.  Each seat had a great view of the track.  After nightfall, I noticed how well-lit the track was.

 I'll take the jeep moving up on the outside!  Track packing took forever tonight.  The race program was delayed nearly two hours because the track had been over watered.

The delay was not because the track did not try to put enough cars on the track to get it dry.  There was just too much water in the soil. 

 This couple next to the fence stood right there during the entire sprint car heat race program.  That white blur is a sprint car speeding past.  This is one way to get killed or at least lose your front teeth.

DAY 1 – JUST IN TIME FIGHTING IRISH TRACKCHASING TOUR

CONTEST WINNERS ANNOUNCED!

As long-time readers of the Trackchaser Report know, I sometimes offer bonuses to those folks who read every last word in a timely manner.  Such a bonus was offered in my last report.  Buried somewhat deep in the Chula Vista International Raceway report was this paragraph:

“There were two major wrecks when first a buggy and then a truck did not hit their landing the right way.  One buggy kicked off the side of the hill, rolled 7-8 times and landed on a civilian’s SUV!  Another truck came over the hill at a high rate of speed, got crossed up, and did two end over end flips while still in the air!  Of course, he came to a rest at the bottom of the hill with nearly all of his body panels missing.  This might me a good time to offer a valuable Wal-Mart five dollar gift certificate to the first two readers who have read this far.  First two folks to email me at Ranlay@yahoo.com get these prizes.  Of course, my camera was safely tucked away in my camera case when all of this happened.”

I am pleased to report that Scott Hall (Ohio) and Ann Forkey (California) were the first two folks to report in.  Their prize is already winging its way to them to ease the burden of their upcoming Christmas shopping expenses.

While I am always happy to be able to hand out prizes, I feel bad for the other loyal readers who try to win a prize and fail.  I wish everyone could win, but, as you know, I operate this business on a budget.  I did receive this message from a reader (past winner) who was the fourth respondent in the above contest.

“the whole fourth place thing sucks, suck real bad, i feel like darrell waltrip in the latter stages of his career, still present & barely hanging in there!!!”

All I can say is that it pays to be a reader of the RANLAY Racing Trackchaser Report.  If you take just one travel or financial tip to its ultimate conclusion, you will be much richer in many ways.  Good luck to everyone.

TODAY’S HEADLINES

Trackchasing numbers are down for the “old guard” What’s causing this?....................more in “The Objective”.

If you own a Saturn Aurora automobile, I regret to inform you that I’m going to have to remove you from the Trackchaser Report mailing list. …………..details in “The Objective”.

Have you ever been hit in the side of the head by a flying size 12 deck shoe? …………..details in “The People”.

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

GREETINGS FROM SOUTH COFFEYVILLE, OKLAHOMA.

I WOKE UP IN SAN CLEMENTE, CALIFORNIA THIS MORNING AND WENT TO SLEEP IN TULSA, OKLAHOMA.  THIS IS WHAT TRANSPIRED TODAY.

PEOPLE/STRATEGY/TRAVEL NEWS

The Objective 

In my last report, I commented on how trackchasing is going to get even more challenging in the years to come for me.  When a person first comes into trackchasing, it is pretty easy to go just about anywhere to see new tracks.  Over the past ten years, there have probably been 2,000 or so tracks that have been in business or at least operated during this period.

I have been fortunate to see nearly 1,300 of those tracks during my trackchasing career.  When I have the choice to see one of two tracks, I have always tried to pick the more difficult logistical/timing choice.  If two tracks were holding a special Wednesday night show, and one normally raced on Saturday night and the other on Friday night, I tried to pick the track that had a regular Saturday night program.  The thinking was it was better to “burn” a Saturday night track than a Friday night track.  Saturday night racing is more than ten times as prevalent as Friday night racing.

I’ve done the same thing when it came to travel distances.  Again, if I was considering two tracks, I have always tried to get the one that was the furthest from the airport I was flying into or out of.  I figured if I got the more remote track now, it would be easier when I came back to the area to get the closer track. 

These are each small advantages.  However, I have learned in life that a series of very small advantages that add up over a long period of time can amount to something really big.  This is the financial approach I have used for more than forty years with a good deal of success.

I think of trackchasing as a fun and competitive hobby.  I keep a close watch on my fellow competitors in each of the areas where I actively compete.  A few years ago, I noticed a significant phenomenon amongst the trackchasers I was monitoring.  I’ve mentioned this phenomenon to you many times over the years.

Let me give you some background.  Because of my remote Southern California location, I must fly into a general area to begin my trackchasing.  It just wouldn’t be practical for me to try to drive to the tracks I visit if I had to start in SoCal.  On the other hand, all of the other top 20 trackchasers drive to most of their tracks.  However, you can only drive so far in a day.  After a while (actually a number of years), the driving trackchaser has seen most of the tracks within an easy day’s drive of their home.  This phenomenon has come to be known as that trackchaser’s “Geographical Driving Circle”.

You are just as liking to hear the term “Geographical Driving Circle” from trackchasing’s “old guard” as you would be to hear the term “global warming” at the Republican national convention.  That old guard has wanted the inevitable to fade away, but it won’t.  The GDC is here to stay.  It is going to become a bigger and bigger deal in the very near term.

I began predicting the future demise of these trackchaser’s productivity a few years ago.  At that time, I began to study the trackchasing history and behaviors of the top 20 trackchasers from the year 2000.  For lack of a more creative description, I called the study the “Top 20 Trackchasers Totals”.

I was ranked about 15^th when I first began my studies.  My sponsors wanted to know if I had any real potential in this hobby.  In order to gain the attention and support of these sponsors, I had to give them some hope that I might eventually rise in the trackchasing rankings to a point where their sponsorships would give them a return in terms of media time and exposure.

This is when I came up with the Geographical Driving Circle theory.  The GDC theory contends that as trackchasers see all of the tracks near (500 miles or so) where they live, they will run out of tracks to see.  In order to see more tracks further and further from where they live they will have to invest more time and money into the hobby.  The GDC theory maintains that people don’t change much.  The theory maintains that most people will not be willing to invest more time and money into this hobby.  What will happen is they will begin to see fewer and fewer tracks as they age and it begins more difficult to see tracks because of distance to be traveled, time to be expended and money to be spent.

Another major aspect of this decision-making process cannot be ignored.  This is the fact that people’s interest levels change as they age.  If you are forty years old, you are probably not doing the same things you did at twenty.  If you’re sixty, your interests are likely different from when you were forty.  This happens to most people in many areas of their lives.

I have many current and former Procter & Gamble employees who are readers of the Trackchaser Report.  In true P&G form they, and you, might legitimately ask, “But Randy, this all sounds fine and good from a theoretical point of view, but where’s your data.  I’m going to need to see the data before I can jump on board with your GDC theory”.  This is a very reasonable request.  Therefore, I will share my data that backs up the Geographical Driving Circle theory.

I have chosen to compare the average results from those top 20 trackchasers from the year 2000.  The period I am using are actual results reported for the period 2002-2006.  This covers five years of trackchasing.  I decided to begin the analysis in 2002, because in 2001 trackchasers were given a retroactive “bonus” of all the figure 8 tracks they had ever seen from the beginning of time through 2001.  It wouldn’t make sense to include these figure 8 totals from a lifetime into one year’s results.  Figure 8 tracks were added retroactively due to a rule change in 2001.  I figured a five year average from 2002-2006 would be a good base period.

To compute 2007 tracks totals, I have used data from www.trackchaser.net through September 16, 2007.  It is worthy of note that the 2007 season is not fully completed.  However, data shows that 88% of all tracks are seen by October 1 of each year.  I will provide an update to this analysis following the completion of the 2007 calendar season.

It should also be noted that some trackchasers do not fully or regularly report their totals.  This would include the Browns and John Moore.  It is also worthy of note that Mr. Schneider has not reported his complete totals for several years.  That behavior is recognized in his 5-year history (2002-2006) as well as his 2007 totals.

Although this judgment is non-data based, I would estimate that no trackchaser who has not reported his or her complete totals has seen more tracks in 2007 than they averaged from 2002-2006.  I would like everyone to report all their tracks all the time just as the commissioner requests but that is not going to happen.

Please take a look at the table that shows the dramatic impact the Geographical Driving Circle has had on trackchasing!

The above table shows an astounding 47% decline in the average trackchaser production from the top 20 trackchasers from the year 2000 excluding my own personal totals.  Is this the complete story?  No, it is not.

First, there are still three months remaining in the 2007 season.  Historically, 12% of tracks are seen during these last three months that move us toward and then into winter.  Secondly, some trackchasers have not reported their tracks completely.  Of course, they have seen some tracks, but I don’t think anyone believes they are seeing the same number of tracks they have visited over the past few years.

What about the newly arrived top 20 trackchasers such as Roland Vanden Eynde, Roger Ferrell and Paul Weisel?  These trackchasers are somewhat new to the party.  They were not highly ranked in 2000.  They have been trackchasing strongly albeit from a low base.  Will they be affected by the GDC.  Yes, they will.

Does the Geographical Driving Circle theory have as dire consequences as global warming?  Not likely.  Does the Geographical Driving Circle theory cause as much consternation amongst its opponents as it does amongst the opponents of global warming?  Likely.

I don’t know if there is global warming or not.  I am not qualified to make a judgment on that.  However, I am in a good position to say the limitations of the Geographical Driving Circle are real.  Despite novelty tracks opening up at a rapid rate, the overall production of the top 20 trackchasers from the year 2000 is down……..dramatically.  Students of the trackchasing game would be shocked at the productivity decline if the plethora of temporary tracks had not come on the seen over the past 3-4 years.  A skeptic can debate how much trackchasing productivity is down, but not that it is down.

There may be a trackchaser or two that will see a few tracks during the balance of 2007 and beat their five-year historical average.  As you can see, my 2007 numbers already best my five-year average.

Will I be affected by my Geographical Driving Circle?  I already have been.  This is how I discovered the phenomenon in the first place!  I discovered that when there were very few tracks within an easy driving distance of my home, I would either have to cut back on my trackchasing or increase the time and money I was going to devote to the hobby.  I decided to do the latter.  The majority of our top trackchasers will decide, and have decided not to do that.  There is nothing wrong with their decision.  That’s the great thing about America.  Everyone gets to decide what they want to do given the constraints of time, money and health that they have.

Some day I will be impacted by a phenomenon even greater than the Geographical Driving Circle.  What is that?  It is the Geographical Flying Circle.  Some day, if I do this long enough, I will have flown to all the places where it makes sense to trackchase.  I have already written off most of the non-English speaking world.  It’s just too much hassle to find out when the tracks are racing and navigate efficiently once I get there.  However, when I can use a foreign country GPS and instant translator, my limitations in this area may change.

I believe given normal circumstances that day is a few years off.  However, the Geographical Driving Circle is here to stay.  It’s going to have a bigger and bigger impact on those top 20 trackchasers from the year 2000 each and every year from now into the future. 

New trackchasers like those three mentioned above will move along strongly until the GDC hits them.  Even newer trackchasers that are unknown to us today will discover the game and nudge their way into the top 20.  This is the evolution of trackchasing and it is not a bad thing.

The Trip

This was my normal get up at 4:30 a.m. and leave for the airport trip.  The drawback to this type of effort is that I am retired.  Should retired people be getting up at 4:30 a.m.?  I would say no, but the realities of trackchasing say yes.  If left to my own devices, I would get up sometime between 7-8 a.m.  However, I am rarely left to my own devices.  Carol gets up about 6 a.m. each morning to begin her day and be off to aerobics class.  Her hustle and bustle normally rousts me from any further slumber.

I do my best to plan my trips efficiently.  Most of the time that works, but some of the time it does not.  Today, my rental car program failed.  I will say this.  If you are the owner of a Saturn Aurora automobile or hold any emotional attachment to this type of car, you might like to skip ahead.  My review of the Saturn Aurora will not be positive.

I was getting a one-way rental from National in Wichita.  Often the worst cars are reserved for one-way renters.  I guess that’s how I ended up with a Saturn Aurora.  Up until today, I had never heard of this car and if I never hear of it again, that will be fine with me.

For some ungodly reason, the designers of this car created a “notch” in the interior doorframe near the driver’s side seat back.  I nearly broke my hip each time I entered the car’s interior.  It’s amazing how frequently a senior citizen can forget that a Saturn engineer was dumb enough to place a notch in this location.

However, the “notch” was the least of my troubles with this car.  At midnight after the races, I had reached Tulsa.  I needed to gas up the car then, so that my 5:20 a.m. (3:20 a.m. San Clemente time) Saturday morning motel departure would not be delayed.  I pulled into the gas station and tried to open the gas filler door.  It would not open.

I suspected there was some form of release in the car’s interior.  I searched for nearly ten minutes trying to find this release.  No luck.  I enlisted the help of a friendly gas station attendant.  Still, no luck.  As a last resort, I called the National Rental Car Company roadside assistance team.  The woman I spoke with searched her database.  She confirmed what I was already starting to believe.  There was no interior gas filler door release!

She told me I simply needed to “press on” the gas filler door and it would “pop open”.  Of course, I had already tried this without any success.  At her urging, I tried again.  By now, I had already been at the gas station for 30 minutes.  No luck.  She suggested I simply return the car tomorrow morning and explain my situation.

There were two minor (major) problems with this result up to this point.  First, I had already wasted thirty minutes of precious sleep time. Secondly, I would be returning the car tomorrow morning at 5:45 a.m.  The rental car desk would not be open at that time.  I don’t know what I would have done if I had needed gas to continue the trip.

As instructed, I returned the car on Saturday morning.  I wrote a long note explaining my plight and left the note and the car keys at the person less rental car counter.  Later in the morning, I checked my email.  I had been fearing the car company would charge me their standard $6.00 per gallon fee for those ner’do'wells who don’t refill their tanks.  I was pleasantly surprised to see I had only been charged $24 for gas.  That equated to about three dollars a gallon.  That seemed fair enough to me.

I was more than surprised to receive a call from “Kelly” the National Car Rental rep in Tulsa.  She apologized for my inconvenience.  She told me she would be charging me just six dollars in total for my gasoline expense even though I had driven the car more than 250 miles.  That was right hospitable of Miss Kelly.  I thanked her and we both moved on down the road.

I hope I have not offended any of my long-time readers who might own a Saturn Aurora.  I hope I have convinced all of my readers who might be considering or who might have a friend or loved one who might be considering the purchase of a Saturn Aurora, don’t do it!!!

The People

It is most unusual when I write about someone in the “People” section of the Trackchaser Report and I don’t even know his or her name.  I have no idea who was responsible for over watering tonight’s racetrack.  However, that person came very close to losing most of their personal financial net worth via a lawsuit initiated by me.   How could that be?

I was standing behind the 15 rows of spectator seating while watching a factory stock heat race.  I had been bemused earlier in the evening when a young twenty something couple had stood right up next to the fourth turn fence during the winged sprint car heat races.  That seemed like a stupid idea and they looked and acted the part.

I had not moved too behind the spectator seating area for my personal safety.  I moved there because my butt was sore.  I had been sitting on the wooden board attached to ground poles just two feet from the ground for more than two hours.  There had been very little racing action.  That would make anyone’s butt sore.

The track had started out way to wet.  Even during the races, cars would through huge chunks of mud far up into the grandstand.  There was one particular place just past the fourth turn that was especially bad.  When cars jumped the cushion, the mud would really fly.

You wouldn’t think that the factory stock class would be powerful enough to throw mud into the stands, but they were.  I was standing some 30-40 yards from the track’s surface.  I saw a car jump the cushion and a huge piece of mud came flying all the way up in my general direction.

You golfers have all seen some really huge divots go flying into the air on some of your shots.  The piece of mud that was coming at me made those divots look tiny.  Imagine a size 12 deck shoe flying through the air in a lazy rotation.  I saw the mud in plenty of time.  Just as I was ducking, it flew over my head, missing me by a couple of feet.

As I was regaining a standing position and congratulating myself on avoiding a collision with a size 12 mud deck shoe, I was clobbered in the side of my head.  This must have been the other shoe!

I was momentarily stunned.  I was somewhat embarrassed that I hadn’t seen it coming.  Carol can frequently be heard to say that sometimes “I need a slap upside the head”.  Tonight she got her wish.  The entire left side of my head was smeared in mud.  I checked my skull for cracks.  I didn’t feel any of my brains spilling out onto the ground.  I was a bit woozy.  I kept feeling the side of my head and the mud began to rapidly dry.  Wow!  That was harsh.  I couldn’t wait to get to the motel to assess the damage further.  I am happy to report than I’m not any crazier since this encounter than I was before, but it was a close call.

STATE RANKINGS

This was my 15^th lifetime new track see in the Sooner state.  I trail Wisconsin’s Jack Erdmann by just one track in my quest to grab second place in the state rankings.  I now have a third place state ranking or better in 21 states.  I did manage to gain one lifetime NGD point, but it wasn’t by bettering my score.  I gained by making my chief competitor’s score worse!

Gordon Killian and I both entered the evening in a tie for third place in Oklahoma with 14 tracks.  When I saw my 15^th Oklahoma track, this moved Gordon down one spot to fourth place, adding one position point to his overall NGD score.

Entering the 2007 season, I trailed Mr. Killian by four lifetime NGD state positions.  So far, in 2007, Gordon has gained an overall 20 NGD state positions.  I have gained twenty-six.  This gives me a slim lead of just two lifetime NGD position points with less than three months remaining in the year.

Gordon has gained positions in seven different states and lost points in eight.  His biggest NGD position point gains have come in New Mexico (9), Mississippi (8), Kansas (6) and Kentucky (5).  His biggest losses have occurred in Utah (5).

I have gained points in 14 states and lost them in four.  My biggest gains have come in New Mexico (9), Louisiana (4) and South Carolina (4).  The only state where I have lost more than one lifetime NGD point is Massachusetts (5).

RACE REVIEW

MID-AMERICA SPEEDWAY, SOUTH COFFEYVILLE, OKLAHOMA – TRACK #1,279

I prefer dirt track oval racing over asphalt ovals, however there are drawbacks to dirt racing.  Oftentimes dirt tracks can get most dusty and dirty.  Less frequently, especially when there is no rain present, dirt tracks can be too wet.

In a repeat of my “track was too wet” adventure in Louisiana last Friday night, tonight’s Oklahoma track was over watered.  I don’t see this often, but I’ll already tired of it!

I arrived at the Mid America Speedway at 6:15 p.m. for their 7 p.m. scheduled start.  They had several civilian vehicles and racecars driving slowing around the track “packing it in”.  Tonight was the first day of a two-day show.  Tonight would be only qualifying heat races.  Tomorrow, Saturday would be the feature events.  Many tracks have these “two-day specials” late in the season.  I would have preferred being here on the program’s second day to see feature racing, but my UCLA football schedule prevented that from happening.

Just like last week, the track’s management put too much water on the 3/8-mile dirt oval.  They had to bring out the track’s grader to scoop excess mud that wouldn’t firm up after an hour of track packing.  The bleacher board was already beginning to get hard when they finally began hot lapping at 7:40 p.m. 

The schedule had called for “racing” at 7 p.m.  Was that wheel-to-wheel racing or hot lapping?  They hot-lapped for one full hour and did not begin actual racing until 8:40 p.m.  What a waste of time!  Just like last week, the daytime temps had been in the low 90s and there was no rain in the area.  These boys just put way to much water on the track.

Although the track was well lit and the surface tacky from all of the water laid down, the racing was only fair.  I watched the two heat races for the pure stocks, five for the winged sprints and two for the factory stocks.  I left at just past 10 p.m. in the middle of the last class, the modifieds' heat races.  I had been at the track for nearly four hours and had been at the track for more than three hours past the scheduled start time.  I don’t understand why the short track racing industry treats their fans so poorly.  I cannot think of one other entertainment type who operates their program in such a tardy fashion.

I will say the track was very good at removing wrecked cars quickly.  They got a lot of practice.  I think only one heat race ran completely without a yellow flag.  The winged sprint cars were particularly lame.  The starts were so ragged that nearly all of their heat races were called back a time or two.  This was coupled with one flip and several spins.

Overall, I would give the racing program a “D”.  The P.A. was good, the lines to the concession stands short (although I did not purchase anything) and there was a huge NASCAR oriented t-shirt vendor in attendance.  It’s a shame.  This track is a quality venue; they just ran a stinker of a show.

RENTAL CAR UPDATE

Wichita – Friday-Saturday

Today’s rental was a one day, one-way affair.  Wichita is a “small market” in which to rent a car.  I would drop the car in Tulsa.  I did this because I was able to get a non-stop flight into Wichita from Los Angeles.  My best airline departure had me flying home from Tulsa.

As you know, rental car companies normally charge and “arm and a leg” for one day rentals.  I can understand their point.  If your friend was to lend you his/her car, they might expect you to return it back to them where you picked it up.

However, as with most things, there is a price at which point even your friend might say “leave the car wherever you want”.  In the case of the National Rental Car Company, they charged a base rate of $59 to pickup the car in one place and drop it somewhere else.  That’s not bad.  I’ve seen one-way rentals priced much higher.  Whenever I am faced with a high one-day rental charge, I used some of my “free days” that I have accrued with National as a frequent renter.  This brought my rental car charge down to just the taxes or about 12 bucks.

I drove the Saturn Aurora 266 miles.  I paid an average price of just $3.09 per gallon.  The Saturn gave me 133 M.P.G. (based upon my revised fuel charge) in fuel mileage at a cost of 2.3 cents per mile.  The car cost 4.9 cents per mile to rent, all taxes included.

Thanks for reading about my trackchasing,

Randy Lewis

Alberta’s #1 Trackchaser

It’s only a gambling problem, if you’re losing.

AIRPLANE

Los Angeles, CA – Wichita, KS – 1,205 miles

RENTAL CAR

Wichita International Airport – trip begins

South Coffeyville, OK – 154 miles

Tulsa International Airport – 266 miles - trip ends

AIRPLANE

Tulsa, OK – Denver, CO – 541 miles

Denver, CO – Los Angles, CA - 845 miles

Total Air miles – 2,591 miles (3 flights)

Total auto and air miles traveled on this trip – 2,857 miles

TRACK ADMSSION PRICES:

Mid-America Speedway - $12

Total racetrack admissions for the trip – $12

RANKINGS

LIFETIME TRACKCHASER STANDINGS UPDATE:

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

1.  Randy Lewis, San Clemente, California – 1,279

Other notables

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

27.  Ken Schrader, Concord, North Carolina – 352

28.  Max Allender, Des Moines, Iowa – 349

29.  Carol Lewis, San Clemente, California – 344

2007 TRACKCHASER STANDINGS

1.  Randy Lewis, San Clemente, California - 141

2.  Roland Vanden Eynde, Vilvoorde, Belgium - 91

3.  Ed Esser, Madison, Wisconsin – 90

4.  Mike Knappenberger, Reading, Pennsylvania – 76

5.  Paul Weisel, Orefield, Pennsylvania – 57

6.  Pam Smith, Effort, Pennsylvania – 52

7.  Carol Lewis, San Clemente, California – 50

8.  Guy Smith, Effort, Pennsylvania - 49

9.  Gordon Killian, Sinking Springs, Pennsylvania – 38

10.  Roger Ferrell, Majenica, Indiana – 34

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

LIFETIME NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC DIVERSITY STANDINGS

Results current thru 10/5/07**

1. Randy Lewis, San Clemente, California – 6.65

2. Gordon Killian, Sinking Springs, Pennsylvania – 6.69

3. Allan Brown, Comstock Park, Michigan – 7.69

**  Results are unofficial.

Past trackchasing reports are available at:

www.ranlayracing.com

Official trackchaser standings can be viewed at:

www.trackchaser.net

Some of the data in this report comes from www.trackchaser.net

and my Garmin GPS

UPCOMING TRACKCHASING PLANS

It’s tough trackchasing on a weekend when UCLA has a home football game on Saturday.  Nevertheless, I might just zip out of the country for a Sunday event.  We’ll see.

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<