DAY 1 – THIS AIN’T YOUR FATHER’S NASA TRACKCHASING TOUR

 

 

 

 

 

 

Editor’s note

 

I would like to offer special RANLAY Racing congratulations to Roland Vanden Eynde of Vilvoorde, Belgium.  Roland has just seen his 100^th new track of the 2007 season.  This is the first time in his trackchasing career that Roland has topped the century mark in one year.  Roland called this accomplishment, “my greatest achievement in the field of trackchasing, especially because it was done on the tightest travel budget since I became an active trackchaser”.  As a fellow trackchaser, I would concur that it takes a person committed to their hobby to achieve this level of mastery.  Congratulations, Roland.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Travel update

 

I have now gone over the 160,000-mile mark for my trackchaser travel in 2007.  Here is how things break out in miles.

 

Airlines – 119,110

Rental car – 39,713

Personal car – 1,454

Friend’s car – 92

Ferryboat – less than 50 miles

 

Total trackchasing miles – 160,769

Contest Winner

 

Special congratulations and a Wal-Mart gift certificate go out to Rick Young of Maxville, Ontario, Canada.  Rick correctly identified the photo that appears at http://www.ranlayracing.com/1286411speedway.htm as trackchaser Colin Herridge.  Incorrect guesses included Charles Manson among others.

 

TODAY’S HEADLINES

 

Fly to L.A. and eat for free!!...................more in “The Trip”.

 

My “pinpoint air strike” strategy is working.  Today I added a first place ranking in my 10^th far western state…………..details in “The Objective”.

 

Why are so many Colorado tracks going under? …………..details in “Race Review”.

 

 

 

 

 

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 PUEBLO, COLORADO.

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

PEOPLE/STRATEGY/TRAVEL NEWS

 

 

 

 

The Objective 

 

Prior to acquiring my airline sponsorships I never would have made a one-day trackchasing trip like this.  I am already hearing fellow trackchasers complain, “well, if he didn’t get to fly free everywhere, he wouldn’t be seeing so many tracks”.  I don’t think my airline arrangements have had much impact at all on my quantity of tracks seen.  I would remind those critics that I saw 182 tracks on my own dime in 2005.  I don’t expect to ever reach that number again, regardless of how much corporate support I might get.

 

However, the airline support I receive has affected my trackchasing in one very important area.  It allows me to make “pinpoint air strikes” into areas that I could not reach this easily before.  Up to this point, it never made economical sense to fly into a far western state for just a track or two.  The airfares were high, the air service spotty and the far western tracks were just too far apart to make for a productive trackchasing trip.

 

All of that has changed in 2007.  Today I have gained a first place trackchasing ranking in Colorado.  There are 13 far western states.  I now hold at least a share of first place in ten of those states (see full description of the “far western plan” at the bottom of this Trackchaser Report).

 

At the beginning of 2007, I held a first place trackchaser state ranking in just two states, Arizona and Oregon.  In just one year, I have added a first place ranking in Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.  Gaining all of these first place rankings didn’t help me that much in my quest to lead the lifetime National Geographic Diversity (NGD) rankings.  Why would that be?  I already had a good NGD score in most of these states, so I didn’t have that much too gain.

 

Although I have placed a strong focus in the far west this year, I will not maintain the same strategy here next year.  There are just not enough tracks here to support my #1 trackchasing objective of seeing more tracks than anyone else does.  I do enjoy trackchasing in the far west.  The scenery is some of the most beautiful in the country.  Very few trackchasers have been to many of these remotely located tracks.  Because of these track’s off the beaten path locations, few trackchasers will ever spend much time out here.

 

I will likely spend enough time in Hawaii and Alaska next year to gain a #1 state ranking.  I’ll go to the other far western states when I want to take a break from the long-haul airplane rides.  The trackchasing landscape is changing and has changed for all of us.

 

In a future report, I will spend more time talking about how the temporary racetrack has taken over from the permanent racetrack as a trackchaser favorite.  I will also give you some insight into my 2008 trackchasing plans.

 

 

 

 

 

The Trip

 

Although it might seem like I spend all of my recreational time going trackchasing that is not really the case.  I place a strong emphasis on trying to create balance with my free time.  Of course, as a retiree, I have much more free time than those of you who are working.  I have mentioned in the past that I want to trackchase and play golf the same number of days each year.  I never seem to meet that goal.  Trackchasing always wins.

 

To date, I have been trackchasing 111 days in 2007.  I have played golf on 78 days.  One might say that I have “failed” in my quest to have a 50/50 balance between these two hobbies.  I look at it a different way.  I have STILL managed to play golf 78 times this year and will probably get in several more rounds before the year ends. 

 

As we used to say when I was a sale manager, your sales success is a function of the goal.  If you sell $100 worth of stuff and your goal was $90, you look like a hero.  However, if your goal was $110 you look like a bum.  In both cases the absolute amount of your sales is the same.  Your success all depended upon what you were comparing yourself against.

 

I have also told you I have a six-weekend commitment to UCLA football with Trackchasing’s First Mother.  This weekend was the fifth of our six weekends with a game at the Rose Bowl against 9^th ranked Arizona State.  Each of UCLA’s games is played on a Saturday.  That means if I’m going to add to my trackchasing total on a UCLA football game weekend, I have to sneak off somewhere on a Friday or a Sunday. 

 

Going trackchasing on a Friday before a UCLA game is risky.  What if I couldn’t make it back to Los Angeles in time for the Saturday game?  Trying to make a Sunday race after a Saturday football game is difficult as well.  Sometimes that requires an overnight flight after the game or a very early Sunday morning wake-up after a Saturday game.  I am happy to report that I have been able to sneak in seven new tracks on the five UCLA football game weekends so far in 2007.

 

This weekend was super special.  We had a rare UCLA sports doubleheader.  On Friday night, UCLA’s #2 ranked basketball Bruins were having their first game of the season against those feared (not really) Portland State Vikings at legendary Pauley Pavilion.

 

We decided to go to the basketball game on Friday night and stay up in Los Angeles.  Driving the 65 miles to this game in the midst of Friday afternoon traffic was a bear.  It took nearly three hours.  It was worth it.  UCLA has an excellent basketball team.  Check your box scores for our Freshman, Kevin Love (nephew of Beach Boys Mike Love).  He’s a big white guy, who is being compared to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Bill Walton.  That comparison is not far off the mark.

 

I used my newly acquired Priceline.com skills to score the Westin St. Bonaventure Hotel in downtown L.A. for our Friday night stay.  Downtown L.A. doesn’t hold a candle to New York's eclectic atmosphere.  It doesn’t hold a candle to Nagoya’s cleanliness.  However, it is still a big city and the views of L.A.’s tall buildings are spectacular from the 30+ stories of the Westin.

 

My Saturday morning power walk around the city was most interesting.  I promise I’ll take my camera the next time around and share some of what I saw on www.ranlayracing.com.  I came across Wolfgang Puck’s restaurant, the Orpheum Theatre where the Miss California USA pageant will be held in a few days, the International Jewelry Mart and the Staples Center (home to the Lakers, Clippers and Kings) among other things.

 

At 7 in the morning, folks were just starting to get their work days started in the local shops and restaurants.  I saw lots of people taking the bus and heard almost no one speaking English.  I could have blinked my eyes and imagined being in Guadalajara as we were last month.

 

I must also tell you that I went into a Starbucks (four bucks?).  To many of you (most?), that might not sound newsworthy.  However, this was only my second ever visit to a Starbucks.  I am not a coffee drinker.  However, Carol is.  I had tucked a five-dollar bill in my sock and only hoped I could afford to buy her a Starbucks with that amount.  I stood in line with several people who didn’t look like they should be spending very much money on coffee.

 

Fortunately, Carol is not a latte, grande, decaf, mucho, double-froth kind of gal.  She drinks it straight.  Just black, baby!  None of that decaf stuff either.  The Starbucks server looked at me with disappointment when I simply said “I’ll take a black coffee” and handed him the same sized cup the woman ahead of me had requested.  I felt as out of place in Starbucks as I did in Guadalajara.

 

I grew up in a small town in central Illinois.  We went to Methodist church on Sunday mornings.  Once in a while we went out for Sunday dinner.  Where did we go most of time?  Steak N’ Shake.  As I look back on it, my life was somewhat of a spartan existence at the time.  One of my first cars was my parent’s second car, a ’59 Ford.  We started that thing with a screwdriver!  I didn’t have the life experiences then that I’ve been able to gain over time, so living where I did seemed just fine.  I enjoyed it immensely.

 

However, as I have traveled I have come to learn there are so many options out there to experience and enjoy.  One of those is the cuisine that many large metropolitan areas, in this case Los Angeles, enjoy.

 

On Friday night before the basketball game, we went to Mongol’s in Westwood Village (yes, this is home to the Wizard of Westwood, John Wooden).  Mongol’s serves Mongolian BBQ.  If you don’t know what that is, you’re probably thinking it has something to do with traditional American BBQ.  Not even close!

 

Mongolian BBQ is cooked on a flat steel grill.  The cooks use wooden sticks to move around your frozen meats, noodles and vegetables while all the while stirring in some soy sauce.  Carol and I eat Mongolian BBQ more than once a month.  We probably eat in restaurants where chopsticks are the norm 4-5 times each month.  Mongol’s is our all-time favorite since we began coming here some 15 years ago with our UCLA student children.

 

No visit to a UCLA basketball game is complete without a visit to Diddy Riese.  This place sells cookies that are identical to Mrs. Fields.  They used to be four for a dollar.  A couple of years ago, they raised the price.  Now, they’re three for a dollar and still quite the bargain.  An ice cream sandwich with two cookies and a huge wad of ice cream is only a buck and a half.  Diddy Riese is on Broxton in Westwood.  There is always a line but it moves fast.

 

On Sunday morning, we found ourselves at the Empress Pavilion in L.A.’s Chinatown.  Our Chinatown isn’t as big or exotic as San Francisco’s but the Empress could meet and beat anything I’ve seen in Frisco (NorCalians hate that word!).  The Empress Pavilion serves Dim Sum.  I couldn’t remember how to get there so a quick call to J.J. in Chicago gave us the address and “Dusty” our portable GPS unit did the rest.

 

The dining room at the Empress is huge.  They must have 100 small tables or more.  Once you are seated the servers come by with trays of all kinds of munchies.  You tell them which of the delights you want and you are served immediately.  The server places a stamp on your bill to indicate what you ordered.

 

We (I?) selected a peach type custard pastry (four to a serving), some sesame seed balls with a syrupy center (think Pecan pie), shrimp dumplings as well as shrimp and scallop dumplings.  The dumplings are served in kind a jellyfish membrane cocoon.  Carol selected some sort of pork dish.  We passed on tripe.  There were several other offerings that we didn’t recognize (monkey?) and/or couldn’t understand the item’s Chinese description.  All of the choices include 4-5 pieces, so there was more than enough for sharing.

 

This is a chopsticks only place, although I guess you could use your fingers.  The clientele is almost exclusively Asian, which makes it all the more the fun.  After we ate all we could, we still had more left over to take to the football game.  All of that eating, with quick service and great food cost only $18.40!

 

I wish everyone reading this could sample these great treats.  As a matter of fact, I have an offer for you.  If you can make it to Los Angeles, the dining at these three establishments is on me.  If you eat at all three of the places I’ve recommended (Mongol’s, Diddy Riese’s and the Empress Pavilion), I will reimburse you and a guest for the entire expense of your meals.  Who says it doesn’t pay to read the RANLAY Racing Trackchaser Report.  Heck, this offer could nearly offset the cost of your airfare.  However, the offer does expire on December 31, 2007 and is available to the first three couples sending in their itemized receipts.

 

All of this eating was followed by the football game.  UCLA does not have an effective team.  They played their most entertaining game of the year, but still lost 24-20.  I admit that I rooted against them today.  Our coach is in his fifth year.  He is not getting the job done.  If he loses the next two games (Oregon and USC), he will likely be fired.  That’s bad for him, but good for the future of UCLA football.

 

It was nearly a three-hour drive back home after the game.  We had had a long weekend of college sports and went to bed at just past 9 p.m. on Saturday evening.  That’s early for us.

 

However, my alarm rang at 4:30 a.m. Sunday morning.  I had allocated 15 minutes for the morning cleanup routine.  This got me on the road at 4:45 a.m. and into LAX at just before 6 a.m.  Do you know there are not many crazies on the L.A. freeways then?

 

However, I did run into crazies on the Parking Spot shuttle bus.  About six Oakland Raiders fans (formerly L.A. Raiders) were flying up to Oakland today for the football game against da Bears.  I don’t think I would be out of line in saying that the majority of Raiders fans are just downright obnoxious.  What else would you expect?  They played their L.A. home games in the Coliseum, which is also home to those lowly trojans.  I suspect that most of them have police records or will by the end of a typical Raiders game.

 

These six were no exception.  They were probably all about 50 years old, which proves that Raider fans never grow up.  I don’t think they were affected by any early wakeup calls.  I pretty sure they never went to bed last night.  The guy sitting next to me smelled like he had washed his clothes in Jack Daniels and then tried to sleep in them.  They were a little late for their flight and I don’t know if they made it.  I suspect they will definitely be snoozers on the flight home after the game.

 

 

 

 

The People

 

I’ve got to give a shout out to Trackchasing’s First Mother.  Although she did not grow up as much of a sports fan, she has turned into one.  She is right there with me step for step as we go to all of these UCLA basketball and football games both home and away.  It’s more than a mile’s walk from where we park at all of the UCLA games.  She’s in great shape.  She understands the games, especially football and is a great fan.

 

When we visit these games, there are not that many people our age or older.  I think by the time folks reach my age of 58, they have stopped going to very many games.  They may watch on TV or they may not watch at all anymore.  Carol doesn’t show any signs of slowing down.  We may keep up this lifestyle for a number of years into the future.  I sure hope so.

 

 

 

 

 

STATE RANKINGS

Colorado

Today I visited my 12^th lifetime track in Colorado.  This moves me from a second place tie with Allan Brown and Gordon Killian into a first place tie with Ed Esser.  My trackchasing action nudges Mssrs. Brown and Killian, my two closest National Geographic Diversity competitors, back into third place.  That gives me a two-point net NGD position gain against my NGD nemesis from Pennsylvania.

 

A rather large group, for a far western state, of 38 trackchasers has trackchased in this Rocky Mountain state.  Nearly half of those folks have only visited one or two tracks.

 

 

 

 

RACE REVIEW

 

PUEBLO MOTORSPORTS PARK, PUEBLO, COLORADO - TRACK #1,289

 

This was an interesting trackchasing day.  I would have to say it wasn’t worth the trip, but then that is what I expected.  I hope it was not a self-fulfilling prophecy.

 

Finding the track property was easy.  The Pueblo Motorsports Park (PMS), (no, not THAT kind of PMS) is located in a desert area of town.  Although there appears to be enough room for now, new commercial development is only a few blocks away.

 

When I entered the property, I noticed an active motocross track.  Motocross is very popular with its participants, although it is not a countable trackchasing form of motorsport.  PMS has a drag strip on the property.  I also found a small asphalt oval (1/20 mile?) that they use for quarter-midget racing.

 

However, none of the above was surprising compared to what I saw next.  Between the motocross track and the road course track was a defunct 3/8-mile oval track.  I was able to sneak in and take pictures of this oval.  Those photos are now available for you to see at www.ranlayracing.com.  This track looks like it has been active in the past 10 years.  The weeds are growing up around the grandstand and track area.  The concession stand looks like it has been vandalized.  I saw absolutely no signage whatsoever to identify what the track’s name might have been.

 

Additional research from my History of American Speedways revealed this used to be the Pueblo Speedway.  My book indicates this track opened in 2002.  I believe the track had a very short history. 

 

By the way, I drove by the Pikes Peak International Raceway in Fountain, Colorado on my way to Pueblo.  Carol and I saw a race at this NASCAR quality track just two years ago in 2005.  At the end of that season, the track was closed and the property sold.  I had heard the grandstands had been taken down.  Not true.  From the freeway (also see www.ranlayracing.com) it doesn’t look any different than before it was shut down.  Couple these defunct tracks with Colorado’s Rocky Mountain Raceways and the Second Creek Raceway, both tracks that closed after the ’06 season and you have a number of Colorado defections.

 

Today’s road racing was being sanctioned by the National Auto Sport Association (NASA) group.  I have not had much look with this sanctioning body.  They always seem to bring small car counts and don’t stay on schedule like their primary competitor, the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) does.

 

NASA performed like I expected them too, not that great.  Their website information called for a heat race and two feature events for today’s racing.  That wheel-to-wheel action would be sandwiched around several high performance driving experience (HPDE) racing classes today.

 

I arrived at 12 noon.  There was no activity at the track at that point.  Everyone was having lunch.  This is how the road racing boys and girls do it.  They have lunch like civilized people.  I could not find a current schedule of events posted anywhere at the track.  While folks lunched I walked around the paddock area taking photos.

 

Today was a beautiful day.  I cancelled a couple of weeks ago on an SCCA event at this track when the weather forecast called for 45 degrees and light rain.  Today it was 73 degrees with not a cloud in the sky and only a slight breeze.  It was so nice that I took a short nap in the empty grandstands while the HPDE people did their thing.

 

The P.A. system was excellent.  The announcer sounded like an educated young man who could explain himself well.  Nevertheless, he spoke infrequently and didn’t give much information.  He did do something the oval tracks are famous for.  He called for the racers to bring their cars to the paddock area incessantly and without much success.

 

It was 2:57 p.m. when the first race pulled onto the track.  I had been here for almost three hours.  I think I must be getting to these tracks too early.  Finally, I was able to corner the gentleman who had lined up the cars in the staging area.  “Which race is this?” I asked.  It took some doing but I finally pulled it out of him that this was going to be the only wheel-to-wheel race of the day.

 

The announcer then came over the P.A. and told us there would be “three races within one race”.  There were three classes of cars racing.  First, there were ten “American iron” cars.  These were of the Mustang and Camaro variety.  The second class was made up of six Mazda Miatas and one other similar car.  The final class had six Porsche spec 944 cars. 

 

The classes were separated by a few hundred yards and each took their own green flag and subsequently, their own checkered flag.  The announcer did not speak during the race.  I think the race was 30 minutes in duration.

 

Like many road course tracks located on a property with a drag strip, the strip played the part of the main straight.  When I sat in the drag strip grandstand, I had a great view of the cars racing down the quarter-mile.  However, when they left the drag strip, they weren’t any more distinguishable than the cars on the nearby highway.

 

Even though I could tell their was a car out there in the far reaches of the track, there was no way I could read the car number and in some cases, it was difficult to even see what color the car was for certain.  Couple this viewing disability with no P.A. and a program that didn’t come off as advertised and this was a long walk for a short slide.

 

I was pleased to get a part of the Colorado trackchasing lead.  I was pleased to gain two lifetime NGD state positions.  I was pleased to get a track on the same weekend as a UCLA football game.  It’s just that the racing was, for lack of a better word, hogwash.

 

 

 

 

 

RENTAL CAR UPDATE

 

Colorado Springs – Sunday

 

Trackchasing logistics are never easy or straightforward.  Today I needed to rent my car in Colorado Springs.  The Springs is about 60 miles south of Denver.  This was necessary because I could get a wide open flight that landed at 10:33 a.m.  Colorado Springs is just an hour north of Pueblo.  Flights into Denver would have arrived later and given me a two-hour drive to Pueblo.  In hindsight, with the delayed and shortened program that would have worked out fine.

 

On my return, the best bet was to drop the car in Denver.  The flight situation was much better there.  I was able to use www.sidestep.com to find a one-way rental from Budget that would not break the trackchasing budget of a retired pensioner living on a small and variable income or something like that.  I arrived home before Carol had finished watching Desperate Housewives.

 

I drove the Budget Rental Car Racing Grand Prix 190 miles in the slightly more than 7 hours that I had it.  I paid an average price of $3.30 per gallon.  The Pontiac gave me 23.0 miles per gallon in fuel mileage at a cost of 14.4 cents (U.S.) per mile.  The car cost 29.9 cents per mile to rent, all taxes included.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for reading about my trackchasing,

 

Randy Lewis

Alberta’s #1 Trackchaser

That’s all the news that’s fit to print from San Clemente where the women are strong, the men are good-looking, and all of the children are above average.

 

 

 

 

 

 

TRAVEL DETAILS

 

 

AIRPLANE

 

Los Angeles, CA – Colorado Springs, CO – 833 miles

 

 

RENTAL CAR – COLORADO SPRINGS

 

City of Colorado Springs Municipal Airport – trip begins

Pueblo, CO – 57 miles

Denver International Airport – 190 miles

 

 

AIRPLANE

 

Denver, CO - Los Angeles, CA – 861 miles

 

 

 

Total Air miles – 1,694 miles (2 flights)

 

 

Total auto and air miles traveled on this trip – 1,882 miles

 

 

 

 

 

TRACK ADMSSION PRICES:

 

Pueblo Motorsports Park – Free!

 

They weren’t charging admission when I arrived.

 

 

Total racetrack admissions for the trip – Zippo

 

 

 

 

 

 

RANKINGS

 

 

LIFETIME TRACKCHASER STANDINGS UPDATE:

 

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

 

1.  Randy Lewis, San Clemente, California – 1,289

 

 

 

 

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.  Carol Lewis, San Clemente, California – 349

 

28.  Max Allender, Des Moines, Iowa – 349

 

 

 

 

 

2007 TRACKCHASER STANDINGS

 

1.  Randy Lewis, San Clemente, California – 151

 

2.  Roland Vanden Eynde, Vilvoorde, Belgium - 100

 

3.  Ed Esser, Madison, Wisconsin – 98

 

4.  Mike Knappenberger, Reading, Pennsylvania – 88

 

5.  Paul Weisel, Orefield, Pennsylvania – 61

 

6.  Carol Lewis, San Clemente, California – 55

 

6.  Pam Smith, Effort, Pennsylvania – 55

 

8.  Guy Smith, Effort, Pennsylvania - 54

 

9.  Gordon Killian, Sinking Springs, Pennsylvania – 48

 

10.  Roger Ferrell, Majenica, Indiana – 35

 

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

 

 

 

 

LIFETIME NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC DIVERSITY STANDINGS

 

Results current thru 11/11/07**

 

 

1. Randy Lewis, San Clemente, California – 6.33

2. Gordon Killian, Sinking Springs, Pennsylvania – 6.55

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

 

There is no UCLA football next weekend.  I’m going to see as many tracks as I can on the last weekend before Thanksgiving.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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)