DAY 1 – JUST A FEW MORE BEFORE TURKEY TIME TRACKCHASING TOUR

 

Editor’s note #1

 

I would like to congratulate Ed Esser of Madison, Wisconsin for reaching the century mark in new tracks seen for the 2007 season.  I must have been sleeping when Ed actually saw his 100^th track this year, because he’s up to 104 as this is being written.  This marks Ed’s 5^th consecutive year to see 100 tracks or more in a single season.  I’ve done it four times, Andy Sivi twice and Mike Knappenberger and Roland Vanden Eynde have seen 100 tracks in a season one time.  Congratulations, Ed!!

 

 

 

 

Editor’s note #2

 

 

I frequently give small pieces of advice that might make the world a better place for my readers to live.  Specifically, I am referring to travel and negotiating strategies.  I am happy to report that George Robertson, long-time Trackchaser Report reader recently benefited from these strategies.

 

George and his wife Melanie, returned last week to their hometown in North Carolina for a week’s vacation.  Their plan included going to the traditional interstate rivalry football game between George’s alma mater the University of North Carolina Tar Heels (do they really wear UCLA blue?) and the North Carolina State Wolfpack.  However, the game was sold out.  There were no tickets to be bought.

 

George’s family told him to give up.  They told him there was no way he could get tickets to this game.  George consulted with me and developed his ticket buying strategy.  He crafted his “Need 2 Tix” cardboard sign.  Once at the game, he quickly was able to buy two tickets with a face value of $48 each for just $30 apiece.  Melanie was overcome with glee.  The only drawback was that UNC came up just short in the game.

 

George was not finished with his RANLAY Racing strategy deployment.  He used www.biddingfortravel.com to get a four-star hotel for $45 that was selling on the hotel’s website for $139 and went for as much as $239 during the week.  Of course, I got the biddingfortravel information from TR readers Pryce Boeye and J.J. Lewis.  If you have travel or financial successes from your Trackchaser Report learnings, please pass them along.

 

 

 

TODAY’S HEADLINES

 

What are the four different trackchasing requirements that I must meet before each and every trackchasing trip?...................more in “The Objective”.

 

What is Trackchasing’s First Mother’s 2007 trackchasing future? …………..details in “The Trip”.

 

What prevented me from entering tonight’s track when I arrived at the property?. …………..details in “The People”.

 

Did you watch Davy Crockett as a kid?  Did you know he was at the Alamo in a case of bad timing?………..details in “Trackchasing Tourist Attraction”.

 

 

 

 

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http://www.ranlayracing.com/nov16182007.htm

 

 

 

 

GREETINGS FROM CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS.

 

 

 

 

I WOKE UP IN SAN CLEMENTE, CALIFORNIA THIS MORNING AND WENT TO SLEEP IN A SUPER 8 PARKING LOT IN SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.  THIS IS WHAT TRANSPIRED TODAY.

 

 

 

 

PEOPLE/STRATEGY/TRAVEL NEWS

 

 

 

 

The Objective 

 

I need to meet four different requirements before I can see a new track every time I go trackchasing.  These requirements come in a specific order of priority.  If I can’t meet each of these, then I won’t be seeing any new tracks.  Here are those requirements.

 

 

1.  No personal/family conflicts

 

Our children are all grown and out on their own.  J.J. lives in Chicago, Kristy in Los Angeles and Jim in Honolulu.  With our kids being gone from home, that frees up time for Carol and me as empty nesters.

 

However, our sport’s schedules tie us down to some degree.  We share season tickets with six other people for Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim games.  Whenever I can, I ask for mid-week games (Tuesday/Wednesday) so as to minimize trackchasing conflicts.  We also are season ticket holders for UCLA football.  We used to have season basketball tickets as well for the Bruins.  However, the traffic woes, sometimes as much as four hours round-trip, made the games somewhat less attractive.  Couple that with the cupcake pre-season schedule that UCLA likes to play at home and we decided just to pick and choose the home games along with a road game or two added to our schedule.

 

We already have two wedding commitments in 2008 as well as a family vacation that will take up two weekends.  Fortunately, our family is willing to “reschedule” birthdays, anniversaries, etc. for when everyone can make it.  We learned to do this when I was traveling during my business career.  For 15 or so years, I had to travel to our national sales meeting on the Saturday before Father’s Day.  We just celebrated that special day whenever it was convenient.

 

 

2.  Tracks need to be racing

 

I have some golfing friends who enjoy playing as many golf courses as they can.  Of course, there are a lot more golf courses than there are racetracks.  Golf courses are open seven days a week from sunup to sundown.  A racetrack that runs a regular schedule normally races one time per week for 3-4 hours for 4-5 months. 

 

The typical North American track runs from late April/early May until sometime in September.  It’s too cold for most tracks to race before April or after October.  This leaves a good five months (November, December, January, February and March) where very few tracks are racing.  The main reason the races are not run in cold weather is that racing fans don’t want to sit out in the cold.

 

My staff at RANLAY Racing works several hours each day researching new track locations and race dates for every one of the current 1,154 tracks I still need to see in North America.  From this group, 927 tracks have websites (80.3%).  Only 328 of these tracks race a “regular” schedule, meaning weekly, during their season.  Most of the rest race just once a year for 2-3 hours.  Imagine trying to play as many different golf courses as you could when the course was only open 2-3 hours every year!!

 

This weekend’s three-day trip (Fri/Sat/Sun) found only twelve different tracks racing from my database of 1,154 tracks that I have not seen…...yet.  Yes, just twelve tracks in the entire United States.  Somewhat miraculously, I am planning to see four of those tracks this weekend. 

 

 

3.  The weather needs to cooperate

 

There are three types of tracks in the world of trackchasing.  They are ovals, road courses and figure 8 tracks.  According to www.trackchcaser.net I have seen 1,027 ovals; 118 road courses and 138 figure 8 tracks (this totals to 1,283, one track short of my currently posted overall total of 1,284.  Why would that be?).  I have no idea.  Maybe, someone can enlighten me.

 

As you can see, oval tracks are the most popular for me and all North American chasers.  The majority of the oval tracks I visit are dirt tracks.  It takes a very small amount of rain to make a dirt track a mud track and therefore unraceable.  Fortunately, road courses rarely cancel due to rain.  Figure 8 tracks don’t cancel as easily as oval tracks do.

 

Some promoters will even cancel their program based upon a questionable weather forecast.  They figure if the weather looks bad, then their crowd size will be negatively affected.  Although that is probably true, a cancellation based upon a rainy forecast does not provide much reward for the fan who decides to come to the track regardless of the weather that might be predicted.

 

I have seen rain showers of just five or ten minutes cancel programs.  Of course, if the rain comes after at least some wheel-to-wheel racing has begun, we trackchasers can still count the track.  That seems fair enough to me.

 

Tonight’s racing in Corpus Christi, Texas was the only new track opportunity that I could find that was racing anywhere in the entire United States.  I drove 65 miles to the Los Angles airport, caught a flight of some 1,100+ miles to San Antonio, Texas and then rented a car and drove 150 more miles.  If it were to rain in Corpus Christi tonight, all of my effort would be for nothing.

 

I have some special, super secret and not used by any other trackchasers weather prognosticating tools.   This proprietary capability allows me to have the best weather record in all of North American trackchasing.  Considering how little rain is needed to cancel a program, my 2007 record of 115 successful trackchasing days with only three rained out days is the envy of my fellow competitors.  Of course, I am lucky to be living in an age of global warming (at least for now) as well.

 

 

4.  I need an airplane

 

I am the only trackchaser that uses an airplane for the vast majority of my trackchasing travel.  My residential location of San Clemente, California is the most remote of any top 40 trackchaser living in the United States.  It would not be practical for me to attempt to drive to racetracks from my home.  I am not aware of any track that races on a weekly basis that is less than 700 miles from my home.  Heck, the one and only weekly California track that I have not seen is 738 miles from my house up in Yreka.

 

Although I used to buy commercial airline tickets, I rarely do anymore.  My airline sponsors are willing to give me an airline seat if they have one available.  Think of this as going to your neighbor for a cup of sugar.  If they have it, they will give it to you.

 

Therefore, I can fly anywhere I want, anytime I want, but only on a standby basis.  If you have flown much since 9/11, you know that planes are much more crowded these days.  I spend a significant amount of my time trying to find planes that will have an open seat for a trackchaser like me.

 

Of course, other travelers want to “mooch” off the airlines just like me.  I use the word “mooch” because that is exactly the word a fellow trackchaser used to describe this standby phenomenon.  I tried to explain to him that if he needed to use his employer’s health care plan, it was one of his benefits.  He was not “mooching”.  As a parent of a pilot, I am fully entitled to this benefit.

 

Everything in the airline business is done based upon an employee’s seniority.  It is a lot like the military in this respect.  If there are five people waiting for three seats, it’s not the smartest, the most attractive or the most affluent that get the open seats.  Of course, this is lucky for me!  The person with the most seniority gets the seat.  Since J.J. only started flying some 15 months ago, I travel with a very “light” seniority date.

 

In the world of standby travel, it doesn’t pay to check your bags to where you think you might be going, because you might not go there!  Standby passengers’ names are called at the very last minute, if there is an open seat.  If you check a bag and don’t get on the plane, your bag makes it to Timbuktu, but you don’t.  I almost never (this somewhat vague, CYA, language is required by trackchaser mandate) check a bag.  Of course, boarding the plane last with a full rolling carryon bag and large briefcase is not the best of all worlds with overhead space at a premium.

 

 

Conclusion

 

There you have it.  If nothing else is going on at home, and if I can find a track where it’s not going to rain, and there’s at least one more seat on the airplane for me, then I’m golden.  Yes, it sounds difficult, but I always manage to make it happen.  Maybe it’s not really that hard.  On the other hand,…..maybe the RANLAY Racing research department is just a little bit better than those of my fellow competitors.  You can decide.

 

 

     

The Trip

 

It is unlikely that Trackchasing’s First Mother will see any more new tracks in 2007.  No, she is not injured.  We are entering the holidays.  Carol works like a dog during the holidays.  Who am I to get in her way?  We have a major wing of our new home primarily dedicated to the storage of holiday paraphernalia.  That’s my word, not hers.

 

Now that the Halloween stuff has been stored away for another year, it’s time for Thanksgiving turkeys to begin popping up around every corner inside the house just like we were a Butterball turkey farm.  This will soon be replaced with Christmas trees, tinsel and glitter to mark the Christmas season.  She deserves a break.  She has earned a solid top 10 season trackchasing finish amongst some of the most hardcore trackchasers you or anyone else is likely to come in contact with.

 

My trip today was simple.  I awoke at 4:30 a.m.   I was out the door at 4:50 a.m.  I arrived at LAX at 5:55 a.m.  I cleared security at 6:07 a.m.  I boarded my airplane at 7:17 a.m.  The plane lifted up at 7:41 a.m.  We landed 12:22 p.m.  I picked up my rental car at 12: 47 p.m.  I did some things around San Antonio (see Trackchasing Tourist Attraction) and arrived at the South Texas Speedway in Corpus Christi, Texas at 5:45 p.m.  This was all in a day’s work.

 

 

 

 

The People

 

I arrived at the track more than two hours before race time.  My plan was to buy a ticket, take a few pictures in the daylight and then go back to the car to take a nap.  I had gotten up at 4:30 a.m. this morning.  I would have to drive 150 miles after the race, and then sleep in my car before getting up at 3:30 a.m. San Clemente time to begin my journey to Tennessee.  If I could get a catnap in now, it would surely help later on.

 

Alas, in an exemplary display of short track’s lack of customer management skills, the ticket booth was not open yet.  That seemed strange.  There were several folks already milling around inside the track grounds.  It turns out those folks had reached the general admission area with the use of their pit pass.

 

I asked the few fans waiting around the ticket window what was going on.  “Can’t find the tickets”, two bearded fans told me simultaneously.  Yep!  They “couldn’t find the tickets”!  I could have gone back to the car to take my nap.  However, if I did that, then I wouldn’t have any photos to show you at www.ranlayracing.com would I?  I stuck it out while we waited for someone to find the tickets!

 

I struck up a conversation with several race fans.  The NASCAR Labontes (Terry and Bobby) are from Corpus Christi.  One fellow who sounded just like Terry told me he was related to the Labontes by “marriage”. 

 

It was fun talking we these fans for a few moments.  I learned the asphalt track in town, the Corpus Christi Speedway was shut down due to poor management.  I was told tonight’s track was on the upswing with new management.  These fans seemed envious of my trackchasing lifestyle.  I get that reaction a lot.  I’m not sure most people would like to follow my footsteps if they knew what was involved.  Nevertheless, I like it!

 

 

 

TRACKCHASING TOURIST ATTRACTION

 

One of the best things about traveling the world in search of new racetracks is the incredible places I get to visit.  Today’s trip took me to two that were quite different but within walking distance of each other.

 

 

The Alamo – San Antonio, Texas

 

Did you know that construction began on the Alamo in 1724?  For nearly 70 years, it was home to missionaries and their Indian converts.  Alamo is the Spanish word for “cottonwood”.  In December 1835, San Antonio and the Alamo played a critical role in the Texas Revolution.  Texian and Tejano troops forced General Marin Perfecto de Cos and his soldiers to surrender.  The Texas troops then occupied the Alamo until a few months later.  However, on February 23, 1836, the Mexican army returned and surprised the Texans residing in the Alamo.  The outmanned Texans defended their turf for 13 days.  Among the Alamo’s garrison was Jim Bowie renowned knife fighter and David Crockett famed frontiersman and former congressman from Tennessee.  People worldwide continue to remember the Alamo as a heroic struggle against impossible odds – a place where men made the ultimate sacrifice for freedom.  For this reason, the Alamo remains hallowed ground and the Shrine of Texas Liberty.

 

More than 2.5 million people visit the 4.2-acre complex known worldwide as “The Alamo.”  The Alamo is open every day except Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.  I enjoyed my visit to this historic sight.

 

 

San Antonio Riverwalk – San Antonio, Texas

 

The San Antonio Riverwalk is the number one tourist attraction in all of Texas!  Back in the early 50s, the San Antonio River was straightened in the San Antonio downtown area.  In 1961, the designers of Disneyland completed a study regarding the commercial potential of the river.  They recommended that all buildings that backed up to the river be developed in early Texas or Mexican style.

 

San Antonio voters approved several bond issues for development of the Riverwalk.  Today, the river is surrounded by large hotel developments and restaurants.  Visitors can ride down the river is boats just like those who visit Venice.  There is a wide range of events on the annual calendar that includes holiday light parades, Mariachi festivals as well as arts & crafts shows.

 

I’ve been down to the Riverwalk area a few times for business meetings and other San Antonio visits.  Today, I had a lovely lunch within feet of the river.  I watched folks spending a lazy Friday afternoon walking along side of the river.  With any luck, I might be back in April, 2008.  The San Antonio “Alamodome” will play host to the NCAA final four basketball tournament.  UCLA has been part of the final four for each of the past two years.

 

 

 

 

STATE RANKINGS

Texas

This was my 31st lifetime track to see in the Lone Star state, home of the state bird, the Mockingbird.  John Moore from Knoxville, Tennessee trails in second place with 29 tracks in Texas. 

 

I lead the trackchaser rankings in 11 different states.  I cannot gain any NGD points in these states.  As a state leader, I get one NGD point in each of these states.  It’s like golf.  You cannot make a score any lower than a one!

 

 

 

 

RACE REVIEW

 

SOUTH TEXAS SPEEDWAY, CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS - TRACK #1,290

 

Tonight one of my favorite race sanctioning groups was racing, the United States Modified Touring Series.  This modified group runs all over the Midwest and South.  They run about 100 events each year.  This was my third time to see them race in 2007.  The other two times were in Missouri.

 

The USMTS group brought about 40 cars.  A support group of limited modifieds also brought about 40 cars.  I was hoping to get out of here in a reasonable time tonight.  With 80 cars racing, that might be a problem.

 

I don’t mind leaving a program after 2-3 hours of seat time at the track.  I enjoy movies and college basketball.  They both take only two hours or less to entertain me.  Why should racing be any different?  However, I love the USMTS group.  I would need to stay for the “A” feature no matter how long it took.

 

I would soon learn that the program would have 10 heat races, two “B” mains and 2 “A” mains.  Fortunately, the USMTS group has a promoter named Todd Staley.  Normally, Todd runs the program from the track level, assisting with lineups, etc.  Tonight Todd was staffing the flag stand.

 

I was also fortunate to have my race scanner.  I have never seen another trackchaser using a scanner.  I find them to be indispensable on a trackchasing night when I’m by myself.  It’s so much more interesting to get the “inside” information being shared by the track’s management. 

 

Todd Staley ran tonight’s show like a drill sergeant.  As soon as one race ended, the next came onto the track.  There were not many yellow flag delays, so the program moved along nicely.  The track itself, a 3/8-mile banked black dirt track held up well.  There was no dust as all.

 

The pit area was located beyond turns three and four.  The grandstand was large but held only a couple hundred spectators tonight.  The promoter had to have lost money on this promotion.  The P.A. was good.  The announcer, whom I had met earlier in the evening, worked for a radio station and had that smooth radio voice.  He told me he had been race announcing since the early 70s.  He had even called races in Mexico.  The announcer gave me a welcoming trackchaser mention, even calling me a “celebrity”.  I’ve been called worse, but only by those “dreaded East coast trackchasers”.

 

The racing up until the USMTS “A” main event wasn’t nearly as good as I had expected.  There wasn’t much passing even though the track was wide and smooth.  Kelly Shyrock, the “Steve Kinser of USMTS racing” did not do well in his heat race or the “B” main.  He had to take a provisional starting spot at the back of the “A” main.

 

Some folks don’t like the use of provisionals.  They say if you can’t make it on your own, then you should go home.  I don’t agree.  I had traveled a long distance to be here tonight.  I only recognized a few of the USMTS travelers.  I certainly wanted to see their many time point champion race in the “A” main, that being Kelly Shyrock.

 

Kelly started 24^th in the main event.  With the help of several cautions, he climbed all the way up to third place by the time the 40-lap feature event was finished.  He was just two car lengths from the lead.

 

I don’t know if Kelly’s run from the back was the highlight of the night or the battle the first two “A” main finishers put on was.  The driver who had run second all the way put a bonsai move on the race leader coming out of the fourth turn.  He fell just five inches short at the checkered flag with Shyrock on the back bumpers of both drivers.  In true USMTS fashion, the “A” main was the race of the night and the race of the weekend for that matter.

 

The entire program was finished by 10:30 p.m.  Had the last race not taken 40 minutes with several yellow flag delays, it would have been over even sooner.  With such a good race in my head, it was a pleasant 150-mile drive back up to San Antonio.  I found a quiet secluded spot to park for about four hours and dreamt of new racetracks on the trackchasing horizon.

 

 

 

 

 

RENTAL CAR UPDATE

 

San Antonio – Friday/Saturday

 

What would you do?  A few days ago, I made a fully cancelable rental car reservation with my preferred vendor, National Rental Car.  The charge for a full-sized car for one day was $31.97 including all taxes.  That seemed reasonable to me.

 

However, I like to push the envelope in most things that I do.  Once I knew that I would be getting a seat on the flight to San Antonio, I wanted to try my rental car luck with Priceline.com.  The one drawback to Priceline is that once your bid is accepted by them, you cannot cancel.  Even if you don’t make the trip, you have paid for what you bid on.

 

I don’t like that feature of Priceline.  I like options and flexibility.  Priceline takes away my options and flexibility.  However, they give me something for my inconvenience.  They give me a good price for quality products.  I like that.

 

With a reservation already on the books at $31.97, how much could I realistically save?  I set a goal of ten bucks.  I know, you are probably saying, “But Randy, what value is ten bucks to a man of your means”?  I will simply say this.  I got where I am by setting a few hundred thousand “ten buck goals”.

 

I jumped on Priceline.com and bid the princely sum of $12 for a day’s worth of full-size rental car.  Of course, with tax (those greedy %$^&$#) the price would total about $22.  Priceline quickly came back and told me they were sorry, they could not accept my offer.  They did not say anything about me being a cheap #$%$^&$.  However, they did tell me they were going to make a “special exception” for me.  They would allow me to bid one more time without having to change anything (car class, rental date or location) as they normally require.

 

O.K. I’ll play their game.  I raised my bid.  I raised my bid by just one dollar.  Maybe they sensed they had better accept my new bid of $13 ($23.15 with tax) or risk losing my business.  For whatever reason, they accepted my generous offer!  I would be saving $8.82!  It wasn’t much but I figured it might buy my lunch (it didn’t).

 

What was most surprising of all was that the Priceline.com rental car company being offered to me was with National Rental Car, the company that had quoted me the $32 price.  I guess National was willing to give Priceline.com a better price that I could get from them.

 

I drove the National Rental Car Budget Rental Car Racing Grand Prix 306 miles in the slightly less than a day that I had it.  I paid an average price of $2.96 per gallon.  The Pontiac gave me 27.5 miles per gallon in fuel mileage at a cost of 10.7 cents (U.S.) per mile.  The car cost 7.6 cents per mile to rent, all taxes included via Priceline.com.

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for reading about my trackchasing,

 

Randy Lewis

Alberta’s #1 Trackchaser

Quitting while you’re ahead is not the same thing as quitting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

TRAVEL DETAILS

 

 

AIRPLANE

 

Los Angeles, CA – San Antonio, TX – 1,112 miles

 

 

RENTAL CAR – SAN ANTONIO

 

San Antonio International Airport – trip begins

Corpus Christi, TX – 152 miles

 

 

 

TRACK ADMSSION PRICES:

 

South Texas Speedway – $12

 

 

 

 

 

RANKINGS

 

 

LIFETIME TRACKCHASER STANDINGS UPDATE:

 

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

 

1.  Randy Lewis, San Clemente, California – 1,290

 

 

 

 

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 – 152

 

2.  Ed Esser, Madison, Wisconsin – 104

 

3.  Roland Vanden Eynde, Vilvoorde, Belgium - 100

 

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 – 6.35

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

 

With a near perfect weather forecast (for mid-November), I’m off chasing NGD points.  With any luck I should get a couple.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RACETRACKS VISITED IN 2007 (** not the first time to visit this track)

 

 

1,139.  Meremere Dirt Track Club, Meremere, New Zealand - January 1

 

1,140.  Meeanee Speedway, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand - January 1

 

1,141.  Top of the South Speedway, Richmond, New Zealand - January 2

 

1,142.  Woodford Glen Speedway, Christchurch, New Zealand - January 3

 

1,143.  Robertson Holden International Speedway, Palmerston North, New Zealand - January 5

 

1,144.  Taupo Motorsports Park, Taupo, North, New Zealand - January 6

 

1,145.  Waikaraka Park International Speedway, Auckland, New Zealand - January 6

 

1,146.  Angels Stadium of Anaheim (inner oval), Anaheim, California - January 13

 

1,147.  Angels Stadium of Anaheim (outer oval), Anaheim, California - January 13

 

1,148.  West Valley Speedway, Surprise, Arizona - January 14

 

1,149. Sandia Motorsports Park (road course), Albuquerque, New Mexico - January 28

 

1,150. Grand Prix De Lanaudiere, Lavaltrie, Quebec, Canada – February 3

 

1,151. Ste-Eulalie Ice Track, Eulalie, Quebec, Canada – February 4

 

1,152. St Guillaume, St Guillaume, Quebec, Canada – February 4

 

1,153. Caldwell Rodeo Arena, Caldwell, Idaho – February 10

 

1,154. Balsam Lake Ice Track, Balsam Lake, Wisconsin – February 18

 

1,155. Northeast Pond Ice Track, Milton, New Hampshire – February 24

 

1,156. Lee Pond Ice Track, Moultonborough, New Hampshire – February 25

 

1,157. New Hendry Country Speedway, Clewiston, Florida – March 3

 

1,158. Florida Sports Park, Naples, Florida – March 4

 

1,159. Honeoye Lake Ice Track – Road Course, Honeoye, New York – March 10

 

1,160. Houston Raceway Park, Baytown, Texas – March 16

 

1,161. Houston Motorsports Park, Houston, Texas – March 16

 

1,162. Dawgwood Speedway, Chatsworth, Georgia – March 17

 

1,163. Toccoa Speedway, Toccoa, Georgia – March 17

 

1,164. Tazewell Speedway, Tazewell, Tennessee – March 18

 

1,165. Malden Speedway, Malden, Missouri, Tennessee – March 23

 

1,166. Dacosa Speedway, Byhalia, Mississippi – March 24

 

1,167. Swinging Bridge Raceway, Byram, Mississippi – March 24

 

1,168. Florence Motor Speedway, Florence, South Carolina – March 25

 

1,169. Foothills Raceway, Easley, South Carolina – March 30

 

1,170. Mileback Speedway, Gray Court, South Carolina – March 30

 

1,171. Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Florida – April 1

 

1,172. Vegas Grand Prix, Las Vegas, Nevada – April 8

 

1,173. Huntsville Speedway, Huntsville, Alabama – April 13

 

1,174. Low Country Kartway, Aynor, South Carolina – April 14

 

1,175. Dillon Motor Speedway, Dillon, South Carolina – April 14

 

1,176. Valley Dirt Riders, Berthoud, Colorado – April 15

 

1,177. Antelope Valley Fairgrounds, Lancaster, California – April 22

 

1,178. Sertoma Speedway, Tularosa, New Mexico – April 27

 

1,179. Sandia Motorsports Park (outer oval), Albuquerque, New Mexico – April 28

 

1,180. Sandia Motorsports Park (inner oval), Albuquerque, New Mexico – April 28

 

1,181. Hollywood Hills Speedway, San Felipe Pueblo, New Mexico – April 29

 

1,182. Meridian Speedway, Meridian, Idaho – May 11

 

1,183. Diamond Mountain Speedway, Vernal, Utah, Idaho – May 12

 

1,184. Rocky Mountain Raceways (oval), Salt Lake City, Utah – May 12 

 

1,185. Rocky Mountain Raceways (figure 8), Salt Lake City, Utah – May 12

 

1,186. Modoc Speedway, Modoc, South Carolina – May 18

 

1,187. Possum Kingdom Super Speedway, Belton, South Carolina – May 19

 

1,188. Laurens County Speedway, Laurens, South Carolina – May 19

 

1,189. Fairplex at the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds, Pomona, California – May 20

 

1,190. Lowes Motor Speedway (inner oval), Concord, North Carolina – May 24

 

1,191. Lowes Motor Speedway (road course), Concord, North Carolina – May 24

 

1,192. Madison International Speedway (inner oval), Oregon, Wisconsin – May 25

 

** Madison International Speedway (outer oval), Oregon, Wisconsin – May 25

 

1,193. Thunderbird Stadium (figure 8), Bremerton, Washington – May 26

 

1,194. Thunderbird Stadium (oval), Bremerton, Washington – May 26

 

1,195. Whispering Pines Motorsports Park, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada – May 27

 

1,196. Magic Valley Speedway, Twin Falls, Idaho – May 28

 

1,197. Owyhee Motorcycle Raceway Park, Boise, Idaho – June 1

 

1,198. Race City Motorsports Park, Calgary, Alberta, Canada – June 2

 

1,199. Edmonton International Raceway, Wetaskiwin, Alberta, Canada – June 2

 

1,200. Castrol Raceway, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada – June 2

 

1,201. Hidden Valley Motorsports Park, Drumheller, Alberta, Canada – June 2

 

1,202. Boyd’s Speedway, Ringgold, Georgia - June 8

 

1,203. Fayette County Fairgrounds, Washington Courthouse, Ohio - June 9

 

1,204. Brush Creek Motorsports Park, Pebbles, Ohio - June 9

 

1,205. Brown County Speedway, Russellville, Ohio - June 9

 

1,206. Vinton Speedway, Vinton, Ohio - June 10

 

1,207. Hilltop Speedway, Millersburg, Ohio - June 10

 

1,208. I-70 Speedway – dirt (outer oval), Odessa, Missouri - June 13

 

1,209. L A Raceway, La Monte, Missouri - June 14

 

1,210. Valley Speedway, Grain Valley, Missouri - June 22

 

1,211. Jamaica Raceway, Jamaica, Iowa - June 23

 

1,212. Calhoun County Fairgrounds (figure 8), Rockwell City, Jamaica, Iowa - June 23

 

** Hamilton County Speedway, Webster City, Iowa – June 23 (new for Carol only)

 

** Iowa Speedway (outer oval), Newton, Iowa, Iowa – June 24 (new for Carol only)

 

1,213. Butler Motor Speedway, Butler, Missouri - June 24

 

** Peoria Speedway, Peoria, Illinois – June 25

 

1,214. Kart Kanyon Raceway, Aztec, New Mexico - June 30

 

1,215. Aztec Speedway, Aztec, New Mexico - June 30

 

1,216. Sunvalley Speedway,