UNITY RACEWAY - UNITY, MAINE

 

09-06-05 Unity Raceway

 

 

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RANLAY Racing Trackchaser Report 

 

 

 

DAYS 1&2 – “MAINE – OUR LONGEST CONTINENTAL U.S. TREK” TRACKCHASING TOUR

 

 

Editor’s Note:

 

 

Please do not be confused.  I have been trackchasing in New England over the past two weekends.  Our trip to Maine marks the third consecutive weekend of New England trackchasing.  Don’t be concerned.  It’s what we do.

GREETINGS FROM UNITY, MAINE

 

TODAY’S HEADLINES

 

 

Carol and I have a trackchasing “pact” …………..details in “The Objective”.

 

 

What’s our #1 Maine TTA?..................more in “Trackchasing Tourist Attraction”.

 

 

Our rental car failed!…………..details in “The Trip”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SEE THE PHOTOS; ENJOY THE PHOTOS

 

If you would like to see photos from today’s trackchasing adventure go to www.ranlayracing.com, click on the “Trackchaser Reports” tab and then click on either “#1,441 Unity Raceway” for the pictures and stories.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE EAST COAST IS TAKING A POUNDING.  THAT’S RIGHT THIS IS MY THIRD CONSECUTIVE OF TRACKCHASING IN NEW ENGLAND.  AFTER THIS TRIP THERE WON’T BE MANY MORE TRACKS UP HERE TO GET.  THIS IS WHAT TRANSPIRED ON DAYS 1&2 OF MY 16TH TRACKCHASING FLYING TRIP OF THE 2009 SEASON.

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE OBJECTIVE, THE TRIP AND THE PEOPLE…AND A WHOLE LOT MORE

 

 

 

 

The Objective 

 

 

There’s a little devil on Carol’s shoulder.

 

Of course, the objective in the hobby of trackchasing is to have fun.  As a married trackchaser that means bringing Carol along on several of my trips.  However, Carol is a self-professed homebody.  Left to her own desires she might never make a trip away from sunny Southern California.

 

 

I am the “little devil” sitting on her shoulder.  However, even in my role as the “devil” I have to be careful.  I can sense when she’s approaching “burn-out” from the trackchasing trail.  It is at this point that I head out on a trip by myself or with a relative or friend.  A few years ago, I made a pact with Carol that I wouldn’t ask her to go on more than one long-distance flying trip per month.  That meant she would travel through our nation’s busiest airports as well as across the world at least a dozen times.  Using the word “pact” might be a stretch on my part.  I explained the plan and she didn’t dump all over it.  That meant to me that we had a “pact”.

 

 

In my mind I was thinking she would travel a minimum of 12 trips for the year.  She was thinking she would travel a maximum of 12 trips per annum.  In government work and long-term marriages that was close enough for me.

 

 

 

We travel some.

 

 

We have just completed the first five months of 2009.  That means that 151 days have passed in 2009 through May 31.  To date, Carol has been away from home for 47 nights already.  That is probably a bit more than she planned for.  Heck, I’ve been away from San Clemente overnight for 78 nights during this time period.

 

 

During this time she’s been to Missouri, Wisconsin (where she raced a stock car on a frozen lake!), Michigan, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Rhode Island, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island (again) and Massachusetts.  Today she was venturing up to Maine.  I hope I’m not burning her out.  These are all cultural experiences that I don’t want her to miss.

 

 

 

It was time to cajole.

 

 

You can imagine the trepidation I felt when it was time to announce/convince/cajole and/or persuade her to take this cross-country trip to Maine.  Just four weeks ago, we had spent a week in Europe.  Then she took the next week at home while I trackchased in Northern California.  Then she and I were off to New England the very next week.  Last week I trackchased again in New England.  That brings us to this weekend.  Could I convince her to head out on her third major (5,000 miles plus) trip in just five weeks.  Of course, I could because I’m persuasive and Carol’s cooperative.  That’s why our marriage is in its 38^th year.  However, I did have to promise her that I wouldn’t ask her to go trackchasing, out of state (can you read something into that?) again until mid-July.  I hope I can stick to my promise.

 

 

Anyway, this is all in the spirit of having fun while trackchasing…..sometimes with Trackchasing’s First Mother and sometimes not.  At the end of the year, she will have traveled more miles in pursuit of this hobby than any other trackchaser but one.  That’s probably more than she signed on for, but I think she’s having fun.

 

 

 

 

The Trip

 

 

 

I live a long way from most of the tracks I visit.

 

 

Did you know that about 80% of the countable tracks in our little hobby are located in either the central or eastern time zones?  That’s why you read about my leaving San Clemente at zero dark thirty for nearly every one of these adventures.

 

 

Most tracks begin their racing programs at about seven o’clock in the evening.  Often I must make an airline connection somewhere along the flying line in order to get somewhere close to the track.  It pretty much works like this on each and every trip to a track in either the central or eastern time zone.

 

 

Let’s take a trip to the eastern time zone (like this weekend) as an example.  The Orange County airport doesn’t even open up for flying until 7 a.m. each day.  With a three hour time change to the east, that’s means it’s already 10 a.m. before my flight leaves California.  In order to make a 7 a.m. flight (the airport is about 30 miles from my house), I need to be at the airport by 6 a.m.  That means I have to get up by about 5 a.m.  However, most of my trips emanate from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).  LAX is 65 miles from my house and much more subject to early morning traffic problems.  In order to make a 7 a.m. flight from there I need to get up by 4 a.m. if not sooner.  Yes, it is difficult to trackchase from the west coast in an east coast world.

 

 

Nearly any combination of connecting flights to the central or eastern time zones will have me landing at about 5 p.m. local time.  By the time I get a rental car and start driving to the track, I will be lucky to get there by race time.

 

 

 

This weekend would be spent in Maine.

 

 

Today’s trip will have us heading to the state of Maine.  The nearest major airport is Boston.  Our best bet (seat availability wise) had us connecting through Salt Lake City.  Our Friday night race track was three hours northeast of Boston.  With Boston’s famous traffic, it would be impossible to leave home and land in Boston and make the drive up to Maine in time for the race.  It’s often difficult to fly cross-country and make it in time for the race.  For races in Maine, it was a near impossibility!

 

 

However, if you want to do something bad enough, you can normally do it.  What was our solution to this dilemma?  We would leave a day early!  Although leaving early adds expense in the form of another night’s hotel room, another day’s rental car expense, etc. this was what we would have to do in order to make a race in Unity, Maine on a Friday night.

 

 

Fortunately, my iPhone “app” weather.com told us the rain forecast was manageable for Friday’s race.  We could travel worry free knowing the weather was going to be good.  That meant, Carol and I had the luxury of leaving Thursday on a 1 p.m. flight from California.  Yes, we did land at midnight in Boston and didn’t get to the hotel until 1 a.m. local time.  That was O.K.  We could sleep late on Friday morning.  Yes, some people think just the simple concept of going trackchasing is crazy.  What most people don’t realize is that doing this from the west coast is just on the other side of crazy.

 

 

Once we reached the east coast the fun would begin………

 

 

 

No one wants to waste their hard-earned money.

 

 

I had done my best to manage expenses.  First, I came up with an online coupon that reduced our rental car expense from $180 to $110.  Our flight sponsorships assured a “good deal” on airfare.  Then I was able to secure a complete airport parking sponsorship for this trip.  Finally, www.priceline.com got us a great room at a Marriott Courtyard near the Boston airport for $55 when their best website rate was $116.  If you’re going to trackchase to the extent I do, then you had better had your financial ducks in a row.

 

 

I liked this idea of leaving a day early.  This made travel on Friday (after landing on Thursday) a leisure activity rather than a rushed one.  We stopped in Portland, Maine for lunch at a place called J’s Oysters.  My Apple iPhone app “Yelp” recommended the place.  We had the lobster roll and New England clam chowder, just because that’s what you should do when you come to this area.

 

 

 

Lobster rolls are just too darned expensive.

 

 

I’ve had a few lobster rolls during my travels to New England.  I even had one at McDonald’s once.  I’ll be honest.  I think they are WAY overpriced.  The lobster is served on a white bread roll with some mayonnaise.  You don’t get much lobster and the price is normally $10-15.  The lobster roll at L.L. Bean’s restaurant was $15.99!  By the way, J’s Oyster restaurant is located on Portland’s waterfront and lots of locals eat here.  It wasn’t outstanding but it was good. 

 

 

Following lunch in Portland, it was time to visit the L.L. Bean flagship store just up I-295 in Freeport, Maine.  Somehow we always end up stopping here.  On the drive up we kept hearing a “interior warning chime” in our National Rental Car Racing Dodge Avenger.  For the life of me I couldn’t figure out what the chine was for.  We had our seatbelts on.  The doors all appeared to be closed and the trunk lit was as well.  I check the dash and there were no written warnings of any kind.  Nevertheless, the chimes kept going off every few minutes.

 

 

 

Our rental car failed!

 

 

After driving for “awhile” I found the reason for the warning chimes.  The car was overheating!!  Yes, we had a nearly new Dodge Avenger with just 5,000 miles on it, and it was overheating.  Now our leisure travel day would change into a “rush rush” day.  We would need to have the National Rental Car Company come to us or we would need to return the car to them.  We were in Maine.  It’s not as easy to do that compared to being in a more urban environment.  I had discovered our overheating problem just after we pulled into the L.L. Bean parking lot.

 

 

Since we were there we might as well do some shopping.  I picked up a pair of L.L. Bean canvas boat shoes.  However, the worry of what to do with our car cut the shopping short.  I called National and they told us our best bet was to return the car to the Portland (ME) Jetport.  Yes, they call their city airport a “jetport”.  This drop off point was 25 miles away.

 

 

I thought about putting some water in the radiator but it wasn’t convenient to do that.  The ambient temperature was about 65 degrees.  We simply turned the air-conditioner off and drove.  On the freeway, the engine temperature was fine.  However, we had to stop at a stoplight the temperature gage went from a mid-range temperature to hot.  Nevertheless, we made it back to the Portland Jetport.  Once there the National Rental Car folks could not have been more accommodating.  They didn’t charge me for the quarter tank of fuel I had used in the Avenger.  We had a new (200 miles) Hyundai Sonata, with XM radio, in about ten minutes.  National often gives me outstanding customer service.  We continued northward into Maine, the site of this weekend’s complete trackchasing trip.

 

 

 

Maine is a pretty cool place.

 

 

Maine interstate Welcome Centers are excellent.  The staff at one of our stops gave us three hotel recommendations in Waterville, Maine.  This would be our central point for the weekend.  We would stay at just one hotel in Waterville for three nights.  Carol likes to stay in one place as long as we can….and I do too.

 

 

From the Welcome Center parking lot I called each of the three hotels.  The Hampton Inn wanted $134 per night.  I don’t stay in Hampton Inns very often.  I am put off by their high rates.  The Holiday Inn had a best rate of $114.  Our last call went to the Comfort Inn of Waterville, Maine.  Their rate was $99 per night, but the senior rate was just $75.  That was a tremendous savings for being old.

 

 

I don’t understand why businesses give preferential pricing to “senior citizens”.  Heck, senior citizens don’t even have to work anymore.  Wouldn’t it be better if reduced rates were given to the unemployed?  Maybe the reduced rates should be given to working people.  They still have to work to live.  Nevertheless, the Comfort Inn offered a savings, over three days of more than $100 compared to the other two choices in town.  My cell phone pays for itself daily.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The People

 

 

Everywhere we go people treat us well.

 

 

Everywhere we go the people are nice to us.  Tonight I was invited up into the announcing booth for a very nice interview with the track announcer.  It’s funny.  Some announcers know how to do these interviews and some don’t.  Tonight’s announcer showed a great deal of enthusiasm and interest in the hobby of trackchasing.  We talked for several minutes over a most robust P.A. system.

 

 

When I returned to my seat, several fans came over to say hello.  I always appreciate that when I’m some 3,000 miles from home.  Some of those folks were kind enough to sign my website guestbook at www.ranlayracing.com.  I’m just sorry I’ve been about two weeks behind in posting my reports.  I suspect that fans who listened to the trackchasing interview might have been disappointed when they went to my website and didn’t see the Unity Raceway posted in a timely fashion.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TRACKCHASING TOURIST ATTRACTION

 

I very much enjoy the racing when I go on trackchasing trips.  However, I am not the type of person who would feel the trip was complete if I simply left home, went to the race and came back home.

 

I do a good deal of traveling.  I want to do my best to see the local area when I come for a visit.  There are usually unusual attractions that one area is noted for more than any other locale.  I want to see those places.  I want to touch them and feel them.  When I leave an area, I want to have memories of these special places that I call Trackchasing Tourist Attractions.  I will remember those experiences long after the checkered flag has fallen on whatever race I have seen that day.

 

 

 

L.L. Bean Corporate Store – Freeport, Maine

 

In 1912, Leon Leonwood Bean returned from a hunting trip with cold, damp feet and a revolutionary idea.  He enlisted a local cobbler to create an innovative boot, called the “Maine Hunting Shoe”.  He obtained a mailing list of non-Maine hunting license holders and sent them a four-page brochure touting his Maine Hunting Shoe.  He quickly sold 100 pairs.  However, all but ten of those pairs had the rubber bottoms separate from the leather tops.  Although it nearly put him out of business, Leon kept his word and refunded the purchase price.

 

 

Word of mouth advertising and customer satisfaction were critical to L.L. Bean’s way to thinking.  By 1937, sales surpassed the one million dollar mark.  In 1951, the L.L. Bean flagship store (where we were today) opened its door 365 days a year, 24 hours a day.  These have been the store’s hours ever since.  In 1967, Leon Leonwood Bean passed away at the age of 94.  In 1987, the company added a toll-free phone number for use by its customers.  In 1995, they added a company website.  We stop here every time we come into Maine….and I can’t ever imagine that stopping.

 

 

 

 

 

 

RACE REVIEW

UNITY RACEWAY, UNITY, MAINE

 

 

 

The answering machine wasn’t up to date, but we came anyway.

 

 

 

We pulled into the track’s parking lot right on time at 7 p.m.  We had some difficulty confirming the starting time for tonight’s race.  We tried two phone numbers that came from the track’s website.  One of the phone recordings told us they races had been cancelled because of wet grounds and told us to visit them “next Friday night”.  There were no mentions of specific dates with the recording.

 

 

I knew the track had been rained out LAST Friday night.  I had considered attending the Unity Raceway but knew they would not be racing.  Tonight the weather was fine.  It had not rained in Maine for several days.  There was no way that “wet grounds” could cancel tonight’s show regardless of what the track’s phone message was telling us.

 

 

Finally, I got a live body on my third phone call try.  It sounded like I was talking to the promoter.  I asked him why he still had a message on his recorder telling everyone the races were cancelled.  He told me he had not had time to change it.  He then followed with this gem, “Folks would have to be pretty stupid to think tonight’s races were cancelled when it’s not raining regardless of what the phone message said.”.  The logic that short track promoters use simply baffles me.  It is such a poorly run industry relative to the businesses I have dealt with all of my life.  Nevertheless, this was the last poor business practice I would experience at the Unity Raceway tonight.  Everything else went very well.

 

 

The Unity Raceway had been Carol’s and my destination two weeks ago when we got caught in that major I-95 traffic jam.  The Unity Raceway had been considered, but rejected, for last Friday night’s event (the race that WAS cancelled due to wet grounds) because I couldn’t get there from Boston tonight.  This was my third consecutive weekend trip to New England.  We would not be denied at Unity tonight.

 

 

Tonight’s admission price was $10.  There was no senior discount.  There doesn’t need to be, as we seniors have all the money we need. 

However, if they offer a discount I will take it.

 

 

 

 

They do racetrack food well in the east.

 

 

The Eastern based racetracks have the best food of any region I visit.  Carol had the pulled pork sandwich.  I had a Subway sandwich cleverly concealed in Carol’s purse.  No, I was not trying to steal revenue from the track.  I simply wanted to eat healthy and the track’s menu did not allow for that.

 

 

The most unusual item on the track’s menu was the “meatball bowl with cheese” for $3.50.  I see something new at virtually every track I visit.  It looked good, but it wasn’t for me.  There was also a young man (about 10 years old) manufacturing and selling cotton candy.  He’ll likely be running his own business one day and I predict his success.

 

 

Probably the most memorable aspect of tonight’s physical property was the Unity Raceway’s old wooden covered grandstand.  It’s a relic but beautiful in its own right.  There is an extra charge to sit in the covered grandstand compared to the open air bleachers.  Any idea what that “extra charge” is?  Fifty cents!  Why bother.

 

 

Underneath the covered grandstand the track offered a large collection of photos from past racers.  Some of these pictures dated back to the early 50s.  There was a good crowd of spectators in the grandstands.  They all wore long pants and jackets.  That might have been because it got chilly toward the end of the evening….and it might have been because of the mosquitoes….or both!

 

 

 

 

We saw good old-fashioned stock racing tonight.

 

 

The races started on time and they get one going after another.  There were an incredible nine classes of stock cars running tonight.  From what I could tell just three classes had heat races.  We stayed for seven of the nine features.

 

 

The track is a 1/3-mile minorly banked asphalt oval.  The lights were fair and the P.A. was robust.  Actually, it was almost TOO loud.  There were no traditional retaining walls.  However, that didn’t seem like a great idea to me.

 

 

On the front straight, if cars moved to the outside of the track, they went down a minor embankment that was about ten feet wide and slid into a dirt wall.  In the turns we saw two youth drivers slide off turn two and run head on into a large dirt embankment at 60 M.P.H.  One driver did this and came to a dead stop in a distance of five feet!  Fortunately nobody was hurt.

 

 

We ended up seeing about 200 laps of racing for just ten dollars.  Most classes had about ten cars in each feature event.  Car counts are down nearly everywhere I go.  Nevertheless, if there aren’t many yellow flag delays 10-12 cars can put on a good race on a small oval track. 

 

 

We enjoyed our visit to the Unity Raceway.  The announcer asked me if I was likely to return if I liked their race program.  I did like their program.  However, trackchasers “don’t come back”.  I don’t mean they NEVER come back.  They just don’t come back very often and almost never to tracks that weren’t part of their early racechasing days.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

STATE COMPARISONS

Maine

This evening I saw my sixth lifetime track in Maine.  This moves me into a tie for 11^th place in the state with Brian Hickey and P.J. Hollebrand.  I’m just one position out of a major improvement in my lifetime NGD score.  I should be able to get one more Maine track shouldn’t I?  Carol moved into 14^th place by seeing her fifth lifetime Maine track.  Guy Smith leads by ten with 24 tracks in the state that warns against hitting its moose.

 

 

 

 

 

Now you can see the entire up to date trackchaser rankings for these states.  Just click on this link or paste it in your browser:

 

http://www.autoracingrecords.com/tc/statregion.php?country=USA&region=ME

 

RENTAL CAR UPDATE

 

Boston, MA – Friday/Monday

 

 

 

No wonder Chrysler is in bankruptcy.  Who ever heard of an overheating car with 5,000 miles on it.  I’ll take my National Rental Car Racing Hyundai Sonata any day.

 

 

 

 

 

Coming soon!

 

 

 

 

What’s my NGD strategy with regards to my fellow competitors?  (coming in Trackchaser Report #1,444)

 

 

Why I fear Ed Esser (coming, hopefully by June 30, 2009).

 

 

My six-month trackchasing budget results (coming July, 2009)

 

 

How do fellow P&G retirees really think?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for reading about my trackchasing,

 

Randy Lewis

Alberta’s #1 Trackchaser

I’m still trackchasing out of a tiny three-car garage in the faraway but sunny seaside village of San Clemente, California.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TRAVEL DETAILS

AIRPLANE

 

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

Salt Lake City, UT – Boston, MA – 2,106 miles

 

 

RENTAL CAR

 

Logan (Boston) International Airport – trip begins

Unity, ME – 247 miles

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TRACK ADMSSION PRICES:

 

Unity Raceway - $10

 

 

 

 

 

 

COMPARISONS

 

 

LIFETIME NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC DIVERSITY STANDINGS

Past Champions

2003 – Allan Brown

2004 – Gordon Killian

2005 – Gordon Killian

2006 – Gordon Killian

2007 – Randy Lewis

2008 – Gordon Killian

 

 

Top 10 - Final 2008 lifetime National Geographic Diversity standings.

 

1.            Gordon Killian, Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania – 5.96

2.            Randy Lewis, San Clemente, California – 6.02

3.            Allan Brown, Comstock Park, Michigan – 7.98

4.            Ed Esser, Madison, Wisconsin – 8.33

5.            Guy Smith, Effort, Pennsylvania – 9.16

6.            Rich Schneider, Bay Shore, New York – 9.33

7.            Andy Sivi, Clairton, Pennsylvania – 9.59

8.            Jack Erdmann, DePere, Wisconsin – 10.61

9.            John Moore, Knoxville, Tennessee – 10.76

10.               Will White, Quakertown, Pennsylvania – 11.90

 

 

 

 

Current 2009 lifetime NGD leader board

 

Note:  When a trackchaser improves his or her state ranking that reduces the NGD score.  The objective is to get a low score.  As an example, by improving from sixth to fourth in a particular state the NGD score goes from six to four.  That equates to a net change of -2.  Conversely when a trackchaser falls in the state rankings from seventh to tenth, the NGD score goes from 7 to 10, a net change of +3.

 

As an example, when you see “Alabama -6” below, that means the trackchaser has improved his state ranking in Alabama by six positions.  If the scorecard reads “Alabama +4”, the chaser has fallen by four positions in that state.  Notably, an individual trackchaser’s ranking is affected by any other trackchaser that moves ahead of him/her.

 

 

Randy Lewis – current score = 5.55 (tracks posted thru May 31)

2009 changes

Connecticut -6

New Hampshire -11

Rhode Island – 8

Texas +1

Net changes -23

 

 

 

Gordon Killian – current score = 5.84 (tracks posted thru May 15)

2009 changes

Georgia -6

New Jersey +1

Ohio -1

Rhode Island -1

South Carolina +2

Net changes -5

LIFETIME TRACKCHASER COMPARISONS UPDATE:

 

There are no trackchasers currently within 200 tracks of my lifetime total. 

 

1.  Randy Lewis, San Clemente, California – 1,441

 

 

World Lifetime Trackchasing Comparisons

http://autoracingrecords.com/tc/statlife.php

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other notables

 

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

 

26.  Kevin Eckert, Indianapolis, Indiana – 460

 

27.  Carol Lewis, San Clemente, California – 388

 

28.  Ken Schrader, Concord, North Carolina – 374

 

 

 

 

 

2009 TRACKCHASER STANDINGS

Lifetime track totals in (  ).

 

 

1.  Bing Metz, Tatamy, Pennsylvania – 48 (359)

 

 

2.  Randy Lewis, San Clemente, California – 41 (1,441)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tracks have been reported by 30 different worldwide trackchasers this season.

 

Complete 2008 Trackchasing Comparisons

http://autoracingrecords.com/tc/statyear2008.php

 

 

 

 

 

 

LIFETIME NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC DIVERSITY STANDINGS

 

Final 2008 National Geographic Diversity results have been posted.

 

 

 

 

 

COMPLETE TRACK TYPE CATEGORY COMPARISONS OF NOTE:

 

 

Dirt Track Comparisons

http://autoracingrecords.com/tc/statdirt.php

 

 

Paved Track Comparisons

http://autoracingrecords.com/tc/statpaved.php

 

 

Ice Track Comparisons

http://autoracingrecords.com/tc/statice.php

 

 

Mixed Track Comparisons

http://autoracingrecords.com/tc/statmixed.php

 

 

Oval Track Comparisons

http://autoracingrecords.com/tc/statoval.php

 

 

Circuit (road course) Track Comparisons

http://autoracingrecords.com/tc/statcircuit.php

 

 

Figure 8 Track Comparisons

http://autoracingrecords.com/tc/statf8.php

 

 

Indoor Track Comparisons

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Official Trackchaser Rules

 

http://autoracingrecords.com/tc/rules.php

 

 

 

 

Past trackchasing reports are available at:

www.ranlayracing.com

 

 

Official trackchaser comparisons can be viewed at:

http://autoracingrecords.com/tc/index.php

 

Some of the data in this report comes from

http://autoracingrecords.com/tc/index.php

and my Garmin GPS aka “Tonto”

 

 

 

 

 

 

UPCOMING TRACKCHASING PLANS

 

I’ve had my share of rain problems when trying to trackchase in Maine.  I even got rained out of an ice race in the middle of the winter!!  We’re hoping for better weather this weekend.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RACETRACKS VISITED IN 2009

 

 

1,401. Death Valley Raceway (oval), Armargosa Valley, Nevada - January 3

 

 

1,402. Lake Weyauwega Ice Track (oval), Weyauwega, Wisconsin - January 11

 

 

1,403. Marion Pond Ice Track (oval), Marion, Wisconsin - January 11

 

 

1,404. Grandvalira Circuit (road course), Port d’Envalira, Andorra - January 17

 

 

1,405. Kuna International Raceway (oval), Kuna, Idaho - January 25

 

 

1,406. Circuito Efren Chemolli (oval), Buenos Aires, Argentina - January 31

 

 

Ozark Empire Fairgrounds (oval), Springfield, Missouri – February 6 (new track for Carol only)

 

 

Lake Speed Ice Track (oval), Tilleda, Wisconsin – February 7 (new track for Carol only)

 

 

1,407. DeltaPlex (oval), Grand Rapids, Michigan – February 8

 

 

1,408. Losail International Circuit (road course), Doha, Qatar – February 13

 

 

1,409. Lake Washington Ice Track (road course), Mankato, Minnesota – February 15

 

 

1,410. Bahrain International Circuit (road course), Sakhir, Bahrain – February 27

 

 

1,411. Dubai Autodrome (road course), Dubai, United Arab Emirates – February 28

 

 

1,412. Dunkin Donuts Center (oval), Providence, Rhode Island – March 6

 

 

1,413. Fur Rondy Grand Prix (road course), Anchorage, Alaska – March 8

 

 

1,414. Perris Auto Speedway (road course), Perris, California – March 14

 

 

1,415. Autodromo de Tocancipa (road course), Tocancipa, Colombia – March 22

 

 

1,416. Motorland Aragon (road course), Alcaniz, Spain – March 28

 

 

1,417. Circuto de Murca (road course), Murca, Portugal – March 29

 

 

1,418. High Plains Speedway (oval), Clovis, New Mexico – April 19

 

 

1,419. Flomaton Speedway (oval), Flomaton, Alabama – April 22

 

 

1,420. Kapelluhraum (road course), Hafnafjorour, Iceland – April 25, 2009

 

 

1,421. Monadnock Speedway (oval), Winchester, New Hampshire – April 25, 2009

 

 

1,422. Berlin Lions Club Fairgrounds (oval), Berlin, Connecticut – April 26, 2009

 

 

1,423. Tri-State Speedway (oval), Amarillo, Texas – May 1, 2009

 

 

1,424. Uranium Capital Speedway (oval), Milan, New Mexico – May 2, 2009

 

 

1,425. Speedworld Off-Road Circuit (road course), Surprise, Arizona – May 3, 2009

 

 

1,426. Hungaroring (road course), Mogyorod, Hungary – May 8, 2009

 

1,427. Hoch Ybrig (road course), Hock Ybrig, Switzerland – May 9, 2009

1,428. Vighizzolo d’Este Stock Car Track (road course), Vighizzolo d’Este, Italy – May 10, 2009

 

 

 

1,429. Siskiyou Motor Speedway (oval), Yreka, California – May 16, 2009

 

 

1,430. Delbert’s Memorial Raceway (oval), Lakeport, California – May 17, 2009

 

 

1,431. Canaan Dirt Speedway (oval), Canaan, New Hampshire – May 22, 2009

 

 

 

1,432. New Hampshire International Speedway (road course), Loudon, New Hampshire – May 23, 2009

 

 

1,433. Bear Ridge Speedway (oval), Bradford, Vermont – May 23, 2009

 

 

1,434. Riverside Speedway (oval), Groveton, New Hampshire – May 23, 2009

 

 

1,435. Quic Raceway (oval), Tiverton, Rhode Island – May 24, 2009

 

 

1,436. Seekonk Speedway (figure 8), Seekonk, Massachusetts – May 25, 2009 (Carol added Seekonk Speedway oval to hear track list)

 

 

1,437. Lee USA Speedway (oval), Lee, New Hampshire – May 29, 2009

 

 

1,438. Pomfret Speedway (oval), Pomfret, Connecticut – May 30, 2009

 

 

1,439. Route 106 Race Park (oval), Pembroke, New Hampshire – May 30, 2009

 

 

1,440. Sugar Hill Speedway (oval), Weare, New Hampshire – May 31, 2009

 

 

1,441. Unity Raceway (oval), Unity, Maine – June 6, 2009

 

 

Official end of RANLAY Racing Trackchaser Report