Randy Lewis

World's #1 Ranked Trackchaser

CLAYHILL MOTOR SPORTS - ATWOOD, TENNESSEE

 

09-06-25 Clayhill Motor Sports

 

 

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RANLAY Racing Trackchaser Report
 
 
 
 

DAY 3 – “SUMMERTIME, THE TIME TO MAKE TRACKCHASING HAY” TRACKCHASING TOUR

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

GREETINGS FROM ATWOOD, TENNESSEE

 

 




TODAY’S HEADLINES

 

 

After years, the ban is being removed …………..details in “The Objective”.

 

 

It was more than 500 miles driving distance down to this track and would be more than 500 miles to tomorrow night’s track..................more in “The Trip”.

 

 

I saw a very special P&G friend this morning.  The visit made my trip…………..details in “The People”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

THINGS YOU MIGHT HAVE NOTICED HAD YOU BEEN PAYING MORE ATTENTION IN SCHOOL



 

 

 


FROM THE BEST READERS IN RACING.

 

 

I receive a high level of responses from my readers regarding my Trackchaser Reports.  I will maintain my policy of affording anonymity to readers who send in interesting bits of information or who provide cutting edge analysis.

 

 

 

From a long-time reader from the Southeast (regarding my comments in the last TR on how to run a race program).

 

 

“I love it when you philosophize.  We agree on so much.”

 






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 “#1,448 Clayhill Motor Sports” for the pictures and stories.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I FOUND MYSELF GOING ALL THE WAY DOWN TO TENNESSEE FOR ONE REASON…..THAT WAS THE ONLY PLACE ANYONE WOULD BE RACING ON THIS THURSDAY NIGHT.  THIS IS WHAT TRANSPIRED ON DAY 3 OF MY 19TH TRACKCHASING FLYING TRIP OF THE 2009 SEASON.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

The Objective 

 

 

The ban has been removed.

 

 

No one really knows what it is like to trackchase at the venues available to a trackchaser after he/she has visited more than 1,400 tracks.  No one knows what it is like because nobody other than me has seen that many tracks.  Nevertheless, it is important to see what types of shows my fellow competitors are seeing after they have been to a large amount of tracks as well. 

 

 

Just to stay connected I do follow my fellow competitor’s travels via the www.autoracingrecords.com website.  My two closest competitors are Guy Smith and Ed Esser.  They see some pretty lame events just because they have already been to most of the nation’s best tracks.  Unfortunately, I see lots of crummy shows too.

 

 

I am a member of trackchaser Ed Esser’s email distribution list.  He writes a much abbreviated but still interesting track report for each location he visits.  A few years ago, I put a “stop” on email from Guy Smith.  I won’t go into detail at this time to explain why I found that necessary.  However, times change.  I am going to remove my ban on emails from trackchasing’s “Founding Father”.  Why would I do that?  My simple answer is “It’s time”.

 

 

You might be wondering if Mr. Smith will know that this email blockage has been removed or will really care.  Of course, he will now.  He will know almost immediately that he can now freely communicate directly with me.  My reports are circulated underground amongst the entire trackchasing community.  Even to those who “act” as if they are not interested are, in fact, keenly interested in what goes on here.  Will Mr. Smith care about the ban being removed?  My answer is a simple “don’t know”.  Will other bans be removed?  All I can say is not everyone who “is in the joint” got there for the same reasons or will be staying for the same amount of time.

 

 

 

I had two reasons to be going to Tennessee.

 

 

Tonight I found myself in Tennessee for two reasons.  First, I wanted to see the UMP Late Models Summernationals event.  I love the dirt late models.  Unfortunately, the rules are such that the UMP races are not all that entertaining.  I’ll tell you more about that in “Race Review”.  Suffice it to say, I don’t care for racing where there is no passing.  There is not much passing in these events.

 

 

 

NGD turf protection is always important.



My second reason for coming to Tennessee was to protect my NGD turf.  I’m currently in 7th place in the Volunteer state.  Tonight’s track was #22 in Tennessee for me.  I don’t have any immediate prospects of improving my position.  Andy Sivi stands in sixth place with 28 tracks.  It will take me a while to add six more Tennessee tracks.

 

 

However, there are four trackchasers within three tracks of my current Tennessee state total.  If all four of those folks were to concentrate on Tennessee I could find myself being kicked out of the top ten.  Then I would be saddled with those dreaded five NGD penalty points for non-performance.  I don’t want that to happen!

 

 

 

 



The Trip

 

 

Sitting in a rental car is a big part of trackchasing.


 

Following last night’s sprint car show in Ohio, I drove more than 100 miles so that I would be in position for today’s breakfast meeting.  Following breakfast I drove another 400+ miles to get down to tonight’s track in Tennessee.  In total, I drove 538 miles to get from Wednesday night’s track in east central Ohio to my Thursday night track in western Tennessee.

 

 

If you think that drive was long, consider that I turned around and drove more than 700 miles for Friday night’s race back up in northeastern Ohio!  However, this was not a chore at all.  I had XM satellite radio and must have listened to more than 20 hours of non-stop Michael Jackson coverage.  I love those kinds of stories.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The People

 

 

This morning was special.

 

 

Today would be an all-day driving day.  From my hotel in Mason, Ohio to Atwood, Tennessee, I planned to cover more than 400 miles.  However, I would be having breakfast with a special person before I made that long drive.

 

 

I was lucky to have spent my business career with such a high-quality company as Procter & Gamble.  If you didn’t work for P&G (several of my readers did or currently do), you might not know what I am talking about.  I have never been around a group of more quality people.  I met hundreds (thousands?) of P&G people during my 30 years with the company.  Virtually everyone I met was smart, ethical and on top of things.  How could a company not succeed with such an outstanding work force?  That’s probably why Procter & Gamble now has more than $80 billion (that’s with a “B”) in sales and is one of the top 10-15 largest companies in the world.

 

 

I’ve been retired for seven full years now.  It just doesn’t seem like that much time could have passed since I worked for a living.  It also doesn’t seem possible that I could support my families’ lifestyle for that long without a paycheck coming in.  As you might have surmised, financial planning has been a major focus on my part.  So far, that aspect of life has worked out just as planned.

 

 

 

Trackchasing travel lets me see my P&G friends.

 

 

From time to time, my trackchasing lets me catch up with my P&G friends.  Several have even joined me on the trackchasing trail when I fly through their area.  Today, I was in greater Cincinnati.  I was going to have breakfast with one of my old bosses, Mr. Greg Robbins.  I had not seen Greg since I retired.  I can’t honestly tell you the dates I worked for Greg.  I do remember Carol and me visiting Greg and his wife Donna when they worked for the company in Bangkok, Thailand.  That was fun to visit with a “local” and see what life was like for the P&G corporate employee living abroad.  Greg was like those Dreaded East Coast Trackchasers at the time but in a more positive sense!  He had his own driver to take him around Thailand on a 24/7 basis.

 

 

Greg retired just a couple of years ago.  He and I are both members of the P&G retiree’s email forum.  That group has more than 2,000 people.  Greg became aware of my trackchasing when I made a post or two on the trackchasing/travel topic in the P&G forum.  We’ve stayed in touch via email since then.

 

 

 

Retirees have all kinds of varied interests.

 

 

Greg has an interesting project coming up that’s going to keep him quite busy in “retirement”.  He’s going to school to learn how to tune and repair pianos.  The one-year program is going to be very challenging.  I am sure the course work will be challenging but the commute will be as well.  Greg lives in Cincinnati and the school is in Chicago!!  He’ll go there three days a week for four quarters (40 weeks).  This is quite a commitment but something he really wants to do.

 

 

 

How do my “civilian” friends take to my trackchasing?



Most of my “civilian” friends don’t really understand my trackchasing.  However, they tolerate it and indulge me when I talk about the hobby with them.  Of course, I appreciate my friends who are willing to be so accommodating.

 

 

Greg had some very nice things to say about my website at www.ranlayracing.com.  Thanks, Greg.  You can see a photo of Greg and me at our breakfast meeting this morning.  Greg’s the handsome one on the right!  You’ll find that photo in the “Trackchaser Report” section under tab #1,447 Clayhill Motor Sports.

 

 

Greg and I spent nearly two hours talking before I had to head down the road to Atwood, Tennessee.  The funny thing about my going down to Atwood was that Greg grew up in nearby (about five miles) Milan, Tennessee before going off to Georgia Tech University to study engineering.

 

 

Greg enjoys the photos of our international journeys.  He also said, “You must drive your trackchasing competitors crazy”.  I thought that was an insightful comment by him!  Anyway, Greg, it was great seeing you.  I can’t wait until we meet up again.  Maybe I can get you out to a track as I try to achieve NGD security in your home state of Ohio.

 

 

 

 

 

RACE REVIEW


CLAYHILL MOTOR SPORTS, ATWOOD, TENNESSEE

 

 

 

Dirt late models rock…and throw rocks.

 

 

 

If I had to pick out my most favorite class of racecar it would likely be the dirt late model.  That’s what I grew up on at my most favorite track of the 1,448 that I have visited, the Peoria Speedway.  Tonight’s program would feature dirt late models racing on a 3/8-mile dirt oval.  I prefer the quarter-miles myself but this was close enough.

 

 

Tonight’s racing program was part of the UMP Summernationals “Hell” tour.  This is a special group of races where the competitors race nearly every night for an entire month.  Actually they race at 27 different tracks in the space of 30 days.  How many of those 27 different tracks have I seen?  As this is written (those are key words) every one of them!

 

 

Actually, that is one of the drawbacks of having seen more racetracks than anyone else has in the world.  Since I rarely go back to tracks that are far from my home, I don’t have very many top-notch tracks still to visit.  That is a significant downside to my future trackchasing.

 

 

 

Tonight was the pits!



I arrived early for tonight’s show.  Since I don’t get to see these cars and drivers race much anymore, I bought a pit pass.  General admission prices were $20 per seat tonight; a pit pass cost $30.  It was worth the extra ten bucks to be close to the action.  Please check out my photos of tonight’s Clayhill Motor Sports event.

 

 

This program brought 38 late models to the track.  That’s a great car count.  Considering the afternoon temperature of 103 degrees and that the race was being held on a Thursday night, the crowd was excellent.

 

 

However, tonight’s racing suffered from the same thing last night’s sprint car show up in Ohio did.  There was no passing!  You will never get passing if the fastest cars start in the front row.  Duh! 

 

 

 

With these rules a driver can win the feature without ever having to pass a single car.



Tonight’s 38 late models were divided into four groups.  All 38 cars ran a time trial.  Then each car ran a heat race with the fast timer getting the pole position in the heat race.  You can imagine which car won each heat.  Then those four heat winners made up the first two rows of the feature event.

 

 

Can anybody guess who won the feature?  Yes, a car from the first two rows.  I love dirt late models racing on a tiny dirt bullring.  However, the UMP Summernationals doesn’t really do it for me.  The star drivers control the rules of the Summernationals.  They know they have the fastest cars and can run a one-lap time trial faster than anyone else can.  The top 6-8 cars dominate the entire 27-race schedule.  All it takes is for a driver to have one of the four fastest times.  Then he will start on the first row of his heat race and likely win that event.  Then that driver starts in the first two rows of the feature and will nearly be guaranteed a top four finish there.

 

 

 

Single file racing sucks….it really does.



Tonight’s feature race was a single file affair.  Every car hugged the low line.  One of my all-time favorite drives is Billy Moyer.  He won his heat race from the front row (was anyone surprised?) and started in the second row of the feature event.  Billy Moyer is one of the cleanest drivers in the sport.  After the first lap or two, he settled into second place and proceeded to follow another of the sport’s stars, Shannon Babb, around in circles.  Moyer never so much as touched Babb’s rear bumper for a number of laps.  Then with 10-15 laps remaining in the feature Babb inexplicably drifted high and Moyer slid underneath him for the win.  At that point, it was all over but the shouting.  There really wasn’t much excitement to this race or any of the races all night.

 

 

 

I parked my car in the wrong place at the wrong time.

 

 

The most entertainment came from two non-racing activities tonight.  First, I parked my car in the pit area.  Actually, I parked the National Rental Car Racing Hyundai Sonata within a few feet of the track just beyond turn two.  I did that so it would be close to my seating area to insure a quick exit when the time came.  Little did I realize my car would be showered with mud balls, dust and various other track debris.  I was lucky that it rained on the car later in the trip or the National Rental Car Company would have been none too happy with me.

 

 

Following the UMP late model feature, I headed toward the exits.  This meant that I had to navigate my rental car right down the center of an active working pit area with racecars on either side of me.  I felt like I was lining up for a feature event right next to my racing hero, Billy Moyer.  I just glad I didn’t hit anything on the way out!

 

 

 

 

Much of tonight’s entertainment came from my race scanner.



I brought my race scanner for the first time in a long time with me on this trip.  Having a race scanner for small time events such as kart racing or figure 8 racing is not that entertaining.  However, for the bigger shows including tonight’s UMP special event it can be both entertaining and informative.  Tonight’s channel was located at 469.1125. 

 

 

This race was in Tennessee.  The local track personnel had a distinct southern bent.  That’s not a criticism.  A good deal of my ancestors hailed from neighboring Kentucky.

 

 

It was funny listening to the southern expressions used on the radio tonight.  I didn’t capture every one of those comments but I did save one of the best for you.  This comment was made after a driver nearly flipped his car after coming in contact with a huge tractor tire.  The comment:  “He oughta have a good brown stain in those britches after that!”

 

 

 

There was downtime, I used for iPhone time.



The track did have some downtime.  First, the timing light went out during time trials because it needed new batteries!  The flagman was way too quick to throw the yellow flag.  They also had too many support classes racing.  These guys caused all kinds of yellow flag delays.  The late model race ran third out of the five classes.  I think it should have been first or at worst second. 

 

 

The traveling race fan came to see the UMP late models.  Obviously, the traveling race fan came from the longest distance to see the races.  Why not reward those people who would have a long drive after the races by running the late model feature first?  It seems like a logical question to me.  However, I’ve been asking it for more than 30 years and very few promoters “get it” yet.  I left after the late model feature.  I was surprised at how many people in the pit grandstand stayed for the last two features of local cars.  Good for them if that’s what they wanted to do.

 

 

During the downtime between races and during caution flag periods, I turned to my iPhone.  From there I could check my email and stock prices.  I ran weather forecasts for each location coming up on this trip.  I checked the radar maps around tonight’s racetrack to make sure we would not be surprised with a shower.  I read the USA Today from cover to cover (it’s on my iPhone), studied the NBA draft as each pick was made (both of UCLA’s guards went in the first round).  There is virtually no piece of information that I cannot retrieve in a matter of seconds on the most advanced piece of consumer technology ever invented.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

STATE COMPARISONS


Tennessee



This evening I saw my 22nd lifetime track in the Volunteer state.  I hold sole position of seventh place here.  Andy Sivi is in sixth with 28 tracks.  The racing Eckels and Gordon Killian are looking up at me from eighth place with 20 tracks each.  John Moore from Knoxville, Tennessee (one of the nicer guys in all of trackchasing) leads in his home state with 54 tracks.  It’s nice to see some chasers leading their home states other than the “Big 3” who hold leadership positions in about 35 of the 50 states in our union.

 

 

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

 

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

 




RENTAL CAR UPDATE

 


Chicago, IL – Wednesday/Monday

 

 

 

My National Rental Car Racing Hyundai Sonata, even with just four cylinders, is a good riding car.  Its saving grace with the miles I am driving on this trip is the XM satellite radio.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Coming Soon – RANLAY Racing Exclusive Features!



Why I fear Ed Esser. (Delayed!  Coming, hopefully, by July 31, 2009).

 

 

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

 

 

My objective is to be a balanced trackchaser in eleven key trackchasing comparisons (more info coming in Trackchaser Report #1,454)

 

 

How do fellow P&G retirees really think? (Coming in Trackchaser Report #1,464)

 

 

What is Randy’s (speaking in the third person) trackchasing future? (Coming August, 2009)

 

 

Who have been Randy’s three toughest trackchasing competitors? (Coming soon)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

Los Angeles, CA – Minneapolis, MN – 1,535 miles

Minneapolis, MN – Chicago, IL - 349 miles

 

 

RENTAL CAR

 

O’Hare International Airport – trip begins

Waynesfield, OH – 262 miles

Atwood, TN – 808 miles

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TRACK ADMSSION PRICES:

 

Waynesfield Motorsports Park - $20 (no senior rate)

Clayhill Motor Sports - $30 pit pass

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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” 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 = 5.43 (tracks posted thru June 21)

2009 changes

Connecticut -6

Maine -6

New Hampshire -11

North Dakota -1

Ohio +1

Rhode Island – 8

Texas +1

Net changes -30

 

 

 

Gordon Killian – current score = 5.88 (tracks posted thru May 15)

2009 changes

Georgia -6

Kansas +1

New Jersey +1

North Dakota +1

Ohio -1

Rhode Island -1

South Carolina +2

Net changes -3

 

 

 

 

LIFETIME TRACKCHASER COMPARISONS UPDATE:

 

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

 

1.  Randy Lewis, San Clemente, California – 1,448

 

 

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 – 393

 

28.  Ken Schrader, Concord, North Carolina – 374

 

 

 

 

 

2009 TRACKCHASER STANDINGS

Lifetime track totals in (  ).

 

 

1.  Randy Lewis, San Clemente, California – 48 (1,448)

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

Complete 2008 Trackchasing Comparisons

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

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

 

 

 

 

 

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’m going to be out on the trackchasing trail for five nights.  I want to see at least one new track each evening.  I also want to protect my NGD interests along the way.  That will give you some idea where I might end up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 5, 2009

 

 

1,442. Get-Er-Done Raceway (oval), Skowheagon, Maine – June 6, 2009

 

 

1,443. Thundering Valley Speedway (oval), St. Albans, Maine – June 6, 2009

 

 

Oxford Plains Speedway (oval), Oxford, Maine – June 6, 2009 (new track for Carol only)

 

 

1,444. Spud Speedway (oval), Caribou, Maine – June 7, 2009

 

 

1,445. Mclean County Speedway (oval), Underwood, North Dakota – June 11, 2009

 

 

Plaza Park Speedway (oval), Visalia, California – June 20, 2009 (new track for Carol only)

 

 

1,446. WaKeeney Speedway (oval), WaKeeney, Kansas – June 21, 2009

 

 

1,447. Waynesfield Motorsports Park (oval), Waynesfield, Ohio – June 24

 

 

1,448. Clayhill Motor Sports (oval), Atwood, Tennessee – June 25

 

 

Official end of RANLAY Racing Trackchaser Report

 
 

DAY 3 – “SUMMERTIME, THE TIME TO MAKE TRACKCHASING HAY” TRACKCHASING TOUR

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

GREETINGS FROM ATWOOD, TENNESSEE

 

 




TODAY’S HEADLINES

 

 

After years, the ban is being removed …………..details in “The Objective”.

 

 

It was more than 500 miles driving distance down to this track and would be more than 500 miles to tomorrow night’s track..................more in “The Trip”.

 

 

I saw a very special P&G friend this morning.  The visit made my trip…………..details in “The People”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

THINGS YOU MIGHT HAVE NOTICED HAD YOU BEEN PAYING MORE ATTENTION IN SCHOOL



 

 

 


FROM THE BEST READERS IN RACING.

 

 

I receive a high level of responses from my readers regarding my Trackchaser Reports.  I will maintain my policy of affording anonymity to readers who send in interesting bits of information or who provide cutting edge analysis.

 

 

 

From a long-time reader from the Southeast (regarding my comments in the last TR on how to run a race program).

 

 

“I love it when you philosophize.  We agree on so much.”

 






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 “#1,448 Clayhill Motor Sports” for the pictures and stories.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I FOUND MYSELF GOING ALL THE WAY DOWN TO TENNESSEE FOR ONE REASON…..THAT WAS THE ONLY PLACE ANYONE WOULD BE RACING ON THIS THURSDAY NIGHT.  THIS IS WHAT TRANSPIRED ON DAY 3 OF MY 19TH TRACKCHASING FLYING TRIP OF THE 2009 SEASON.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

The Objective 

 

 

The ban has been removed.

 

 

No one really knows what it is like to trackchase at the venues available to a trackchaser after he/she has visited more than 1,400 tracks.  No one knows what it is like because nobody other than me has seen that many tracks.  Nevertheless, it is important to see what types of shows my fellow competitors are seeing after they have been to a large amount of tracks as well. 

 

 

Just to stay connected I do follow my fellow competitor’s travels via the www.autoracingrecords.com website.  My two closest competitors are Guy Smith and Ed Esser.  They see some pretty lame events just because they have already been to most of the nation’s best tracks.  Unfortunately, I see lots of crummy shows too.

 

 

I am a member of trackchaser Ed Esser’s email distribution list.  He writes a much abbreviated but still interesting track report for each location he visits.  A few years ago, I put a “stop” on email from Guy Smith.  I won’t go into detail at this time to explain why I found that necessary.  However, times change.  I am going to remove my ban on emails from trackchasing’s “Founding Father”.  Why would I do that?  My simple answer is “It’s time”.

 

 

You might be wondering if Mr. Smith will know that this email blockage has been removed or will really care.  Of course, he will now.  He will know almost immediately that he can now freely communicate directly with me.  My reports are circulated underground amongst the entire trackchasing community.  Even to those who “act” as if they are not interested are, in fact, keenly interested in what goes on here.  Will Mr. Smith care about the ban being removed?  My answer is a simple “don’t know”.  Will other bans be removed?  All I can say is not everyone who “is in the joint” got there for the same reasons or will be staying for the same amount of time.

 

 

 

I had two reasons to be going to Tennessee.

 

 

Tonight I found myself in Tennessee for two reasons.  First, I wanted to see the UMP Late Models Summernationals event.  I love the dirt late models.  Unfortunately, the rules are such that the UMP races are not all that entertaining.  I’ll tell you more about that in “Race Review”.  Suffice it to say, I don’t care for racing where there is no passing.  There is not much passing in these events.

 

 

 

NGD turf protection is always important.



My second reason for coming to Tennessee was to protect my NGD turf.  I’m currently in 7th place in the Volunteer state.  Tonight’s track was #22 in Tennessee for me.  I don’t have any immediate prospects of improving my position.  Andy Sivi stands in sixth place with 28 tracks.  It will take me a while to add six more Tennessee tracks.

 

 

However, there are four trackchasers within three tracks of my current Tennessee state total.  If all four of those folks were to concentrate on Tennessee I could find myself being kicked out of the top ten.  Then I would be saddled with those dreaded five NGD penalty points for non-performance.  I don’t want that to happen!

 

 

 

 



The Trip

 

 

Sitting in a rental car is a big part of trackchasing.


 

Following last night’s sprint car show in Ohio, I drove more than 100 miles so that I would be in position for today’s breakfast meeting.  Following breakfast I drove another 400+ miles to get down to tonight’s track in Tennessee.  In total, I drove 538 miles to get from Wednesday night’s track in east central Ohio to my Thursday night track in western Tennessee.

 

 

If you think that drive was long, consider that I turned around and drove more than 700 miles for Friday night’s race back up in northeastern Ohio!  However, this was not a chore at all.  I had XM satellite radio and must have listened to more than 20 hours of non-stop Michael Jackson coverage.  I love those kinds of stories.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The People

 

 

This morning was special.

 

 

Today would be an all-day driving day.  From my hotel in Mason, Ohio to Atwood, Tennessee, I planned to cover more than 400 miles.  However, I would be having breakfast with a special person before I made that long drive.

 

 

I was lucky to have spent my business career with such a high-quality company as Procter & Gamble.  If you didn’t work for P&G (several of my readers did or currently do), you might not know what I am talking about.  I have never been around a group of more quality people.  I met hundreds (thousands?) of P&G people during my 30 years with the company.  Virtually everyone I met was smart, ethical and on top of things.  How could a company not succeed with such an outstanding work force?  That’s probably why Procter & Gamble now has more than $80 billion (that’s with a “B”) in sales and is one of the top 10-15 largest companies in the world.

 

 

I’ve been retired for seven full years now.  It just doesn’t seem like that much time could have passed since I worked for a living.  It also doesn’t seem possible that I could support my families’ lifestyle for that long without a paycheck coming in.  As you might have surmised, financial planning has been a major focus on my part.  So far, that aspect of life has worked out just as planned.

 

 

 

Trackchasing travel lets me see my P&G friends.

 

 

From time to time, my trackchasing lets me catch up with my P&G friends.  Several have even joined me on the trackchasing trail when I fly through their area.  Today, I was in greater Cincinnati.  I was going to have breakfast with one of my old bosses, Mr. Greg Robbins.  I had not seen Greg since I retired.  I can’t honestly tell you the dates I worked for Greg.  I do remember Carol and me visiting Greg and his wife Donna when they worked for the company in Bangkok, Thailand.  That was fun to visit with a “local” and see what life was like for the P&G corporate employee living abroad.  Greg was like those Dreaded East Coast Trackchasers at the time but in a more positive sense!  He had his own driver to take him around Thailand on a 24/7 basis.

 

 

Greg retired just a couple of years ago.  He and I are both members of the P&G retiree’s email forum.  That group has more than 2,000 people.  Greg became aware of my trackchasing when I made a post or two on the trackchasing/travel topic in the P&G forum.  We’ve stayed in touch via email since then.

 

 

 

Retirees have all kinds of varied interests.

 

 

Greg has an interesting project coming up that’s going to keep him quite busy in “retirement”.  He’s going to school to learn how to tune and repair pianos.  The one-year program is going to be very challenging.  I am sure the course work will be challenging but the commute will be as well.  Greg lives in Cincinnati and the school is in Chicago!!  He’ll go there three days a week for four quarters (40 weeks).  This is quite a commitment but something he really wants to do.

 

 

 

How do my “civilian” friends take to my trackchasing?



Most of my “civilian” friends don’t really understand my trackchasing.  However, they tolerate it and indulge me when I talk about the hobby with them.  Of course, I appreciate my friends who are willing to be so accommodating.

 

 

Greg had some very nice things to say about my website at www.ranlayracing.com.  Thanks, Greg.  You can see a photo of Greg and me at our breakfast meeting this morning.  Greg’s the handsome one on the right!  You’ll find that photo in the “Trackchaser Report” section under tab #1,447 Clayhill Motor Sports.

 

 

Greg and I spent nearly two hours talking before I had to head down the road to Atwood, Tennessee.  The funny thing about my going down to Atwood was that Greg grew up in nearby (about five miles) Milan, Tennessee before going off to Georgia Tech University to study engineering.

 

 

Greg enjoys the photos of our international journeys.  He also said, “You must drive your trackchasing competitors crazy”.  I thought that was an insightful comment by him!  Anyway, Greg, it was great seeing you.  I can’t wait until we meet up again.  Maybe I can get you out to a track as I try to achieve NGD security in your home state of Ohio.

 

 

 

 

 

RACE REVIEW


CLAYHILL MOTOR SPORTS, ATWOOD, TENNESSEE

 

 

 

Dirt late models rock…and throw rocks.

 

 

 

If I had to pick out my most favorite class of racecar it would likely be the dirt late model.  That’s what I grew up on at my most favorite track of the 1,448 that I have visited, the Peoria Speedway.  Tonight’s program would feature dirt late models racing on a 3/8-mile dirt oval.  I prefer the quarter-miles myself but this was close enough.

 

 

Tonight’s racing program was part of the UMP Summernationals “Hell” tour.  This is a special group of races where the competitors race nearly every night for an entire month.  Actually they race at 27 different tracks in the space of 30 days.  How many of those 27 different tracks have I seen?  As this is written (those are key words) every one of them!

 

 

Actually, that is one of the drawbacks of having seen more racetracks than anyone else has in the world.  Since I rarely go back to tracks that are far from my home, I don’t have very many top-notch tracks still to visit.  That is a significant downside to my future trackchasing.

 

 

 

Tonight was the pits!



I arrived early for tonight’s show.  Since I don’t get to see these cars and drivers race much anymore, I bought a pit pass.  General admission prices were $20 per seat tonight; a pit pass cost $30.  It was worth the extra ten bucks to be close to the action.  Please check out my photos of tonight’s Clayhill Motor Sports event.

 

 

This program brought 38 late models to the track.  That’s a great car count.  Considering the afternoon temperature of 103 degrees and that the race was being held on a Thursday night, the crowd was excellent.

 

 

However, tonight’s racing suffered from the same thing last night’s sprint car show up in Ohio did.  There was no passing!  You will never get passing if the fastest cars start in the front row.  Duh! 

 

 

 

With these rules a driver can win the feature without ever having to pass a single car.



Tonight’s 38 late models were divided into four groups.  All 38 cars ran a time trial.  Then each car ran a heat race with the fast timer getting the pole position in the heat race.  You can imagine which car won each heat.  Then those four heat winners made up the first two rows of the feature event.

 

 

Can anybody guess who won the feature?  Yes, a car from the first two rows.  I love dirt late models racing on a tiny dirt bullring.  However, the UMP Summernationals doesn’t really do it for me.  The star drivers control the rules of the Summernationals.  They know they have the fastest cars and can run a one-lap time trial faster than anyone else can.  The top 6-8 cars dominate the entire 27-race schedule.  All it takes is for a driver to have one of the four fastest times.  Then he will start on the first row of his heat race and likely win that event.  Then that driver starts in the first two rows of the feature and will nearly be guaranteed a top four finish there.

 

 

 

Single file racing sucks….it really does.



Tonight’s feature race was a single file affair.  Every car hugged the low line.  One of my all-time favorite drives is Billy Moyer.  He won his heat race from the front row (was anyone surprised?) and started in the second row of the feature event.  Billy Moyer is one of the cleanest drivers in the sport.  After the first lap or two, he settled into second place and proceeded to follow another of the sport’s stars, Shannon Babb, around in circles.  Moyer never so much as touched Babb’s rear bumper for a number of laps.  Then with 10-15 laps remaining in the feature Babb inexplicably drifted high and Moyer slid underneath him for the win.  At that point, it was all over but the shouting.  There really wasn’t much excitement to this race or any of the races all night.

 

 

 

I parked my car in the wrong place at the wrong time.

 

 

The most entertainment came from two non-racing activities tonight.  First, I parked my car in the pit area.  Actually, I parked the National Rental Car Racing Hyundai Sonata within a few feet of the track just beyond turn two.  I did that so it would be close to my seating area to insure a quick exit when the time came.  Little did I realize my car would be showered with mud balls, dust and various other track debris.  I was lucky that it rained on the car later in the trip or the National Rental Car Company would have been none too happy with me.

 

 

Following the UMP late model feature, I headed toward the exits.  This meant that I had to navigate my rental car right down the center of an active working pit area with racecars on either side of me.  I felt like I was lining up for a feature event right next to my racing hero, Billy Moyer.  I just glad I didn’t hit anything on the way out!

 

 

 

 

Much of tonight’s entertainment came from my race scanner.



I brought my race scanner for the first time in a long time with me on this trip.  Having a race scanner for small time events such as kart racing or figure 8 racing is not that entertaining.  However, for the bigger shows including tonight’s UMP special event it can be both entertaining and informative.  Tonight’s channel was located at 469.1125. 

 

 

This race was in Tennessee.  The local track personnel had a distinct southern bent.  That’s not a criticism.  A good deal of my ancestors hailed from neighboring Kentucky.

 

 

It was funny listening to the southern expressions used on the radio tonight.  I didn’t capture every one of those comments but I did save one of the best for you.  This comment was made after a driver nearly flipped his car after coming in contact with a huge tractor tire.  The comment:  “He oughta have a good brown stain in those britches after that!”

 

 

 

There was downtime, I used for iPhone time.



The track did have some downtime.  First, the timing light went out during time trials because it needed new batteries!  The flagman was way too quick to throw the yellow flag.  They also had too many support classes racing.  These guys caused all kinds of yellow flag delays.  The late model race ran third out of the five classes.  I think it should have been first or at worst second. 

 

 

The traveling race fan came to see the UMP late models.  Obviously, the traveling race fan came from the longest distance to see the races.  Why not reward those people who would have a long drive after the races by running the late model feature first?  It seems like a logical question to me.  However, I’ve been asking it for more than 30 years and very few promoters “get it” yet.  I left after the late model feature.  I was surprised at how many people in the pit grandstand stayed for the last two features of local cars.  Good for them if that’s what they wanted to do.

 

 

During the downtime between races and during caution flag periods, I turned to my iPhone.  From there I could check my email and stock prices.  I ran weather forecasts for each location coming up on this trip.  I checked the radar maps around tonight’s racetrack to make sure we would not be surprised with a shower.  I read the USA Today from cover to cover (it’s on my iPhone), studied the NBA draft as each pick was made (both of UCLA’s guards went in the first round).  There is virtually no piece of information that I cannot retrieve in a matter of seconds on the most advanced piece of consumer technology ever invented.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

STATE COMPARISONS


Tennessee



This evening I saw my 22nd lifetime track in the Volunteer state.  I hold sole position of seventh place here.  Andy Sivi is in sixth with 28 tracks.  The racing Eckels and Gordon Killian are looking up at me from eighth place with 20 tracks each.  John Moore from Knoxville, Tennessee (one of the nicer guys in all of trackchasing) leads in his home state with 54 tracks.  It’s nice to see some chasers leading their home states other than the “Big 3” who hold leadership positions in about 35 of the 50 states in our union.

 

 

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

 

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

 




RENTAL CAR UPDATE

 


Chicago, IL – Wednesday/Monday

 

 

 

My National Rental Car Racing Hyundai Sonata, even with just four cylinders, is a good riding car.  Its saving grace with the miles I am driving on this trip is the XM satellite radio.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Coming Soon – RANLAY Racing Exclusive Features!



Why I fear Ed Esser. (Delayed!  Coming, hopefully, by July 31, 2009).

 

 

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

 

 

My objective is to be a balanced trackchaser in eleven key trackchasing comparisons (more info coming in Trackchaser Report #1,454)

 

 

How do fellow P&G retirees really think? (Coming in Trackchaser Report #1,464)

 

 

What is Randy’s (speaking in the third person) trackchasing future? (Coming August, 2009)

 

 

Who have been Randy’s three toughest trackchasing competitors? (Coming soon)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

Los Angeles, CA – Minneapolis, MN – 1,535 miles

Minneapolis, MN – Chicago, IL - 349 miles

 

 

RENTAL CAR

 

O’Hare International Airport – trip begins

Waynesfield, OH – 262 miles

Atwood, TN – 808 miles

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TRACK ADMSSION PRICES:

 

Waynesfield Motorsports Park - $20 (no senior rate)

Clayhill Motor Sports - $30 pit pass

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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” 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 = 5.43 (tracks posted thru June 21)

2009 changes

Connecticut -6

Maine -6

New Hampshire -11

North Dakota -1

Ohio +1

Rhode Island – 8

Texas +1

Net changes -30

 

 

 

Gordon Killian – current score = 5.88 (tracks posted thru May 15)

2009 changes

Georgia -6

Kansas +1

New Jersey +1

North Dakota +1

Ohio -1

Rhode Island -1

South Carolina +2

Net changes -3

 

 

 

 

LIFETIME TRACKCHASER COMPARISONS UPDATE:

 

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

 

1.  Randy Lewis, San Clemente, California – 1,448

 

 

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 – 393

 

28.  Ken Schrader, Concord, North Carolina – 374

 

 

 

 

 

2009 TRACKCHASER STANDINGS

Lifetime track totals in (  ).

 

 

1.  Randy Lewis, San Clemente, California – 48 (1,448)

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

Complete 2008 Trackchasing Comparisons

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

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

 

 

 

 

 

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’m going to be out on the trackchasing trail for five nights.  I want to see at least one new track each evening.  I also want to protect my NGD interests along the way.  That will give you some idea where I might end up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 5, 2009

 

 

1,442. Get-Er-Done Raceway (oval), Skowheagon, Maine – June 6, 2009

 

 

1,443. Thundering Valley Speedway (oval), St. Albans, Maine – June 6, 2009

 

 

Oxford Plains Speedway (oval), Oxford, Maine – June 6, 2009 (new track for Carol only)

 

 

1,444. Spud Speedway (oval), Caribou, Maine – June 7, 2009

 

 

1,445. Mclean County Speedway (oval), Underwood, North Dakota – June 11, 2009

 

 

Plaza Park Speedway (oval), Visalia, California – June 20, 2009 (new track for Carol only)

 

 

1,446. WaKeeney Speedway (oval), WaKeeney, Kansas – June 21, 2009

 

 

1,447. Waynesfield Motorsports Park (oval), Waynesfield, Ohio – June 24

 

 

1,448. Clayhill Motor Sports (oval), Atwood, Tennessee – June 25

 

 

Official end of RANLAY Racing Trackchaser Report