2020 Trackchasing Annual Report
I first started sharing my annual trackchasing reports back in 2001. This is the 21st consecutive year of my publishing these “Trackchasing Annual Reports”. I hope you enjoy reading them. I’ll just suggest you imagine doing what I’ve been doing. If you do I think you’ll have a good time!
Wow! Who could have imagined what 2020 was going to be like? Covid-19! That pretty much tells the story of the year, doesn’t it? One might think that Covid would have contributed to my worst ever year of trackchasing. I certainly didn’t see it that way.
I contend that the year 2020 might have been and was my very BEST year of trackchasing. I entered the 2020 trackchasing having seen racing in 85 countries at 2,671 racetracks. When you have seen that much racing around the entire world what is really left to see? Then when Covid-19 pops up there’s a case that I might not have seen a single track in 2020.
Let me tell you why I think my results in 2020 were the very best I had ever achieved. I ended up seeing racing at 72 tracks for the very first time in 2020. Have I ever seen racing at more than 72 tracks in one year? Yes, I have. Many times.
However, neither I nor anyone else had ever seen racing at 72 new tracks, after having seen racing at 2,671 tracks…and doing it in the middle of a pandemic.
My year started in Italy and France watching ice racing. Following that grand adventure, I threw in some trips to such faraway places as Sweden, Yucatan, Mexico and Saskatchewan. Of course, I added in several domestic new track visits as well. By early March my trackchasing season was off to a rousing start!
I returned back into the United States from Sweden on Wednesday, March 11, 2020. When I landed the world had changed! I was told my flight from Europe was the last allowed to land before the United States enacted restrictions on foreign flights into the country. Restrictions? What restrictions?
We were now in a pandemic. We were in the Covid-19 pandemic. Everything in the United States pretty much stopped. Airline traffic plunged to just 5% of what it had been a year ago. Yes, the country had stopped. At that point, I had seen racing in 5 different countries at 11 racetracks. The country was shut down and I shut down. I didn’t go trackchasing again for 85 days. That was my longest period of staying at home for well….maybe ever.
Because I live in such a remote part of the country I must fly to nearly every new track I visit. With the fear of Covid flying didn’t seem like the thing to do. However, after staying at home for nearly three months I decided to dip my toe in the waters of the nation’s largest airports. I decided to fly to Minneapolis to see a race in Wisconsin. I did just that meeting a racing buddy of mine for the first time, Matt Record.
The experience wasn’t bad. It was so good that I would end up flying somewhere for 24 consecutive weeks to trackchase. Was that a brilliant idea under the circumstances? I can’t say it was. I’m not sure any other trackchaser took a single flight during the pandemic that continued to rage on through the end of 2020.
I would end up seeing racing in six different countries and 23 states. As noted my 2020 trackchasing total was 72 tracks. I even flew all the way to Algeria in northern Africa only to have the race canceled once I arrived.
One of my very best accomplishments was visiting tracks where no other trackchaser in the history of trackchasing had ever visited. Did you know that trackchasers have been recording track visits dating all the way back to the 1930s? That’s nearly 100 years. More than half of my 72 new track visits were at a track where no other trackchaser had ever darkened the door.
I will contend that give the circumstances that came from Covid-19 and the fact that I had already seen racing at 2,671 tracks that 2020 was actually the very BEST trackchasing season that I have ever had or that anyone has ever had.
My 2020 trackchasing goals will give you an idea of how I did against what I saw as my most important challenges and accomplishments of the year.
Finally, toward the end of the 2020 trackchasing season, to be effective January 1, 2021, I announced my semi-retirement from trackchasing. Semi-retirement! What did that mean? Was I going to stop trackchasing? Absolutely not. I was simply going to cut back a bit…maybe a good bit. Why? The main reason is there have become fewer and fewer new track opportunities for me to see. I’m still as passionate about the hobby as ever. It’s just that the “igniting” purpose of these trips has diminished a good deal. If there were still hundreds and hundreds of good tracks left to see I would go see ’em. There aren’t. Therefore in semi-retirement, I will see the tracks as they pop up. I will see them when the racing and the travel make sense.
That’s the story from 2020 my best ever trackchasing season. Stay tuned to www.randylewis.org where you can find the complete postings of my trackchasing adventures.
I do share a free Randy Lewis Racing trackchasing newsletter. Hundreds of folks are active subscribers. The newsletter is published a few times each month. It covers the in-depth story of my new track visits and includes the stories from my classic track visits of the past as well. If you interested go to the bottom of my home page at www.randylewis.org and sign up.
Finally, I’ll hope to see as many of you as I can over the long and dusty trackchasing trail. Don’t forget to come up and say hey!
2020 Trackchasing Goals & Results
GOALS/RESULTS
Below you will find my trackchasing goals for my 2020 trackchasing season.
Goal – The Big Trips!
In the chase to maintain my World’s #1 Trackchaser title, I have an 85-52 lead over my nearest challenger (a native of Belgium) in the most important “Total Countries Seen” competition. Folks, I have a lead of 730 tracks over my nearest fellow competitor (a native of Pennsylvania) in the “Total Tracks Seen” category. At this stage in the game, there is absolutely no need to try to see each and every track that exists. I can afford to “coast” for a while. If my lead ever falls much in either of these areas I will reassess.
With the above being the case I’m going to focus on the “big” trips. Many of these will be international adventures to places far away. When I make these trips the trackchasing portion of the outing might include only one track while the trip could take as long as 2-3 weeks. That will knock down my new track total but not the overall enjoyment of a “big” trip. My goal for 2020 will be to add more long journeys focused on touring.
2020 – 4th Quarter Update
For sure COVID-19 has really delivered a knockout punch to what I would consider being, “big” trips during 2020. Nevertheless, during the fourth quarter, I did make it to such faraway places as Maine, Texas, Missouri, Kansas, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Tennessee and South Carolina.
Then when I decided to stop flying and wait for the Covid vaccine I made two more driving trackchasing trips to Arizona. In some people’s worlds, my activity during the last quarter of 2020 would qualify as “big” trips. Considering the circumstances they were big enough for me.
2020 – 3rd Quarter Update
With COVID-19 still going pretty strong, there were no big international trips for me during the third quarter. At this point, I would guess that will remain to be the case for the balance of the 2020 trackchasing year.
Through the first nine months of 2020, I have seen racing at 56 new tracks. Given that I started the season with 2,599 tracks I think that’s pretty good.
I guess if I were able to see racing at a track for the first time, not only for me but for the entire hobby of trackchasing, I would consider that a “big” trip. However, it seems that since trackchasers has been recording tracks from the 1930s and hundreds of people have a trackchasing list, finding a new track that no one out of these hundreds of trackchasers in nearly 100 years has ever seen would be pretty difficult. Maybe not.
Of the 56 new tracks I’ve visited so far in 2020 an amazing number of those, that would be 32 of them, have me sitting in the grandstands before any other trackchaser….ever. Here’s a list of those tracks where I recorded the first-ever trackchaser visit. Oh, one more thing. This is not just a collection of various UTV tracks that move from one pasture to another each year. In almost every case these are real racetracks.
1/6/2020
| Ice Pragelato | Pragelato, Italy |
1/25/2020
| Lake Superior (Barkers Island) Ice Course | Superior, WI |
2/8/2020
| Stampede Premium Covered Arena at the Florida State Fairgrounds – F8 | Tampa, FL |
2/9/2020
| Stampede Premium Covered Arena at the Florida State Fairgrounds – oval | Tampa, FL |
2/15/2020
| Clearwater Lake Ice Course | South Haven, MN |
2/16/2020
| Pelch Services Ice Race | Rosetown, Saskatchewan |
3/1/2020
| Autodromo de Yucatan Emerson Fittipaldi | Merida, Yucatan, Mexico |
3/7/2020
| Asele Motorsallskap Ice Course | Asele, Sweden |
6/6/2020
| What Cheer Raceway-oval | What Cheer, IA |
6/11/2020
| Wisconsin International Raceway | Kaukauna, WI |
6/13/2020
| Kiamichi Mountains Speedway | Nashoba, OK |
6/20/2020
| Alien Motor Speedway | Roswell, NM |
6/26/2020
| Boss Dirt Track Speedway | Lawton, OK |
7/10/2020
| Coulee Go-Kart Raceway | West Salem, WI |
7/12/2020
| McClure Raceway | West Liberty, OH |
7/18/2020
| Cache County Fairgrounds | Logan, UT |
7/24/2020
| KC Raceway | River Bend, MO |
7/25/2020
| Poplar Grove Speedway | Kamrar, IA |
8/15/2020
| Miller Raceway Park | Montgomery, IN |
8/21/2020
| Viking Speedway – inner | Alexandria, MN |
8/22/2020
| Midvale Speedway – inner | Midvale, OH |
8/29/2020
| 1264 Xtreme Park | Wellsville, KS |
8/30/2020
| Hawkeye Downs Speedway RC | Cedar Rapids, IA |
9/5/2020
| Guthrie Center Fairgrounds | Guthrie Center, IA |
9/6/2020
| Madison International Speedway-roval | Oregon, WI |
9/7/2020
| Lion’s Park | West Liberty, OH |
9/11/2020
| Honor Speedway | Pueblo, CO |
9/12/2020
| State Fair Arena | Sedalia, MO |
9/13/2020
| Windy Hollow Speedway-roval | Owensboro, KY |
9/19/2020
| Round Town Raceway | Circle, MT |
9/20/2020
| Washington Quarter Midget Assn | Monroe, WA |
9/26/2020
| Cedar Hill Raceway | Ovalo, TX |
2020 – 2nd Quarter Update
Typically I would think of a “big” trackchasing trip as an adventure that would take me out of the country. However, with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, traveling outside of the United States has been prohibited in just about every direction I might consider.
Under the current conditions, I guess I would have to classify a big trip to simply be any trip at all. During the month of June, I did take 10 separate airplane plane rides for the express purpose of trackchasing. I’m not sure that was the safest thing to do but then I don’t really know how to quantify all of the risks. Overall, traveling the way I do doesn’t seem all that risky to me…..but then I am a little more risk-averse than most folks my age. So far so good.
Will I have any more big trips, as in international forays for the remainder of 2020? I don’t really have any idea. If I had to guess I think there’s more than a 50% chance my international travel lane will be shut down for the balance of the year. However, if the F1 race group reschedules their Vietnam race for later this year I will likely be there. As always, I’ll keep you posted.
2020 – 1st Quarter Update
Despite the coronavirus shutting things down for everyone in mid-March, I begin the quarter with an outstanding selection of “big” trips.
I spent nearly three weeks with Carol touring Italy and France in January. We netted our first ever ice track locations in those countries. We came back from that vacation not feeling particularly well. Since that area of the country has been so hit hard by the coronavirus we wondered if we might’ve gotten a touch of it then.
Just a few days later I made a weeklong visit to the African country of Algeria. Unfortunately, on the one hand, they canceled the race after I got there! I’ve never had that happen before. Nevertheless, I met some great Algerian friends and hope to see them on a return trip.
Then in early March, I traveled to Sweden to add one more country to my ice trackchasing list. I had a chance to spend several days in Stockholm seeing a hockey match and attending the opera. It was an excellent trip. When I landed back into Los Angeles from Sweden I learned that my flight was the last that had been allowed to land unrestricted back into the country because of the virus.
Yes, I was busy in the first quarter! Carol and I went down to the Mexican state of Yucatán for some road racing. We had fun touring this eastern part of Mexico for a few days. My trackchasing quarter also included major adventures to Saskatchewan, Canada for an ice race, Sturgis, Kentucky for an indoor race, Minnesota and Wisconsin for more ice racing and a trip to Florida for speedweeks that included a visit to the Florida State Fair for more racing.
Considering the trackchasing quarter for me stopped on March 7, because of the coronavirus I think I got a lot done during the first 67 days of 2020! What about big trips for the rest of the year? I’m like you. I have no idea.
Goal – Foreign country trackchasing
I often say that you can’t be the “WORLD’S #1 Trackchaser” if you haven’t seen racing in more countries than all the other trackchasers! Coming into the 2020 trackchasing season I have seen racing in 85 countries. That’s thirty-three more countries than my nearest fellow competitor.
This year my goal will be to add TWO more new country trackchasing visits to my lifetime totals. Having seen racing in 85 countries already that is an aggressive goal. Regardless of whether I meet this goal or not it will be fun trying. Below is my current list of trackchasing country visits through 2020.
# 1 – UNITED STATES OF AMERICA– Peoria Speedway – Mt. Hawley (oval) – Track #1, Peoria, Illinois – circa 1955
# 2 – CANADA– Cayuga Speedway (oval) – Track #174, Nelles Corner, Ontario – 1988
# 3 – AUSTRALIA– Parramatta City Raceway (oval) – Track #180, Granville, New South Wales – 1989
# 4 – UNITED KINGDOM– Northhampton International Raceway (oval) – Track #378, Northhampton – 1999
# 5 – NETHERLANDS– Driesum Racetrack (oval) – Track #839, Driesum – 2005
# 6 – BELGIUM– Bellekouter oval (oval) – Track #841, Affligem – 2005
# 7 – FRANCE– Circuit de Croix en Ternois (road course) – Track #843, Saint-Pol sur-Ternoise – 2005
# 8 – GERMANY– Nurburgring (road course) – Track #844, Nurburg – 2005
# 9 – NEW ZEALAND– Western Springs Speedway (oval) – Track #1,134, Western Springs – 2006
# 10 – MEXICO– Triovalo Bernardo Obregon (oval) – Track #1,281, Tiajamulco de Zuniga, Jalisco – 2007
# 11 – BARBADOS– Bushy Park Racing Circuit (road course) – Track #1,296, Bushy Park – 2007
# 12 – THAILAND– Bira Circuit (road course) – Track #1,300, Pattaya – 2008
# 13 – SOUTH AFRICA– Durban Grand Prix (road course) – Track #1,315, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal – 2008
# 14 – JAMAICA– Dover Raceway (road course) – Track #1,322, Brown’s Town St. Ann – 2008
# 15 – SWEDEN– Sturup Raceway (road course) – Track #1,335, Malmo – 2008
# 16 – DENMARK– Ring Djursland (road course) – Track #1,336, Tirstrup – 2008
# 17 – CZECH REPUBLIC– Automotodrome BRNO (road course) – Track #1,381, Brno – 2008
# 18 – AUSTRIA– Lambrechten Stock Car Track (road course) – Track #1,382, Lambrechten – 2008
# 19 – IRELAND– Tipperary International Raceway (oval) – Track #1,388, Rosegreen – 2008
# 20 – GUYANA– South Dakota Circuit (road course) – Track #1,390, Timehri – 2008
# 21 – CHINA– The Guia Circuit (road course) – Track #1,392, Macau – 2008
# 22 – COSTA RICA– Autodromo La Guacima (road course) – Track #1,398, La Guacima – 2008
# 23 – ANDORRA– Grandvalira Circuit (road course) – Track #1,404, Port d’Envalira – 2009
# 24 – ARGENTINA– Circuito Efren Chemolli (oval) – Track #1,406, Buenos Aires – 2009
# 25 – QATAR– Losail International Circuit (road course) – Track #1,408, Doha – 2009
# 26 – BAHRAIN– Bahrain International Circuit (road course) – Track #1,410, Sakhir – 2009
# 27 – UNITED ARAB EMIRATES– Dubai Autodrome (road course) – Track #1,411, Dubai – 2009
# 28 – COLOMBIA– Autodromo de Tocancipa (road course) – Track #1,415, Tocancipa – 2009
# 29 – SPAIN– Motorland Aragon (road course) – Track #1,416, Alcaniz – 2009
# 30 – PORTUGAL– Circuto de Murca (road course) – Track #1,417, Murca – 2009
# 31 – ICELAND– Kapelluhraum (road course) – Track #1,420, Hafnafjorour – 2009
# 32 – HUNGARY– Hungaroring (road course) – Track #1,426, Mogyorod – 2009
# 33 – SWITZERLAND– Hock Ybrig (road course) – Track #1,427, Hoch Ybrig – 2009
# 34 – ITALY– Vighizzolo d’Este Stock Car Track (road course) – Track #1,428, Vighizzolo d’Este – 2009
# 35 – DOMINICAN REPUBLIC– Autodromo Mobil 1 (road course) – Track #1,515, Santo Domingo – 2009
# 36 – MALTA– Ta’Qali Race Track (road course) – Track #1,521, Ta’Qali – 2010
# 37 – FINLAND– Lake Pidisjarvi Ice Track (road course) – Track #1,524, Nivala – 2010
# 38 – JAPAN– Suzuka Circuit (road course) – Track #1,530, Suzuka – 2010
# 39 – CHILE– Autodromo de Interlomas (road course) – Track #1,531, Temuco – 2010
# 40 – MOROCCO– Circuit de Marrakesh (road course) – Track #1,535, Marrakesh – 2010
# 41 – BRAZIL– Circuit de Caruaru – Aryten Senna (road course) – Track #1,540, Caruaru – 2010
# 42 – ESTONIA– Laitse Rally Park (road course) – Track #1,571, Laitse – 2010
# 43 – LATVIA– Bikernieki (road course) – Track #1,572, Riga – 2010
# 44 – GUATEMALA– Autodromo Pedro Cofino (road course) – Track #1,580, Alotenango – 2010
# 45 – EL SALVADOR– El Jabali (road course) – Track #1,582, Quezaltepeque – 2010
# 46 – ROMANIA– Bradu (road course) – Track #1,603, Bradu – 2010
# 47 – BULGARIA– Closed Route – Burgas (road course) – Track #1,604, Burgas – 2010
# 48 – SOUTH KOREA– Korea International Circuit (road course) – Track #1,605, Yeongam, Jeollanam-Do – 2010
# 49 – PHILIPPINES– Batangas Racing Circuit (road course) – Track #1,608, Batangas – 2010
# 50 – NORWAY– Lyngas Motorbane (road course) – Track #1,648, Lier – 2011
# 51 – MALAYSIA– Sepang International Circuit (road course) – Track #1,656, Sepang – 2011
# 52 – INDONESIA– Sentul International Circuit (road course) – Track #1,657, Babakan Madang, Boder – 2011
# 53 – LUXEMBOURG– Alzingen (road course) – Track #1,711, Alzingen – 2011
# 54 – POLAND– Tor Slomczyn (road course) – Track #1,713, Slomczyn – 2011
# 55 – SINGAPORE– Marina Bay (road course) – Track #1,714, Singapore – 2011
# 56 – URUGUAY– Piriapolis Grand Prix (road course) – Track #1,724, Piriapolis – 2011
# 57 – SRI LANKA– Pannala Race Track (road course) – Track #1,732, Pannala – 2012
# 58 – ECUADOR – Autodromo Internacional de Yahuarcocha (road course) – Track #1,736, Ibarra – 2012
# 59 – SLOVAKIA– Slovakia Ring (road course) – Track #1,745, Orechova Poten – 2012
# 60 – MONACO– Circuit de Monaco (road course) – Track #1,747, Monte Carlo – 2012
# 61 – CROATIA– Automotodrom Drobnik (road course) – Track #1,762, Rijeka – 2012
# 62 – PERU– Autodromo La Chutana (road course) – Track #1,802, Lima – 2012
# 63 – GREECE– Serres Circuit (road course) – Track #1,807, Serres – 2012
# 64 – RUSSIA– Moscow Central Hippodrome (oval) – Track #1,824, Moscow – 2013
# 65 – LITHUANIA– Marijampole Autocross Track (road course) – Track #1,842, Marijampole – 2013
# 66 – INDIA– Buddh International Circuit (road course) – Track #1,915, Noida – 2013
# 67 – GEORGIA– Rustavi International Motorpark (road course) – Track #1,916, Rustavi – 2013
# 68 – TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO– Larry Gomes Stadium (road course) – Track #1,928, Arima – 2014
# 69 – TURKEY– Istanbul Park (road course) – Track #2,035 Akfirat – 2014
# 70 – AZERBAIJAN– Streets of Baku (road course) – Track #2,037, Baku – 2014
# 71 – SERBIA– Usce (road course) – Track #2,224, Belgrade – 2016
# 72 – BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVNIA– Zaluzani (road course) – Track #2,235, Banja Luka – 2016
# 73 – PANAMA– Circuito Internacional de Panama (road course) – Track #2,290, La Chorrera – 2016
# 74 – ZIMBABWE– Bulawayo Motorsports Park (road course) – Track #2,291, Bulawayo – 2016
# 75 – NAMIBIA– Desert Raceway (oval) – Track #2,369, Walvis Bay – 2017
# 76 – MACEDONIA– Skopje Street Course (road course) – Track #2,386, Skopje – 2017
# 77 – UKRAINE– Autodrome Chayka (road course) – Track #2,387, Kiev – 2017
# 78 – BELARUS– Stadium Zarya (oval) – Track #2,421, Minsk – 2018
# 79 – MALDIVES– Hulhumalé Racing Track (road course) – Track #2,425, Hulhumalé – 2018
# 80 – BOLIVIA– Autodromo Santa Cruz (road course) – Track #2,429, Santa Cruz – 2018
# 81 – MOLDOVA– Autocross Colonita (road course) – Track #2,503, Colonita – 2018
# 82 – SAUDI ARABIA– Ad Diriyah E-Prix (road course) – Track #2,514, Ad Diriyah – 2018
# 83 – TUNISIA– Belvedere Race Track (road course) – Track #2,547 Tunis – 2019
# 84 – MONTENEGRO– Auto Kros Zlatica (road course) – Track #2,548 Podgorica – 2019
# 85 – ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA– Crabbs Raceway (road course) – Track #2,553 Crabbs – 2019
2020 – 4th Quarter Update
Again, with COVID-19 travel restrictions in place for residents of the United States, foreign trackchasing was pretty much out for me. Not only was it difficult to even make a travel arrangement to a foreign country very few foreign countries were having any racing whatsoever.
2020 – 3rd Quarter Update
With the formal cancellation of the World F1 Vietnam Grand Prix, for which we have tickets, I’m going to conclude there will be no foreign trackchasing activity in new countries for me in 2020. Could that change? It could but right now I don’t expect it to.
2020 – 2nd Quarter Update
Right now I don’t have any international travel scheduled. That includes traveling to countries where I have never trackchased or returning to foreign countries where I have. However, that doesn’t mean all that much. If somebody outside of the U.S. is racing and I can get there I just might show up.
2020 – 1st Quarter Update
I had a shot before the coronavirus shut down my trackchasing season to see racing in my 86th country during the first quarter. The 86th country? Algeria! However, after I traveled a long distance to Africa they ended up canceling their race. Major bummer. Nevertheless, I still had a good time and met several friendly people and did a lot of touring in Algiers. I’ll be back!
We were also planning a visit to Vietnam for the World Formula One Grand Prix race in early April. However, during the first quarter, that event was postponed. As of late April, F1 has yet to run a single race. They might even cancel the entire season. If they hold the race in Vietnam later in 2020 we’ll be back. I don’t expect that to happen.
Goal – Continue the sharing of my trackchasing hobby via social media.
Add at least 100 Trackchaser Reports from my “back in the day” track visits. Each of these reports will come from one of the first 1,000 tracks I have seen.
I expect to add complete reviews from 20 of my foreign country trackchasing trips. These are country reviews that have never made it onto my website.
Of course, I will continue to share my trackchasing adventures via YouTube, SmugMug, Facebook, and at my website, www.randylewis.org. I hope you enjoy seeing what I post.
2020 – 4th Quarter Update
I think my social media presence is as strong as ever as I share the adventures of my trackchasing hobby. I’ve been adding Trackchaser Reports to my website from back in the day at a rapid pace. Nevertheless, I still have only 49% of the tracks that I’ve seen represented on my website at this time. I know that I will never ever get them all posted but I try to add two or three or more each week. Of course, they can all be found at trackchasing’s #1 viewed website, www.randylewis.org.
My website continues to get more than 20,000 views each month. My YouTube channel (name: ranlay) has more than 1.3 million views. I have also continued to do many at the track interviews about my hobby of trackchasing.
2020 – 3rd Quarter Update
For some reason, the viewership of my trackchasing YouTube videos has really increased this year. I have more than 2,000 subscribers for my YouTube channel, which is named “Ranlay”.
My Trackchaser Report newsletter, which is now sent to hundreds of trackchasing fans continues to grow. I have nearly 1,200 individual posts on my website at www.randylewis.org. Some of those posts have more than 30,000 views.
2020 – 2nd Quarter Update
During the second quarter, I added 92 separate Trackchaser Reports to my website. Since I was not traveling much during this time I could make the effort to add so many new racing and travel experiences to my site. My website at www.randylewis.org continues to receive more than 20,000 views each month making it the most popular site in the industry by a wide margin.
2020 – 1st Quarter Update
One of the reasons I share my results against the goals I have set on a quarterly basis is to keep myself accountable. It’s a good reminder to see if I am, “staying on track” or not with the items that I deem to be important at the beginning of the year.
During the first quarter, I only posted five, “classic” Trackchaser Reports. That means I’m behind pace to achieve this goal. However, during the stay at home time with the coronavirus, I’ve been working on lots of these reports. I suspect that I will make a strong comeback against this goal in the second quarter.
I was only able to complete one foreign country trackchasing trip review. That was from Algeria.
Goal. Trackchasing/Exercise
This is one of my fun and, at the same time, one of my most difficult goals to achieve. I very much enjoy exercising. It’s one of the things that keeps me young. When I’m traveling out on the long and dusty trackchasing trail it is difficult to take time to exercise. The more I trackchase the less time there is for taking care of one’s good health.
On November 15, 2019, I had foot surgery. With that being the case I won’t be capable of exercising full time at the beginning of 2020. When I DO get the go-ahead from my doctor I will have a goal of power walking four miles a day for five days each week. When power walking opportunities are not available I will substitute elliptical training. I’ll be back on the power walking trail as soon as possible.
2020 – 4th Quarter Update
One of my most fun and certainly most difficult trackchasing goals to meet and beat is my trackchasing/exercise goal. When you’re driving 200-400 miles each day and often flying thousands of miles in a day finding time to power walk for four miles, five days a week is a challenge.
I’m happy to report that during the fourth quarter I completed 77 exercise efforts. My goal for each and every quarter is 65 periods of exercise (13 weeks x 5 times/week) of more than four miles of powerwalking or 45 minutes of elliptical training.
I had foot surgery back on November 15, 2019. This delayed the start of my exercise return until April 1, 2020. I was able to get in 215 exercise experiences during the nine-month period from April through December. My exercise goal at five times per week during those nine months was 195 outings. Surpassing my goal by 20 exercise efforts over those nine months might’ve been my biggest success ever with this goal. It is a lot easier to take time to exercise during a Covid stay at home situation than when I’m on the road constantly as I normally am. Overall I’m probably happier achieving this goal than any other.
2020 – 3rd Quarter Update
Each quarter I need to exercise five times a week for the 13 weeks in a quarter to meet my goal. That’s 65 times. I’m happy to report that during the third quarter I finished with 67 powerwalking/elliptical efforts (JL-22, AG-22, SP-23). For the quarter, that’s well over 250 miles of power walking.
This gives me a “plus 2” for the third quarter. During the second quarter, I had a “plus 6” and during the first quarter I finished with a “minus 2”. These results send me into the fourth and final quarter with a “plus 6” rating against my annual goal. Barring injury or illness, I am well on my way to meeting and beating my exercise goal for the year. Trackchasing requires a lot of travel. With all of the flying, driving and watching races it is easy to forget to exercise. This goal helps me make sure that doesn’t happen.
2020 – 2nd Quarter Update
I think I have a fairly aggressive goal for aerobic exercise during the year. I have established this goal so that I don’t forget about the need to work out when I am on a trackchasing road trip.
Think about it this way. I often leave my house to begin a trip at three or four a.m. Then I might be on a 7 a.m. flight for the next 3-5 hours. I will often lose two or three hours in time zone changes before I land on the other side of the country in the late afternoon. I am likely to rent a car and drive for another 1-3 hours arriving at a race track just before they begin racing at 8 p.m. or so. Then I’m at the track until 10 or 11 p.m. The racing is followed with a drive to the hotel or towards the next track. That’s a pretty full day. I often trackchase in excess of 100 days a year. When is there time for exercise?
In an example like the above, when and where do I power walk for four miles? I have a lot of very robust active days similar to the example I provided.
I have set a goal of powerwalking at least 4 miles or more each day five days a week. I did that so I would be motivated to go out and exercise no matter how busy my day might get. On the rare occasions that I am not powerwalking my secondary form of exercise is 45 minutes or more on the elliptical trainer. This is the type of situation that if you take two or three days off it’s easy to fall behind and difficult to catch up.
Each quarter, using round numbers has 13 weeks. This means I have to exercise on 65 different days (13 X 5) during a typical 91-day quarter. Let’s say I have a particular week where I’m either tired or injured or whatever and I only exercise one time. That means for the next four weeks, just to break even against my goal, I would have to exercise six days out of seven in order to get back on goal. That’s a challenge. I really work at not falling too far behind.
At the end of the first quarter, I found my exercise results short of my goal. I’m happy to report that I had a very strong second-quarter motivated by my need to catch up.
During the second quarter, I exercised 71 times (AP-24, MY-24, JN-23) which allowed me to gain on my 65 per quarter goal. This gives me a “plus 6” for the second quarter. I had a “minus 2” at the end of the first quarter. Overall, after six months of the year has been completed, I have a “plus 4” overage against the goal. I love chasing this goal. I can’t be lazy very often…and I’m not.
I just wish there was some correlation between exercising and weight management. If you want to lose weight it’s a lot easier to not eat a 500 calorie dessert than to spent an hour exercising trying to burn those same number of calories. I’ve learned that on a daily basis!
2020 – 1st Quarter Update
Following my November 15, 2019 foot surgery I was able to get back into my normal exercise routine on February 5, 2020. What’s my normal exercise routine? It’s either walking more than 4 miles a day at a very fast pace, I call this power walking, or 45 minutes on the elliptical trainer or a combination of both.
My goal is to exercise a minimum of five times per week or 260 times for the year. Since I missed out because of my operation on the first 35 days of the year my goal period will run from February 5 through the end of 2020. That’s 90.4% of the full year. That’s pretty specific, isn’t it!
What does all of that mean? My annual goal, beginning February 5, will be 235 exercise events for the year. That would make my goal for the first quarter 40 exercise events.
I came in at 38 from February 5 through March 31, 2020. I’m just a little behind goal but not too much. I’ll see you out on the power walking trail.
By the way, if you want to check on me to see if I really AM exercising you’ll find me power walking at the beach on most days, with the exception of the Fourth of July when the beach is just too danged crowded. Check out my 3-5-mile route. It’s not hard to get a good workout with the views along my route! Click on the link below to see what I mean.
San Clemente – The World’s Best Climate….and great for exercising
Goal – Add two more countries, provinces or states to my list of ice track totals.
Going into the 2020 trackchasing season I’ve seen ice racing in 20 different countries, provinces or states. My nearest fellow trackchasing competitor totals just seven in this category.
I’m setting a goal of adding two more countries, provinces or states to my ice racing total. In an era of warming temperatures that’s an aggressive goal. Will I make it? I’m going to try it! Don’t be surprised if I even beat this goal by a new location somewhere in the world!
Current ice track state, province or country list
| Alaska |
| Alberta |
| Andorra |
| Belarus |
| British Columbia |
| Finland |
| France |
| Iowa |
| Italy |
| Maine |
| Manitoba |
| Massachusetts |
| Michigan |
| Minnesota |
| New Hampshire |
| New York |
| Ontario |
| Quebec |
| Russia |
| Saskatchewan |
| Vermont |
| Wisconsin |
2020 – 4th Quarter Update
There wasn’t any ice trackchasing happening anywhere during the last three months of 2020. As a matter of fact, it looks as if the ice racing season is going to be significantly curtailed with current Covid restrictions well into 2021.
Americans still cannot travel to Canada. One of my “on the radar” foreign ice trackchasing opportunities has already canceled their 2021 event until 2022! While I wait for the vaccine I might not be able to see any ice racing in 2021.
2020 – 3rd Quarter Update
Ice racing happens from January through March. I had a great first quarter with ice racing. In early March when I saw an ice race in Sweden I had no idea that as soon as I returned home from my flight from Europe to the United States that international travel and lots of other travel in the United States was going to be virtually shut down. I would expect my next ice race will be sometime in January 2021. This has nothing to do with COVID-19. There just won’t be any cold-weather anywhere in the world that hosts ice racing before then.
2020 – 2nd Quarter Update
Sorry. The ice is gone and won’t return until January 2021.
2020 – 1st Quarter Update
The first quarter was an outstanding success against this goal. During January, Carol and I spent nearly three weeks in Italy and France. Much of that time was up in the Italian and French Alps.
I was able to knock out two Italian ice racing events as well as one in France. Carol also added Italy and France to her ice trackchasing resume. I’ve now seen racing in 22 individual states, provinces and countries. I think the next leading trackchaser in this category totals about seven. Not bad for a guy who wears shorts more than 99% of the year!
Ice racing was not affected by the coronavirus during 2020. By the time the virus came along the ice had melted and the ice trackchasing season was over.
It should be noted that several Ice racing organizations, including the largest one in New York, as well as some in Wisconsin had to cancel their entire ice racing seasons. This is becoming a more and more frequent occurrence as the winters just don’t seem to be as cold as they once were.
Goal – Maintain a #1 trackchasing ranking in 26 states.
I currently hold a #1 trackchasing rank in more than half of the states in America. Realistically, there are no other states at this time where I can add any more #1 rankings. My goal for the year will be to try to maintain those 26 “first place” rankings.
In some ways, I don’t know why I even established this goal. In all but a state or two, there are no active trackchasers anywhere close to my totals. Then why have this goal? It keeps me focused.
Going into 2020 #1 rankings.
Alaska
Arizona
California
Colorado
Florida
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Minnesota
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Oregon
Rhode Island
South Dakota
Texas
Utah
Washington
Wyoming
2020 – 4th Quarter Update
I was able to maintain my #1 trackchasing ranking in 26 separate states located all across the country. I consider this a pretty stout achievement considering that I live in California. I have a #1 ranking in more than half of all states.
Actually, this is not a difficult goal to maintain. Quite often the person in second place is either deceased or has given up trackchasing as an active pursuit. In other situations, the second place trackchaser is so far behind that it is not realistic to think they could possibly reach my totals anytime soon.
2020 – 3rd Quarter Update
During the first nine months of the 2020 trackchasing season, I’ve been able to add more and more tracks in states where already hold a number one ranking. Here’s a list of those states
Colorado
Iowa
Florida
Kansas
Kentucky
Minnesota
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Texas
Utah
Washington
In most of the above states, my trackchasing fellow competitors haven’t seen a single event all year. Right now I would expect to maintain my number one ranking in all 26 of the states where I held a #1 ranking at the beginning of the year. I don’t think I will add any new number one ranked states to the list at this time.
2020 – 2nd Quarter Update
I would love to maintain or even enhance my position in the 26 states where I hold the number one trackchasing rank. During the middle of the year, it’s somewhat difficult to measure the results of others in this area.
Of all the goals that I established for 2020 the idea of maintaining a number one ranking in these 26 states is probably the easiest. Why is that?
First, often the advantage that I hold over the second-place trackchaser in these states is large. It would take literally years to catchup. Sometimes the person in second place is not trackchasing on an active basis or might even be deceased.
There is a trackchasing group headquartered in Pennsylvania. They have made a commendable effort to try to identify every active track in each state in the U.S. that is operating in 2020. Of course with the COVID-19 situation that project has been hampered by mass inaccuracies.
Their effort is commendable. Nevertheless, after each and every quarter I find several tracks that the entire group of a couple of hundred people has missed. I sometimes wonder about that. How could they miss these places that the Randy Lewis Racing research group seems to find?
Here is one interesting aspect of what I learned from what they call their trackchasing “census”. Let’s think about it this way. As an example, I’ve already seen more than 2,610 tracks and seen racing in every state. More than 2,300 of those tracks were seen in the U.S. and Canada. Of course, it took me years to do that. Along come the track census takers. They determine there are 1,600 or so tracks active in 2020 in the U.S. and Canada.
Let’s do the math. I’ve seen more than 2,300 tracks in the U.S. and Canada. How does a fellow competitor try to match my totals when there are only about 1,600 to be seen today? Do you know how long it would take a trackchaser to see those 1,600 tracks? Decades! How will any trackchaser match or exceed my totals when I am adding to those numbers weekly? They can’t.
Even if a trackchaser had already seen 500-1,000 tracks the difference between their totals and mine would be enormous. Like I say it would take my fellow competitors decades to match my totals and they don’t have that kind of time. Additionally, each year the number of active tracks is decreasing.
I have never taken the time to look to see how many of my 2,618-lifetime total tracks are no longer in existence. If I had to take a wild guess and this just is a wild guess I would say that somewhere between 700-1,000 (maybe more) of the tracks I’ve seen have gone out of business. Therefore that large number of tracks is not part of the database that my fellow competitors can choose from.
2020 – 1st Quarter Update
It might be better to share my results against this goal only at the end of the year. I still have the #1 trackchasing position in the 26 states listed above. Trackchasing frequency by trackchasers all over the world has been down for a number of years. The coronavirus is going to put an even bigger dent in the lack of trackchasing participation. All of this will make it more and more difficult for anyone to challenge in the 26 states where I currently hold an advantage.
Goal – Racechasing
I would like to see racing at four “big” races, at a minimum, in 2020. These trips would be at tracks I have already visited. For me, a “big” race could be getting back to my boyhood track of Peoria Speedway. Or, it could be what the general population thinks of as a “big” race.
I would hope that part of this plan includes seeing at least one NASCAR Cup race. Taking in these major events will be a small step in maintaining my ties to “racechasing”. This goal is meant to bring me back “home”.
2020 – 4th Quarter Update
I didn’t do any formal “racechasing“ during the fourth quarter of 2020. Truth be told when I do go back to tracks that I’ve seen in the past, just for the fun of seeing them, their programs just don’t seem to be as robust as I remember them. Nevertheless, I do hope to do some active racechasing in 2021. That idea comes to the forefront because there are now so few tracks left for me to see on a first-time basis.
2020 – 3rd Quarter Update
The “racechasing” aspect of my trackchasing year has been severely curtailed by COVID-19. By now I would have normally seen a NASCAR cup race or two. However, in almost every circumstance they don’t allow any fans whatsoever.
I did catch a couple of tracks for racechasing purposes during the third quarter. My brother Mark and I returned the I-35 Speedway in Winston, Missouri. They had an excellent program with a big crowd. Additionally, by mistake, I returned to see racing at the Silver Dollar Speedway a.k.a. Tri-State Speedway in Amarillo, Texas.
I also went back to the Windy Hollow Speedway in Owensboro, Kentucky. I went there to see a race on their roval but also was treated to a full night of racing on their oval track. They had the biggest crowd I’ve seen all year relative to the amount of grandstand seating. This very eventful program included a major fire in the cockpit of one racer, the lights going out, a dog running onto the track causing a yellow flag and finally a disqualified driver being chased off the track by two police cars with lights flashing. It was an exciting night!
2020 – 2nd Quarter Update
The coronavirus shut me down from March-June, 85 days. I didn’t get to racechase anywhere during the quarter.
2020 – 1st Quarter Update
My trackchasing season was cut short after an event in Sweden on March 7, 2020. With regard to racechasing, I did have a chance to see the Lucas Oil Late Models race at the East Bay Raceway Park down in Florida during speed weeks. That was definitely a big event. With the coronavirus in play, I’m not sure what my big race activity is going to be for the rest of the year.
Goal – Have Fun; control travel
I am at a stage where “less is more” in my trackchasing hobby. There are not that many tracks left for me to see. Many of the tracks remaining to be seen offer questionable entertainment value.
That being the case I expect to travel less. I will likely take fewer but longer trips. I don’t plan to set any yearly track visit records. However, every track I do add to my lifetime list will break a new record for total tracks seen.
I will still see some of those sometimes less than entertaining novelty race events. However, I plan to see more big events and make more big trips. Every time I leave the house for a trackchasing/racing effort I will be looking to have fun.
Yep. When I do go trackchasing it will be for one simple reason…..I just wanted too. I do this for fun. I go trackchasing simply to have fun.
2020 – 4th Quarter Update
My final goal was to have fun during the year and control my travel. I think COVID-19 was my secret weapon for controlling travel! Nevertheless, I traveled overnight somewhere 115 times during 2020.
I continue to have fun in trackchasing. I must admit that much of the fun that I have on these trackchasing trips is not necessarily associated with racing. The racetracks that remain for me to see are primarily of the “novelty” variety. They are definitely worth a “one and done” counting approach. However, for me, trackchasing today is not nearly as much about racing as it was many years ago.
If you’ve ever looked at my Trackchasing Tourist Attraction link on my website you’ll see that I’ve had the opportunity to visit and experience a wide variety of touring activities. My hobby of trackchasing allowed me these many experiences. At this point in my trackchasing career, these TTAs are as important or maybe more important than the racing.
Just getting from point A to point B is fun for me. I enjoy the logistical challenge. Considering all of the above I had a fun year and did quite a bit under the dark clouds of Covid 19’s shadow.
2020 – 3rd Quarter Update
Remember I am a trackchasing “volunteer”. No one makes me do this. I simply get a kick out of traveling the country and the world with racing being the selector of what location I wind up visiting.
Since the first weekend in June, I’ve headed up to the Los Angeles International Airport over 17 consecutive weekends to trackchase somewhere, all in the United States. I am pretty amazed that with the exception of being on the airplane itself that I am practicing social distancing in 99.9% of my trackchasing circumstances from the time I leave home until I return home.
I’m still having fun. As you can see when 32 of my 56 new track visits are brand new and have never been seen by ANY trackchaser before I have a pretty good research department! I have seen all but about 20 regularly scheduled tracks that are listed in the most recent National Speedway Directory.
How far into the future can nearly 60% of the tracks I see in a given year be brand new to both me and the entire hobby? I wouldn’t think that would last for very long. However, I never would’ve predicted that nearly 60% of the tracks that I had seen this year would fall into this category. What’s the future look like? Who knows? It’s pretty difficult if not impossible to predict the future.
2020 – 2nd Quarter Update
I’m still having fun. However, I did find it relaxing not to think I needed to trackchase every weekend during COVID-19, which is still going on. I was not bothered by the “off-time” because I wasn’t missing anything. Nobody was racing for a long time. Additionally, the quality of the racing at the tracks that remain for me to see is not the greatest. Seeing these kinds of shows isn’t exactly what I signed up for with my hobby of trackchasing.
2020 – 1st Quarter Update
I can tell you this. I was off to a really fast start with trackchasing for 2020. I went to Italy, France, Algeria, Canada, Mexico and Sweden. That all happened by March 7, 2020. In addition to those trips, I was all over the U.S. seeing racing.
I was definitely having fun! However, I wasn’t controlling travel all that well but that doesn’t really matter when you’re having fun. At the point in which my season was shut down by the virus, I was traveling more than I had at virtually any point in time. Now I’ve been home for several weeks and I’m sure the end of the year will show a travel decrease but not by my doing! When things clear up I’ll be back to having fun traveling the country and the world. Stay tuned. Stay safe. Wash your hands.
Living the dream.
If you get time check out the guestbook tab of my website at this link Randy’s past guestbook. I get lots of comments like this one from race fans and travelers, “You are living my dream”. Heck, I’m living my dream as well. Trackchasing is OPTIONAL for me. If I didn’t want to do it I wouldn’t do it. On the other hand, despite my “love for the road” it’s never a good idea to do anything too much. Right now I’m very happy with the frequency of my trackchasing. My current pace is one I would be comfortable with for many years to come. Let me be perfectly clear on one important point. I am NOT living the dream because I am trackchasing in retirement. I am living the dream because I am doing exactly what I want to do in retirement.
Goal – Lifetime National Geographic Diversity results
Due to the lack of overall competitiveness in the NGD program, results will now be tabulated every two years. Additionally, this far into the NGD game the results just don’t change that much in lifetime totals and rankings. The next update will be at the conclusion of my 2021 trackchasing season.
Want to learn more about the National Geographic Diversity (NGD) program? Here’s a link that will explain the program’s entire history:
National Geographic Diversity lifetime results
2019 – National Geographic Diversity lifetime results.
- Randy Lewis – 3.96
- Gordon Killian – 6.31
- Guy Smith – 8.20
- Ed Esser – 8.86
- Allan Brown – 9.33
- Paul Weisel – 10.94
- Jack Erdmann – 11.25
- Pam Smith – 11.53
- Mike Knappenberger – 11.57
10.Robert Helmick – 11.65
11.John Moore – 11.78
12.Rick Schneider – 12.22
13.Brian Hickey – 12.49
14.Andy Sivi – 12.57
15.Dale O’Brien – 12.59
16.Carol Lewis – 12.96
17.Nancy Brown – 13.00
18.Bruce Eckel – 13.12
18.Edward Corrado – 13.12
20.Will White – 13.14
21.Pat Eckel – 13.29
22.Vince Sadowski – 13.37
23.Roger Ferrell – 13.57
24.Paul Weidman – 13.59
25.Pappy Hough – 13.63
Complete 2020 New Track List
| 2600 | MON | 6-Jan | Sports cars | Ice Pragelato | Pragelato, Italy |
| 2601 | FRI | 10-Jan | Sports cars | Isola 2000 | Isola, France |
| 2602 | SUN | 12-Jan | Sports cars | Ice Livigno | Livigno, Italy |
| 2603 | FRI | 24-Jan | 4-cylinder junk cars | Dr. John A. Arnold Arena @ the Union County Fair & Exposition Center | Sturgis, KY |
| 2604 | SAT | 25-Jan | SXS | Lake Superior (Barkers Island) Ice Course | Superior, WI |
| SAT | 1-Feb | Postponed | Algeria | ||
| FRI | 7-Feb | Mason | East Bay Raceway Park | Gibsonton, FL | |
| 2605 | SAT | 8-Feb | 4-cylinder junk cars | Stampede Premium Covered Arena at the Florida State Fairgrounds | Tampa, FL |
| 2606 | SUN | 9-Feb | 4-cylinder junk cars | Stampede Premium Covered Arena at the Florida State Fairgrounds | Tampa, FL |
| 2607 | SAT | 15-Feb | Stock cars/UTVs | Clearwater Lake Ice Course | South Haven, MN |
| 2608 | SUN | 16-Feb | 4-cylinder junk cars | Pelch Services Ice Race | Rosetown, Saskatchewan |
| 2609 | SUN | 1-Mar | Big rig trucks | Autodromo de Yucatan Emerson Fittipaldi | Merida, Yucatan, Mexico |
| 2610 | SAT | 7-Mar | Sports cars | Asele Motorsallskap Ice Course | Asele, Sweden |
| 2611 | FRI | 5-Jun | Low $ stock cars | Tomah-Sparta Speedway | Tomah, WI |
| 2612 | SAT | 6-Jun | Cruisers | What Cheer Raceway | What Cheer, IA |
| 2613 | THR | 11-Jun | Junk cars | Wisconsin International Raceway | Kaukauna, WI |
| 2614 | FRI | 12-Jun | Factory stocks | Buffalo Creek Speedway | Canton, TX |
| 2615 | SAT | 13-Jun | Street stocks | Kiamichi Mountains Speedway | Nashoba, OK |
| 2616 | SAT | 20-Jun | Modfieds | Alien Motor Speedway | Roswell, NM |
| 2617 | FRI | 26-Jun | 600 restrictor winged karts | Boss Dirt Track Speedway | Lawton, OK |
| 2618 | SAT | 27-Jun | Street stocks | Route 66 Motor Speedway | Amarillo, TX |
| 2619 | FRI | 3-Jul | Mini modfieds | Good’s Raceway | Alliance, OH |
| 2620 | SAT | 4-Jul | Limited late models | Whittemore Speedway | Whittemore, MI |
| 2621 | WED | 8-Jul | 4 cylinder junk cars | Bennett’s Raceway | Neenah, WI |
| 2622 | FRI | 10-Jul | Senior champs | Coulee Go-Kart Raceway | West Salem, WI |
| 2623 | SAT | 11-Jul | Crown Vics | Mudlick Valley Raceway | Tollesboro, KY |
| 2624 | SUN | 12-Jul | Modified caged karts | McClure Raceway | West Liberty, OH |
| 2625 | THR | 16-Jul | 6 cylinder junk cars | Wabash County 4-H Fairgrounds | Wabash, IN |
| 2626 | FRI | 17-Jul | Cruisers | Big Four Fairgrounds | Nashua, IA |
| 2627 | SAT | 18-Jul | Trash cars | Cache County Fairgrounds | Logan, UT |
| 2628 | FRI | 24-Jul | Mini modifieds | KC Raceway | River Bend, MO |
| 2629 | SAT | 25-Jul | Adult winged cage | Poplar Grove Speedway | Kamrar, IA |
| 2630 | SUN | 26-Jul | SXS | Dirt City Motorplex | Lena, WI |
| 2631 | WED | 29-Jul | Junior 3 winged karts | GSR Kartway | Clintonville, WI |
| 2632 | THR | 30-Jul | Junk cars | Miami County Fairgrounds | Peru, IN |
| 2633 | FRI | 31-Jul | Late models | Norway Speedway | Norway, MI |
| 2634 | SAT | 1-Aug | Junk cars | Luce West Macinac Fairgrounds | Newberry, MI |
| 2635 | FRI | 7-Aug | 4 cylinder stocks | Highway 92 Raceway Park | Gering, NE |
| 2636 | SAT | 8-Aug | Stadium Super Trucks | Road America | Elkhart Lake, WI |
| 2637 | SUN | 9-Aug | Cruisers | Concordia High Banks | Concordia, KS |
| 2638 | FRI | 14-Aug | Junk cars | Lorah’s Family Farm | Walnutport, PA |
| 2639 | SAT | 15-Aug | UTVs | Walnut Creek | North Salem, IN |
| 2640 | SAT | 15-Aug | Senior champs | Miller Raceway | Montgomery, IN |
| 2641 | SUN | 16-Aug | Junk cars | Sawyer County Fairgrounds | Hayward, WI |
| 2642 | FRI | 21-Aug | Junk cars | Viking Speedway – inner | Alexandria, MN |
| 2643 | SAT | 22-Aug | 4 cylinders | Midvale Speedway – inner | Midvale, OH |
| 2644 | SAT | 29-Aug | SXS | Twelve 64 X-treme Off-Road Park | Wellsville, KS |
| SAT | 8-Jan | Pure stocks | I-35 Speedway | Winston, MO | |
| 2645 | SUN | 30-Aug | Junk cars | Hawkeye Downs Speedway RC | Cedar Rapids, IA |
| 2646 | FRI | 4-Sep | SXS | Crandon International Raceway | Crandon, WI |
| 2647 | SAT | 5-Sep | V-8 stock cars | Guthrie Center Fairgrounds | Guthrie Center, IA |
| 2648 | SUN | 6-Sep | Junk cars | Madison International Speedway | Oregon, WI |
| 2649 | MON | 7-Sep | Modified caged karts | Lion’s Park | West Liberty, OH |
| 2650 | FRI | 11-Sep | Late model stock cars | Honor Speedway | Pueblo, CO |
| 2651 | SAT | 12-Sep | 4-cylinders | State Fair Arena | Sedalia, MO |
| 2652 | SUN | 13-Sep | Junk cars | Windy Hollow Speedway | Owensboro, KY |
| 2653 | SAT | 19-Sep | Limited stock cars | Round Town Raceway | Circle, MT |
| 2654 | SUN | 20-Sep | Quarter midgets | Washington Quarter Midget Assn | Monroe, WA |
| FRI | 25-Sep | Silver Dollar Speedway | Amarillo, TX | ||
| 2655 | SAT | 26-Sep | Adult winged cage | Cedar Hill Raceway | Ovalo, TX |
| 2656 | FRI | 2-Oct | Senior champs | Jennings County Fairgrounds | North Vernon, IN |
| 2657 | SAT | 3-Oct | Buckeye Outlaw Karts | Cridersville Speedway | Cridersville, OH |
| 2658 | FRI | 9-Oct | Winged champ karts | Bartlett Bridge Raceway | Lyman, ME |
| 2659 | SAT | 10-Oct | Adult winged cage | Slayton Speedway | Slayton, TX |
| 2660 | FRI | 16-Oct | Mod Karts | Longhorn Raceway | Viburnam, MO |
| 2661 | SAT | 17-Oct | UTVs | Adrenaline Motorplex | Adrian, MO |
| 2662 | SAT | 17-Oct | V-8 FWD drive | Udall Figure 8 Arena | Udall, KS |
| 2663 | SAT | 24-Oct | Junk cars | Montmorency County Fairgrounds | Atlanta, MI |
| 2664 | SUN | 25-Oct | Junk cars | Hayfield 125 | Conneaut Lake, PA |
| 2665 | SAT | 31-Oct | Micro sprints | MEC Coliseum | Shipshewana, IN |
| SUN | 1-Nov | Rained out | Old 71 Speedway | Butler, MO | |
| 2666 | SAT | 7-Nov | V-8 stock cars | 81 Speedway | Park City, KS |
| 2667 | SUN | 8-Nov | FWD junk cars | Old 71 Speedway | Butler, MO |
| 2668 | SAT | 14-Nov | Senior champ karts | Kingsport Miniway | Kingsport, TN |
| 2669 | SAT | 14-Nov | Late models | Lake View Speedway | Nichols, SC |
| 2670 | SAT | 21-Nov | UTVs | Gila County Fairgrounds | Globe, AZ |
| 2671 | SAT | 5-Dec | Senior champ karts | Tucson Kart Speedway | Tucson, AZ |