Greetings from first Tulsa, Oklahoma
And then Petty, Texas
From the travels and adventures of the
“World’s #1 Trackchaser”
Tulsa Speedway dirt oval Lifetime Track #2,774 Rocket Raceway Park dirt oval Lifetime Track #2,775 THE EVENT Editor’s note: This weekend I knocked off two permanent, regularly scheduled dirt ovals. I have fewer than twenty of these types of tracks, i.e. permanent, regularly scheduled ovals left to see in the entire United States. Sometimes people have asked me, “Haven’t you seen racing at all of the tracks?”. That seemed like an absurd question in the past…but not so much now! Remember…I travel this way so you don’t have to…even though secretly you probably want to. How does that work? I tell you how I travel and then you get to decide if that’s a good idea for you. Welcome to my 2022 trackchasing season! I AM A TRACKCHASER. What’s a trackchaser? What is trackchasing? Trackchasing is a hobby of mine. With trackchasing, I do just three things. Each one is of equal importance to me. I travel the world watching auto racing on ovals, road courses, and figure 8 tracks. I seek out “Trackchasing Tourist Attractions” during my travels to keep myself entertained when I’m not at the racetrack. I’ve been able to see the world doing this. If you’re interested in exactly what I’ve been able to experience all around the U.S. and the world I recommend you click on this link. Trackchasing Tourist Attractions I plan airline, rental car, and hotel accommodations to get me from my home in Southern California to racetracks located in the United States and all over the world. Just the planning part of my hobby is as much fun as anything. I am known as the “World’s #1 Trackchaser”. How did I get that title? I have traveled to 85 different countries and seen racing at nearly 2,800 tracks…that’s how I got that title. If you’re interested in looking back and seeing where I’ve been the following link is for you. If you’ve got a question, comment, or whatever please leave it at the bottom of this report. It’s very easy to do. Or you can visit me on Facebook. Thanks! FOREWORD Friday/Sunday, April 8/10, 2022. This trip was going to be unique on a few different levels. Most of you know that I’ve seen racing at a lot of race tracks all around the world. A byproduct of doing that is the fact that the remaining tracks left for me to see are getting fewer and fewer every week. In the United States, it’s rare for a small permanent regularly scheduled car racing track to open from scratch. At the same time, there are quite a few tracks that are closing. The properties are being sold for development. Sometimes they just close down because of lack of demand and/or poor management. The bottom line is that there are fewer and fewer tracks operating and therefore fewer tracks left for me to see. This weekend I planned to run down to first Oklahoma and then Texas to see racing on Friday and Saturday nights. If all of that came to fruition I would have seen racing in 10 states in our great country and it’s only early April. The logistical challenges that come with my hobby never go away. It’s never really “easy” to get from point A to point B. This is especially true during the “spring break” time frame within the United States. Spring break runs during March and April and covers a five or six-week period. This is when kids are off from school and families are taking their spring break vacations. This makes flying standby very difficult but not impossible for me. I know if I work at it, I’ll probably find a solution. For this trip, I reserved rental cars in Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Kansas City, the Dallas Fort Worth airport, and the Dallas Love airport. I didn’t know which of those airports was going to come into play. To guarantee the really good rates I get on rental cars I have to reserve the cars 24 hours in advance. This necessitated five different rental car reservations. There is no charge to cancel any of them so as soon as I knew where I was going, I canceled the four reservations I would not need. It just turned out that the best flight option of the day was going to take me from Los Angeles to Tulsa, Oklahoma. That was good in one sense. I was planning to see racing at the Tulsa Speedway in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Friday night. However, getting home from Tulsa was not going to be an easy plan. In all likelihood, I probably needed to be over in Dallas to get back to Los Angeles on Sunday. I figured I would reserve a car in Tulsa and tell him I was going to return to Tulsa. Then once I got the car, in the middle of the trip if I decided to change things to Dallas I would just give them a call. They would let me make that change…at a price. Most things, but not all, can be made to happen…for a price. Lately, I’ve come up with a new strategy for handling these early morning flights. Today’s flight to Tulsa was leaving at 6 a.m. I live about 65 miles south of the Los Angeles International Airport. After having done this pretty much every week for decades I now know to give myself three hours to get up there, get parked, walk to the airport terminal from the parking garage, clear security, and be ready to fly. If traffic is a little heavier than expected the three-hour window comes in handy. If traffic isn’t a problem, I might take some time to charge my Tesla or get in a few powerwalking steps or both. For a 6 a.m. flight that meant leaving our house at 3 a.m. That also meant that I would need to get up at 2:30 a.m. to get ready to go. I normally go to bed at about 10:30 or 11 p.m. I didn’t much like the idea of sleeping for three or four hours and getting up at such an early hour. I had a solution. I’ve done this a few times now. At about 10 p.m. I will drive up to LAX in advance of a 6 a.m. flight, in this case. At that time of night, there is no traffic. I should be able to drive nonstop up to the airport. It’s important to note that I travel to 30-35 states every year. This amount of travel confirms to me that California has the best roads of any state in the union. They also have traffic. This traffic can mostly be avoided if you know when and where to travel. California does not do road construction during the daytime like most other places. They do almost all of their work from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. Tonight they had a few lanes closed but this didn’t create a big problem. Tonight, I would arrive at 11 p.m. in my heavily sponsored airport parking garage. I would plan to sleep in my Tesla Model X. With the rear seats folded down and a 3-inch mattress pad with fitted sheets, I can stretch out my 6‘3” frame with room to spare both heads to toe. Then I could sleep from 11 p.m. until about 4:30 p.m. before I had to get up and walk 20 minutes to the airport terminal. This plan gives me an extra hour to an hour and a half of sleep. Yes, I’ll be sleeping in my automobile and not in my master, sorry, my main bedroom. I’m one of those guys that go for every inch of a hotdog. I believe it is a series of small advantages that are planned for and achieved every day that makes for a long-term successful life in just about every area where you might want to excel. Right now, California’s going through a hot spell. It’s only early April. The city of Oxnard just north of Los Angeles yesterday broke its high temperature for April 7 by a full 10°. Who breaks their hottest temperature on a single day by 10°? Is global warming coming? Has it come? What caused it? Pretty much all manner of things can be controlled in my Tesla Model X by using my Tesla app on my Apple iPhone. While I was sleeping, I noticed the outside temperature was 81° at 1 a.m. That’s warm. To make things a bit more comfortable I simply pressed the button on my Tesla app to improve things. The car’s interior climate control immediately cooled the things to 70° a very comfortable sleeping temperature. I used this climate control feature to keep the car cool for four hours. My electrical driving range was only diminished by three miles. At a supercharger, I could add three miles of charge in about 20 seconds. Using the air conditioning overnight doesn’t cost me anything. Climate control is not a major power consumer. I made my flight on a standby basis and slept just a little bit on the airplane. I always download a series of TV shows and movies on my Apple iPad to watch during these plane rides. It makes the travel go a lot faster even though I am moving through the sky in a huge metal tube at 600 MPH. Right now, I’m watching the program titled, “Winning Time: The Rise of the Laker’s Dynasty” on HBO Max. I’m enjoying the show and thank J.J. for the recommendation. I landed at the Tulsa airport at 11 a.m. However, I decided to just hang out, get some steps in and have a little lunch for the next three hours. If I picked up my car today at 11 a.m. on Friday I would have to return it by 11 a.m. on Sunday to avoid an extra day’s rental car charge. The flight I’m going to try for on Sunday leaves Tulsa at 4 p.m. So, it made sense to me to wait until about 2 o’clock or so to pick up my car today on Friday so I wouldn’t have to return it until 2 o’clock on Sunday. Those extra three hours on Sunday can be reinvested in sleep. I expect to be traveling from three hours south of Tulsa in Texas after Saturday night’s race. Have you noticed that my trackchasing lifestyle employs a good amount of strategy? I am one of those people who is always looking for an edge. No matter how small the edge I feel it’s worthwhile to go after. That’s just me. As I was sitting in the airport, I decided to send a message to one of my Oklahoma buddies, David Hardy. Whenever David gets a message from me, he immediately calls me back. David had good news on two fronts. First of all, he was getting married next month! Congratulations, guys. What was the second part of the good news? David had information on a new track that would be racing in Oklahoma very soon. Wow! I just might visit that track on opening night. Would I tell my fellow trackchasing competitors about this new track? Not! Why not? Here’s my reasoning. I had never been to this new track. What if, when I did go there, my experience wasn’t good? Would you recommend a restaurant to a friend when you hadn’t gone to eat there? I wouldn’t either. When I have visited this track and know what things are like I will share it via my Trackchaser Report. Then my fellow competitors can decide if they might like to visit. Make sense? There are certain airports, primarily in smaller markets, where the National Rental Car service isn’t as good as I would hope for. One of those locations is Tulsa, Oklahoma. They don’t have National’s expedited Executive Aisle service. Their car selection is smaller. Today they had only one sedan on the lot with about 20 SUVs. I never like to drive SUVs on these trips because of the poor gas mileage SUVs get. I ended up with a Nissan Maxima (the only sedan in sight) which was acceptable but not my first choice. My first stop would be at a local grocery store. I chose a Winco. Since I started eating Nutrisystem meals I’ve been shopping for my fruits and vegetables. Shopping and consuming fruits and vegetables is a brand new experience for me. I kinda like the experience. Today’s store was huge. It seemed like the prices were more than reasonable. I bought a 16-ounce six-pack of 17 ounces, Pepsi Max, for $2.56. I might pay that much or more for a similar single bottle at a convenience store as I have done many times in the past. I did have a little bit of a surprise when I went to check out. I put my credit card in the machine and the woman said, “We take anything but credit cards”. Say what? How do people pay for stuff if they don’t use credit cards? I guess she might’ve been referring to a debit card or a check or cash. My bill was $37. I only have $45 cash on me. This was a shocker. The weather in Tulsa was going to be what you might expect for early spring in Oklahoma. Cool and windy. They get a lot of wind down this way. Tonight, the temperature was in the mid-50s but the wind was a solid 10-20 miles an hour all night. Those are not comfortable viewing conditions. It was nice having tonight’s racetrack, the Tulsa Speedway, just a 15-minute drive from the hotel. That is not often the case. Frequently I will drive 2-4 hours from the airport after I land to get to the track and possibly another one to three hours when the race finishes up to get to my next hotel. The Tulsa Speedway is a brand-new permanent quarter-mile dirt oval. They race on a regular Friday night basis. They are the only track in the United States that races most Fridays that I haven’t seen to this point. After I knock them off tonight, I will have several potential future trips where the only new tracks I can see that race on a regular basis, race on a Saturday. It will be a rare circumstance where I will leave California to see one permanent track, outside of California, that races on a Saturday night. The Tulsa Speedway sits on the same property as the Tulsa Raceway Park dragstrip. Tonight, they were having some runs over at that facility but I stuck with the oval track situation. There were a lot of pluses and minuses to tonight’s trackchasing experience. The price of my “senior” ticket was only eight bucks. I doubt anybody needs to sell a race ticket for as low as eight dollars in today’s world. General admission was only $10. I was a little bit surprised to see that pit passes were 30 bucks a piece. That’s a pretty wide discrepancy between the general admission ticket and a pit pass. I think the overall facility at the Tulsa Speedway is excellent. They have a high-banked quarter-mile dirt oval with good lighting and a nice grandstand. The PA system was a little weak and the announcer didn’t have a whole lot to say. During the racing, I couldn’t hear the PA system at all. Car counts were small. They were eight factory stocks, 10 modifieds, just two mini stocks and 13 winged 305 sprints. Often when car counts are small the crowd is small. That was the situation tonight. Several of the fans in the stands might have come to the track with a car and driver and pit crew. I would estimate tonight’s grandstand crowd at only 100-150 people. I doubt the weather helped the crowd size as well. I don’t know how a racetrack can profitably operate with a crowd in the grandstand this small and only 43 cars in the pit area. Then when they charge such low prices for general admission it makes the whole proposition all the more difficult. Despite having such a small crowd, they still had a long line, 10-12 people, at the concession stands with only one server helping their customers. I didn’t see any menu as well. I might give them a break in this area. I understand that the concession stand was only completed in the last few days. The racing wasn’t much. They had six heat races in total. Then they went to intermission. The track announcer told the crowd that intermission would be a short 15 minutes. That was welcome news on a cold and windy night where the wind blew directly into the face of the fans. Did I wonder if they really would stick to 15 minutes? I didn’t think so. They didn’t. Intermission took every bit of 40 minutes on a cold night. That’s not good. Truth be told on such a cold night with small car accounts where the racing wasn’t all that fantastic, I probably would have left and headed on down the road after I had seen every car race. The weather conditions were tough. However, my hotel was only 15 minutes away. I stuck it out for the feature racing. I’m glad I did. The modifieds put on the best race. The factory stocks probably came in second in that category with the winged sprints third. The two poor mini stocks, who ran a 12-lap event, had the least entertaining race. There were a lot of yellow flags tonight. I will say the flagman and his assistants did an excellent job of getting back to racing after the many spins that happened on tonight’s track. Long ago I knocked out every permanent race track in the country that races on a Sunday. That might’ve been as long as 10 years ago. Now I have removed every permanent Friday night race from any future trackchasing opportunities. The trackchasing hobby is suffering mightily from one major item. The leading stars of trackchasing, the people who built the hobby, don’t trackchase anymore. Think of this as similar to when Indy had A.J. Foyt, Mario Andretti, and the Unser brothers retired. Yes, some drivers followed these legends but they were and are a shadow of those first few guys who won the hearts and minds of race fans. The same thing has happened in trackchasing. I went back to see what my track totals and the next 10 leading trackchaser totals were for those at the top of the worldwide trackchasing standings in 2010. Those leaders had seen well over 10,000 tracks between them. Were those leaders still trackchasing? Unfortunately, they are not. In the first few months of the 2022 season, I have seen racing at 15 new tracks. The entire TEN trackchasers who followed me in the standings in 2010 have seen in 2022…just nine new tracks. Wow! The Foyts, Andrettis, and Unsers of trackchasing have left the building! Trackchaser 2010 2022 Randy Lewis 1,612 15 Ed Esser (deceased) 1,345 0 Guy Smith 1,343 3 Gordon Killian 1,276 0 Alan Brown 1,191 1 Rick Schneider 1,109 0 Roland Vanden Eynde 1,108 2 Andy Sivi 1,063 0 Robert Helmick 1,033 2 Jack Erdmann (deceased) 916 0 P.J. Hollebrand 903 0 So…with no future permanent tracks racing on Fridays or Sundays and no competition in the worldwide rankings where does that leave me? I’m going to be seeing that one-off, county fair, side-by-side back in the woods type of races in conjunction with any permanent tracks I might visit. On the other hand. I have less than 20 permanent tracks, that race on Saturday nights, left to see in the U.S. I guess most of my trackchasing in the future is going to be something other than your weekly “Saturday night oval”. I’m OK with that. I plan to add quite a bit more international travel to spice up the trips as I continue to trackchase into the future SATURDAY I had originally scheduled this afternoon for doing some touring in Tulsa. Then I discovered that the Master’s golf tournament was on TV and figured I might take the afternoon to watch Tiger Woods play. In the morning I went out to do some power walking and came back at noon to watch the golf festivities. I was shocked to learn that my holiday hotel and suites did not offer the CBS channel or ABC or NBC for that matter on their DIRECTV package. What kind oF cheap store runs a hotel and makes decisions like that. I was able to use a workaround. I downloaded the Master’s app on my iPad and watch the action live from there. Watching an 11-inch screen is a lot different than watching the tournament on my 85 inch LG flatscreen at home. It worked well enough. Tonight’s racing at the Rocket Raceway Park, last year named “82 Speedway”, in Petty, Texas was scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. If I used the toll roads it was going to take me about three hours to get there. If I avoided the toll roads, the drive would add an extra hour each way. I figured I would take the toll road. When I rented my car, they asked me if I wanted a toll pass. I said no. Maybe I should have said yes. In today’s world often you cannot pay cash for your tolls. The toll road folks are either going to take a picture of your license plate and bill the owner of that license plate or they will get an electronic signal from your toll pass and bill you that way. I was hoping that I might be able to pay cash in the cash lanes at whatever toll locations there were. Unfortunately, at the first toll road stop, none of those options are available. I didn’t have a toll pass and the “cash” lane sign told me I needed to pay with exact change. I didn’t have a coin on me. I blew through the toll station without stopping at all. That wasn’t good but I thought then I didn’t have any better choice. I did notice that gas was selling for $3.29. A little bit later in the evening, I saw one station selling gasoline for $3.14 a gallon. Those are pretty low prices considering most gasoline in California right now is selling at about six bucks a gallon. Other than the toll road problem my drive down from Tulsa to the racetrack was uneventful. The weather was a bit warmer than last night with temperatures in the mid to low 60s but still with a strong wind. Luckily tonight the wind blew at our backs. It doesn’t seem as if inflation has affected racetrack admission prices. Last night I paid eight dollars for a senior ticket. Tonight the price for the same type of ticket was only $12. All very reasonable. I have seven expense categories for my trackchasing. The amount of money that I spend on race tickets is the lowest of those seven groups. The Rocket Raceway Park was going to be the final permanent regularly scheduled oval track for me to see in Texas. Last night when I knocked off the Tulsa Speedway, they were the last permanent regularly scheduled oval track for me to see in Oklahoma. I now have less than 20 permanent regularly scheduled oval tracks to see in all of the 50 states. I was impressed with the concession stand at tonight’s track. They had their 2022 race schedule prominently displayed for everyone who visited the concession stand to see. The most unusual item on the concession menu was the pickle pops at four for a dollar. I’ve had those in the past at the women’s softball World Series tournament in Oklahoma City. They made me sick! I went with a 16.9-ounce plastic bottle of Diet Mountain Dew. The bill was three bucks. I thought that was high. I saw something tonight in the track restroom that I had never seen before. There was a QR code telling folks that if the restroom needed attention all they had to do was scan the code to notify someone to come look at the restroom. That was pretty cool. I checked my “MyRacePass” app. MRP told me RRP would be racing seven different classes including the Ecos, Jr. limiteds, factory stocks, modifieds, stock cars, limited mods, and trooper cruisers. The app also told me that there were 97 entries with the factory stocks leading the way with 24 and the eco-modifieds having 20 entries. These were decent car counts and there was good racing amongst all of the divisions. As always, I’ll ask that you take a look at my YouTube videos to see what racing at the Rocket Raceway Park looked like tonight. They had some very close racing, not too many yellow flags, and a decent announcer. The track wasn’t overly long on amenities. The concession stand and restrooms were small. The grandstand was good-sized with a smallish crowd. Overall, I think the racing was the highlight of what I experienced tonight. SUNDAY Today’s primary mission was simply to get back to our modest Seaside cottage in San Clemente, California from Tulsa, Oklahoma. I’ve got to tell you this objective came with its own set of challenges. There was only one nonstop flight going from Tulsa to Los Angeles today. That flight left Tulsa at 4 p.m. Initially, I thought that was a good idea. I could sleep in late. Then I could check out some Trackchasing Tourist Attractions and still get to the airport in plenty of time. As per normal for my domestic trips, not international, I was standing by for this flight. I was second on the standby list. There was only one open seat. If everybody who purchased a ticket showed up and the guy standing by ahead of me showed up, I would be waving goodbye to the plane from the terminal as it left Tulsa bound for Los Angeles. I figured I would deal with that potential negative outcome later. Off I went to do some Tulsa touring. I might point out that I often use “Tripadvisor.com” to come up with my TTA opportunities. I will just do a Google search for “Top 10 Things to Do” in city XYZ and see what comes up. If you ever visit the Trackchasing Tourist Attractions tab on my website at www.randylewis.org you will see my results. Like the Johnny Cash song, “I’ve been everywhere” says I have almost been everywhere. My first stop was at the Tulsa Botanical Gardens. For some reason, I like visiting botanical gardens. I don’t know the first thing about plants or trees. I have visited botanical gardens all over the world. I think I like it as much for getting my walking steps in as I do for the natural beauty that most botanical gardens offer. I’ve got to tell you that I was a bit disappointed in what Tulsa had to offer. Most botanical gardens are located in downtown areas. I plugged “Tulsa Botanical Gardens” into my Waze GPS. Waze seemed to think that I should go to the Tulsa Gardens location which was pretty much downtown. However, I would soon come to find out that the Tulsa Botanical Gardens was located way outside of town. When I realized my initial error, I hot-footed it out to the real location of the botanical gardens. I had been forced to order my admission ticket yesterday online. Their website told me the tickets were not sold at the gate. That seemed unusual but I went with their plan. By the way, Tusla drivers were having a hard time. One SUV driver cut me off. I followed that driver for a couple of blocks. Then the driver made a last-minute decision to take a freeway on-ramp. The decision was so last minute that he/she drove over a 4-inch curb at 30 MPH. Boom! A tire exploded and his/her day was ruined. Just down the road, another SUV driver had his machine behaving erratically. As I got closer, I noticed his left front tire was frozen. Zero rotation. Likely his Sunday morning was ruined. I would say the Tulsa Botanical Gardens was just about the least “botanical” as anything I’ve seen. The place looked like a Midwestern golf course just coming out of winter hibernation with lots of bare spots and just generally not very attractive. They did have a good-looking floral section with lots of tulips and other flowers. Beyond that it was sparse. The place also looked like it was relatively new so maybe it relocated from somewhere else? Overall, I wasn’t impressed at all. My next stop was going to be at an interesting and intriguing location. Somehow the “Center of the Universe” is located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Who knew? I found this place easy and got my picture taken there. Just as advertised when you stand in the exact center of the “Center of the Universe” and speak you get a little bit of an echo. The spot is out in the open so I have no idea what creates the echo but the echo was there just as previous visitors had described. From there I drove over to the Woodward Park simply because TripAdvisor lists this as the #6 item on the 15 top things to see and visit in Tulsa. This is early April. The trees are just barely beginning to bloom. I’m sure the place will look 100% different, and better, in about six weeks. With my touring complete I returned the National Car Rental Racing Nissan Maxima to where I picked it up. The Maxima gave me about 30 miles per gallon whereas when I rent a Toyota Camry, I’m always going to get 40-45 miles per gallon. Fuel mileage among a few things is why I prefer the Camry for my full-size rental car needs. I mentioned that I was #2 on the standby list for today’s flight. There was only one open seat. If I missed this flight at 4 p.m. I wouldn’t be leaving Tulsa for home today. I wouldn’t be leaving ANYWHERE for home today. As a backup plan, I looked for nearby airports to see who might have open flights for tomorrow. This netted a reservation for a rental car to take me from Tulsa later today to Kansas City, Missouri. There was a flight leaving Kansas City for Los Angeles tomorrow with 29 open seats. I could easily make that flight. If I had to go with that plan it would require getting another night’s hotel room and renting a car one-way from Tulsa to Kansas City. I’m happy to report that a couple of people didn’t show up for today’s flight. With the onset of Covid, most airlines eliminated their change fees. Now people commonly book a flight but then don’t show up and don’t have any major financial penalty in lots of cases. This is good for the standby flyer like me. A plane can be fully booked but if five or ten people don’t show up I’ll be able to get on a standby basis. I pulled into San Clemente at about 8 p.m. which was 10 p.m. Tulsa time. I left the track last night about 24 hours earlier. There are not many trackchasers who routinely get home 24 hours and more following their last race event. That’s been my situation forever trackchasing out of California. I always hope you enjoy reading about my exploits that seem to move up and down like the stock market. I do this all for fun and I have a fun time doing it. Randy P.S. MONDAY On the drive back to Tulsa I decided to bypass the toll road that had caused me some angst driving down here. On Monday when I got back in the office, I called the Oklahoma toll road authority. I knew that if I hadn’t paid a toll the toll road would bill the owner of the license plate that I was driving which was the National Car Rental. National Car Rental commonly attaches a $15-$20 “convenience” fee to whatever toll charge is applied. One of the toll road ladies in the cash lane later in my drive down to Texas told me there was also a $25 “ticket” charge for missing a toll. Believe it or not, I spent 30 minutes talking to a nice young Oklahoma woman who helped me figure out where I had missed the toll and how much I owed. How much did I owe? $.95! After a 30-minute phone call, I ended up giving her my credit card number to pay the $.95 bill to avoid $25-$50 in extra fees applied by others for my mistake. Folks, I couldn’t even make stuff like this up. Randy Lewis – 85 countries – 2,775 tracks. Oklahoma The Sooner State This evening I saw racing at my 44th-lifetime track in the Sooner, yes, the Sooner State. I hold the #1 trackchasing ranking in Oklahoma. Oklahoma ranks #20, amongst all the states, in tracks seen for me in the U.S. Here’s a link to my all-time Oklahoma state trackchasing list. I have made 31 separate trips to Oklahoma to see these tracks. Texas The Lone Star State This evening I saw racing at my 89th-lifetime track in the Lone Star, yes, the Lone Star State. I hold the #1 trackchasing ranking in Texas. Texas ranks #10, amongst all the states, in tracks seen for me in the U.S. Here’s a link to my all-time Texas state trackchasing list. I have made 61 separate trips to Texas to see these tracks. Thanks for reading about my trackchasing, Randy Lewis World’s #1 Trackchaser Peoria Old Timers Racing Club (P.O.R.C.) Hall of Fame Member Oklahoma sayings: “Fraidy Hole”-The term grandma uses for tornado shelter. Translation: I understand what you’re saying. JUST THE FACTS LIFETIME TRACKCHASER COMPARISONS The three most important trackchasing comparisons to me are: Total lifetime tracks seen Total “trackchasing countries” seen Lifetime National Geographic Diversity results Total Lifetime Tracks There are no trackchasers currently within 870 tracks of my lifetime total. Why is this noteworthy? Because it’s true. Total Trackchasing Countries My nearest trackchasing competitor, a native of Belgium, has seen racing in more than 30 fewer countries compared to my lifetime total. Current lifetime National Geographic Diversity results That’s all folks! Official end of the RLR – Randy Lewis Racing Trackchaser Report Click on the link below to see the video production from the racing action today. Stock car racing on a cold and windy night at the New Tulsa Speedway It’s high speed stock car racing…Texas style from the Rocket Raceway Park See it in pictures! Click on the link below for a photo album from today’s trackchasing day. You can view the album slide by slide or click on the “slide show” icon for a self-guided tour of today’s trackchasing adventure. Each trip includes a lot of photos of the “trip” and not just the racing. From one U.S. senator, “I think if I wanted to see what this adventure was like and didn’t have all that much time, I would just look at the photo album.” All photo albums are fully captioned. Getting to Tulsa; trackchasing in Tulsa. Questions? Trackchasing in Texas will all kinds of touring stops in Tulsa! 
Texas sayings: “I smell what you’re steppin’ in.”
Origin: You can smell it when someone steps in a cowpie — if you’re close enough.
