Greetings from Highgate, Vermont
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From the travels and adventures of the
“World’s #1 Trackchaser”
Franklin County Fairgrounds Paved (crushed limestone) figure 8 Lifetime Track #1,471 Reprinted with permission from my Thursday, July 30, 2009, Trackchaser Report. THE CLASSIC TRACKCHASER REPORT Editor’s note: This is a CLASSIC Trackchaser Report. What the heck does “Classic” mean? It’s simply a Trackchaser Report that comes from my trackchasing archives. Typically these will be stories from tracks I visited five years or ten years or more ago. For whatever reason (usually not enough time) it didn’t get posted to my website when I first made the track visit. Often a classic TR will not have a video and/or photo album attached. I didn’t begin producing my YouTube videos until 2009 (YouTube channel: RANLAY). I didn’t begin writing a complete Trackchaser Report until I had seen about 425 tracks. Photo albums were sort of hit or miss during the early years of my trackchasing. Additionally, if you see a website link know that link worked when the TR was originally written. Will it work now? Your guess is as good as mine! Nevertheless, this CLASSIC Trackchaser Report has finally bubbled to the surface and is now available for everyone to see at www.randylewis.org. I hope you enjoy it. Trackchasers (L to R) John Osowski, Randy Lewis, Guy Smith, Joellyn Osowski, Pam Smith and the grandson (sorry I missed his name) of the Osowskis. I AM A TRACKCHASER. My name is Randy Lewis. I hail from the sleepy little village by the sea, San Clemente, California. I am a “trackchaser”. I trackchase. Have you ever in your life heard of “trackchasing”? I didn’t think so. Well, you made it this far. You might as well pour yourself a cold one and take your Trackchasing 101 class. When you finish you’ll have your trackchasing diploma and can then teach your friends about the hobby. Let’s get started. Trackchasing is a three-pronged hobby. I’m a racing fan. I love to travel. I love to analyze opportunities to get the most out of everything while saving time and money. Let’s do this by the numbers. I live in southern California. That’s probably the most inconvenient location in the country for seeing tracks in the U.S. Most of the racetracks in the U.S. are located well over 1,000 miles from where I live. My average trip covers 5,000 miles and more. I take 35-40 of those trips each season. In any given year I will travel well over 200,000 miles, rent more than 50 cars, and stay in more than 150 hotel rooms. I get the chance to meet people from all over the world. With trackchasing trips to 85 countries and counting just getting the chance to experience so many unique cultures, spend time in the homes of my friends and meet so many people is a huge reward for being in this hobby. I am indebted to several of these folks for their help and friendship. Once you begin researching my trip itineraries from my website, yes you will want to do that, you will be surprised. One day I’ll be in Tucson, the next in maybe Tuscaloosa and the following day in Syracuse. I do that kind of thing all the time. Figuring out the logistics of a trip like that is as much fun for me as watching a figure 8 race. Now you know a little bit about my trackchasing addiction. When you receive one of my Trackchaser Reports or find one on my website at www.randylewis.org you’ll get three pieces of entertainment. First, my Trackchaser Report will be an in-depth essay on how the trip went from A-Z. Yes, I’ll cover the racing aspect of things. But you will also hear about what it took to pull off the trip, the special stops that made the trip fun and the obstacles that needed to be overcome. Secondly, you’ll get a YouTube video of the racing action I saw. These are normally short 3-6 minutes highlights of the racing. My YouTube channel is named, “RANLAY”. I have nearly 2,000 subscribers to my channel. Currently, I have posted more than 1,300 videos and my channel has more than 1.2 million views! Finally, I’ll share a captioned photo album using a photo-sharing program called SmugMug. Normally, there will be anywhere from 50-200 photos from each trip I take. Sometimes more! My website is linked to hundreds of thousands of photos from all of the trips I have taken. There you have it. That’s trackchasing…the way I do it. Do others trackchase? Absolutely. Do they share their experiences? Sorry. They don’t. If you want to see the true “essence” of trackchasing you’ve come to the right place. A common question I get about my hobby is, “Why?”. I’m a curious fellow. I’m an adventuresome fellow. My hobby is about seeing and experiencing the things that most folks walk right past. Below is a link to a special video. It shows a small town in Missouri that I visited on one of my trips. In this video, I’ll share with you exactly what I mean. This video might just make your day. Trackchasing….this is exactly why I do it Today’s adventure was one more of the 2,000 trips that have taken me up, down and around the proverbial long and dusty trackchasing trail. If you would like to see where I’ve been and experience those adventures here’s the link: 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 Thursday, July 30, 2009. “IT’S ALL ABOUT GOLF” TRACKCHASING TOUR RANLAY RACING EXCLUSIVE MY NGD WORK IS DONE……SUCCESSFULLY Tonight wrapped up my NGD focus. Tonight I wrapped up my 2009 blitz to gain National Geographic Diversity points. Recall this is a program where each trackchaser’s state ranking gives him/her a certain amount of points (state points). The objective is to attain as low of a score as possible. The trackchaser earns a number of points equivalent to their state ranking, i.e. rank 2nd and get two points. However, in each state where a trackchaser has a ranking of worse than tenth, 15 state points are given to the lagging trackchaser. In essence, a trackchaser’s overall NGD score is equal to their average state ranking with the exception of states where a worse than top ten finish is recorded. Continuous improvement is what life is all about. I’ve been contending for the championship for the past several years. The difference of just one position in an individual state equates to .02 NGD points. Below is a table that shows my progression over the years in the lifetime NGD competition. 2005 – Trailed first place by 36 state positions or .72 points. My final NGD score was 8.12 2006 – Trailed first place by 4 state positions or .08 points. My final NGD score was 7.16 2007 – Actually led the contest at season’s end by 11 state positions or .22 points. My final NGD score was 6.37 2008 – Trailed first place by three state positions or .06 points. My final NGD score was 6.02 As you might note, my lifetime annual NGD score has been improving each year. As I see more tracks in more states at a faster rate than my fellow competitors do, my state rankings continue to improve. Below is a summary of my top finishes in the 50 United States and the District of Columbia. Total 1st place state rankings – 13 Total top 3 state rankings – 28 Total top 5 state rankings – 37 States with a ranking worse than tenth – 7 NGD competing is all about strategy. There is a good deal of strategy involved in succeeding in the NGD contest. However, my results can be impacted by each and every fellow competitor. Anytime a trackchaser sees a new track anywhere in the United States that might move me down in that state’s standings. Several states are dominated by a trackchaser living in that very state. It is these “favorite sons” that are virtually impossible to overtake for a state’s leading position. My best rankings occur in the American Far West. With the exception of Rhode Island, all of my top rankings are out west. Similar dominance occurs in the Midwest (Ed Esser) and the East (Guy Smith). The three of us own a share of the lead in about 40 different states. It’s important to note that I can’t improve my score in the 13 states where I already lead the standings. A trackchaser can really be penalized with a worse than 10th place state performance. I’ve spent the early part of 2009 trying to get into the top ten in those states (primarily in the East) where I have been lagging. So far this year I have cracked the top ten for the first time in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and after tonight, Vermont. Trackchasers have been known to do their very best to improve their NGD score. Paul Weisel tells me he loves to see how he has done at the end of the year against his fellow competitors. Pennsylvania’s Gordon Killian has taken several trips far from home with the express intent of improving his NGD score. Was it time to “sunset” the NGD contest? Following my one and only lifetime NGD point championship in 2007, I considered “sunsetting” the program if I had won again in 2008. Some of you may not be familiar with the corporate term of “sunsetting”. When a program is “sunsetted”, it is effectively discontinued or eliminated. Why would I want to eliminate the program? It’s simple. Although I get the data from Will White’s Trackchaser.net site (he gets his data from each individual trackchaser) I wouldn’t want to have a conflict of interest. I wouldn’t want anyone to think the only reason I run the program is that I was the winner. I know it might be hard for anyone to really think that since we’re in the seventh year of the contest and I’ve only won it one time. Everyone seems to have their own strategy. However, my above concern proved unwarranted. I didn’t win in 2008. Gordon Killian used his own form of “strategy”. Rather than post his tracks in a timely manner as most trackchasers including me do, he decided to withhold his results until the end of the year. This way his fellow competitors would relax, thinking they were besting Mr. Killian when, in fact, they were not. Some thought this was “dirty pool” on Gordon’s part. I figured it was just a different NGD strategy. I wouldn’t use that approach in an effort to “hoodwink” my fellow competitors in order to win but some folks would. As I frequently say, and it seemed true in this case, this is a “dog eat dog” hobby. The tide has turned. However, in 2009 the tide has turned. Currently, the unofficial NGD scores show me at my all-time best score of 4.98. The second-place competitor is the aforementioned Gordon Killian with a score of 5.82. This is an astounding difference of 47 state positions compared to the 2008 final numbers. Yes, concentrating on the New England states has paid big dividends. As the tally toward the end of this report will show my efforts have yielded a combined 53 state point gain. My nearest competitor has improved by only six state positions overall. I have erased my 2008 three state position deficit and now have a more than comfortable 44 state position (.90 points) for this season. Trackchasing is all about sharing useful information with fellow competitors. I feel good about one thing. I was able to get the word out to fellow competitor Gordon Killian about my early NGD results. I am confident this has saved Gordon hundreds, if not thousands of dollars in unnecessary travel expenses. There’s no point in having Gordon going to faraway remote places in search of those valuable NGD points when there is zero chance of success for him in 2009. It is sharing like this that is most valuable is helping fellow trackchasers. NGD and the future. What is the future of the National Geographic Diversity program? It certainly is not in line for “sunsetting” after just one year of success by me. I won’t even consider sunsetting the program if I should win again in 2010. At the very minimum, I would survey my fellow competitors before making a decision. It’s sort of like playing poker. No one wants the winner to “quit while he’s ahead”. I will not be making any more special trips with the express purpose of getting NGD points. The main reason is there are no more places to get major points! I will get a point here and a point there but I’ve “blown my wad” so to speak with NGD points. Does my current position of not being able to gain many more points concern me? Not in the least. My fellow competitors are in the same position that I am. I would like to keep my lifetime NGD score below five (It’s 4.98 now). No one has ever done that before. Greeting from Highgate Center, Vermont, TODAY’S HEADLINES There was only one reason to be in Vermont tonight. …………..details in “The Objective”. Thanks to John Sullivan!……………..more in “The Trip”. You’ll never guess who I ran into tonight. ………..details in “The People”. THE OBJECTIVE, THE TRIP, THE PEOPLE…AND A WHOLE LOT MORE The Objective I had one and only reason for being in Vermont tonight. By adding one “Green Mountain” track I would improve my state ranking from a worse than 10th place rank (15 NGD points) to seventh (7 NGD points). That’s an 8-point state point improvement, which is huge. Just considering a trip to Vermont in order to get an NGD advantage was taxing. I had only returned home from my 18-day trackchasing adventure on Monday. Less than 48 hours later, following an afternoon Los Angeles Angels game, I was on an overnight flight from LAX to Boston. From there it would be a four and one-half hour drive to Northern Vermont. Is trackchasing competitive? You decide! The Trip There are horses for courses. I am the most perfectly suited individual to combine the hobby of trackchasing with the benefits of airline sponsorship. To trackchase in a world-class manner, a person must travel to all parts of the country. To effectively do that they must have the means, or at the very least, sponsorship from the airline industry. There is no realistic way to drive to all parts of the U.S. week in and week out. This is just not possible. Fortunately, I have all the key ingredients for trackchasing success with the possible exception of my residential location. My home in California sits in the extreme southwest corner of the continental U.S. To the west is the Pacific Ocean……no tracks there. To the South is Mexico……almost no tracks there. To the North are the vast agricultural lands of central and northern California……very few tracks there. To the immediate East is the rural and desolate lands of the Far West……..almost no tracks there for 1,000 miles or more. The above is a strong detriment to being a successful trackchaser while living in California. Prior to my coming on the scene there has never been a top 20 trackchaser from West of the continental divide. Geography is the reason for that. I have the basic ingredients. Nevertheless, I have the basic ingredients that make for trackchasing success despite the hindrances of my residential location. First, I am retired, so I have the time. Secondly, although I am married, I have a most cooperative spouse who doesn’t mind me traveling by myself some 50-75 days per year. Next, I have the financial means garnered from 30 years of labor at one of the best employers I could have ever expected to have. I also have an insatiable desire for travel. I never really get tired from travel. When I return from a long trip, I rest for a day on the sofa. At that point, I am ready to go again. Finally, I now have that final missing ingredient, “pinpoint airstrike capability”. I have always flown to the majority of my trackchasing destinations. I have been known to purchase 30-40 round-trip airline tickets each year in pursuit of the hobby. However, now I can fly to “Timbuctoo” on five minutes notice, stay the night and come right back home. This was the missing piece of the trackchasing puzzle. Now all of the pieces fit and the tracks are as easy to get as “shooting fish in a barrel”. Some of my fellow competitors are happy for my success and some begrudge it. I’ll let the community judge each of those reactions on their own merit. During the summer there is no rest for the trackchasing weary. On Monday afternoon of this week, I returned home from an 18-day trackchasing trip. I played golf on Tuesday morning. Then I joined Carol for a Wednesday afternoon Los Angeles Angels baseball game in Anaheim. The game was finished by 4 p.m. I took Carol to dinner, dropped her off at home and headed northward some 65 miles to LAX. I had been home for less than 48 hours after being gone for 18 days. I would now be flying overnight from Los Angeles to Boston. I was flying on a purchased ticket. When airfares are right (low) I sometimes purchase a ticket on the outbound flight of the first day of my trip. I figure that the most important flight to make sure I don’t miss is the first one. I never buy a ticket for the return flight home. I figure I’ll get home eventually using my trusty airline sponsors. This baby weighs a full 50 pounds. This trip will be about golf. The primary purpose of this trip is golf. I have three important rounds to play. I’ll tell you more about those as we progress through this trip. The trackchasing locations I chose would be fitted around my golf schedule. I will say this, traveling with golf clubs is a royal pain. The sum total of my traveling golf bag and other luggage comes in at about 120 pounds. That’s a lot of stuff to lug through one airport after another. When I fly standby this is especially troublesome. The golf bag must go as checked luggage. The golf bag goes to my initial destination regardless of whether I get on the plane or not. This is the main reason I rarely bring my clubs or play golf on my trackchasing trips nowadays. My eighth trip to Boston this year. I landed in Boston on a rainy Thursday morning. Does it rain in Boston every day? The roads were torn up here as they normally are. I paid my $3.50 toll to use the “Ted Williams” tunnel to escape Beantown. This was the EIGHTH time I had flown into or traveled through Boston this year. Most of that effort was in search of those valuable NGD points. From Boston, after “sleeping” in an airline seat overnight I had a 290-mile drive up to Highgate Center, Vermont. I would be in search of the Franklin County Fairgrounds located less than five miles from the Canadian border. Thanks go out to John Sullivan. Trackchasers owe a debt of gratitude to Maine’s John Sullivan for coming up with this unusual trackchasing location. John shared the date with everyone some time ago. I immediately put it on my calendar. It would be the last piece of my 2009 NGD trackchasing puzzle. My drive took me to Dunkin’ Donuts for breakfast. I then napped for a few minutes at the New Hampshire Welcome Center, which features both a liquor store and a major lottery ticket sales office. At least the boys and girls in New Hampshire have their priorities straight! Please….paint me. From there I drove some of the rural roads of Vermont. That is always a worthwhile experience. I was able to get some very good photos. You can find that photo album behind the “photos” tab in this post. It was only about 1 p.m. and cars were already lined up to get into Thunder Road. I wished I were going to Thunder Road tonight. I also made a stop at the Thunder Road International Speedbowl in Barre, Vermont. This is a famous short track in New England. They race on Thursday nights during the summer. The track has a fantastic program. The weather was good and they were racing tonight. If I were a “racechaser” I would be at Thunder Road tonight. Alas, I am a “trackchaser”. I go places to see a new track regardless of the quality of show I expect to see. I took a few pictures at Thunder Road and wished I could watch the show tonight with John Sullivan and his dad. Maybe if my figure 8 show was finished early I could make the 90-minute drive down to Barre and catch the features. What made my Thunder Road miss all the more hurtful was this was “Richard Petty night”. The King himself would be there and I was always a major fan of his. The People I don’t see my fellow competitors often. Overall, I don’t run into my fellow competitors that often. Just a few years ago, I remember seeing Wisconsin’s Ed Esser at 13 different tracks in just one year. I recall forecasting that our incidence of seeing each other would dramatically decrease as time went by. That prediction proved to be correct. I have now seen 71 tracks in 2009. Ed has seen just about that many as well. How many times have our paths crossed in 2009? Zero! Trackchasers (L to R) John Osowski, Randy Lewis, Guy Smith, Joellyn Osowski, Pam Smith and the grandson (sorry I missed his name) of the Osowskis. However, tonight would be different as regards seeing my fellow competitors. Tonight I would end up seeing not only Guy Smith (#2 in the world) and his wife Pam, but also John and Joellyn Osowski. Let me tell you about the Osowskis first. I had only met the Massachusetts based Osowskis one time previously. That was back in 1998 at the Jacksonville Speedway in Jacksonville, Illinois. This was a funny meeting of sorts. I was planning to meet my stepfather at the track. I was coming from work at some long forgotten location. He was coming from his home some 75 miles from Jacksonville. I got there late. By the time I arrived my stepfather had already met and become friends with the Osowskis! I can’t say for sure but I don’t think I had even joined the trackchaser’s group at that point. I do know the Jacksonville Speedway was my 348thlifetime track. That means my initial meeting with the Osowskis was a long time ago. I think we’ve been at the same track(s) at the same time since then without knowing it. I never expected that I would see more than 1,000 tracks before I would run into John and Joellyn after our Jacksonville visit. Tonight I sat between the two. Their grandson had come along for the fun tonight as well. He was wearing a Red Sox t-shirt as you might expect from a Massachusetts resident. I did offer to get him an Angels shirt but he didn’t seem interested! I very much enjoyed talking with John and Joellyn. John and I spent the evening comparing notes at the tracks we have visited. John is now retired and is the same age as me. Don’t miss the group photo of John and Joellyn along with the trackchasing Smiths. Thanks, John. I would be remiss if I did not thank John for the private comments he made at the end of the evening. John and I walked together out toward the parking lot while the others made final pit stops at the fair. John had some very positive and supportive things he wanted to say. John, thank you! East meets West, #1 meets #2. You may recall the classic gunfights of the old west. There would be two gunslingers slowing walking toward each other down Main Street. They would each have their fingers nervously resting on their six shooters. Soon their pacing would slow and then stop. They would make steely-eyed eye contact and then they would draw their guns and fire. Soon one of the two would be lying in the street and all of the onlookers would breathe a collective sigh of relief. That’s pretty much how it went down when Guy Smith and I spotted each other tonight. I am the #1 ranked trackchaser in the world. Guy is the #2 ranked trackchaser in the world. Tonight we approached each other just like gunslingers of old. No, we weren’t on a dusty Main Street in some early western town. Tonight we were walking down the paved street that separated all of the food vendors of this smallish country fair celebration. There were hundreds of onlookers to this classic standoff. Our preliminary conversations were pleasant. Both Pam and Guy Smith gave me a firm handshake and a pleasant greeting. I did the same. We talked briefly and then Guy invited me to sit with them and the Osowskis. I was far from home. I wasn’t trackchasing with any of my friends tonight. I thought sitting with the Smiths and Osowskis would be a good idea….and it was. We spent about two hours in the grandstand enjoying the show. Between events, we all talked about the various things we had been doing. This only goes to show that fellow competitors can enjoy their hobby together, even while they are competing and nobody gets hurt. Guy might tell you he does not compete in the world of trackchasing. However, a rose by any other name is still a rose. Guy is one of the fiercest competitors in all of trackchasing. That is not a bad thing. It is simply a true thing. I repeat for any of my trackchasing friends who did not either hear it or understand it, competing is not a bad thing. If we were not competing in one fashion or another, then we wouldn’t keep score. We keep score! Overall, I was very pleased to run into both Guy and Pam. They are dedicated people to the trackchasing hobby. Are they part of the Dreaded East Coast Trackchasers? I can’t say. Why is that you ask? Individual members of the Dreaded East Coast Trackchaser group are never identified. That’s not a bad thing either. I wish both the Smiths and the Osowskis safe travels and fair skies as they pursue their hobby. I’ll look forward to the next time we will all enjoy our trackchasing at the same location. RACE REVIEW FRANKLIN COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS If this wasn’t “racing” what was it? Now it’s time to talk about the “racing”. There really wasn’t much racing at least in the more traditional sense. Tonight’s county fair figure 8 racing and demo derby was one of the most entertaining I’ve seen all year. However, this just wasn’t about racing. Our trackchasing hobby has taken a major detour, in the wrong direction in my view, by adding and then focusing on this type of motorsports activity. I can see adding figure 8 shows at a place like the Indianapolis Speedrome. They have figure 8 races there and they really race. However, at county fairs normally all you get is a combination demo derby/mud bog. That’s not racing. Nevertheless, in order to stay competitive in the trackchasing hobby, I need to see these events. I’ll try to look for the aspects of an encounter like this that I enjoy. Yes, the food was good. The company was good. However, there wasn’t any racing. It was race time. The first event was a burnout. Tonight’s entertainment started with a “burn-out” from one of the demo cars. That produced a lot of noise and smoke and the crowd seemed to get a kick out of it. The next activity were the demolition derby heats. Demo derbies are still the most popular form of motorsports activity at county fairs across the country. Long ago some smart demo derby driver learned that the best way to disable his competition was to BACK into them. The problem with driving into a fellow competitor nose first is that it damages the radiator of the perpetrator. Once the radiator is gone the day is over for that car. Now the cars get up as much speed as they can (normally about 20 M.P.H.) and back as hard as they can into another car. Then on Monday each of the drivers goes to a chiropractor and complains about a sore neck. About the only rule is that one driver cannot hit another car on the driver’s side door. You can understand why. Do you think the original owner of this Caddie thought the car might end up here? Tonight’s racing surface was made of a crushed white rock, maybe limestone. This surface seemed to allow the drivers to get more traction and thus more speed. The demo derby had some gigantic hits and was very entertaining. Following the demo derby heats the program called for one single figure 8 “race”. Originally, only three cars were entered. Yes, I had flown cross-country overnight and then driven nearly 300 miles with no good sleep to see three junkers battle it out for 5-10 laps over a racecourse that covered about 80 yards. I can’t explain it. Can you? No, it’s not the Daytona 500 but it’s still trackchasing countable. In a show of moderate generosity a fourth car and driver were talked into joining this group of three figure 8 racers. If I were a driver I think I would want to build a figure 8 racecar rather than a demo derby car. The demo car lasts about one event, while a figure 8 car might last an entire season. There were several strong hits in the figure 8 race. The crowd really got behind a pink car apparently driven by a female racer. The entire figure 8 race lasted for less than ten minutes. I must declare this as official. The hobby of trackchasing is no longer about racing. It is about counting. Maybe it always has been. STATE COMPARISONS Vermont This evening I saw my fourth-lifetime track in Vermont. That one addition moves me from out of the top ten here into a seventh-place tie with SEVEN other trackchasers. This is a major move as it nets me eight of those valuable lifetime NGD points. Guy Smith leads in Vermont with ten tracks. Coming Soon – RANLAY Racing Exclusive Features! Why I fear Ed Esser. (Delayed again! Come on Ed I can’t wait forever). My six-month trackchasing budget results (coming July, 2009) 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 – Boston, MA – 2,608 miles RENTAL CAR Logan International Airport – trip begins Highgate Center, Vermont – 290 miles Logan International Airport – 549 miles – trip ends TRACK ADMISSION PRICES: Franklin County Fairgrounds – $8 ($1 parking) COMPARISONS LIFETIME NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC DIVERSITY UPDATE 2009 NGD point changes Randy Lewis – current score = 4.98 (tracks posted thru August 9) Connecticut -7 Iowa -1 Maine -10 Massachusetts -6 New Hampshire -11 North Dakota -1 Rhode Island -8 South Dakota -1 Texas +1 Vermont -8 Wisconsin -1 Net changes -53 2009 NGD point changes Gordon Killian – current score = 5.82 (tracks posted thru July 25) Connecticut +1 Georgia -6 Kansas +1 Kentucky +1 New Jersey +1 New Mexico -4 North Dakota -1 Ohio -1 Rhode Island -1 South Carolina +2 South Dakota +1 Net changes -6 LIFETIME TRACKCHASER COMPARISONS There are no trackchasers currently within 200 tracks of my lifetime total. That’s all folks! Official end of the RLR – Randy Lewis Racing Trackchaser Report 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. The grandstand was packed and the fans had a good time. An overnight trip to Vermont for crushed limestone figure 8 racing
I had only one reason to be in Vermont.
