Delaware

All-Time Favorite Delaware Track:

Georgetown Speedway – Georgetown Speedway

Current lifetime trackchasing state rank: worse than top 10!

Best Memories:

I think it would be safe to say I don’t have all that many memories of trackchasing in Delaware. I haven’t even seen ten tracks in the First state! Why so little trackchasing penetration? First, Delaware is a small state geographically. Secondly, and most importantly, they don’t have very many racetracks.

I made my first trackchasing visit to the Dover Downs International Speedway all the way back in 1980. We were living in Connecticut at the time. I described that visit as “below average NASCAR racing”. Nevertheless, I’ve been trying to get back to Dover for the last several years as part of my “racechasing” program. I enjoy the Dover NASCAR races I see on TV.

I didn’t come back to Delaware to trackchase for 24 years!! When I did I went to the Airport Speedway. I was impressed that they opened up the pits to the fans at intermission. That’s a great promotional idea. I was on a roll with Delaware trackchasing at this point.

In 2006 and 2007 I saw racing at three new Delaware tracks. I went to the Delaware International Speedway. I loved the crab cakes but there was so little passing and so many yellow flags. At Delmarva the mod lites raced well. However, it was at the Georgetown Speedway where I saw the best racing of 2007. The modified and late models raced side by side lap after lap. I need to get back there someday. My visit to the U.S. 13 Kart Club barely qualified as “racing” with their caged karts. That happens sometimes.

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Below is a key to surface types and track configurations so you can understand the above list just a little bit easier.

Surface types:  D-dirt; P-paved; M-mixed

Configuration types:  O-oval; RC-road course; F8-figure 8 track