Greetings from Grovetown, Georgia
From the travels and adventures of the
“World’s #1 Trackchaser”
Gordon Park Speedway Dirt oval Lifetime Track #1,119 Reprinted with permission from my Friday, October 13, 2006 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. I AM A TRACKCHASER. My name is Randy Lewis (above with NASCAR’s Leonard Wood). 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 Friday, October 13, 2006. Greeting from Grovetown, Georgia I woke up in Charlotte, North Carolina this morning. This is what transpired today. TRACKCHASING TOURIST ACTIVITY #1 My first race of the trip was on Wednesday night. I didn’t have any tracks planned for Thursday. I will finish this trip on Friday, Saturday and Sunday with new tracks throughout the south. This left me needing a trackchasing tourist activity for my open day, Thursday. This was quite the trip as Phil, Mike and George will attest. Filling up my Thursday dance card would not be a problem. It just turns out that my good friend, George Robertson (above far right), was going to be in his home state of North Carolina during my southern visit. George is from Eden, North Carolina but now lives in Southern California. He and I are both members of the Pacific Golf Club and play together often. Greensboro, North Carolina George picked out a Golf Digest four-star rated public course in Greensboro for us to play on Thursday. We would be playing the Bryan Park Players course. This is a beautiful 36-hole layout (the second course is the Champions course) with several holes running up to Lake Bryant. The entrance to the course is within a few yards of Procter & Gamble’s huge Browns Summit manufacturing plant. The course was damp from last night’s heavy rain. The wind gusted to 15-20 M.P.H. throughout the round that was played under a cloudless sky and a temperature of about 70 degrees. It was actually a very nice day for golf. George and I have a very special game we have developed over the years. We wage one dollar per match. There are 5.5 points awarded in each match. The player having the lowest gross score wins two points after handicap adjustments. Currently, George is an eight handicap and I am a six. That meant I would give George two shots today. One point is awarded to the player hitting the most fairways, the most greens in regulation and having the fewest putts on holes where a green in regulation occurred. Finally, one-half point is given to the person who does the best job with lag putts. Usually, the player with the lowest gross golf score wins but not always. Today, neither George nor I played very well. Considering we are both single-digit handicap golfers, we actually did very poorly. We ended up playing the white tees that measured 6,516 yards. On a wet course, that’s fairly long. The course rating is 70.9. The slope rating is 128. We both agreed this course was more difficult today than the blue tee courses at Pacific. With a dry golf course and a little better course knowledge, it might have been easier. George defeated me in the gross score category and was awarded two points. His score was 85, mine was 90. Yes, I played like a dog. However, there was something more to the story than just the gross score. I defeated George in fairways hit 11-6. I also defeated him in total putts. He was four putts over-regulation and I was only one. Winning these two categories gave me two points. At this stage, we each had two points, with 1.5 total points still up for grabs. We consider lag putts to be 20 feet or longer. If a player gets his ball within three feet or less, that is a successful lag putt. Any putt outside of three feet is not successful. Neither one of us did well in this category. George did not have any successful lag putts in five tries. I had only three good lags in nine tries. The greens were not in great condition but they didn’t have much break either. We just played like @#$%^*&*. With just the greens in regulation category to be decided, I led the competition with 2.5 points to George’s two points. With three holes to go we both had hit five greens in regulation. We knew that GIRs was going to be the deciding factor in the match. We both missed the greens on holes 16 and 17, although we were very close. We went to the 18th hole. If one of us could hit the green in two, it was a par 4 hole, and the other one didn’t we would have a winner. If neither one of us could reach the 18th green in regulation, that category would end in a tie and I would win the match. The 18th hole was a tough one. It was a dogleg right, 422-yard uphill and into the wind monster. I don’t hit it as long as George does and had virtually no hope of getting there in two shots. We both hit good drives. I was in the fairway and about 220 yards from the hole. George was in the left rough at just more than 200 yards out. I hit a driver off the deck on my second shot pretty well, but still came up about 20 yards short of the green. The entire match came down to George’s approach shot. If he could put it on the green, he wins the match. If he doesn’t I win. George’s ball was nestled down in about two inches of dense grass. He had 205 yards to go and it was uphill and into the wind. He struck nearly a perfect shot. The ball flew directly toward the green on a trajectory that made it look like it would hit the front part of the green. We were looking into the sun and couldn’t see where the ball ended up. As we approached the green in our golf cart, we could see George’s ball. It was resting about five yards short of the green. It may have been even closer and rolled back down the hill to its current position. That meant I’d be taking the North Carolina Cup back to San Clemente with me. George and I have epic battles like this one nearly every time we play and we’ve remained great friends throughout. Thanks, George; even though we played terribly, it was fun to get out. TRACKCHASING TOURIST ACTIVITY #2 I was really looking forward to my TTA #2. I was invited to attend the Robertson family reunion dinner in Eden, North Carolina tonight. The Robertson’s have been in the area since the Civil War. They’ve traced their family tree back to an ancestor being wounded and dying in that war. They have a rich southern heritage. Our first stop was at Mrs. Martin’s home in Eden. Mrs. Martin is George’s mother-in-law (Melanie’s mother). Mrs. Martin is my oldest and dearest subscriber to the Trackchaser Report. I’m sure she won’t mind my telling you she is 90 years old. Every time I see her, she reminds me of how much she enjoys my Trackchaser Reports. We sat around in her beautiful home that is older than she is chatting for a good amount of time. She has a fireplace in nearly every room in the house. Back in the day, fireplaces were actually used for heat! After a nice visit, it was time to head over to a local steakhouse. Here I would meet another 15 or so of the Robertson clan. The Robertson family has a rich history in the tobacco business. There were eight boys and all of them except George’s father were in tobacco one way or the other. George’s father was a barber. I’ve been to several Robertson gatherings. I’m not sure what they think of someone flying all the way across the country just to see a race. However, I think they are getting used to it. I met several new relatives tonight. I was impressed at how much the women liked NASCAR racing. I haven’t been home long enough to watch the Talladega race on TIVO yet. However, from the reaction of the women I talked to tonight it must have been a doozy. The women were wrinkling their noses and wringing their hands about the outcome. Just before they could start telling me about it, George reminded them I was still waiting to see the race on TV. Procter & Gamble has a huge health and beauty aids plant in Browns Summit (Greensboro), North Carolina. Two of the folks at tonight’s dinner, including George’s brother Harold, work for P&G there. Yes, it’s a small world. I had a great time visiting Eden as I always do. George, tell everyone it was great meeting them. Also, thanks for dinner! PEOPLE/STRATEGY/TRAVEL NEWS The Strategy My trackchasing strategy was simple today. I was in the south and the only track that I knew about, that was in the area, and that was a track I had never visited was the Gordon Park Speedway in Groveton, Georgia. Groveton is a suburb of Augusta, Georgia. Sometimes trackchasing is just as simple as that. The Trip My Motel 6 in Charlotte did not have any internet access. Therefore, I spent a couple of hours in another hotel’s parking lot uploading pictures to my website at www.ranlayracing.com. When you get time, check ‘em out. In the afternoon, I had just enough time to catch a movie. With my hotel parking lot internet connection, I did a quick search. When I’m by myself as I was today and I go to the movies, I need to pick out something that Carol and I would never see together. Today’s choice was Employee of the Month. This was a comedy about a Costco like employee who needs to be employee of the month to win the girl. It wasn’t very intellectually stimulating but did have several funny lines. Actually, since Carol spends about three days a week in our local Costco, she might have liked this one! Tonight when I checked into the Super 8 in Augusta, Georgia, I got into a discussion about the Trip Rewards program with the hotel owner. The Trip Rewards program is Super 8’s frequent stay guest program. When I stay at a Super 8, I earn points that are good for free stays in the future. I was talking with the hotel’s owner. He told me that he is billed $2.50 per room for each night’s stay when the guest is a member of Trip Rewards. His bill last month was $1,000 for the Trip Rewards points used at his hotel. I asked him how much rooms go for during the Masters golf tournament week. He said the rate at that time is $245 per night. My rate tonight was $49.95! He justified his Masters rate by saying the Holiday Inn just up the block had a Masters room rate of $395 nightly. I’ve been to the Masters just one time. On that occasion, I stayed in a condo at Hilton Head, South Carolina. The People. I enjoyed being with the Robertson family. RACE TRACK STATS: GORDON PARK SPEEDWAY, GROVETOWN, GEORGIA – TRACK #1,119 – 10/13/06 This was my 16th lifetime track to see in Georgia. I remain in 8th place just three tracks behind Pennsylvania’s Guy Smith. The reclusive John Moore leads the Peach state with 34 tracks. RACE TRACK NEWS: GORDON PARK SPEEDWAY Southern dirt tracks seem to come up short in both the cultural and organizational areas. On the other hand, with asphalt tracks, I believe North Carolina has the most competitive and professional tracks of this kind of any state in the union. Tonight I will see racing at the Gordon Park Speedway. This track is formerly known as the Silver Eagle Speedway. The main sign at the track refers to the facility as the CSRA International Speedway. I have no idea where they would get the “international” part from. The track website says the name of the track is the New Gordon Park Speedway. I guess you could say the track is having an identity crisis. I called the track to find out when tonight’s program would begin. The recorded message told me the driver’s meeting would begin at 6:30 p.m. Like I always do, I believed them. That was a poor strategy. I pulled into the parking lot at 6:30 p.m. There was just enough sunlight to get a few pictures. You can see them at www.ranlayracing.com. However, there wasn’t much activity at the track. There were about 75 people in the grandstands. The announcer made a few comments over a strong public address system. He then told us the driver’s meeting was going to begin shortly. It finally did at 7:05 p.m. This was not a good start. Tonight (Friday) is not the normal night of racing for this track. They usually race on Saturday. Tonight is the first of a two-night special racing program. They will “qualify” the cars for tomorrow night’s feature racing. They are going to have hot laps, maybe some time trials and then heat races tonight. The heat races will be the only countable trackchasing activity held tonight. As I write this, I have absolutely no idea when they might finally run their first heat race. I don’t care too much when they do start. I don’t have any great distance to drive after the races. I’ve also positioned myself in the parking lot where I can hear the announcer. It is less than a 60-second walk into the stands from where I’m at. From my car I can keep warm, finish my Trackchaser Report and still go in when any real action begins. That is SO much better than sitting on a narrow board for 2-3 hours waiting for the most poorly organized sports industry in the United States to offer up their product. I’ll be back to you when the racing begins. The drivers’ meeting finally started at 7:05 p.m. Next, the announcer begged all of the cars to come out and “run in” the red dirt clay oval. The cars came onto the track at 7:20 p.m. as the announcer did his best to sell the benefits of the 50/50 drawing and the grilled concession offerings. I stayed warm in my car. At 7:39 p.m., the track began hot laps (practice). I stayed warm in the car. There was a brief delay when the lights went out. Why did this not surprise me? At 8:09 p.m., the hot laps were over. Now, according to the announcer, it was time for a “pause for the cause.” That’s racetrack parlance, for “we’re going to have another delay.” At 8:18 p.m., it was time for the track prayer and national anthem. At 8:21 p.m., the “kid car” came onto the track to take some kids around the track for a lap or two. Could they screw around anymore? The first countable race took place at 8:35 p.m. There were four classes of cars racing tonight including hobby stocks (11), stock V-8s (15), stock fours (8) and super streets (22). The track ran a total of nine heat races and that was it. The program checkered at 10:20 p.m. When I left the parking lot, the temperature had dipped to 44 degrees. I listened to the track’s radio communication at the 469.4125 frequency. The track had an annoying woman who apparently was the scorer. She kept telling the flagman what to do, and she was normally about two clicks behind what really needed to be done. I was suspecting she was the promoter’s wife. Spectator tickets were $10 tonight. Pit passes were $20. A mini-stock driver pulled into the track late. He was trying to check in quickly to get out for his heat race. They wouldn’t let him cross the track until he paid his $50 entry fee. Apparently, he wasn’t aware the entry fee would be this amount. He told them he didn’t have 50 bucks and would simply park his car and not race. That is what he did. If you’re not familiar with short track racing, you might be surprised to know that the competitors actually have to pay to race. There are not many sports that make their competitors pay to play. I thought a $50 entry fee on top of a $20 pit pass was a little steep for a mini-stock driver who was only going to get to race a 15-lap heat race. The entry fee for the second day of the two-day show was $70! Overall, this was a so-so event. I can’t imagine it would be much better if the track was running features. The backstretch view was blocked by racecar haulers. The announcer sounded like some southern guy you would hear in the background in a movie like Days of Thunder. Concessions were cheap. A bottle of water early in the evening was just a buck. A large steaming hot chocolate later in the evening was also a buck. They had boiled peanuts too, but it was too cold to eat them. WEATHER CONDITIONS The weather has been clear since I arrived on Wednesday except for a driving rainstorm following the Cricket Arena races. The forecast is projecting no rain for the balance of my trip. However, today is the first day of a cold wave. The north is already getting snow. It’s only the middle of October. I have only one piece of advice for those northerners. Get out now! Sell your house while you can. Don’t spend another winter in these awful climates. Sell the snow blower, get rid of the galoshes, and enjoy a new climatic existence. Move to California….now! Nevertheless, it was 60 degrees with a chill in the air when I pulled into the track parking lot at 6:30 p.m. It would get colder as the night wore on. RENTAL CAR UPDATE: The back seats fold down from the trunk with my current National Rental Car Racing Pontiac Grand Prix. Wednesday total driving miles – 122 Thursday total driving miles – 178 Friday total driving miles – 202 LIFETIME TRACKCHASER STANDINGS UPDATE: These worldwide trackchasers are within 100 tracks (plus or minus) of my current trackchaser total. I’m having a difficult time putting Guy Smith a lap down (50 tracks). He’s hanging on but I’m about ready to use the chrome horn if he won’t move over. * Warning, you are within 50 tracks of being removed from this list. ** Special exemption. Other notables These worldwide trackchasers are within 10 tracks (plus or minus) of Carol’s current trackchaser total. 2006 TRACKCHASER STANDINGS LIFETIME NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC DIVERSITY STANDINGS 2006 (current – 10/11/06)** **Lifetime NGD results could be affected by current track counting proposals 2005 (final) Thanks for reading about my trackchasing, Randy Lewis #1 Trackchaser Living West of the Mississippi There is no empirical truth that reading these Trackchaser Reports makes you any smarter, but it does give your brain a workout. CUMULATIVE TRAVEL DISTANCES: AIRPLANE Los Angeles, CA – Charlotte, North Carolina – 2,132 miles RENTAL CAR – CHARLOTTE Douglas International Airport, Charlotte, North Carolina – trip begins Charlotte, NC – 13 miles Groveton, Georgia – 478 miles TRACK ADMISSION PRICES: Cricket Arena – Free ($6 parking) Gordon Park Speedway – $10 It’s the south baby. Why don’t y’all come on down! 1,000. Auburndale Kartway, Auburndale, Florida – February 10 1,001. Ocala Speedway (asphalt oval), Ocala, Florida – February 12 1,002. Speedworld Speedway, Surprise, Arizona – February 19 1,003. Lowe’s Motor Speedway (1/5 mile asphalt oval), Concord, North Carolina – February 25 1,004. Concord Raceway, Concord, North Carolina – February 25 1,005. Antioch Speedway, Antioch, North Carolina – February 25 1,006. Green Valley Speedway, Gadsden, Alabama – February 26 1,007. East Bay Raceway (inner oval), Gibsonton, Florida – March 17 1,008. Volusia Speedway Park West (1/6M oval), Barberville, Florida – March 18 1,009. Speedway Park, Fruitland Park, Florida – March 18 1,010. Sand Mountain Speedway (road course), Fort Meade, Florida – March 19 1,011. Anderson Motor Speedway, Anderson, South Carolina – March 31 1,012. Westminster Speedway, Westminster, South Carolina – March 31 1,013. East Lincoln Motor Speedway, Stanley, North Carolina – April 1 1,014. Margarettsville Speedway, Margarettsville, North Carolina – April 2 1,015. Sunny South Raceway, Grand Bay, Alabama – April 7 1,016. Barber Motorsports Park, Leeds, Alabama – April 8 1,017. Coldwater Raceway, Coldwater, Alabama – April 8 1,018. Talladega Short Track, Talladega, Alabama – April 8 1,019. Ballymena Raceway, Ballymena, Northern Ireland – April 14 1,020. Oulton Park, Little Budworth, England – April 15 1,021. Somerset Rebels Banger Raceway, Rooks Bridge, England – April 16 1,022. Mendips Raceway, Shipham, England – April 16 1,023. Oval Raceway, Angmering, England – April 17 1,024. Arlington Stadium, Eastbourne, England – April 17 1,025. Southside Speedway, Midlothian, Virginia – April 28 1,026. Motor Mile Speedway, Radford, Virginia – April 29 1,027. Wythe Speedway, Wytheville, Virginia – April 29 1,028. Summit Point Raceway, Summit Point Circuit, Summit Point, West Virginia – April 30 1,029. Old Dominion Speedway – inner inner oval, Manassas, Virginia – April 30 1,030. Shenandoah Speedway, Shenandoah, Virginia – May 4 1,031. Bridgeport Speedway (inner oval – front), Bridgeport, New Jersey – May 5 1,032. Empty Jug, Hawley, Pennsylvania – May 6 1,033. Oakland Valley Race Park, Cuddebackville, New York – May 6 1,034. Thunder Mountain Speedway, Center Isle, New York – May 6 1,035. Motocross 338, Southwick, Massachusetts – May 7 1,036. Glen Ridge Motorsports Park, Fultonville, New York – May 7 1,037. Calumet County Speedway, Chilton, Wisconsin – May 19 1,038. Grant County Speedway, Lancaster, Wisconsin – May 20 1,039. Blackhawk Farms Raceway, Rockton, Illinois – May 21 1,040. The Milwaukee Mile (Road course), West Allis, Wisconsin – May 21 ** Angell Park Speedway, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin – May 21 (new track Carol only) 1,041. Park Jefferson Speedway, Jefferson, South Dakota – May 25 1,042. Superior Speedway, Superior, Wisconsin – May 26 1,043. Brainerd International Raceway, Brainerd, Minnesota – May 27 1,044. Canby Speedway, Canby, Minnesota – May 27 1,045. Crawford County Fairgrounds (figure 8), Denison, Iowa – May 28 1,046. Tri-State Speedway, Sisseton, South Dakota – May 29 1,047. Sheyenne River Speedway, Lisbon, North Dakota – May 29 1,048. Spring Mountain Motorsports Ranch, Pahrump, Nevada – June 3 1,049. The Bullring at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Las Vegas, Nevada – June 3 1,050. Hibbing Raceway, Hibbing, Minnesota – June 6 1,051. Buena Vista Raceway, Alta, Iowa – June 7 1,052. Lebanon Midway Speedway, Lebanon, Missouri – June 8 1,053. Rocky Top Raceway, Coal Grove, Ohio – June 9 1,054. Midvale Speedway (oval), Midvale, Ohio – June 10 1,055. Midvale Speedway (figure 8), Midvale, Ohio – June 10 1,056. Spring Valley Raceway, Millport, Ohio – June 11 1,057. Rialto Airport Speedway, Rialto, California – June 17 1,058. Lawrenceburg Speedway (figure 8), Lawrenceburg, Indiana – June 20 1,059. Lawrenceburg Speedway (temporary oval), Lawrenceburg, Indiana – June 20 1,060. Thunder Mountain Speedway, Knox Dale, Pennsylvania – June 21 1,061. State Park Speedway, Wausau, Wisconsin – June 22 1,062. Dodge County Fairgrounds Speedway, Beaver Dam, Wisconsin – June 23 1,063. Lucas Oil Speedway (oval), Wheatland, Missouri – June 24 1,064. Lucas Oil Speedway (figure 8), Wheatland, Missouri – June 24 1,065. Tri-City Speedway, Pontoon Beach, Illinois – June 25 1,066. Lake Ozark Speedway, Eldon, Missouri – June 29 1,067. Poplar Bluff Speedway, Poplar Bluff, Missouri – June 30 1,068. Indianapolis Motor Speedway (road course), Indianapolis, Indiana – July 1 1,069. Rush County Fairgrounds, Rushville, Indiana – July 1 1,070. Rock Castle Speedway, Mount Vernon, Kentucky – July 2 ** Windy Hollow Speedway (oval), Owensboro, Kentucky – July 2 1,071. Heartland Park Topeka (dirt oval), Topeka, Kansas – July 3 1,072. Thunderhill Speedway, Mayetta, Kansas – July 3 1,073. Little Valley Speedway, Little Valley, New York – July 13 ** Twin State Speedway (oval), Claremont, New Hampshire – July 14 1,074. Twin State Speedway (figure 8), Claremont, New Hampshire – July 14 1,075. Canaan Speedway (asphalt oval), Canaan, New Hampshire – July 14 ** New Hampshire International Speedway, Loudon, New Hampshire – July 15 1,076. White Mountain Motorsports Park, North Woodstock, New Hampshire – July 15 1,077. Legion Speedway, Wentworth, New Hampshire – July 15 1,078. Devil’s Bowl Speedway, Fair Haven, Vermont – July 16 1,079. Stafford Motor Speedway, Stafford Springs, Connecticut – July 17 1,080. Little Log House Speedway, Hastings, Minnesota – July 28 ** Elko Speedway (outer oval), Elko, Minnesota – July 28 ** Elko Speedway (inner oval), Elko, Minnesota – July 28 ** Elko Speedway (figure 8), Elko, Minnesota – July 28 1,081. Chickasaw Big Four County Fairgrounds, Nashua, Iowa – July 29 1,082. Buffalo River Speedway, Glyndon, Minnesota – July 30 1,083. Miller Motorsports Park, Tooele, Utah, – August 4 1,084. Atomic Motor Raceway, Atomic City, Idaho – August 4 1,085. Mission Valley Speedway, Polson, Montana – August 5 1,086. Rock Creek Race Track, Kimberly, Idaho – August 6 1,087. Stevens County Fairgrounds, Morris, Minnesota – August 9 1,088. Norman County Raceway, Ada, Minnesota – August 10 1,089. Miller Speedway, Miller, South Dakota – August 11 1,090. Gimli Motorsports Park, Gimli, Manitoba, Ontario, Canada – August 13 1,091. Bemidji Speedway, Bemidji, Minnesota – August 13 1,092. Dayton Fair (figure 8), Dayton, Pennsylvania – August 14 1,093. Holmes County Fairgrounds, Millersburg, Ohio – August 15 1,094. Lawrence County Fairgrounds, New Castle, Pennsylvania – August 16 1,095. Armada County Fairgrounds, Armada, Michigan – August 17 1,096. Spencer Speedway, Williamson, New York – August 18 1,097. Yates County Fairgrounds (figure 8), Penn Yan, New York, – August 19 1,098. Tillsonburg County Fairgrounds, Tillsonburg, Ontario, Canada – August 20 1,099. Marshfield Fair, Marshfield, Massachusetts – August 21 1,100. Cambridge Fair, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada – September 9 1,101. Georgetown Fair, Georgetown, Ontario, Canada – September 9 1,102. Oakwood Fair, Oakwood, Ontario, Canada – September 10 1,103. Western Fair, London, Ontario, Canada – September 10 1,104. Rice Lake Speedway, Rice Lake, Wisconsin – September 14 1,105. Iowa Speedway (oval), Newton, Iowa – September 15 1,106. Harrison County Fairgrounds (figure 8), Missouri Valley, Iowa – September 16 1,107. Calhoun County Raceway (oval), Rockwell City, Iowa – September 16 1,108. Hutchinson Raceway Park, Hutchinson, Kansas – September 22 1,109. Dodge City Raceway Park (outer oval), Dodge City, Kansas – September 23 1,110. Dodge City Raceway Park (inner oval), Dodge City, Kansas – September 23 1,111. Enid Motor Speedway, Enid, Oklahoma – September 24 1,112. Desert Thunder Raceway, Price, Utah – September 30 1,113. Norfolk County Fairgrounds, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada – October 4 1,114. La Crosse Fairgrounds Speedway (inner oval), La Crosse, Wisconsin – October 5 1,115. Londonderry Raceway, Manchester, New Hampshire – October 8 1,116. Hudson Speedway, Hudson, New Hampshire – October 8 1,117. Topsfield Fairgrounds Arena, Topsfield, Massachusetts – October 9 1,118. Cricket Arena, Charlotte, North Carolina – October 11 1,119. Gordon Park Speedway, Groveton, Georgia – October 13 Official end of RANLAY 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. Golf in North Carolina then trackchasing in Georgia 
UPCOMING TRACKCHASING PLANS
RACETRACKS VISITED IN 2006
(** not the first time to visit this track)
