Greetings from Xenia, Ohio
From the travels and adventures of the
“World’s #1 Trackchaser”
Kil-Kare Speedway – 3/8-mile oval – Lifetime track #202
Kil-Kare Speedway – 3/8-mile oval – Lifetime track #559
Kil-Kare Speedway – Figure 8 – Lifetime track #1,652
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I have seen three countable tracks at the Kil-Kare Speedway. This would include two different sized ovals and their figure 8 track. I don’t feel too badly about getting credit for three separate tracks at Kil-Kare. Why? I had to go there three times to do it! Here’s what Wikipedia has to say about the track: Kil-Kare Raceway is a motorsports complex located in Xenia Township, Greene County, near Xenia and Dayton, Ohio USA. It first opened in 1959 and features two separate tracks: Kil-Kare Speedway, a 3/8 mile (0.6 km) asphalt oval for stock car racing and Kil-Kare Dragway, a 1/4 mile dragstrip. The oval is unconventional in shape, with the cars almost in a continuous slide between turns one and four. The facility is affiliated with both the NHRA and NASCAR and holds events in the Whelen All-American Series as well as local events including figure 8 races. It formerly hosted races in ARCA and USAR Pro Cup Series competition. The name Kil Kare is believed to be derived from an old resort that once stood on the property currently occupied by the raceway. The Creekside Trail bicycle path, which borders the raceway to the south, was once the Columbus and Xenia Railroad. The railroad carried passenger trains near the turn of the 20th century. The passenger trains stopped at the resort that was named “Kill all your cares”. As time progressed, the resort closed and the name Kil-Kare stuck. Kil Kare Raceway unexpectedly closed on Friday October 3, 2014 with a message posted to its official website. There was no mention of why the raceway closed. From Website, “Kil-Kare is being shuddered [sic] today. The racing activities for the rest of the season are cancelled. This includes all Test and Tunes, as well as Saturday points chase racing. The points chase stops where it is at. There will be no other racing events. the racers banquets will proceed as planned. Kil-Kare would like to thank all racing participants as well as spectators for your patronage and support. Kil-Kare would also like to thank everyone who has been on board as staff members for all of their hard work and dedication.” Reprinted with permission from my May 20, 2011 Trackchaser Report. . Greetings from Xenia, Ohio, This weekend marks my 6th consecutive weekend on the trackchasing trail. I’m happy to report that my wife, Carol, is joining me for this weekend. The main driver behind being in the Middle West this weekend is my impending retirement. As many of you know I work for Procter & Gamble. The world headquarters of P&G is in Cincinnati, Ohio. Procter & Gamble is famous for many things. One of those items, in addition to our moon and stars logo, is how well employees are treated with regard to compensation and benefits. One of the benefits for employees considering retirement is a two-day seminar on all manner of retirement strategies and ideas. The subject matter covers both financial and non-financial aspects of retirement. This seminar is for both the employee and their spouse. An outside consulting company named Recess Consulting conducts the seminar. I’ve put a lot of time into trackchasing and golf. Believe it or not I’ve put probably even more time into financial and retirement planning. I’ll be retiring at age 53; my original plan was to retire at age 40. Why didn’t that happen? Well, I just kept buying more expensive stuff, which always pushed the retirement date out, a bit. Most of my friends have said, with my financial background, I shouldn’t expect to learn too much from the retirement seminar. I went in with low expectations but I was happy Carol was going to be there, as she doesn’t have much interest in financial planning. I thought maybe the two-day session would spark an interest with her. To my surprise and delight I really enjoyed the meeting. I came away with an idea on selling stock with its existing cost basis that will save me a sum of money in the six figures. If this comes to pass I won’t have to sleep in my car like I did a couple of weeks ago in Martinsville (although that experience was kind of fun). I think Carol was exposed to lots of material that will provide some good food for thought. She might have been most impacted by the way big corporations handle things than anything else. P&G can be very different in these ways. In subsequent reports I’ll share some of the things I learned in the retirement seminar. Maybe someone else can use them to their benefit. Following the close of the meeting on Friday Carol and I made the short (about 60 miles) drive up to Xenia, Ohio. The drive was uneventful except for when we stopped for gas. As I was filling the tank Carol decided to change from her business casual meeting dress attire to her racing clothes. Of course it was 5 p.m. on a clear sunny day and the gas station was crowded. Unbeknownst to my better half rental cars don’t have the same level of window tinting as our cars at home. To say she created quite a stir at the Shell station might be an understatement. Kil Kare Speedway’s one-quarter mile (inner oval) was my 559th track. Carol got credit for seeing two tracks, both the one-quarter and three-eighths mile ovals. This was her 109th and 110th tracks. With a starting time of 8 p.m. we arrived an hour early following a brief White Castle stop. Carol wrote postcards and I tweaked the financial plan on my laptop with my newfound strategies. After time trials we entered the track at the appointed start time of 8 p.m. General admission was a somewhat steep $10. Kil Kare Speedway has three countable tracks on their property. They also have a non-countable drag strip. They have a three-eighths mile oval, a quarter-mile oval and a traditional figure 8 track. All of the tracks have an asphalt surface. The track website wasn’t too clear on which tracks would be used. The track’s answering machine wasn’t any more helpful. Since I had already seen racing on the larger oval in the past I needed to see racing on the smaller oval and/or the figure 8 track to add too my totals. The first four classes, late models, emods, mini-stocks and pure stocks came out and raced on the larger oval. I was getting nervous. There was only one more class, the compacts. Which track would they race on? Fortunately they ran their 13-car 15-lap feature only race on the one-quarter mile oval and a new track was in the books. While using my race scanner I came across a channel that sounded like a radio station but learned they would be broadcasting the 15-lap compact car feature race. Why they would do this is beyond me but they did. One of the options that came with my race scanner was a “splitter”. This is simply a “Y” connection that allows me to plug two headsets into the scanner. The “splitter” gave Carol and I both a chance to hear the call of the race. We also learned before the rest of the crowd did that they were overstocked on popcorn. On the scanner the promoter instructed the announcer to “push the popcorn” and shortly thereafter the general public was learning from the announcer about the hot, freshly popped kernels of corn that could be had for just $1.00. With this type of advance information coming our way, isn’t this reason enough to spend about $500 for a scanner? This is just “insider trading” on a smaller scale. The Kil Kare Speedway is celebrating its 50th anniversary. Although the facility is well maintained I think it’s starting to show its age (like most things in their 50s). The facility is a NASCAR Weekly Racing Series track. I’ve found most of these tracks are well organized and put on a decent show. Tonight’s show was only fair. They had small fields of cars (8-14) in each of the five classes. The heat races only had 5-6 cars in each. The compacts, emods and late models didn’t even run heat races. The announcer was hard to hear and the scoreboard was not in operation. They were out of hot chocolate although we did have the much-promoted popcorn. TRACK FOOD: Not much available here. Just the very basics. RENTAL CAR UPDATE: I’ve still got the National Rental Car racing black Pontiac Grand Prix as I’ve been in meetings all week following last week’s Indiana racing. The car has more than 1,000 miles on it and except for a flashing red seat belt “not in use” dashboard warning (even when everyone is properly seat belted) it’s been a good car. By the way I heard on the radio that about 41,000 people were killed in automobile accidents during 2001. Incredibly approximately 60% of these people were not wearing their seat belts. I’ve only got one thing to say, “Wear your %&8#$^% seat belt! While you’re at it stop yer gal durn smokin and overeatin”. Nuff said. TRACK RADIO FREQUENCY: The track frequency at Kil Kare is 151.715. Toledo Speedway (small oval), Toledo, OH Toledo Speedway (figure 8), Toledo, OH Reprinted with permission from my May 20, 2011 Trackchaser Report. DAY 1 – “PRE-MEMORIAL DAY!” TRACKCHASING TOUR TODAY’S HEADLINES This turned out to be a ‘feeder’ trip …………..details in “The Objective & The Strategy”. I hate the Eastern time zone……………..more in “The Trip”. Sometimes my travel plans come with an asterisk (*)…………..details in “The People”. Surprise and glee………then muted enthusiasm…………..details in “Race Review”. GREETINGS FROM XENIA, OHIO SEE WHAT I SAW TODAY! It’s simple. There are three different ways for you to see what I saw today at the races. You can watch a movie (always less than ten minutes). Secondly, you can see my still photos via YouTube.com. Finally, you can see my still photos by using Picasa. With Picasa you can view the pictures at your own pace or watch them in a slide show produced by Picasa. Pick the method you like best from below. THINGS YOU MIGHT HAVE NOTICED HAD YOU BEEN PAYING MORE ATTENTION IN SCHOOL THE BEST READERS IN RACING TAKE TIME TO CONTRIBUTE From Michigan regarding my assertion that Ed Esser should go trackchasing in Canada because it borders his home state of Wisconsin. “Just a quick note to say I really enjoy reading your messages. And I know it’s been awhile since you lived in the Midwest, but Wisconsin doesn’t border Canada.” Editor’s note: O.K. so Wisconsin doesn’t border Canada. Let’s not tell Ed that just in case he doesn’t know. In point of fact, Wisconsin DOES border Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois and Michigan as well as Lake Michigan and Lake Superior. At least some of THOSE places border Canada! THE OBJECTIVE, THE TRIP, THE PEOPLE…AND A WHOLE LOT MORE The Objective and the Strategy The objective. This weekend would be a challenge. This weekend’s objective was to get a three-day trackchasing trip in the Eastern time zone. That meant I had to leave home a day early. I would also be trying to meet up with friends Greg and Donna Robbins. I used to work for Greg back at Procter & Gamble. The weather was iffy and the flights were tight. That certainly adds to the challenge of making the trip. The strategy. Major independent trackchasers are few and far between. I’m always trying to do these trips as efficiently and cost effective as possible. Folks, I’m competing against the massive resources of those “Dreaded East Coast Trackchasers”. I am an independent trackchasing team, much like Ed Esser’s. I have no real idea how I’ve been as competitive as I have been on the trackchasing circuit up to now. As you read further into this trip’s results you will see that this three-day trip was just a “feeder” into much bigger trackchasing waters. You’ll read more about that soon. The Trip My evolution from racechasing to trackchasing. I will tell you this. My travel experiences often times are the most stimulating aspect of my trackchasing hobby. Somehow I ended up doing this hobby so much differently than anyone else does. When I first started going to races, my hometown track was located 10-15 minutes from my house. We sometimes arrived before they even opened the gates to the track. I remember many times standing in line waiting for them to let us in. We would sit in the sun until the cars came out to pack the track. Then we would watch each car time trial. Finally, we would watch every race (there were only two classes). When the final checkered flag had flown we were on our way trying to beat the traffic jam out of the parking lot. We would usually be home by 11 p.m. Race watching has changed. Folks, no one in the trackchasing hobby does that anymore. The top trackchasers are now driving hundreds of miles, each way, to see the next track on their schedule. You won’t find anyone standing in line two hours before race time waiting to get in. You will also be hard-pressed to seeing many trackchasers still sitting on a bleacher board until the last checkered flag. Although I fly a lot; I drive a lot too. As you know I use airplanes to get in the general area of where my upcoming races will be held. Despite my heavy dependence upon planes I still drive long distances as well. In any given trackchasing year I will drive 30,000-40,000 miles. Only Ed Esser, year in and year out drives further. By the way, I only drive my personal car about 13,000 miles each year. Flying on a standby basis really adds to the “personal challenge” of any trip I take. We are entering the “summer travel” season now. That makes it doubly tough to get from point A to point B. I hate the Eastern time zone. During my working career my headquarters’ locations were first in Wilton, Connecticut and then in Cincinnati, Ohio. Both of those locations are in the Eastern time zone. During most of that time I lived in California. This meant I had to live with a three-hour time change every time I went to a meeting. Yuk! Meetings normally started at about 8:30 a.m. (5:30 a.m. Pacific time). BREAKFAST meeting sometimes started as early as 7 a.m. (4 a.m. Pacific time). That meant getting up to get ready at about 6 a.m. Eastern time (3 a.m. Pacific time). See a trend here? If I had worked for a Pacific time zone based company I might never have retired! When the first track of a trip is in the Eastern time zone I just about have to leave the day before to make it to the track on time. That was the case with this trip. My weekend adventure would begin in Xenia, Ohio. Xenia is near Dayton, Ohio and in the Eastern time zone. Of course, the Eastern time zone is THREE HOURS ahead of where I live in California (Pacific time zone). This was the toughest weekend to catch a plane this year. Today I caught a wide-open flight from my hometown airport in Orange County, California to Salt Lake City. Often times this flight (there are seven each day) is lightly booked. However, getting from SLC to other places eastward is difficult. Salt Lake City mainly services Far West cities. The service from SLC to the Midwest and East is much less frequent. For many cities it doesn’t exist at all. My plan was to go from Orange County to Salt Lake then to Seattle and then fly overnight to Cincinnati, arriving at 6 a.m. Eastern time on Friday. Mind you, this was my PREFERRED plan. Does that sound like a “preferred” plan to you? I had spent hours figuring out my options. I didn’t want to fly overnight but that seemed like the best choice. I hopped my plane to Salt Lake from Orange County at 10 a.m. It was wide open and I was soon in Salt Lake. Options. One can never have enough options. My original idea of flying from Salt Lake to Seattle fell through when an earlier flight to Seattle was canceled. All of the people on that canceled flight spilled over onto the flights that could have taken me to the Northwest. At that point I decided to try some other earlier options. First, I tried to get on a flight to St. Louis. I could drive from STL to Cincinnati if I could get that far. I missed that flight by three seats. Next up was a flight to Cincinnati itself. Missed that one too by a couple of seats. I missed three other flights as well. It was beginning to get late in the day. My “fail safe” plan was a flight to Omaha (OMA). That plane had 13 open seats. However, I wouldn’t land in OMA until 11 p.m. It would then be an 11-hour drive to Cincinnati if I couldn’t find a flight option out of Nebraska. This entire process took 6-7 hours. Each time I missed a plane I had to find a new option. My iPhone and my iPhone’s Wi-Fi capability with my Apple MacBook Pro allowed me to keep searching and listing for more flights. Most of the time I had to walk 10-20 minutes from one terminal to the next to try for the next flight. I’ll bet I walked ten miles today. It’s great exercise, both physical and mental. I finally caught a flight from Salt Lake to Chicago getting me into O’Hare at 8 p.m. I could get a hotel in Chicago, sleep in the airport or try to find a late night flight out of Chitown. I made an ‘educated’ guess and then took a chance. I chose the latter. Again without a smart phone and a laptop I would be just like any other trackchaser. There was a flight going to Cincinnati from Chicago. It had ONE open seat. That flight would land at 11 p.m. Even if I made that flight I would be on the hook for an expensive hotel and an extra day of rental car expense. That was UNLESS I could find a cheap hotel on Priceline that offered a shuttle to and from the airport. However, I couldn’t book a Priceline hotel (they are non-refundable) if I didn’t know for sure I could get on the flight to Cincinnati (one seat open). Priceline only accepts reservations up until 11 p.m. Eastern time. By the time I landed in CVG (if I did land in CVG) it would be too late to use Priceline. Did I want to “bet on the come”? Did I want to try to book a Priceline hotel in Cincinnati without knowing if I would even GET to Cincinnati. I’m a risk-taker. I chose to take a risk. Managing my resources. First, I went on www.biddingfortravel.com to find out what others had successfully bid on a hotel in Cincinnati. Then I figured out what it would take to use the “secret re-bid” Priceline process. This strategy has been explained in these pages before. If I bid too low, then Priceline would shut me out for the night. If I bid too high I would be jeopardizing our children’s inheritance. Like a surgeon I had to be precise. With the clock ticking I made my first bid on Priceline. I failed! I had only one other bid left under the “secret re-bid” process. Priceline told me that if I raised my bid by $15 I would have a “really good chance” to getting a hotel room. Bullcrap to that idea. I NEVER take that recommendation. I increased my bid by seven dollars. This was a last ditch effort. I was down to my last bid. The pressure was on. I had some $50-100 on the line or more. Yes, I increased my bid from $45 to $52. That was enough to seal the deal. I ended up with a “Hyatt Place” hotel. These are brand new fantastic places to stay. Later I would learn that the least expensive room rate they had for tonight was $121! The Hyatt also had a free airport shuttle service. This allowed me to save a day’s rental car expense. Yep! That final bid on Priceline saved me more than one hundred bucks. Not even in my wildest dreams. Could I have ever imagined “going racing” like this back in the good ol’ days? Are you kidding me? I doubt I could have imagined virtually anything that has happened to me since those days of visiting the Peoria Speedway just 15 minutes from my house. My fellow competitors still “go racing” like I did back in 1960. They go out to the driveway, get in their cars and drive to the track. However, the leading trackchasers must drive a LONG way to reach their destinations. As you’ve read recently some are driving nearly 1,000 miles or more (one-way!) to add a track to their totals. That’s bonkers! I guess spending an entire day in an airport and in the air could be classified as “bonkers” as well. At least I got in a 10-mile walk. When I reached my hotel at 1 a.m. in the morning, I was ready to hit the sack. Tomorrow is race day. I will be fully rested by then! The People This visit came with an asterisk. The nice thing about the first trackchasing day of this trip was that I would be visiting friends. As mentioned I would get to see Greg Robbins and his lovely wife Donna. They had invited me to stay overnight in their home. I don’t get that chance too often. I accepted their invitation. However, my acceptance came with an asterisk (*). I didn’t want to be a difficult guest. At the same time, I didn’t want to be a “no show” either. Greg reads my Trackchaser Reports. He understands the uncertainty of when and where I will turn up. I don’t think any amount of explaining will ever truly get the job done. Most “civilians”, that’s what I call folks who don’t trackchase, don’t fully understand the craziness of this hobby. They see it from afar, recognize it is somewhat abnormal and go on with their daily lives. That’s fair enough. However, when a travel plan involves both a trackchaser and a “trackchasing civilian” things need to be addressed. Spelled out if you will. I didn’t want Greg and Donna to go to a lot of trouble on my behalf and then have me flake out with a “I’m sorry, I’m in Seattle” tale. It all turned out well. We had time for a glass of wine in their palatial estate (this was no exaggeration!). Then there was time for me to take everyone out to dinner. When dinner was finished we dropped Donna back home and off we went to the races. RACE REVIEW KIL-KARE SPEEDWAY – XENIA, OHIO I never get a great program when I bring along a guest. Sometimes when you really look forward to something it doesn’t turn out to be as great as you thought it might be. That was the case with tonight’s figure 8 race at the Kil-Kare Speedway. There are several tracks that host “multiple and countable” tracks for trackchasing purposes. The Kil-Kare Speedway has three countable tracks. Those include an outer and inner oval. They also have a figure 8 track. Additionally, there is a drag strip. Of course, you know the founding fathers put the “nix” on drag strips long ago. One might think it would be easy to show up and count three tracks in one visit. Yes, that would be easy but it doesn’t happen often. It seems that lots of properties add additional tracks (especially inner ovals and figure 8s) as they go along. I’ve been coming here for a long time. I first came to Kil-Kare Speedway back in 1991. Then I saw racing on their outer 3/8-mile oval. I came back in 2002 to see them race on the inner ¼-mile oval. That trip was tied into a P&G RECESS seminar conducted by the esteemed Charles Erickson. It was at that point that I was convinced I could retire and I did! This should do it for Kil-Kare. Fast forward to 2011 and I was back to see racing on the figure 8 track. It had taken me twenty years to see racing on all three of Kil-Kare’s tracks. They only race on the figure 8 configuration a time or two each year. I’ve had the figure 8 on my schedule several times in the past. Either rainy weather or difficulty in getting to the Eastern time zone on a Friday night kept me away until now. Greg Robbins and I arrived at 7 p.m. It wasn’t long thereafter that the announcer was telling the crowd that I had arrived. Since I didn’t see any other trackchasers come running I assumed I was the only “man of tracks” that was watching tonight. I am usually sorry that I bring non-racing friends to the races. I think they are expecting a better experience based upon what they’ve seen and done at other sporting events. Tonight’s admission was $20 although Greg scored a senior discount of eighteen dollars. There was no sign offering the discount. Greg said I didn’t get one because I “looked so young”. It would not be polite to argue with such an assessment. Would you do it this way? I didn’t know what time the racing program was supposed to begin. I had called the track’s hotline. All they said was what time the gates would open – 6 p.m. Wouldn’t it be more important to tell your fans what time the movie started that what time you opened the movie theatre? We grabbed a nice top row spot in a large set of wooden bleachers. The Kil-Kare Speedway has been around for a long time. They have tons of seating. They also have bleacher boards that look like they might not support the weight of a man who had just visited the Waffle House. When we arrived they were still time-trialing the racers. I don’t care to watch time trials. They’re like spinach. I’ve tried them and don’t like them. What’s the rush? Apparently, the track was in no hurry to get the program started. The first race did not take the green flag until 8:45 p.m. I can see having a later starting time on a Friday night. Folks needed to “get it together” after a hard week at work. To me a late starting time would be 8 p.m. at the latest. The weather was perfect tonight. I saw no reason for such a late start. Tonight’s program was “features” only. I LOVE that format. Let’s say a class has 15 cars. Most tracks will run 2-3 heats of 5-7 cars for a distance of 6-8 laps. Then they will put them all in a feature event of 15-20 laps. By the time the heats are finished for 5-8 classes my butt is yelling “get me out of here” before the really good racing, the features, even begins. I’m all for “features” only racing. The first class on the track was the “compacts”. Some might call these ministox. They had about 15 cars and would run a 20-lap feature. After a few misstarts they ran a very good race. I considered it the BEST race of what we saw. Missed opportunities. By the way, I thought the track really missed an opportunity to keep the show moving. As soon as any car spun out the yellow flag was IMMEDIATELY displayed. There was no waiting for the offending driver to get his car going again and rejoin the field. Folks, that shows a promoter that is catering to the drivers and not the fans. I’m a fan. I don’t like that. The next class was the modifieds. They brought 15-20 cars for their 30-lap feature. I thought I heard Greg say, “30 laps?” as in “Oh, know. Thirty laps!” This group also had a few yellow flag delays. In reality the downer of their race was that the entire field played “follow the leader” for virtually every lap. I had no idea when the one and only figure 8 race would begin. I feared they might run it last. That meant at least two more classes of stock cars to wade through on the oval if they did. Surprise and glee, then muted enthusiasm. Yes, to my surprise and glee, I saw the safety vehicles moving from their perches of the oval track’s infield. That could mean only one thing. The figure 8 race was next. Ya! My excitement turned to “muted enthusiasm” when just eleven “outlaw figure 8s” cars pulled onto the track. Figure 8 racing is much more exciting when twenty or more cars are in the same race. The low car count would soon get worse. During the first lap or two three cars dropped out. Now we were looking at just eight cars running a 50-lap figure 8 race. As luck (bad luck?) would have it most of the race was contested with just 5-6 cars running at a competitive pace. I suspect the admission price was increased because of the visiting figure 8 group tonight. If that was true it wasn’t a very good value for the fans. Seeing so few cars racing such a long figure 8 race was not entertaining. On the plus side there were a few close calls at the figure 8’s “X”. There was one minor collision between the two leaders. Other than that most cars stopped at the “X” when there was conflicting traffic. That’s no fun….for the spectator. When the figure 8 race was finished we headed for the exits. I had seen what I had come to see. Greg, being a good friend, had come along for the ride. We looked at our watches. It was 10:30 p.m. I couldn’t believe it. The track had run just three races and it was already past the time most tracks should be finishing up. What’s the ‘trackchasing benefit’? Nevertheless, there is a benefit to trackchasing. When a program doesn’t measure up there is no need to ever return. The program wasn’t terrible. It just wasn’t nearly as good as I expected from a track that has been around for a very long time. STATE COMPARISONS Ohio This evening I saw my 63rd lifetime track in Ohio, the Buckeye state, yes the Buckeye state. That seems like a strong performance in this state to me. This puts me into a tie (based upon ending 2010 data) for 12th place in the state with Ed Esser. That’s not good from a National Geographic Diversity “points paying” point of view. What makes my current ranking so difficult to accept is that I have been to the famous Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio thirty-five times. Yes, I went there because I was a racechaser. Do the trackchasers give me any credit for my allegiances to Eldora. Does a bear #$%^ in the woods? Coming Soon – RLR – Randy Lewis Racing Exclusive Features! My review of the Apple iPhone trackchasing “app” Track Guide powered by the National Speedway Directory. How is the transition going from unofficial trackchasing commissioner Will White to his successor? Thanks for reading about my trackchasing, Randy Lewis World’s #1 Trackchaser Ohio sayings: At least we’re not Michigan. TRAVEL DETAILS AIRPLANE Orange County, CA (SNA) – Salt Lake City, UT (SLC) – 588 miles Salt Lake City, UT (SLC) – Chicago, IL (ORD) – 1,255 miles Chicago, IL (ORD) – Cincinnati, OH (CVG) – 264 miles RENTAL CAR #1 Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Airport – trip begins Xenia, OH – 77 miles TRACK ADMISSION PRICES: Kil-Kare Speedway – $20 COMPARISONS LIFETIME TRACKCHASER COMPARISONS There are no trackchasers currently within 200 tracks of my lifetime total. Official end of the RLR – Randy Lewis Racing Trackchaser Report Kil-Kare Speedway – oval and figure 8 racing Figure 8 racing from the Kil-Kare Speedway . Click on this link to see the photo album from my 2011 trip to the Kil-Kare Speedway: 
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