Greetings from Penticton, British Columbia, Canada
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From the travels and adventures of the “World’s #1 Trackchaser”
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Penticton Speedway
Asphalt oval
Track #1,730
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Penticton Speedway
Asphalt road course
Track #1,731
DAY 1 – NOT YOUR FATHER’S 31 HOUR FOREIGN COUNTRY TRACKCHASING TOUR TODAY’S HEADLINES What’s my NEW trackchasing plan?……………….more in “Reader Questions for Randy”. Do you know how to compute your return on investment percentage? …………..details in “Just Comments”. Would you have any interest in spending 31 hours of your next vacation the way I did?…………..details in “The Trip”. Reader Questions for Randy Trackchasing, or any hobby for that matter, that takes up nearly every weekend all year is probably best for those who don’t have many other interests. Since I have several other interests, some of which are best suited for weekend activity, an adjustment in my trackchasing activity is called for. I like the idea of trackchasing just as much as I ever have. The racing at the tracks isn’t that great much of the time, but that’s the best thing about trackchasing. If the show doesn’t warrant it, you never have to go back. I have always liked the trackchasing hobby because of the thrill I get from “the hunt”. There is one major drawback to doing so much trackchasing, which is really not unique to this hobby. When I’m out trackchasing, I can’t be doing so many of the other things I like to do. The time it takes to get to and from a track, especially from the west coast, accounts for much of this time. The trip I describe in this report took just 31 hours. However, the racing at the track I visited took less than two hours. That’s a 15:1 ratio of travel to racing. This is not all that unusual with most tracks I visit. I have always considered myself a family man. When our kids were young, I never missed an event (plays, little league, soccer, etc.) on a weekend or during the week as long as I didn’t have a business travel requirement that could not be changed. Now our kids are out on their own and we don’t get to see them as much. Our grandchildren are still too young to know if I’m trackchasing or not. Nevertheless, I don’t want to be away from Carol or our children or our grandchildren as much just for the sake of increasing my trackchasing totals. You might have noticed the caption that follows my signature line on each of these reports. I try to change it with each Trackchaser Report. The one that read, “Do you know where you’ll be when you get where you’re going?” got me to thinking. Was I doing the things today that would get me to the place I wanted to be tomorrow? It was an interesting question. What is really the point in trying to see so many tracks? I started my hobby a very long time ago because I liked racing. My home track was just 10 minutes from where I lived. The racing was good and there was virtually no travel time involved. It didn’t cost very much to see the races. In today’s world, the racing is no longer that great. The travel time it takes to make things happen at my level of trackchasing is gigantic. It is also very expensive to be gone trackchasing some 150 days per year. Nevertheless, these trackchasing negatives are not the reason I want to cut back. As I mentioned, just because the racing doesn’t include my favorite drivers (Darrell Dake, Dick Trickle, Rick Ferkel or any of my other favorites) it doesn’t matter. I’m like every other trackchaser; I rarely go back to the tracks that make up my career trackchasing totals. I doubt that my readers have ever seen or heard of anyone willing to travel like I do. I’ve been doing travel to this degree or something like it since I was 23 years old. Even though it’s 36 years later, I still get a kick out of the travel as much as I ever did. Maybe that’s because we never travelled at all during my growing up years. Some folks complain about crowds, airport security, full airplanes and/or driving times. None of that bothers me. Trackchasing can be expensive. I don’t know where I got it from but I’ve always been very good with numbers. In grade school I was always the flash card champion. Even in college when I delivered pizzas to make money, I would come back to my room and analyze my expenses (gasoline) and revenues (dormitory deliveries, house deliveries) to figure out how much I made on an hourly basis and what I could do to improve. Shortly after I began my professional business career, I began actively planning for retirement. My plan was to retire at 40. However, we kept buying more expensive houses and cars and then funding 12 years of college at UCLA for our children. I was disappointed that I couldn’t retire until I was 53. To most, that still seems like a young age in which to retire. I have now been retired for more than six years. I can honestly say that I have never missed working for even one moment during the time I’ve been retired. My wealthiest friend probably has a net worth of between 50-100 million dollars. When he and I get together with friends, he often says, “Randy, you’re the one guy I know who had a plan and stuck to it. You always said when you got enough money, you would quit and you did”. The amount of money I spend on trackchasing doesn’t even register on my financial radar screen. I’m lucky it doesn’t, but then that was part of the master plan when I retired. We are lucky enough to live in a resort area. The climate in San Clemente is, arguably, the very best in the world. We live within 100 yards of the Pacific Ocean. From my living room I can watch people surfing every day of the year. After a while it’s easy to question why I’m staying in a Motel 6 in some rural part of the country waiting to watch 10 figure 8 cars race around two tractor tires. The one and only major drawback to trackchasing is that I can’t do all of the other things I find of interest because of the time trackchasing takes. I have always wanted to play more golf. Not a lot more, but a little bit more. In the past, I’ve averaged about 1.5 rounds a week. In Southern California, we can play golf all year round. I’d like to be able to play golf 2-3 times per week. I’d especially like to play golf on weekends with my friends as I used to do before I retired. I want to continue my interest in UCLA sports. We enjoy seeing the games in person. Football requires seven Saturdays at home each year. UCLA basketball offers up more than 15 home games each season. With Angels’ baseball games, movies and other local entertainment choices, being away from home 150 days a year just does not give me enough time for my other interests. I like to exercise an hour a day or so. With the hectic travel schedule I’ve had with trackchasing I can’t do that. Take a look at this trip. When would I have had time to exercise? I also want to eat better. The food options while I’m on the trackchasing trail don’t encourage eating well. Oftentimes, the press is on to get from point A to point B quickly. That means fast food. We all know that’s not a recipe for culinary delight. I want to travel to exotic locations while I’m still young enough to do it. This is one area of my personal diversification that I can do while I’m trackchasing. I’ve really enjoyed the international jaunts I’ve taken this year while in search of a new track. As an example, spending five days in Thailand with just 5-6 hours at a racetrack on one afternoon is really more of a Thailand vacation than a Thailand trackchasing trip. That’s the way it should be on a trip of this kind. All of this in addition to time spent with Carol, our children and grandchildren is what I’m looking for. I’m not the first trackchaser to come up with this idea. Everyone has their own timeline when they come to these conclusions. Some do it sooner than others. Some might not ever do it. JUST COMMENTS Do you know how to calculate your return on investment (ROI) on your investment portfolio? Do you know what the real “risk” is on your investments? That’s really what investing is all about, “return” and “risk”. I have recently come across a method with Excel spreadsheets to calculate the ROI on investments. It allows you to begin with a certain amount on a certain date, make periodic deposits and withdrawals and then compute what your annualized ROI for the period of time you choose. Since this may be of limited interest to many of my Trackchaser Report readers, if you’re interested in learning more, I’ll send you a sample worksheet. GREETINGS FROM PENTICTON, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA I WOKE UP IN SAN CLEMENTE, CALIFORNIA AND WENT TO SLEEP IN THE NATIONAL RENTAL CAR PARKING GARAGE IN THE VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. THIS IS WHAT TRANSPIRED TODAY. PEOPLE/STRATEGY/TRAVEL NEWS The Objective This was not originally planned to be a trackchasing weekend. Back in March, I ordered my Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim season tickets. Carol and I split tickets with a few other friends of ours. I requested the game against the New York Yankees on Saturday, August 9. That would be a big game and, being on a Saturday, would keep me in SoCal for the weekend. I need commitments like that so I don’t go off trackchasing every day of the year. However, a few days ago one of our ticket partners asked me to trade our Saturday game for his Friday night game against the Yankees. That seemed to work for me. I would go to the Yankee game, and then play golf on the weekend. That would have been a good plan, except the course was closed to members on Saturday for the annual club championship tournament. Were the entertainment gods conspiring against me? With our baseball game now on Friday and no Saturday golf available, I looked to find a track that was racing on Saturday within a direct flight distance from Los Angeles. If somehow that racing location could be in a foreign country what wouldn’t be good about that. It didn’t take long to find an event running on Saturday night in Penticton, British Columbia, Canada. If things worked out I could be back home for lunch (which I was) on Sunday. The Trip On Friday night, Carol and I went to the Angels-Yankees game. We’re lucky that this season the Angels have the best record in baseball by a good margin. It’s always fun to root for a winner. Tonight, the Angels beat the Yankees 11-4. Following every Friday night home game, the Angels offer a free fireworks show for the fans following the game. The fireworks were some of the best I’ve ever seen. We did not return home until nearly midnight. My Saturday morning wake-up call came at 3:44 a.m. I was out the door at 3:58 a.m. I had a 65-mile drive up to the Los Angeles International Airport. My flight would depart at 6:30 a.m. I was lucky to get one of the last five seats on an Alaska Airlines flight that would fly non-stop into Vancouver, British Columbia. This would be my third consecutive separate weekend of flying to Canada. Once in Vancouver, I would have a 275-mile one-way drive up to my new track visit in Penticton, BC. My drive would be interrupted a couple of times to nap. With less than four hours sleep the night before, a roadside 20-minute power nap was required. During the first 150 miles of my drive it rained. For the most part it rained hard. Weather.com had been telling me the rain chances at the track were in the 20-30% range. I wasn’t too concerned about the rain I was driving through. Weather.com has been so accurate that I normally believe the prediction they provide more so that what my own eyes are seeing. By the time I drove over the mountains, I had reached Merritt, BC. I was now within 100 miles of the racetrack. The rain had stopped. In Merritt it looked like it had not rained in months. I was now home free as far as the weather was concerned…..or was I? As I drove inside the 50-mile mark to the track, the clouds began to blacken. Soon it was raining harder than ever. After a few miles, I was convinced I had flown more than 1,000 miles and now driven almost 275 miles just to be rained out. I didn’t like that feeling. Once I reached Penticton with it raining steadily, I elected to at least visit the track location. It was just 6 p.m. and I had nothing else to do than see the track’s location where the program had to be rained out. I pulled into the track’s parking lot. Virtually no one was there. However, a young woman was attending to the ticket booth. She told me, “We’re going to wait another 30 minutes to decide if we will race. We’ll make a decision then. It looks like the worst of the weather has passed. You can buy your ticket ($12 Canadian) and we’ll refund what you pay if we rain out”. Even though I didn’t think there was any chance they would race, I had nothing to lose by hanging around. If the track did not end up racing, you wouldn’t be reading this Trackchaser Report. They did race. I’ll tell you more about that in the “Race Review” section. The races wrapped up around 9 p.m. Now I had a decision to make. I was facing a 275-mile one-way drive back to Vancouver over rainy mountainous roads. My original plan had been to get a motel room and try to make a 10:30 a.m. flight back home on Sunday morning. Friday and Sunday travel are the busiest days of the week to fly. When I fly standby, I have to be especially understanding of this fact. It’s also best to fly earlier in the day when flying standby. I always bank on a few people “sleeping in” and missing their “zero dark 30” flight. Later in the day, the flights tend to get fuller. It was with this in mind that I made the executive decision to begin driving back to Vancouver as soon as the races ended. “Tonto” told me I had a five-hour drive ahead. If I drove non-stop, I could get back to the airport by about 2 a.m. There was a 6:30 a.m. flight to Los Angeles I could take. With only four hours sleep the night before this was an ambitious plan. As I drove on, the rain came back frequently. I did have to stop at two highway rest areas for a 20-minute nap again. Canadian highway rest areas are not like those in the U.S. Typically, they are located off the road several hundred yards. I wasn’t looking forward to sleeping in my car in some empty campground-type location in the middle of the night. But, that’s what I did. There wasn’t much choice. I had the time for the rest and I needed some sleep. I pulled into the Vancouver International Airport parking garage at 3 a.m. This would be a safe location to sleep in my rental car for two hours. I set both my portable alarm clock and cell phone to wake me up at 5 a.m. When I did wake-up I noticed other rental cars had been pulled into the line since I had arrived at 3 a.m. I had an hour and a half to board my 6:30 a.m. flight. During this time, I had to stand in line to make a reservation. Then I had to clear U.S. Customs. Finally, airport security was the final step before I could reach the Alaskan Airlines boarding gate. I was almost home, but not quite. The flight I was standing by for was overbooked. I was counting on some people not showing up. I was in luck. I was able to get one of the last three seats! I landed back in Los Angeles at 9:30 a.m. I was home in San Clemente before lunch. I was just in time to watch the fourth and final day of the PGA Tour Championship. With my commute to and from the airport, I had driven nearly 700 miles in the 31 hours I was gone from home. I had flown about 2,200 miles. The way I figured it, I had averaged about 90 M.P.H. for each and every hour of the trip. I guess you could call that jet setting! The People The first person I met at tonight’s track was a young woman at the ticket booth. It had been raining here for a long time and was raining when I pulled into the track. Nevertheless, this woman was super positive. She was convinced they were going to race. I didn’t believe her, but bought my ticket anyway. The next track employee I met was Allan, the track announcer. With virtually no one in the stands and still an hour before race time, he came over the P.A. with this announcement. “Even though it’s raining now, it’s going to clear up and we’ll be racing at 7 p.m.” He was even more positive than the ticket-selling lady was. No, I did not believe Allan either. There had been too much rain, it was currently raining and it didn’t look to me that it was going to stop before it turned to snow. Since we were still an hour before race time and nothing much else was happening at the track, I walked up the steps to the announcing tower to seek out the track announcer. We had a nice chat about the racing industry, trackchasing and funs things to do in retirement. Allan was a lifetime “radio guy”. He had that deep radio voice while being knowledgeable about the local racing scene. He also had an incredible habit of being positive. Later in the evening when it began to pour, Allan offered the following, “It looks like we’re in for a minor dusting of moisture that I’m sure will stop almost before it starts”. With Allan’s warning, I headed for the grandstand area. From beneath the stands, I could stand for a few minutes and not get drenched by the “minor dusting” the track was experiencing. The next person to greet me was promoter’s wife. She was in charge of concessions. She offered a big smile and a complete explanation of their menu. She mentioned the hamburgers were made from lean ground beef with all the freshest fixings. Tonight’s track sponsor was the Creamery Ice Cream Company. They were selling some delicious looking ice cream cones. I would have tried everything but I had just eaten before arriving at the track. Finally, I met track owner Johnny Aantjes, who owns and runs the track. I’ll tell you more about my conversations with him in “Race Review”. I’m one of the few folks in trackchasing that gets to meet so many people behind the scenes at the racetracks I visit. I’ve only been seeking out these people over the past few years. I will say it almost always makes my evening more fun and interesting. RACE REVIEW PENTICTON SPEEDWAY (OVAL & ROAD COURSE), PENTICTON, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA I can safely say there are not 2% of the tracks that I have visited in North America that would have raced tonight. First, the rain before the race would have forced virtually every track to cancel the event. Then the rain that poured during the race would have cancelled any track that had thought about racing on a day like this. Only England’s oval short tracks actually race in the pouring rain. The Penticton Speedway is owned by the Aantjes family. They are a friendly young couple that bought the speedway back in 1998. The track itself is a quarter mile banked asphalt oval. The speedway sits high on top of a hill overlooking the summer resort city of Penticton. The track races weekly but does not feature the same racing classes each week. Tonight, just two classes were on the card. The “Crash to Pass” stock cars would compete on the oval track. The hornets were scheduled to run on the road course, which was a combination of the oval and the oval’s infield. The idea of getting two new tracks in one day is what convinced me to come to Penticton. This was obviously a long walk for a short slide, but the thought of seeing two new tracks while only being gone from home for one night was appealing. You can imagine my disappointment when the announcer told everyone the hornets would race only on the oval tonight because the infield part of the road course was too wet. How can an asphalt track be too wet for low dollar hornets to race on? The announcing was top notch over a very robust speaker system. The wooden grandstands were freshly painted and in good repair. The concession stand offered quality food, although with such a small crowd on hand tonight, I doubt they sold much. The races began at 7:25 p.m. with heat races. Both classes brought six cars to race. Each class raced all of their cars in two heat races on the oval. During intermission, I met the owner, Johnny Aantjes. As noted above, I had already met Allan the track announcer and Johnny’s wife (sorry! sometimes I forget a name) who ran the concession stand. Johnny was an interesting person. He is a true entrepreneur. He has been involved in a number of businesses but now he concentrates on a bakery and the racetrack. The racetrack doesn’t make much money and the bakery makes him work 16+ hour days. Nevertheless, Johnny, a former racer, has an enthusiasm for the track that goes beyond the return he gets. While I was talking to the track owner at intermission, he asked me about my trackchasing hobby. He wanted to know why I had picked Penticton as my destination for tonight. I told him in no uncertain terms that I came here to watch racing on both their oval track and their road course track. About this time in our conversation, the track’s Director of Competition joined us. Johnny looked over at his race director. “We could run the hornet feature on the road course, couldn’t we?” The race official replied, “Sure we could. We’ll run a 20-lap feature with them on the road course. I’ll go tell them that’s what we’re going to do”. With that, he was off to the pit area. Talk about listening to feedback from the fans! I reminded Johnny that most tracks would never have even considered racing on a night like this as the rain began to pour on us again. He told me that he had already paid for most of tonight’s expenses. He had paid for insurance, advertising and his staff was on the grounds. There was no purse being paid to these low dollar classes. They were only racing for trophies. With that logic, the program could continue regardless of the weather. This was an unusual trip. It was a long trip with bad weather. It was fun to meet the folks who owned and worked at the track. With such small fields of cars, the racing was still entertaining good because there was a good deal of crashing and banging. To get to see two new tracks under these circumstances was a major win. PROVINCE RANKINGS British Columbia Tonight I saw my 11th and 12th lifetime tracks in British Columbia. That keeps me in the trackchasing lead up north here in British Columbia, Canada. Carol is holding onto second place in the province with three BC tracks. Surprisingly, only 13 trackchasers have ever made it up here. Only 13 official new track visits have been recorded in British Columbia by trackchasers not named Lewis. That seems like a very low number. No true trackchaser other than a Californian has ever seen more than one lifetime track in British Columbia. RENTAL CAR UPDATE Vancouver, BC – Saturday/Sunday I will be driving the National Rental Car Racing Buick Lucerne. The car had just 350 miles on it when I picked it up. With a leather interior and XM satellite radio, the car was a great choice. I drove the National Rental Car Racing Buick Lucerne 550 miles in the 19 hours I had it. I paid an average price of $5.19 per gallon. The Buick gave me an impressive 23.7 miles per gallon in fuel mileage at a cost of 21.9 cents (U.S.) per mile. The car cost 11.1 cents per mile to rent, all taxes included. Thanks for reading about my trackchasing, Randy Lewis Alberta’s #1 Trackchaser Follow your faith not your feelings. TRAVEL DETAILS AIRPLANE Los Angeles, CA – Vancouver, BC – 1,081 miles RENTAL CAR Vancouver International Airport – trip begins Penticton, British Columbia – 276 miles Vancouver International Airport – 550 miles AIRPLANE Vancouver, BC – Los Angeles, CA –1,081 miles Total Air miles – 2,162 miles (2 flights) Total auto and air miles traveled on this trip – 2,712 miles TRACK ADMSSION PRICES: Penticton Speedway – $12 Canadian Total racetrack admissions for the trip – $12 Canadian RANKINGS LIFETIME TRACKCHASER STANDINGS UPDATE: There are no trackchasers currently within 100 tracks of my lifetime total. Other notables These worldwide trackchasers are within 10 tracks (plus or minus or more) of Carol’s current trackchaser total. 2008 TRACKCHASER STANDINGS LIFETIME NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC DIVERSITY STANDINGS After the most recent updates (July 1, 2008), I have a comfortable 19 state position lead. As long as I can keep a 10 state position lead, things will be under control. My plan is to take the next week off, before having a final August trackchasing weekend. I’ll follow that up with a non-racing weeklong trip with Carol to Maui as we visit our timesharing condo there. 1,299. Barnes Lake Ice Track, Ashcroft (road course), British Columbia, Canada – January 13 1,300. Bira Circuit, Pattaya (road course), Thailand – January 19 1,301. Cameron Lake Ice Track (oval), Erskine, Minnesota – January 26 1,302. Birch Lake Ice Track (oval), Hackensack, Minnesota – January 27 1,303. Mille Lacs Lake Ice Track (road course), Garrison, Minnesota – January 27 1,304. Mille Lacs Lake Ice Track (oval), Garrison, Minnesota – January 27 1,305. Ozark Empire Fairgrounds (oval), Springfield, Missouri – February 1 1,306. Atlanta Motor Speedway (road course), Hampton, Georgia – February 2 1,307. Brainerd International Raceway Ice Track (road course), Brainerd, Minnesota – February 3 1,308. Bay of Green Bay Ice Track (road course), Marinette, Wisconsin – February 9 1,309. Lake Speed Ice Track (oval), Tilleda, Wisconsin – February 9 1,310. Shawano Lake Ice Track – North Shore (oval), Shawano, Wisconsin – February 10 1,311. Cecil Bay Iceway (oval) – Cecil, Wisconsin – February 10 1,312. Mototown USA (oval) – Windsor, Connecticut – February 15 1,313. Moosehead Lake Ice Track (oval) – Greenville Junction, Maine – February 16 1,314. Clarence Creek Ice Track (oval) – Clarence Creek, Ontario, Canada – February 17 1,315. Durban Grand Prix (road course), KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa – February 24 1,316. Lake La Biche Ice Track (road course), Lake La Biche, Alberta, Canada – March 1 1,317. Rice Lake Ice Track (oval), Rice Lake, Wisconsin – March 8 1,318. Ashland Ice Track (oval), Ashland, Wisconsin – March 9 1,319. Autodromo Hermanos Rodriquez (road course), Mexico City, Mexico – March 16 1,320. Hartwell Motor Speedway (oval), Hartwell, Georgia – March 22 1,321. Lavonia Speedway, Lavonia (oval), Georgia – March 22 1,322. Dover Raceway (road course), Brown’s Town, St. Ann, Jamaica – March 24 1,323. Lake Country Speedway (oval), Ardmore, Oklahoma – March 29 1,324. Swainsboro Raceway (oval), Swainsboro, Georgia – April 3 1,325. Screven Motor (oval), Sylvania, Georgia – April 4 1,326. Centerville Super Speedway (oval), Centerville, Arkansas – April 5 1,327. Central Arkansas Speedway (oval), Plumerville, Arkansas – April 5 1,328. Clinton Country Speedway (oval), Alpha, Kentucky – April 6 1,329. Pleasant Valley Raceway (oval), Boise, Idaho – April 20 1,330. Bremerton Raceway (road course), Bremerton, Washington – April 26 1,331. Port Angeles Speedway (oval), Port Angeles, Washington – April 26 1,332. Evergreen Speedway (1/5-mile oval), Monroe, Washington – April 27 1,333. Virginia Motor Speedway (oval), Jamaica, Virginia – May 1 1,334. Natural Bridge Speedway (oval), Natural Bridge, Virginia – May 2 1,335. Sturup Raceway, Malmo (road course), Sweden – May 10 1,336. Ring Djursland, Tirstrup (road course), Denmark – May 11 1,337. Nisseringen, Naestved (road course), Denmark – May 12 1,338. Valentine Speedway (oval), Glenrock, Wyoming – May 17 1,339. Gillette Thunder Speedway (oval), Gillette, Wyoming – May 17 1,340. Phillips County Speedway (oval), Holyoke, Colorado – May 18 1,341. North Pole Speedway (oval), North Pole, Alaska, – May 22 1,342. Tanacross Airport (road course), Tok, Alaska, – May 24 1,343. Mitchell Raceway (oval), Fairbanks, Alaska, – May 24 1,344. North Star Speedway (oval), Wasilla, Alaska, – May 25 1,345. Capitol Speedway (oval), Willow, Alaska, – May 25 1,346. Elk City Speedway (inner oval), Elk City, Oklahoma, – May 30 1,347. Sweet Springs Motorsports Complex (oval), Sweet Springs, Missouri – May 31 1,348. Central Missouri Speedway (oval), Warrensburg, Missouri – May 31 1,349. Lucas Oil Speedway (road course), Wheatland, Missouri – June 1 1,350. Ark-La-Tex Speedway (oval), Vivian, Louisiana – June 5 1,351. Monticello Speedway (oval), Monticello, Arkansas – June 6 1,352. Paris Motor Speedway (oval), Paris, Texas – June 7 1,353. Grayson County Speedway (oval), Bells, Texas – June 7 1,354. Prowers County Motorsports Park (oval), Lamar, Colorado – June 13 1,355. Moler Raceway Park (oval), Williamsburg, Ohio – June 20 1,356. La Junta Raceway (road course), La Junta, Colorado – June 21 1,357. El Paso County Speedway (oval), Calhan, Colorado – June 21 1,358. York County Fairgrounds (figure 8), York, Nebraska – June 22 1,359. Black Hills Speedway (oval), Rapid City, South Dakota – June 27 1,360. Heartland Speedway (oval), Rapid City, South Dakota – June 27 1,361. Newcastle Speedway (oval), Newcastle, Wyoming – June 28 1,362. Jackson County Sports Park (oval), White City, Oregon – July 11 1,363. Great Basin Raceway (oval), Ely, Nevada – July 12 1,364. Lovelock Speedway (oval), Lovelock, Nevada – July 13 1,365. Saratoga Speedway (oval), Courtenay, British Columbia, Canada – July 19 1,366. Saratoga Speedway (figure 8), Courtenay, British Columbia, Canada – July 19 1,367. Alberni Motorsports Park (road course), Port Alberni, British Columbia, Canada – July 20 1,368. Scotia Speedworld, Halifax (oval), Nova Scotia, Canada – August 1 1,369. Centre for Speed (oval), Grand Barachois, New Brunswick, Canada – August 3 1,370. Penticton Speedway (oval), Penticton, British Columbia, Canada – August 9 1,371. Penticton Speedway (road course), Penticton, British Columbia, Canada – August 9
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