Someone suggested this on the Superfans thread, so I thought I’d get it started. All from memory, so I’ll probaly forget a few:
FL
Sunshine
Suncoast Dome
Orlando Speedworld
5 Flags
Columbia (Gateway Int’l)
Ocala (asp & dirt)
Lakeland (1/4)
USA-Lakeland (3/4)
Homestead
Daytona Int’l.
Daytona Municipal Stadium
Volusia 1/2 (asp & dirt)
Volusia 3/8 (asp & dirt)
East Bay (Florida National)
Fla. State Fairgrounds (I-4 & 301)
Citrus County
St. Johns County (St. Augustine)
Auburndale
Hialeah
Charlotte County
Bronson
Putnam County
Jax Raceway (Pecan Park Rd.)
New Smyrna
Gainesville Raceway
Orlando Dragway
Datona Int’l Road Course
Golden Gate
Disney Speedway
Desoto
Clacona Horsemans Park (you might laugh now, but a field of over 600 cars makes it a REAL race event).
(31)
NY
Spencer
Lancaster
Perry
Watertown
Niagara Falls Conv. Ctr.
Weedsport
Rolling Wheels
Erie County Fair
Monroe County Fair
Ransomville
Fonda
Dundee
Can-Am
NY State Fair (Syracuse - Moody Mile)
Canandaigua
Paradise
Genesee County
Palmyra
Waterloo
Oswego
Fulton
Stateline
Utica-Rome
(23)
GA
Atlanta
7 Flags
Dixie
Rome
South Georgia
Cochran
Swainsboro
Golden Isles (5/8 & 4/10)
Sugar Creek
Oglethorpe
(10)
AL
Talladega
Talladega Short Track
South Alabama
Moulton
(4)
PA
Lake Erie
Pocono
Eriez
(3)
AZ
Phoenix
Tucson Raceway Park
(2)
NC
Lowe’s Dirt Track
Charlotte
Rockingham
(3)
VA
Martinsville
South Boston
(2)
TN
Nashville
Crossville
Cleveland
(3)
SC
Darlington
(1)
MI
Michigan Int’l
(1)
NJ
Trenton
(1)
Canada
Merittville
(1)
85 total
11 states & Canada
44 Asphalt, 44 Dirt (some I saw as both asphalt & dirt)
1 was a road-course
2 are Dragstrips
2 were indoors
1 was on cinders
All those tracks you were at in a ‘previous life’ can’t count in your poll. :sprachlos020:
Don’t you wish you had all those gate fees back, so you could buy your own track??:grinser010:…LOL
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Ok, so it is not quite a Frasson quality list, but here goes.
[SIZE=5]Tracks where I’ve raced[/SIZE]
Hialeah
Palm Beach
Fl. Sports Park
CCMP
Orlando
New Smyrna
Volusia dirt
Volusia paved
Orange County
Auburndale
Putnam
Ocala
De Soto
East Bay
Homestead road course
Sebring
San Antonio, TX
Florida City
Naples
Hollywood
Country Boy
St. Petersburg
Golden Gate
Citrus Co.
Disney
Lakeland 1/4
USA
Claracona
Thundercross
CMP
NFS
St. Augustine
Volusia 3/8
Zephyrhills
Columbia, SC
Florence, SC
Southern National, NC
Oswego, NY
Longhorn, TX
Victoria, TX
Rockingham, NC
Daytona
Charlotte, NC
Highland, IL
Temporary road courses in TX and FL
Do swamp buggys count? If so, Naples and Fellsmere
Wisconsin:
Wisconsin Dells
Madison
Slinger
Wisonsin Intl
Indiana:
Indianapolis
Kentucky
Lake Cumberland
Tennessee
Crossville
Atomic
411
Cleveland
Bulls gap
Bristol
Tazewell
Alabama-
East Alabama
South Carolina
Anderson
Cherokee (Gaffney)
North Carolina
Concord
Tri County
Georgia
North Georgia
Dixie
Waycross
Golden Isles
Florida
Jax
putnam
Volusia (both) plus go carts
Clarcona(quarter midgets)
Cocoa (quarter midgets)
New Smyrna
Speedworld
Lakeland (both 3/4 and 1/4)
Auburndale
Golden Gate
St Augustine
Citrus County
Bronson
Sunshine
East Bay
Ocala
Desoto
Punta Gorda
Hialeah
Daytona
Okeechobee
Boneman, I see you have been to the track I owned on your list. Hobe Sound. What years did you run there? Was it dirt or asphault? And did you ever here a kid called “The Whizz Kid”? And the track in ZephyrHills, was that Dirt Devels?
Frasson, You got a good list going there. But you got a few more tracks to go to top Ken Schrader, 310 tracks.
Dustin has always been impressed with Ken’s list. That is why he started his list. He is just 17. I’m sure he has been to well over 50 track. When he gets home from the speedway today I will try to get his list and post it.
Mr. South, I ran Hobe Sound a grand total of one time. I was in a Star Champ. It was probably 1999.
Zephyrhills is a 1/4 mile dirt track where the antiques run. It is much more than pace laps, but for most cars it is also something less than a b*lls to the wall race.
Mr South did you have the track at the beginning?
I went to one of the first races held there probably late seventies and I brought a twin engined kart as did Scott Shinn and the two of us proceded to convert the fresh uncured asphalt back to dirt. This was the only time I ever “tore the track up”.
Larry
Michigan -
Auto City
Berlin Raceway
Dixie
Eastern Michigan Speedway -Imlay City
Flat Rock
Jeddo
Kalamazoo
M.I.S.
Michigan State Fairgrounds -Detroit
Motor City
Mt,clemens
Onaway
Owendale
Owosso
Pontiac Silverdome
Spartan
Sunset -Port huron
Thunder Road
Tri -city
Whittemore
Canada -
Cayuga
Checker Flag -Windsor
Delaware
Flamboro
Sauble
South Buxton
Glendale -Sarnia
Ohio -
Toledo
Sandusky
Indiana -
Windchester
Nebraska -
Sunset Omaha
Eagle
Kansas -
81 Speedway - Wichita
Iowa -
Playland - Council Bluffs
New York -
Oswego
Tennessee -
Nashville Fairgrounds
Florida -
Sunshine
Orlando Speedworld
Ocala
Columbia
Daytona
East bay
Citrus Country
Auburndale
Charlotte County
New Smyrna
Disney
Desoto
Plant Field -Tampa
Been to some of those FL tracks plus Moroso[bikes]Tamiami park indycar at Miami college in 87.all three ST Pete road couses.Tampa fairgrounds road course .street course at west palm for IMSA,Peachstate and Lanier in GA.
McAlister… just guessing here on the Arizona dates:
I would guess Tucson Raceway Park would be around 1983 or 84, and Phoenix Int’l. around '91 or '92.
Some nice lists here. There are a few fans out there that have over 1000 different tracks they’ve been to. I’ll be lucky to ever break 100. Getting to new tracks from Central Florida is a tough challenge.
Larry, that is one sweet ride. Do you still have it? Those vintage karts are bringing a pretty penny these days. What is that, an old bug chassis with two kt100’s. And no Nerf bars. I think when Hobe Sound opened it was a road coarse. The man that opened the track was “Lefty”. He had the small engine shop in Hobe Sound. I ran there after he made it a dirt oval. The track closed around 1997 after a karting club paved the oval. I reopened the track in late '99 I guess around the time Boneman ran his champ kart.
Boneman, I never knew there was another track in zephyr hills. The track I was talking about was Dirt Devils. Sam Rodreguz used to run it.
my list isn’t that good. Ron could give Frasson a run for his money though. do ‘competed at’ tracks count double?
so anyway:
Florida -
Auburndale < decent
Charlotte County Speedway / Punta Gorda < pretty good
Daytona International Road Course < eh
Daytona International Superspeedway < booooooooring
East Bay < decent
Eau Gallie < very good
Jacksonville oil dirt < decent
Hendry County < before remodel they had fun, haven’t been back to the new track
Lake City asphalt < decent
Lakeland 3/4 < could be better
New Smyrna Speedway 1/2
Ocala < friendly
Okeechobee < um, okay
Orlando Speedworld
Sebring < not that great for spectating
Vero Beach < don’t really remember
Volusia 1/2 mile dirt < pretty good
Georgia -
Golden Isles < enduro needed some work
Oglethorpe < good
Indiana -
Baer Field / Fort Wayne < decent
Crumstown < practice looked alright
Elkhart, worked corners for the street course for the Go-Karts for many years < great after they had a couple of years experience
New Paris < could be more professional/organized but they make sure everybody has a good time
never made it to South Bend but they were so ‘good’ they’ve closed … and Ryan Newman hasn’t bothered to buy it
Michigan -
Butler < enduro show was not so good
Jones / Thunder Valley < good
Kalamazoo < great, very professional
Mottville < crap
Ohio -
Eldora < pretty good, Steve Kinser put on one hell of a show. Erin Crocker stank it up, as per usual.
South Carolina -
Summerville < pretty good even if Legette ( from northern South Carolina ) can’t stand that southern South Carolina accent. :grinser010:
Virginia -
Manassas < meh
Wisconsin -
Columbus < decent
Jefferson < decent but the track is really screwed up. turn 4 has a ridge which totally jacks up the car on the inside groove but the fast way around 1-3 is the bottom.
Madison International < boooooring [SIZE=“5”]Slinger[/SIZE] < if you ever get up to Milwaukee, Madison or Oshkosh GO THERE. i was driving all the way from Madison and passing a half dozen tracks to get there. nuff said.
