Are My Eyes Bleeding?

Have you checked out the Special Events Calendar at Positively Racing? As of today it lists 716 "special" (not weekly shows) events at tracks in Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas. This is the result of poring over the schedule pages of numerous track and series websites over the past four months in an attempt to pull them all together into one. One place that a race fan in our coverage area can go when they know they have a Tuesday night in June available and they want to see if there is a race anywhere nearby. My hope is that it is something that our good friend Gary Storey would have loved if he were still here chasing races in his true "SuperFan" fashion.

Did I catch them all? Doubtful.

Are there errors? Likely. After all I came across several instances where a track would have a series scheduled for a night on their website that did not match the scheduled date on the series' schedule.

That is why we have that little disclaimer at the top stating "Schedules subject to change without notice. PositivelyRacing.com is not responsible for the accuracy of this schedule" Heck, most of the track websites carry a similar disclaimer for their own schedules and one of them gave some great advice in this age of $3.65 per gallon gas prices, "Call before you haul".

If you see a race date on the PR.com calendar that interests you, go to the track's website, get a phone number and place a call just to make sure that everything is still on.

Building this calendar was a chore (are my eyes bleeding?), but it was enjoyable as well. There are still many tracks in the region that I have yet to visit and I found myself trying to see if certain dates might allow for that inaugural voyage to Central Missouri, Brownstown IL, 141 Speedway, Ogilvie, Husets, Junction and many more. And of course I made note of the events that I wanted to catch at my favorite tracks during the upcoming season.

I was a bit surprised to find that the schedule for the WISSOTA Late Model Dart Challenge Series was still not complete as of yet (it hs since been released and should be included on our schedule page soon) and there were several track websites, especially in Wisconsin and Minnesota who still have a note on their 2011 schedule page similar to "Still Under Construction". So as those come out I'll be adding to the list while also removing the events that have already come and gone.

And, for the All Iowa Points paying tracks that run weekly, you can jump over to the Weekly Events Schedule to get a feel for when their track points season begins and ends in 2011.

So there you go, you now know where to find the events, now go out and Support the Sport.

Let's go Racing!!