Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Memories of Tracks Gone 'Bye

On the Saturday before the Super Bowl, Christine and I made the trip over to Wapello to pick up some of the fantastic barbeque and sides from Mark Wehrle's Cynful Smokehouse and Creamery. And, since we had started our day in Burlington, we were coming in from the south and as we came off the bluff and into the valley I had a sudden memory from a night in 1994.

The short lived Wapello Speedway was in its second of three years and it would be my one and only visit to the track. I was running late after attending a high school baseball game in Mediapolis and with the sun setting the track lights were already on. I love stadium lights and a lit up race track really warms my soul which is part of the reason that a trip to Speed Weeks in Florida has a different feel to it, because with the early sunset the track lights are already on when you roll into the parking lot. But I digress.

On this sunny Saturday afternoon, as we came down the hill, I swear that I could see the track lights on off to the left where the Wapello Speedway used to be, even on a temporary basis. And it made me wonder just how many tracks that I have been to over the years that would now just have to live in my memory.

The first step in this process would be to rebuild my list of all of the tracks that I have watched a race at over the years. About fifteen years ago I had written them all down on a notepad that I no longer can find, so this time the list would be saved in a spreadsheet so that I can hopefully add to it whenever I get to a new track. I would only list those tracks that I could remember my visit. For example, my Mom tells me that I went a race at the Des Moines County Fairgrounds in Burlington when I was four, but since I can't remember being there, it doesn't go on the list.

As you will see below I currently stand at 220 tracks in 25 states, but today's Back Stretch is about those tracks where you still might be able to find hints from the past on the current landscape, or nothing at all. just the memories for the drivers and fans who used to spend a hot summer night enjoying the sport that we love.

Starting out with Iowa, truth be told the Wapello Speedway was built as the result of a feud between land owner Ron Pallister and John Mickey who was the promoter at the time in nearby Columbus Junction. Pallister, who also owned 34 Raceway in Burlington at the time, used jersey barriers and movable bleachers to build the Wapello Speedway and run it on Friday nights directly up against Mickey's shows just 21 miles up the road. Maybe that's why I only went there once in the three years that it was there, but as I recall there were some pretty good features the night that I was there. A young driver from Fort Madison by the name of Terry Hoenig won the Hobby Stock track title at Wapello and later went on to a successful run as the owner and promoter of the Lee County Speedway in Donnellson.

I am assuming that the infrastructure is still there at the Butler County Fairgrounds in Allison, but I will be surprised if anybody ever tries to make it a race track again. Howard Mellinger brought the track to life just before the turn of the century (1999) and it later was known as the Highway 3 Raceway. My only visits to the track was when the NKF Tour was running as support classes for the NASCAR Busch All Star events and while I remember the racing to be pretty good, I know that it was hard to see much from the infield and you even had to be in the top rows of the grandstands to see over the rigs pitted in the infield. A check of the old Facebook page shows that they last raced in 2012 there in Allison.

The Blackbird Bend Speedway was built near a Native American owned casino along the Missouri River back in 2002 and I made my only visit there in May of 2004. Flat and dusty are my memories of the place that was shut down by the flood of 2012 and then tried to reopen again in 2015. I'm not sure if there is still the prospect of the track making a third try at it, but with two tracks in operation just north near Sioux City I wouldn't see the need at this point.

The track in Audubon was high banked and fast. As I recall I made a couple visits there including one with the NKF Tour when Mike Nichols was trying his hand at promoting. I believe that the facility is still intact and that perhaps they run figure 8 races there from time-to-time?

The track in Osceola holds a special memory for me because I was actually the announcer for their first ever race when the Nelson family built the Clarke County Speedway behind their used car dealership on the east end of town. My friend, the late Scott Watson was lined up to announce the inaugural event, but when he was not feeling well that morning he called and asked if I could fill in for him. I made the 125 mile trip arriving just in time for hot laps for the daytime race since there were no lights. The car count was light, but there was an enthusiastic crowd on hand and it was a good start for the facility. I always wanted to make it back, but never did before it closed. You can still see the facility as you drive into town from the east on highway 34, but I'm pretty sure that the Nelsons are quite happy watching Garrett and Colton race at tracks owned by somebody else these days.

I wish that I could recall the back story on the origin of the Echo Valley Speedway as it was built despite the fact that the fairgrounds track in West Union was still in operation. Lee Hansmeier had himself a fast track and a first-class facility for its time and I recall going to a couple of big time Late Model shows there. The latest racing results that I can find for EVS were in 2007, but there was a lawsuit filed from a 2016 incident where the Speedway Lounge had hired a "female adult-entertainer to perform in a prurient manner." That there's lawyer talk for a stripper.

With several IMCA Stock Car drivers from the Ottumwa area making it their Sunday night destination, I actually made the long trip to Eldora fairly often to visit the Greenbelt Speedway and then with Al Uhrhammer promoting the track he welcomed the NKF Tour in at least once a year. The big, fast half-mile raced pretty well, but I have no idea how the place ever made any money because that had to be one of the smallest grandstands that you will ever see at a dirt track. I would imagine that as a fairgrounds facility, the possibility to race again might be there? But doubtful.

My only trip to the Greene County Speedway came when promoter Keith Conroy welcomed in the NKF Tour in August of 2001. I though it was nice little facility, but with Boone close by there is likely no chance of a revival.

Hawkeye Raceway near Blue Grass still bums me out every time that I drive past the old entrance on off highway 61 as I head to the Quad Cities. My first visit came during the summer of 1980 and I bet I attended nearly 100 events there over the years including mid-week UMP Late Model specials, several NKF Tour stops and of course the Sunday afternoon shows in October. Promoter Verne Schumann was the first dirt track in the area to schedule shows deeper into the Fall and it was the success of those that inspired the start of Shiverfest in 1999. Nowadays you look at the month of October and there are multiple events on the schedule even up in the northlands of Minnesota and Wisconsin. What was once a high banked race track is now a pond within a residential area, so it will never come back.

One of the best known tracks that we have had to say goodbye to recently is the big half mile at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines and I am sure there are plenty memories and stories to tell by those who were often. My good friend and colleague Barry Johnson lived not much more than a mile away, so he literally grew up at this track. For me, going to the State Fair with my parents had nothing to do with the rides, the livestock, or anything else going on as I remember just sitting on the fence near the pit gate all afternoon watching the cars come in for the night's races. One of my most vivid memories from my childhood was the night where they brought in a helicopter to hover over the track in hopes of drying it out enough to race after a heavy rain earlier in the day. I was so disappointed when that effort did not work and the races were canceled. Now I just had to do the things that my brother wanted to do at the Fair! My last couple events at the fairgrounds were with the Sprint Invaders where Bill Wright and I called the action from the judges stand in the infield. The fair board teased the fans with the prospect of building a short track on the edge of the grounds, but that will never happen. At least until we have noiseless electric race cars.

Scattered across this entry you will see several pictures representing the memories of Barry Johnson's home track. A big thanks as always to my good friend who keeps me well supplied with photos!


Bill Davis making his move at the Fairgrounds - Barry Johnson photo

My Mom tells me that I went to the races in the 60's here in Mount Pleasant, back when my Dad would park cars in the spectator lot for the local Jaycees. We only lived four blocks from the track and while I remember riding my bicycle around the big half mile, I do not actually remember seeing any of the races sanctioned by the Mississippi Valley Speedway Club. The track does make my list though because the Henry County Fair booked the NSCA Sprint Cars here in 1982 and it was one of the worst nights of racing that I have ever attended. The track was too narrow for anybody to pass and the speeds were too high for what was left of the safety barriers that remained after thirteen years of no racing. Thankfully they made it through the night with nobody getting hurt and I was glad that it was a short trip here in my hometown. All that remains of the old dirt track is about two hundred yards of the front stretch in front of the amphitheater where they stage the demolition derby during the Fair and where the Cavalcade of Power takes place during the annual Old Settlers and Threshers Reunion over Labor Day weekend.

The weekly roster on Sunday nights at the Tunis Speedway was absolutely stacked and thankfully I was able to make the trip up to Waterloo a couple of times before it closed down in 1983. Honestly though, other than being in awe of the names on hand, I don't really remember much about the racing.

So that is twelve tracks that I will never see again in Iowa and it is time to move on to those tracks outside of my home state that we no longer have the opportunity to see.

I went to a couple of the Bama Bash events at the Green Valley Speedway in Alabama and one of them actually kicked off the fourth and final schedule for the NKF Tour Modifieds in 2001.

Race fans in Little Rock will find out real quick just how much they miss the I-30 Speedway that closed down at the end of the 2022 season, a victim of urban sprawl and land prices that were just too good to turn down. In my only visit to the high banked quarter-mile I was on the microphone for a USMS race where a sweet older lady tracked me down afterwards and said, "I sure do like your announcing, but I can't understand your Yankee dialect!"

It looks like the Bronson Speedway in Florida closed down during Covid and has not come back to life yet. So perhaps this will be a track that will come off of this list in the future. I had the pleasure of announcing a Larry Kemp promoted IMCA Modified Winter Series event at the paved quarter-mile back in 1987.

Billy Allen - Barry Johnson photo

The Saint Augustine Speedway was a new state of the art facility when it opened in 1993 and I made it to a couple of Speedweeks events there as it ran as dirt track through 1997 before being paved and then later closed in 2001.

JAX Raceways north of Jacksonville is one of two tracks that I have attended that was described as "Oiled Dirt" and that means you don't put any water on it. The racing wasn't very good, but the hotel bar afterward had several WWF wrestlers enjoying a night off and that was much more entertaining.

As I recall my trip to the Orlando Speedworld came during a business trip to the area, not as part of Speedweeks, and that is why the car count and the fan count were both low. The thing that I remember most from the quarter-mile paved track was that the nice older lady who was selling the 50-50 tickets that night ended up winning the 50-50......and it was for less than fifty bucks.

I was among the many who got sucked in to going to the World of Outlaws Sprint Car show inside of the Sun Coast Dome in Saint Petersburg. Yes, this is the same dome where the Rays play their home games to this day and as I think back, why was there a need to put winged sprint cars inside, in Florida? It was a bad show that they never did again.

Danny Young and Mike Thomas in staging

I actually get a two for one when I consider the track near Lakeland, Florida. It was originally a 1/3-mile pavement track that I saw an event at before it was expanded to a state of the art (at the time) 3/4-mile track built to host ARCA and Hooters Cup events. I saw one of those events here as well before the facility closed in 2008. A search of the net shows that the track has been demolished and a warehouse now takes up the space.

So I might be bending the rules of this list a bit by including the Aledo Raceway in Illinois as I believe that the track still sits on the Mercer County Fairgrounds, and could be brought back to life at some point. Despite it competing with the nearby track in East Moline, I used to love to make a Sunday night run up to Aledo especially for the year or two that I was living in Burlington.

The same could be said for the Belle-Clair Speedway in Belleville, Illinois, as Covid helped stick a fork in this action packed short track that features a pair of rustic looking covered grandstands, one on each side. It is within the heart of a residential area though, so the noise factor may keep it in mothballs for years to come.

I only made it up to Freeport a couple of times before the big track that sat down in a valley closed for good after having to deal with flooding in 2010 and 2011. Back in the 80's and 90's I used to marvel at the names that would race there on Sunday nights and I regret that I never made the three hour trip up during that era.

The Godfrey Speedway was a St. Louis area staple for over fifty years and I found my way down there at least three times before it closed for good in 2006. A cement plant now sits where names like Taylor, Seets and Korte used to thrill race fans on Friday nights.

Steve Jackson
Should the LaSalle Speedway be on this list? As far as I know the place is intact and up for sale, so hopefully someday we will see racing there again.

I went to a Sunday afternoon show in October at the Midstate Raceway and as I recall it was a track more suited for motorcycle racing than automobile racing. The straightaways were long and the turns were tight and it was the first time that ever saw the Late Models competing at the same time with the St. Louis based Allied Auto Racing Association Modifieds. In my memory of the day, there was a delay when a car rolled off of turn two and got caught up in a tree, so after the driver escaped uninjured they decided to complete the show before figuring out how to get the car down out of the tree. The most significant memory for me though was that I finally went over and introduced myself to a gentleman that I had seen so often at different tracks, and I then had a friend for life in Gary Storey.

You can still see the remnants of the old track just west of the interstate in Mount Vernon, Illinois. I took in a few events there over the years and the most memorable on was a Summer Nationals show where the drivers just kept cutting the corners deeper and deeper until the quarter-mile was closer to an eighth-mile. There was nothing to mark the inside of the turns and they had watered the infield just before the feature to keep the dust down. My son Morgan was star struck when our most famous race shirt customer at the time, John Gill signed his shirt and gave him a new hat. A tragedy at the track in 2005 where a car went through the fence coming out of turn four killed two and injured six. It was the beginning of the end for the speedway that closed in 2010.

The big track on the Winnebago County Fairgrounds in Pecatonica I assume is still there, but there has not been any racing since 2004. When Simmons Promotions booked a couple of shows there in 2001, the NKF Tour Modifieds served as a support class leading to my only trip to the facility.

Todd Cooney
The Rockford Speedway will officially be added to this list at the conclusion of the 2023 season due to urban sprawl. I will do my best to make one last trip to the historic paved high-banked quarter-mile this year.

The first indoor race that I ever went to was at the Rosemont Horizon. Midgets racing on coke syrup on a flat concrete floor. Scintillating.

Racing two nights a week the Santa Fe Speedway in suburban Chicago was one of those "must see" tracks for me as I was growing up and checking the results in Hawkeye Racing News. I made the trip over for the National Clay Track Championship once and then later went to a weekly show in 1986 when I was dating a girl from the area. For a great rundown on the historic track, click this link for Midwest Racing Archives.

For a track that was not much more than an hour away from home, I only went to the little quarter-mile outside of Macomb once and that was when Terry Hoenig and I went to a late season event featuring too many Late Models on too small of a track.

Little Springfield was awesome and thinking back I cannot believe that my parents were fine with me making the long drive over there on a Sunday night while in my late teens. Late Models and Sprint Cars on a short track with old wooden grandstands pretty much around the whole facility. Click this link for a bunch of great pictures that will give you a sense of what you miss, or missed out on.

While I went to three nights of racing at the Vermilion County Speedway in Danville, the most memorable one was in 2001 where Jimmy Owens was the winner of the NKF Tour Modified feature.

Heavy Duty Don Killen

I just saw a story recently where the city of Shererville, Indiana, is finally going to finish off the Illiana Speedway. The pavement for both the half-mile and the quarter-mile tracks remained after the rest of the facility was dismantled with a city park going in nearby. Now, eight years later, the tracks will be removed as well. I went to an end of season special there in the late '80's.

I watched the USAC Midgets in a January 1986 show at the RCA Dome in downtown Indianapolis. Again, midgets racing on coke syrup on a flat concrete floor. You would have thought that I had learned my lesson from the Rosemont experience. The Dome was imploded in 2008 to make way for the new Lucas Oil Stadium.

It was like flying fighter jets in a gymnasium at the tiny high-banked Atchison County Raceway where I caught a USMTS show that I think might have drawn just over twenty cars. The fans liked the track, but the drivers hated the tight, fast bowl known as "The Cage".

The Thunder Hill Speedway near Mayetta, Kansas, sort of just rode off into the sunset after the 2019 season. I don't recall ever seeing any announcements or even much discussion about it. I made two memorable trips to this racy facility. The first came on June 2nd of 2001 after Morgan and I attended the inaugural race of the new Kansas Speedway, we hustled on over to Thunder Hill for a Late Model show that featured five-wide action during the feature. Then, in August of that same year, the NKF Tour Modifieds were part of the program with a young Clint Bowyer taking the feature win.

I was at the first ever race held at the Kentucky Lake Motor Speedway and was impressed with the six-wide parade lap that they did before the racing started that night. We made two or three more trips down to the track just east of Paducah for some big shows and I can remember one night when it was so dusty that they were able to run the final ten laps or so of the feature in a steady rain without it getting too slick. The mud was caked to our face when we returned to our hotel room and I am sure that the front desk clerk wondered what the heck was going on with us. The story from my last trip to KLMS can be found here.

In the 1990's we made a point of hitting the original Gopher 50 at the Steele County Fairgrounds in Owatonna each year, but on my last visit there I watched a Modified jump the fence in turns one and two and go across the street that ran just outside of the old speedway. Thankfully nobody was hurt and racing ended soon after that.

Rick Gustin in Victory Lane

Back in the days before "farmin' a race track" became cool, there were two promoters who were meticulous with their track prep throughout the night. One of them was Verne Schumann at the Hawkeye Raceway in Iowa and the other was Glenn Portzen at the Adrian Speedway south of Kansas City. Glenn gave us a fantastic race track when the NKF Tour visited in April of 2001 where Danny Scrogham, who still competes today, was the feature winner. I regret that I never made it back to Adrian before it closed in 2009.

Driving down to the Lake of the Ozarks these days, whenever I go by the OO AA exit to Holts Summit I look to the west and remember several nights of racing near that tall steel tower at the Capital Speedway. As a Winston Racing Series track they would really draw in the big name drivers late in the season when tracks to the north had closed down and it would be "The Flyin' Iowan" Steve Fraise that the stars would have to beat. While the land was sold to make it a residential area, the Lake Ozark Speedway near Eldon was built to take its place, but the Capital Speedway holds a special place in my heart as it was where I took my son Morgan to his first race ever in 1990. At five months old he sat on my lap and point at the cars until the final checkered flag waved. I knew that I had a race fan on my hands!

When it opened in 1993, the Joplin 66 Speedway was the place to be with big car counts and the stadium seats on both sides of the speedway filled with fans. I was there for the second event ever held at the track and it was cool to see this new facility, but the popularity faded and on my last trip there I saw a single-file parade-like feature in a big-time Late Model show that was likely the one that you can watch here. The track closed in 2004.

Even though I went to Northeast Missouri State (now Truman State) for the first semester of my freshman year in 1981, I never did make it out to the Kirksville Raceway that Fall because I would go back home for the weekend and hit races in Iowa. I did however announce a Larry Kemp promoted Enduro at Kirksville so I will add this track to the list with an asterisk.

I count the LA Raceway as one of my tracks since I saw one feature race before the rest of the night was wiped out by a severe thunderstorm. The track struggled during its run from 2004 to 2013 running on Friday's against Sedalia and having the Central Missouri Speedway just a few miles away as well.

So I am going to jump down the list a bit to put these next two tracks together. Each of the three times that I visited the Saint Charles Speedway near St. Louis, the place was packed and the racing was fun. One of those nights, Davey Allison was racing a dirt late model against the local heroes. The track closed due to urban sprawl in 2000 and, in an effort to replace it the Montgomery County Speedway was built. The problem though was that this new track was nearly sixty miles west of the suburbs in New Florence and it never really caught on with either the drivers or the fans from STL. Too bad because this little bowl was wide and fast producing some great racing on each of the two trips that I made to it MCS and there was no better victory lane celebration than the one delivered by "Dancin' Lance" Kobush. The last I looked, the place could maybe still be resurrected, but t would face the same issues that put it under in the first place. Cars and crowd.

Ron Little and Jeff French

The North Fork Speedway near Oronogo, Missouri, raced from 1994 through 2002. I attended an MLRA Late Model show there one night, but don't have much in my memory beyond that.

Okay, so if you are down at the Lake of the Ozarks and take Highway 54 west toward Camdenton there used to be a dirt track up on the hill south of the four lane where the exit to highway Y now takes you to the Big Surf Waterpark. I can't remember the exact name of the track at the time, but in the summer of 1981 I went to a race there where they had eight Street Stocks and two Late Models in the pits with me, two of my friends and about twenty other people there in the stands to watch them. We were all thrilled when Tom Utley arrived late to boost the Late Model car count by 50%.

We are all now faced with the closing of the I-80 Speedway and I will refer you to a Back Stretch from January of 2022 for more.

When I was in fourth grade we moved to Lincoln, Nebraska, for two years before returning to Mt. Pleasant and when I was able to convince my father that we needed to go racing we either went to Eagle, or to the Midwest Speedway in Lincoln. Since the city was growing around it I remember the tall brown painted walls that surrounded the property and I also remember becoming a fan of drivers like Stu Vavra, Rex Nun and Lonnie Jensen. My time at Midwest would have been during the 1973 and 1974 seasons and the track closed in 1987.

I only went to two events at the State Fair Park Speedway in Lincoln and what a treat it was to watch dirt racing from the big enclosed grandstand that was originally built for horse racing. The track closed in 2009 and an aerial photograph from 2016 shows that the majestic grandstand is gone and is now just a parking lot.

Was there a better weekly show in the 1990's than what you would find at the Sunset Speedway in Omaha? The car counts were phenomenal in the Late Models, Sportsman and Bronco divisions and one of the rules that I felt helped that situation was the fact that if you finished at or near the top of the final point standings in one of the support classes, you had to move up to another class the following season. In 1986 when I was taking summer classes for my MBA at the University of Iowa, I was announcing three nights a week at southeast Iowa tracks, but with my Sundays open I would often make the drive over to Sunset. The track closed for good in 2000 and here is another great entry from the Midwest Racing Archives for you to enjoy. 

I love Dale Junior's show Lost Speedways and I watched with interest the episode on the Metrolina Speedway in Charlotte. It is amazing how much the place is still intact today after closing in 1997. Instead of the racing what I remember most is that my wife wanted to stop and see the Biltmore, but I told her that I didn't want to be late for the races and kept pressing on. A error in judgement that I have been reminded of on a sporadic basis ever since until I finally took her there in October of 2021.

The Atomic Speedway in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was famous for its big shows and great racing until it closed in 2006 to make way for a truck terminal along I-40. The reason that we made my one trip to Atomic is what stands out in my memory. On March 7, 1997, our house caught fire sustaining significant damage. We were displaced for seven months for the rebuild and while some of the contents were salvageable after cleaning, much was lost. Thank goodness for insurance! My kids were 7, 10 and 12 at the time and with Spring coming we had not replaced any of their winter weather apparel since they would out grow it before next winter anyway. So we get to the second weekend in April and the forecast is calling for 8 to 12 inches of snow and I decide that we just need to load up the van and get the heck out of here and our Friday night destination wound up being the Atomic Speedway after leaving town early that morning in a developing snow storm. We landed at the Highland Speedway on Saturday night and then at the Kansas City Royals game on Sunday afternoon before returning home and sending the kids back to school on Monday. Now THAT was a road trip!


Coming to green at the Fairgrounds - Barry Johnson photo

I checked off another track from my wish list while I was dating that girl from Chicago in 1985 when we made the trip up to the Hales Corners Speedway in the south suburbs of Milwaukee. A big field of Late Models and Sportsman were on hand with both divisions running time trials prior to racing, something that was not the norm at other tracks during that time. At least for the support class. The track closed in 2003 and a Menard's store now sits on the property.

Finally, the Lake Geneva Raceway is the final one on this list as we made a family vacation to a nice resort in the area back in the mid 90's and while Christine and the older two kids went horseback riding, Morgan and I checked out the pavement racing at the one-third mile facility. The track closed in 2006 and a nursing home was built on the site.


Wow, so that took longer than I thought it would so if you are still reading, thank you so much for hanging in there until the end. Hard to believe that 56 of my tracks have said goodbye to all of the fans who used to enjoy them, and while I may have had a negative review on a few of them, believe me I would not wanted to have missed the chance to see each and every one of them.

A new season starts again soon. Make sure that you get out and build some more memories of your own! 


 




Tracks that I remember attending at least one race at:

Iowa

300 Raceway Farley

34 Raceway Burlington

Adams County Speedway Corning

Butler County Speedway Allison

Benton County Speedway Vinton

Blackbird Bend Speedway Onawa

Bloomfield Speedway Bloomfield

Boone Speedway Boone

Buena Vista Raceway Alta

Audubon Speedway Audubon

CJ Raceway Columbus Junction

Cedar County Raceway Tipton

Clarke County Speedway Osceola

Clay County Fair Speedway Spencer

Crawford County Speedway Denison

Cresco Speedway Cresco

Davenport Speedway Davenport

Dubuque Fairgrounds Speedway Dubuque

Echo Valley Speedway West Union

Eldon Raceway Eldon

Fayette County Speedway West Union

Greenbelt Speedway Eldora

Greene County Speedway Jefferson

Hamilton County Speedway Webster City

Hancock County Speedway Britt

Hawkeye Downs Speedway Cedar Rapids

Hawkeye Raceway Blue Grass

Independence Motor Speedway Independence

Warren County Speedway Indianola

Iowa Speedway Newton

Iowa State Fair Speedway Des Moines

Knoxville Raceway Knoxville

Kossuth County Speedway Algona

Lee County Speedway Donnellson

Maquoketa Speedway Maquoketa

Marshalltown Speedway Marshalltown

Mason City Motor Speedway Mason City

Mount Peasant Fairgrounds Mount Pleasant

Nordic Speedway Decorah

Rapid Speedway Rock Rapids

Shelby Count Speedway Harlan

Southern Iowa Speedway Oskaloosa

Sports Park Raceway Fort Dodge

Stuart Speedway Stuart

Tunis Speedway Waterloo

Wapello Speedway Wapello

West Liberty Raceway West Liberty

What Cheer Raceway What Cheer

Alabama

East Alabama Motor Speedway Phenix City

Green Valley Speedway Gadsden

North Alabama Speedway Tuscumbia

Talladega Short Track Talladega

Talladega Superspeedway Talladega

Arizona

Tucson Raceway Park Tucson

Arkansas

Crawford County Speedway Van Buren

I-30 Speedway Little Rock

Poinsett County Speedway Harrisburg

California

Perris Auto Speedway Perris

Florida

Auburndale Motor Speedway Winter Haven

Bronson Motor Speedway Bronson

Ocala Speedway Ocala

Daytona International Speedway Daytona

East Bay Raceway Park Gibsonton

Five Flags Speedway Pensacola

Saint Augustine Speedway Saint Augustine

JAX Raceways Jacksonville

New Smyrna Speedway New Smyrna

Orlando Speedworld Orlando

Putnam County Speedway Palatka

Suncoast Dome Saint Petersburg

North Florida Speedway Lake City

USA International Speedway Lakeland

Volusia Speedway Park De Leon Springs

Georgia

Atlanta Motor Speedway Hampton

Dixie Speedway Woodstock

Golden Isles Speedway Waynesville

Illinois

Aledo Raceway Aledo

Belle-Clair Speedway Belleville

Blackhawk Farms Rockton

East Moline Speedway East Moline

Fairbury Speedway Fairbury

Farmer City Raceway Farmer City

Freeport Raceway Park Freeport

Godfrey Speedway Alton 

Grundy County Speedway Morris

Highland Speedway Highland

Illinois State Fairgrounds Springfield

Jacksonville Speedway Jacksonville

Kankakee County Speedway Kankakee

Knox County Speedway Knoxville

La Salle Speedway La Salle

Lincoln Speedway Lincoln

Macon Speedway Macon

Midstate Raceway White City

Mount Vernon Raceway Mount Vernon

Pecatonica Motor Speedway Pecatonica

Peoria Speedway Peoria

Rockford Speedway Loves Park

Rosemont Horizon Chicago

Santa Fe Speedway Hinsdale

Spoon River Speedway Canton

Spring Creek Speedway Macomb

Springfield Speedway Springfield

Sycamore Speedway Sycamore

Tri-City Speedway Granite City

Vermilion County Speedway Danville

Adams County Speedway Quincy

Indiana

Anderson Speedway Anderson

Bloomington Speedway Bloomington

Brownstown Speedway Brownstown

Gas City I-69 Speedway Gas City

Illiana Motor Speedway Schererville

Indianapolis Motor Speedway Indianapolis

Indianapolis Speedrome Indianapolis

Lawrenceburg Speedway Lawrenceburg

Lucas Oil Raceway Clermont

Montpelier Motor Speedway Montpelier

Mount Lawn Speedway New Castle 

RCA Dome Indianapolis

Salem Speedway Salem

Terre Haute Action Track Terre Haute

Tri-State Speedway Haubstadt

Twin Cities Raceway Park North Vernon

Kansas

81 Speedway Park City

Atchison County Raceway Atchison

Humboldt Speedway Humboldt

Kansas Speedway Kansas City

Lakeside Speedway Kansas City

Salina Speedway Salina

Thunder Hill Speedway Mayetta


Kentucky

Florence Speedway     Walton

Kentucky Lake Speedway  Calvert City

Lake Cumberland Speedway   Somerset

Michigan

Galesburg Speedway Galesburg

I-96 Speedway Lake Odessa

Thunderbird Raceway Muskegon

Minnesota

Deer Creek Speedway Spring Valley

Fairmont Raceway Fairmont

Proctor Speedway Proctor

KRA Speedway Willmar

Murray County Speedway Slayton

Steele County Fairgrounds Owatonna

Worthington Speedway Worthington

Mississippi

Columbus Speedway Columbus

Jackson Motor Speedway Byram

Missouri

Moberly Motorsports Park Moberly

Adrian Speedway Adrian

Benton Speedway Benton

Bethany Fairgrounds Speedway Bethany

Bolivar Speedway Bolivar

Callaway Raceway Fulton

Capital Speedway Holts Summit

Double X Speedway California

Electric City Speedway Butler

I-55 Raceway Pevely

I-35 Speedway Winston

I-70 Motorsports Park Odessa

Joplin 66 Speedway Joplin

Kirksville Speedway      Kirksville

LA Raceway Lamonte

Lake Ozark Speedway Eldon

Lebanon I-44 Speedway Lebanon

Legit Speedway Park West Plains

Lucas Oil Speedway Wheatland

Midway Raceway Lebanon

State Fair Speedway Sedalia

Monett Motor Speedway Monett

Montgomery County Speedway New Florence

Nevada Speedway Nevada

North Fork Speedway Oronogo

Ozarks Speedway Camdenton

Poplar Bluff Speedway Poplar Bluff

Saint Charles Speedway Saint Charles

Scotland County Speedway Memphis

Springfield Raceway Springfield

St. Francois County Raceway Farmington

The Dome at America's Center St. Louis

US 36 Raceway Osborn

Valley Speedway Grain Valley

Nebraska

Beatrice Speedway Beatrice

Eagle Raceway Eagle

I-80 Speedway Greenwood

Midwest Speedway Lincoln

State Fair Park Speedway Lincoln

Sunset Speedway Omaha

North Carolina

The Dirt Track at Charlotte Charlotte

Concord Speedway Concord

Metrolina Speedway Charlotte

Ohio

Attica Raceway Park Attica

Eldora Speedway Rossburg

Wayne County Speedway Orrville

Oklahoma

Creek County Speedway Sapulpa

Thunderbird Speedway Muskogee

Port City Raceway Tulsa

Tulsa Expo Raceway Tulsa

Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh Motor Speedway Pittsburgh

South Carolina

Cherokee Speedway Gaffney

Tennessee

Atomic Motor Speedway Oak Ridge

Bristol Motor Speedway Bristol

Clarksville Speedway Clarksville

Duck River Raceway Park Shelbyville

Volunteer Speedway Bulls Gap

Texas

85 Speedway Ennis

Kennedale Speedway Park Kennedale

Texas Motor Speedway Fort Worth

Virginia

Richmond International Raceway Richmond

Wisconsin

ABC Raceway Ashland

Beaver Dam Raceway Beaver Dam

Cedar Lake Speedway New Richmond

Dells Raceway Park Wisconsin Dells

Hales Corners Speedway Milwaukee

LaCrosse Fairgrounds Speedway West Salem

Lake Geneva Raceway Lake Geneva

Madison International Speedway Oregon

Marshfield Motor Speedway Marshfield

Milwaukee Mile West Allis

Mississippi Thunder Speedway Fountain City

Red Cedar Speedway Menomonie

Rice Lake Speedway Rice Lake

Slinger Super Speedway Slinger