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Originally Posted by Andrew S. Quinn Ive been lucky over the years with 167 I think without looking, different speedways in 3 countries. Been to the Knoxville Nationals many times,Pennsylvania speedweek,Chili Bowl,Williams Grove National Open, The Little 500, the 3 hour figure 8 race,The Oxford 250,the Star Supermodified Classic,and not to mention POWRi Speedeek,Indiana midget week,and Indiana Sprint Week. Been to Australia twice,and that tied in with going to the Knoxville Nationals. Back then I had to decide on either a street legal sprint car,or going to Australia. Guess which won? I still havent been to Fairbury,I was on my way a couple years ago and had a tire blowout,which put me behind. Always wanted to go to Ventura,but its a long way to go for just one race,and I'd rather go for a weekly show lets say, rather than Turkey Night. I cant imagine being in L.A. on Black Friday.... Western Springs in New Zealand would be another for the midgets around Christmas time. Havent made it to the Hy Miler at Sandusky either,and havent been to Lima,and wouldnt mind going back to Moler so I can count it. It rained after the 2nd heat for BOSS sprints when I went there.Maybe California's speedweek,although I havent thought to much about it. The fire inside to go racing has died way down in the last 5 years. Still have some race places I wanna get to. Bentley Warrens Saloon in Arundel, Maine is one of them. I just went back to Maine in January and found it on Route 1 in Arundel,but it was closed till about April. The museum at New Hampshire Intl Speedway,or what ever its called now in Loudon,New Hampshire. The museum in Darlington,and Ray Evernhams museum would be good to go check out as well. A museum on everyones hitlist should be the Museum of American Speed at Speedway Motors in Lincoln Nebraska. Its the best one I have been to,and I've been to a bunch of museums as well as speedways. A buddy of mine in Australia told me "Mad Harry" Delamont ended up with much of Brian Linigen's personal museum. I went to the Linigens museum in the Sydney Suburbs and it was just as nice as some of the museums I have been to here.

Andrew
Hopefully you'll make it to Fairbury some day. I am more then happy to make the 2 hour drive about 7-8 times a year from my Northwest Indiana home. I hold that track and staff to highest regard. I've see first hand what that track and staff are capable of and how well run of a facility it is. We've race are UMP Modifieds there a good bit the last 5 or so years with the few guys I help. Easily one of the raciest tracks I've seen and it really doesn't matter what division it is they all put on a hell of a show there. Even their weekly shows are better then most tracks biggest shows. Last year track owner Matt Curl with the help of some awesome sponsors raised the Late Model and Modified weekly payouts with the late Models paying $2,500 to win & $300 to start and Modifieds paying $1,500 to win & $175 to start each week and that will continue this year. The World Of Outlaw Late Model Series sanctioned Prairie Dirt Classic in late July has become one the best late model shows in the country. This year for the first time in the races history it's scheduled to pay $50,000 to win & $2,000 to start plus the last race of the Summit Modified Nationals that run along side the UMP Summer Nationals. The race weekend it self has the feel of being at Eldora for the world 100 weekend with the atmosphere and the excitement of knowing you will with out a shadow of a doubt see one hell of a show between the 2 divisions. I've seen a few Sprint and Midget races there the past few years and they have been very good as well. If you like racing of all sorts FALS is one of those tracks. I have begged them for a few years to try and get a USAC Sprint car race there. They had a POWRi WAR race there and I missed it. That was the day Tri-State got rained out and some of the guys there hauled ass to Fairbury to race. Heard it was a great race on the track.

I am beyond grateful to have two tracks like Fairbury and Kokomo only 2 hours from my house.

As far as my top 10 tracks I'd like to see

01. Boone - IMCA Super Nationals. Close to 700 / 800 cars competing through out the week.

02. Tri-State - Just haven't had the chance to make a race there.

03. Knoxville - Would love to see the Nationals there.

04. Port Royal - Heard a lot of good things about that track over the last few years.

05. Whynot (MS) - Fall Classic in October seems to be one of the best shows in the Southern U.S. each year

06. Lucas Oil Speedway - Show-Me 100 for Late Models, Sprints / Midgets, or a USMTS Modified show.

07. Bowman Gray - Would love to see a NASCAR Modified show there. Love watching the "Ground Pounders".

08. Oswego - DIRTcar NAPA Super Dirt Week or the Oswego Classic 200 for Super Modifieds.

09. Chili Bowl - You have a huge car count and a quality field of drivers which usually equals good racing.

10. Anderson - Little 500. Seems to be one of those races to catch at least once in your life time to witness in person.

Number 11 would be the next race I get to see in person. Watching a show on the internet is cool but just doesn't do justice to actually being there and seeing a race it live in person with all of your friend with a cold beer in hand on a warm summer night.