Where Is Your Favorite Race Track????
 

While we are all waiting for our local Indiana and surrounding area Race Tracks to open, just curious as to where you enjoy going to watch a good race..:checkered:

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Bloomington and haubstat

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I believe under a parking lot. Little Springfield

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My favorite track is the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, but Tri-State Speedway (haubstadt) is close behind.:checkered:

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Wow, When I stop and think my choices are very close on my list for various different reasons...............

Oswego speedway
Williams Grove
Indy
Salem
Eldora
Anderson........I could go on!:thumb

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You are so right streihawk8. Best track there ever was.

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Oswego is a great track. Salem would be great if they repaved. Indy motor speedway is a personal favorite. The old reading fairgrounds back in the day was a happining joint. Lots of memories.

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Thank You for all your posts! As for myself I would have to say my most favorite race track is definately ELDORA!!! then I also enjoy going to Kokomo and Gas City I enjoy the good racing and hanging with with my daughter and all my friends!!! Lots of awesome memories at these tracks!!! Hope to see all of you there this year!:applaud:

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Living just 45 minutes from Lawrenceburg, this is the track I usually attend. One track I enjoy watching a race at, not because it has a top notch facility, or a pool of hot shoes every week, but when they have sprint cars there, is Twin Cities. I think the mini sprints put on a good show there also.
I've seen some excellent races at Kokomo, but I have only seen sprint week shows there so not a fair comparrison. Come to think of it, the only track I've ever walked out of with the thought I will never return has been Kentucky Speedway.

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Sprints or midgets at Winchester Speedway is my favorite.:thumb

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Posted via Mobile Device The "burg" is my favorite, always has always will.

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Gas City & Bloomington. GC is most fan friendly and always works to put on a great show.

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Tough choices. The past ,Reading, best atmosphere of any track I went to. Eldora was great when it used to be tacky. You young guys have no idea how good it used to be.

Present dirt, Haubstadt and Bloomington. Don't need to say more.

Present pavement, Winchester, I love this place , I hate this place.
Stafford Springs, that place is just flat out racy.

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Any place non-pavement less then a half mile:applaud:

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Bloomington & Haubstadt

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Haubstadt hands down. Bloomington is just a tad too narrow for myself. Still never seen a feature at Gas and Kokomo. Been to N. Vernon just once but it was a great race.

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Different tracks for different series.

Sprints-Kokomo, with Haubstadt a close second. It is difficult for me to make Tri State so that is why I love Kokomo. Great racing, close to home.

Midgets-Belle Clair Speedway. I know of no better place than to watch the midgets perform. Anderson is a distant second but still a good midget track in my opinion.

Supermodifieds-Toledo Speedway. These machines are awsome and they put on a great show at the high banks of Toledo. Sandusky is second just because they have the Hy Miler.

Silver Crown-DuQuoin Fairgrounds. Growing up in southern Illinois, this place was (and still is) special. I still boggles my mind that they ever put lights here and not Springfield. There is a reason it is called the "Magic Mile". Springfield scores a second here.

Late Models-Kentucky Lake Speedway. A wide 3/8 mile "D" shaped track that allows plenty of room for the big mud cabs to run. Eldora is a distant second just because of track prep problems. If they can get them corrected, right up there with Kentucky Lake.

Motorcycles-Greenville (OH) Fairgrounds. The AMA Flat Track series puts on a great show here. Up close and personal seats with the motorcycles flying by just a few feet away. Indianapolis Fairgrounds is second, as they also put on a great show on the mile.

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Terre Haute
Gas City
Macon
Kokomo
The Ditch
Angell Park
Almost forgot.....Little Belleville

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the one im at on race day....:thumb

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Randy, what is the ditch?

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Oswego
Berlin
Winchester
Anderson
IRP/ORP
PIR
Manzy - for my dirt racing fix

Patti

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Ditch= West Memphis

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ASCOT NEW BREMAN HAMBURG ST PAUL FLA FAIRGROUNDS NASHVILLE HALFMILE MARTIN MICH. DAYTON ELDORA WITHOUT DUST AND DRY SLICK! TERRE HAUTE WHEN IT WAS RUFF! DUQION SPRINGFIELD INDY MILES :checkered:

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If I could only see 10 races the rest of my life this would be the tracks.

1. circa 2000 Lawrenceburg
2. circa 1995 Lawrenceburg
3. circa 1990 Lawrenceburg
4.circa 1969 Lawrenceburg
5. Ascot anytime
6. circa 1970 Glen Este Speedway
7. Eldora anytime
8 circa 1982 Florence Speedway
9. Bloomington
10. Modern day lawrenceburg

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Little Springfield was simply awesome. Before they stretched out 3&4 it was maybe a quarter on the outside. I can still get a chill passing the Clear Lake exit on I55. Great shows too - USAC weekends and Super weekend. The greatest race I have ever seen was the World of Outlaws there without wings. SS

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Bloomington & Eagle (when Cormack owned it)

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I like extreme high banks, so my favorite dirt is Tazewell, TN and favorite paved track is Winchester.

Otherwise, Eldora (just because it's Eldora and because of the World100-220 of the best super late models shooting for a 24 car race); Haubstadt never fails to put on a great show; Sandusky for the supers (and even the 305w's put on good races); Florence, Lincoln(PA) and Skyline are also favorites.

Least favorite track that I go to: Dirt Track at Lowes. Seen too many cars and drivers torn up there; plus, it's too corporate and gimmicky. If this is the "next level" of dirt tracks, I don't like it.

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Bloomington!!!:applaud:

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Streihawk8- "Little Springfield" was something special! Joe Shaheen the
promoter 1948-1981 was recently inducted into the " Midget Hall Of Fame"
during the Chili Bowl. I was there. I reget I never got to see a race there.
Best Regards,
John

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I love all the tracks I go to on a regular basis. But they all have different personalities, so I love them for different reasons.

Haubstadt- Tommy's relentless pursuit perfection (go ahead and sue me, Lexus) produces dirt racing's perfect racing surface. So many times, after another heart stopping set of heat races have just finished and support class heats are underway, I'll go out to the parking lot to visit with my friends and everybody is just looking at each other like " Uh oh, here we go again." Like Justin Hatten said a couple of years ago, I can't count the number of times I've left Tri-State Speedway saying "My God, I think that was the best sprint race I've ever seen."

Bloomington- No where do I feel more at home at a track, than I do when I open up my lawn chair on the hill side of Bloomington Speedway. It's like watching the races from the couch, in my living room. They truly treat you like a guest and you're guided through your racing experience by the best team of announcers anywhere. Plus, nothing is more pleasing to the eyes than brightly colored racing machines with the beautiful red clay as a backdrop.

Paragon- This is a little piece of earth that has been untouched by time. Every time that I sit down on the same wooden bleachers as I did when I was 5 and look out at the same picture postcard backdrop that I did back then, I become that age again. Seeing epic battles between legends like Dick Gaines, Chuck Amati, Bobby Kinser, Larry Miller, Butch Wilkerson, etc., etc., etc. at such an inpressionable age is one of the things that set the hook in me, as deep as it did.

Terre Haute- Back in the day when the Indy 500 was BY FAR the biggest race anywhere, there was nowhere that young fans could interact with and see up close a good portion of that races' drivers, than they could through the infield pit fence of the Action Track. I grew up watching these same legends doing battle through the backstretch fence and turning circles as then flew around thie great track. With some of the moves that King and Dorsett made right off the bat, it looks like they both know exactly what I'm talking about and the track is now in good hands.

Lawrenceburg- It's over 180 miles one-way to this place and I don't ever remember leaving there thinking that it wasn't worth the trip. And the new Lawrenceburg is the 8th Wonder of the Racing World. Big. Fast. Well lit. Great to look at. From the ticket booth on back, it's the nicest facility there is. And it's the place that has my favorite set of track regulars. And I saw at least three races last year that left me thinking that once these guys get a full handle on their track prep, this place could be like a bigger Haustadt on steroids!!

Eldora- There's nothing better than starting my racing season standing in between turns 1 and 2, plugged into my iPod, watching that first set of hot laps at the Big E. I like the experience of sprint cars screaming across my field of vision so fast that it throws my equilibrium off. It's the biggest, fastest, most dangerous extreme dirt track ever! I've always thought of Eldora races more as spectacles, than I have as traditional racing events. It's more about the speed, than it is the quality of the racing. Last year's 4-Crown shot a big hole in that way of thinking.:O:

Jerry

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Little Belleville, ASCOT, Old Ventura (the configuration when it was on TV), Calistoga, Eagle, PAS

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Terre Haute, B'Ton, Keeneland, Knoxville, Eldora, Devil's Bowl, Santa Anita.

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Dirt - DuQuoin, Springfield, Indy
Tar - Anderson, IMS
Road Course - Le Circuit Mont-Tremblant

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Of course I love the Springfield Mile, and did love little Springfield.
I love the half miles, Terre Haute and Perris are great.

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Kokomo! Kokomo! Kokomo! Terre haute when its preped right, and anywhere else they they run non wing sprints.

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Haubstadt the class track nothing else needs to be said

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Jerry very nice piece on Paragon. I just discovered this place 4 years ago and its one of my favorites. It reminds me so much of Silver Spring back east. Not that the tracks are similar but the atmosphere and the grass roots racing they put on. I'm coming back in June and can't wait.

Other Favorites:
Williams Grove
Penn National
Jennerstown

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Jerry, couldn’t have said it better myself.:applaud:

[Quote]Come to think of it, the only track I've ever walked out of with the thought I will never return has been Kentucky Speedway. [Quote]

Z-man, I agree with ya. The facility is great but the management is the worst I ever seen. You are not allowed to bring any food or drink into the track but ONE unopened bottle of water (that’s right ONE). To get a burger+ coke will cots you $9.00 (no joke). It takes me longer to get out of the Ky speedway IndyCar race than it does to get out of the Indianapolis 500. I keep telling myself that I won’t go back but the IndyCar races there are great, so I guess I will be back this year.

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Haubstadt Its fast and stays tacky As the old one armed bandit Chuck Amiti used to say fast man fast

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KOKOMO :respect: :thumb