This place is one of the best tracks that I have been to.
The staff is great, you can go into the pits free up to 6 pm
Food is good and reasonable, and the racing is great, and no dust.
If you look at the picture of the track you would think 1 & 2 turns would be the fastest since it so sweeping but turn 3 and 4 is just kick butt fast. They go into that turn just like they do on 3 & 4 at Eldora.
If I did not know any better I thought I was at a Indiana track the last few days. The reason for this is that there is alot of my friends that I see everyweek at the Indiana tracks including the PA fans.
Just missing Aero and Monica & Bob. Tony Funk did his best to entertained us Thursday night?? I hope they do this again next year.

Mark Fritz

Wow some poor planning on my part caused me to miss this. The USAC guys are the only form of "racing" left. There is no other events that I go to that provide racing. The guys run close together you see some passing most of the time (track conditions) and there is more than one driver who can win a race on any given night. I live in the south so this was a huge missed opportunity for me. I have to drive back to IN during the summers to get to see these guys. This makes me exited about doing that seeing that their is new excitement for the 2011 season.

Thanks for the positive post. Good to see Bryan in victory lane. Have watched him many a time at Tri-State. Another good thing about the sport the drivers are some great guys. It is a great place to take someone to introduce them to racing because you seldom see anything stupid go on at a USAC event among fans or drivers. Keep up the good work and looking forward to seeing all the hot shoes a few times this summer.

I just wanted to ad a comment or two to my original post after Friday and Saturday Nights racing ...

Ditto and double ditto !

Thanks again to everyone at USAC and Ocala, Great GREAT event!

Tim Clauson

they announced last night that they will be back next year to do it again

The real question is how did the fans at Ocala enjoy the racing? It looked the like the attendance was pretty good. I know back in the 90's when I was going to the track on a weekly basis the average crowd was about half of what was there the past 3 days. So to me it looked like a decent turnout, however I dont know what type of figures they have been getting as of late.

We attended all three nights and it was a great show ..very well ran and outta there by 10:00 ..not the clay of Indiana but good race track. Very nice and clean place to be . Thanks to USAC for bringing REAL racing to Florida

And to think, a friend of mine told me USAC really screwed up by not going back to where they were last year.
Guess he was wrong.

Ditto to everything Tim said. Lots of visitors among the locals. During my 3 nights I had two from Miami next to me and they loved it, said it was the best racing they had seen; couple from PA who think nonwing is the way to go; Dick Monahan in front and you know how he feels. I think they will have larger crowds this year with the Northerners who weren't there this year plus more locals. Does anyone know what kind of dirt that was? TimBookmiller's comment about it not being the clay of Indiana was right on, but I'm not sure what it was. Sort of light tan that looks dried out when it is very wet, not sandy like you get in Florida but kind of sticky. Florida swamp clay?

If you didn't go this year, be sure to put it on your calendar for next year. Track, people, concessions, clean restrooms, everything first class.

thanks to the promoter for allowing the race to be broadcast live!
however, one tiny piece of constructive criticism goes out to the the
guy who was filming. too many tight close ups early on in race and
halfway through the feature try to show the top 8 or 10 in order through the pack so we can see where they are. show what your announcer is screaming about. we couldnt here the engine sound at all.
i'm sure most of this has been adressed and i'll be looking forward to
more of these when i cant be there in person. thanks again for doing
this! who woulda thought i could sit at the dining room table eating
dinner while watching a live usac sprint car race from florida that isnt even on tv!

I arrived at Ocala Wed for practice & seen three days of great racing and was happy to hear USAC will be back in 2012. The locals setting near me commented the Non-wing were more exciting to watch than the wings. (we all know) I will return next year if the gas prices are below $4 a gallon.
Next year keep just two classes Sprints & modified