So how was your 2015 Racing Season? How many shows did you get to?

I had one of my better season, getting to 23 races in 4 states from a 1/5 mile dirt track to a 2 mile road course. I got to add a new track (Kutztown) to my track list and first time seeing and photographing Karts road race.

The highlight of my year was getting back to Indiana after not being able to travel for a couple year. Getting to see old friends again and make new one's is alway a big plus for my trip west. This was also the first time I've ever seen all three of USAC series in the same year.

The only down side was the BS pulled at Lincoln Speedway when the USAC Sprint race was canceled for rain that never happened.

1) 3-29-15 Lincoln Speedway 410 Sprints and Super Sportsman
2) 4-11-15 Lincoln Speedway 410 Sprints, Super Sportsman and 358 LM's
3) 4-18-15 Hagerstown Speedway Super LM, LMS, Pure Stocks, HS and Classic Cars
4) 5-02-15 Summit Point SCCA Majors & WKA Karts
5) 5-02-15 Williams Grove Super Sportsman, 358 LM's and Street Stocks
6) 5-16-15 Latimore Valley Jalopy Showdown Vintage Cars
7) 5-23-15 Lincoln Speedway 410 Sprints, 358 Sprints and Legend Cars
8) 6-07-15 Susquehanna Speedway USAC Sprints.
9) 6-20-15 Summit Point SCCA MARRS
10) 7-2-15 Terre Haute Silver Crown and UMP Mods
11) 7-3-15 Lincoln Park Speedway MSCS Sprints, Mods, Super Stocks and Bombers
12) 7-4-15 Lincoln Park Speedway USAC Sprints, Mods, Super Stocks and Bombers
13) 7-5-15 Kokomo Speedway Sprints, UMP Mods, Super Stocks/SS and Hornet
14) 7-25-15 Hagerstown Speedway Super LM, LMS, Pure Stocks, HS and Classic Cars
15) 8-12-15 Kutztown (Action Track USA) 600cc Wingless Micros, Speedsters and Slingshots *New Track!
16) 8-18-15 Path Valley Speedway USAC Midgets and Wingless Super Sportsman
17) 8-19-15 Lincoln Speedway USAC Midgets and Central PA Legends
18) 8-22-15 Latimore Valley Vintage race cars for WGOT Convention
19) 8-22-15 Williams Grove Super Sportsman, LM and Street Stocks
20) 9-05-15 Lincoln Speedway 410 and 358 Sprints plus Super Sportsman
21) 9-11-15 Williams Grove Topless 30 LM, Super Sportsman and Street Stocks
22) 10-11-15 Path Valley Speedway Wingless Super Sportsman, 305 Sprints and 4 divisions of Micro Sprints
23) 10-31-15 Susquehanna Speedway Candy Bowl Sportsman Mods, Micro Sprints and Street Stocks 9 divisions in total.

TRACK - LOCATION-DATE-EVENT WINNER-MY INVOLVEMENT

St Croix Valley Raceway Centuria, WI 5/8/15 UMSS TSCS Chase Viebrock Crew Chief - #12 Parsons - 11th DNF
Indiana State Fairgrounds Indianapolis, IN 5/21/15 USAC Silver Crown Kody Swanson Spectator
Bloomington Speedway Bloomington, IN 5/22/15 KISS/MSCS Sprints Brady Short Spectator
Indianapolis Raceway Park Clairmont, IN 5/23/15 USAC Silver Crown Tanner Swanson Spectator
Lincoln Park Speedway Putnamville, IN 5/23/15 MSCS Sprints Kevin Thomas, Jr Spectator
Indianapolis Motor Speedway Indianapolis, IN 5/24/15 Indy 500 Juan Pablo Montoya Spectator
St Croix Valley Raceway Centuria, WI 6/5/15 UMSS TSCS Johnny Parsons, III Crew Chief - #12 Parsons -1st
St Croix Valley Raceway Centuria, WI 6/12/15 UMSS TSCS Jimmy Kouba Crew Chief - #12 Parsons - 4th
Hibbing Speedway Hibbing, MN 6/13/15 UMSS TSCS Chase Viebrock Crew Chief - #12 Parsons - 9th
Proctor Speedway Proctor, MN 6/14/15 UMSS TSCS Chase Viebrock Crew Chief - #12 Parsons - 14th DNF
St Croix Valley Raceway Centuria, WI 6/19/15 UMSS TSCS Rob Caho, Jr Crew Chief - #12 Parsons - 4th
St Croix Valley Raceway Centuria, WI 6/26/15 UMSS TSCS Jimmy Kouba Crew Chief - #12 Parsons - 5th
St Croix Valley Raceway Centuria, WI 7/3/15 UMSS TSCS Rob Caho, Jr Crew Chief - #12 Parsons - 9th
Cedar Lake Speedway Somerset, WI 7/10/15 UMSS TSCS James Giossi Crew Chief - #12 Parsons - 2nd
Cedar Lake Speedway Somerset, WI 7/11/15 UMSS TSCS Jimmy Kouba Crew Chief - #12 Parsons - 8th
St Croix Valley Raceway Centuria, WI 7/17/15 UMSS TSCS Rob Caho, Jr Crew Chief - #12 Parsons - 2nd
St Croix Valley Raceway Centuria, WI 7/24/15 UMSS TSCS Johnny Parsons, III Crew Chief - #12 Parsons - 1st
St Croix Valley Raceway Centuria, WI 7/31/15 UMSS TSCS Rob Caho, Jr Crew Chief - #12 Parsons - 3rd
Superior Speedway Superior, WI 8/8/15 USAC Sprints Dave Darland Spectator
St Croix Valley Raceway Centuria, WI 8/14/15 UMSS TSCS Johnny Parsons, III Crew Chief - #12 Parsons - 1st
Princeton Speedway Princeton, MN 8/21/15 UMSS TSCS Chase Viebrock Crew Chief - #12 Parsons - 10th
St Croix Valley Raceway Centuria, WI 8/28/15 UMSS TSCS Johnny Parsons, III Crew Chief - #12 Parsons - 1st
St Croix Valley Raceway Centuria, WI 9/4/15 UMSS TSCS Rick Kobs Crew Chief - #12 Parsons - 3rd
St Croix Valley Raceway Centuria, WI 9/11/15 UMSS TSCS Rob Caho, Jr Crew Chief - #12 Parsons - 3rd
Cedar Lake Speedway Somerset, WI 9/12/15 UMSS TSCS Jake Kouba Crew Chief - #12 Parsons - 20th DNF Flipped
New York State Fair Grounds Syracuse, NY 10/10/15 USAC Silver Crown Kody Swanson Spectator New Track
Rolling Wheels Raceway Auburn, NY 10/10/15 WoO Sprints Donny Schatz Spectator New Track

Two new tracks this year, both on the same day, at both of which, I got to congratulate drivers I know for both Winning the event and also their respective National Championships.

Fairly standard year for me hitting the area tracks, mostly Jacksonville, Lincoln, and Granite City. I did make it to the Chili Bowl and two new tracks, Pevely and Hartford, MI. The Silver Crown race at Terre Haute was a hi light as was the Outlaw/Powri show at Pevely. I saw all 3 USAC divisions along with the Outlaws, WAR East, Powri, and MOWA. I hate it for Kevin Swindell and anyone else who got hurt, hoping for full recoveries. Looking forward to 2016 already. Have a good, safe winter everyone.

Before 2015 I hadn't been in a car for over ten years. With all the rain I think we ran about thirteen nights.

Three states. Six tracks, five new. The one track I had ran before was once twenty years ago in a Modified.

Couple heat race wins, one top five, 8 or 9 top tens.

A Midget is the funnest, most cracked out thing I've ever driven and I can't even wait for 2016 to get here.

52 events, 32 tracks, six new ones. Best one day was Indy 500, Kokomo sprints that night, also got in Bloomington and Lincoln Park sprints that weekend. Best series of races was ESS Sprints at Canandaigua, Can-Am, and Fulton, NY weekend, and best weekly show was hands down the wingless 600's micros at Kutztown, PA. Best driver performance was Rico's USAC Midget wins at Path Valley and Lincoln, PA shows, too bad Susquehanna was rained out although Robert Balough USAC Eastern swing was a close second. I hope to get to Wall Stadium, NJ shows for the Turkey Derby on Thanksgiving Weekend yet this year if its not too cold

30 race dates at 12 different tracks starting with the 360 Winternationals at East Bay. Hit Waynesfield and Terre Haute for the first time.

The biggest event of the year was at Butler. It was hot. I was wearing my twill fedora with a brim. On the hat I have multiple pins from various place I have been to in my time. In an early modified heat a rock was thrown up from the track and hit me in the forehead. I never saw it coming. I reached up and realized I was bleeding. Luckily I had some paper towels in my bag so I pressed on it. Nothing bad, just a cut. The rock hit one of the pins and drove the backing piece into my head. I actually bought my 50/50 ticket holding the paper towel to my head.

After a while, I realized the pin was knocked off the hat. I was looking for it..... and looking. I was also trying to figure out which pin it was. There are about 20-25 on my hat. One less now.

I then leaned over and looked at the row in front of me (no one was sitting there) and on the floor, stuck into the wood, pointy end down, was the pin. I picked it up. It was a WWII Veterans Memorial pin I got from Washington, D.C., back in 2004 when President Bush dedicated the memorial.

The date at Butler this happened on was June 6th. The 71st anniversary of the invasion of Normandy. D-Day.

Coincidence? I think NOT.

So far, 50 events (including practices at IMS and Perris) across 16 venues. One new one in that group, Shady Oaks in Goliad, Texas.

Not done yet, three more nights of racing at USA Raceway in Tucson, Arizona later this week will make 53 events at 17 venues, and two being new. . . .

Mike love the Butler Story! Also glad you found the pin!

I only made 7. Thanks to some friends and family and LBurgs generosity to BARC and the clubs of which two of my visits consisted..

Most memorable was Dickie Gaines winning in the Soudrette Car on a night the storms were so severe we thought there was no chance getting it in and for the most part the storm split like the red sea and missed us and we got a brief sprinkle during hotlaps.

Best gathering of friends would be both Sprintweek which I got to see many IOW members. And the BARC Luau as well.

My racings is way down from a average 35-45 and a few PPV's but its not because of lack of desire to go.

Me and Ailsa just decided to go for it while we can this year. Not sure we'll be able to repeat or beat this years Racing Total without a lotto win.

January 12th - Chili Bowl Practice
January 13th – Chili Bowl Night 1
January 14th – Chili Bowl Night 2
January 15th – Chili Bowl Night 3
January 16th – Chili Bowl Night 4
January 17th – Chili Bowl Night 5

June 4th – Quincy Raceway, POWRi Midget Week
June 5th – Jacksonville Speedway, POWRi Midget Week
June 6th – Macon Speedway, POWRi Midget Week
June 7th – Belle-Clair Speedway, POWRi Midget Week

June 10th – Gas City, USAC Midget Week
June 11th – Putnamville, USAC Midget Week
June 12th – Bloomington, USAC Midget Week
June 13th – Lawrenceburg, USAC Midget Week
June 14th – Kokomo – RAIN OUT -
June 15th - Angell Park Speedway, Midgets

July 10th – Gas City, ISW
July 11th – Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Classic Cars
July 11th – Kokomo, ISW – Mains - RAIN OUT -
July 12th – Lawrence burg, ISW
July 15th – Terre Haute, ISW
July 16th – Putnamville, ISW
July 17th – Bloomington – Feature - RAIN OUT -
July 18th - Haubstadt, ISW
July 19th - Angell Park Speedway, IRA & NSL Sprints

August 26th – Kokomo, ISW Make up show
August 27th – Kokomo, Smackdown
August 28th – Kokomo, Smackdown
August 29th – Kokomo, Smackdown

November 12th - Perris Auto Speedway, Oval Nationals Practice
November 13th - Perris Auto Speedway, Oval Nationals
November 14th - Perris Auto Speedway, Oval Nationals
November 15th - Perris Auto Speedway, Oval Nationals