I am providing a link to the official site of my favorite local short track racing spot and would like to see links to the tracks y'all frequent.
http://www.manzanitaspeedway.com/
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06-10-02, 03:52 PM
teeceeum
Manzanita is one of the most exciting dirt tracks in the country. I've never personally visited, but I've watched a little Thunder on TV from there.

Here is the local track where the careers of Darrell Waltrip, Sterling Marlin, Jeremy Mayfield, David Green, Jeff Green, Bobby Hamilton, Jr. & Sr., and, indeed, Marty Robbins got started. I'm sure there are a few that I've left out. I got to know Earnhardt, Jr. fairly well at this old racetrack. (That is the Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway in the pictures on the right. The track's lease was just purchased from Dover Downs Entertainment and they don't have their new web site up yet. Bummer.)

This track is not exacly local (150 miles away) but it bills itself as "The World's Fastest 5/8 Mile Dirt Track" and I believe it is. The turns have some serious banking built into them. It was featured in a Discovery Channel or A&E series called The Competition which highlighted off-the-beaten-track events. It is located hard against I-40. Look to your left about 25 miles before you reach Knoxville, TN.

We don't have much in the way of midgets or sprints here, although we used to and I definitely enjoy them. In fact, I even did a little quarter midget and midget racing myself.

06-10-02, 07:32 PM
Walks On Water
Here is my favorite almost in my back yard. As the announcers call it "The twisting, Turning road course in the rolling hills of central Ohio."

Next televised race should be The American LeManns Series around the June 30 weekend.

Get in, buckle up and hang on.

Mid-Ohio

06-11-02, 02:14 PM
dogspit
Thanks to ye' both for some quality links. Just not too many fans of old fashioned racing left. To me the short dirt tracks around the country are just the most incredible racing. Midget racing on a Saturday night, man oh man.

06-11-02, 10:32 PM
Bibc14
Dog,
I will watch any kind of racing I am able to,
and I enjoy watching anything that has to do with dirt, midgit cars, harleys...

I will also watch World Rally if I see it on speedvision when I am flipping through the channels,

but the only thing that is really part of my absolute required watching is American LeMans, LeMans, and others like it.
There is just so much going on, so many different kinds of cars, different classes, different speeds,
its great!

-Chris

06-21-02, 01:13 AM
eagle
Hey dog spit! northern Wi here been puttin in my 2cents were I can add.Wisconsin has so many great short tracks along with all types can't name them all! Milw mile was dirt when Hudsons were the hot item,hales corners in soutern part still has the dust flying.We got TNT speedway up here at TNT Speedway wher the racin's fun and you can afford to take the whole family.Still like my Nascar, but in todays world $s are big. Take a look at TNT Speedway, Three Lakes Wisconsin & by the way home WI home of Mark Martin and the likes of Kenseth,Allen Kulwicky,musgrave,tricky dick trickle,dave marcis ah real good ole boy.Nothin beats wearin ah pair of goggles in thelower seats on turn four and parkin in pure mud at times. Good racing to yah!

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