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In response to the top 5 facilities thread.

Your top 5 tracks for racing?

Who cares about the facilities if the racing is good.

01. Kokomo (IN) Speedway

02. Fairbury (IL) American Legion Speedway/

03. Tri-State Speedway (IN)

04. Boone (IA) Speedway

05. Knoxville (IA) Raceway

Don't really have a list but Wayne County has awesome, wild racing. It's dusty as hell and the facilities aren't the greatest but the racing makes up for it. 

River Cities Speedway, Grand Forks N.D.

1)River Cities

2)Eagle(When Prepped Right which has not been very often since Roger Hadan took over)

3)Lernerville

4)Attica

5)Haubstadt/Knoxville (tie)

Honorable mention to Park Jefferson for their modified races as they get 3 wide with multiple grooves.  Sprints are ok there but only seen 1 really good sprint race.

Here is a list from the tracks I've been to - for Sprints only.

1. River Cities Speedway (Grand Forks, ND)

2. Path Valley Speedway (Spring Run, PA)

3. Lincoln Speedway (Abbottstown, PA)

4. Grandview Speedway (Bechtesville, PA)

5. Trail Way Speedway (Hanover, PA)

If I don't make it just Sprints only, I'll put Potomac Speedway (in Mechanicsville, MD) in 3rd, and Screven Speedway (in Screven, GA) in 5th with Lincoln moved to 4th. 

Kokomo, Pevely (I-55), Knoxville, dirt track at Charlotte, Grandview/Eldora (when prepared right)

(for sprint car racing - wing and non-wing)

1. Atomic, OH

2. Waynesfield, OH

3. Lincoln, PA

4. Ventura, CA

5. Lawrenceburg, IN

1. Bankers Life Fieldhouse- Indy Invitational

2. Beaver Dam Raceway

3. Plymouth Dirt Track (WI)

4. I-55

5. Dome at St. Louis

Okay... so number one was a joke, but the others are not!

where ever the next race is always my favorite track

but I do like my local tracks (like everyone does) Perris, Ventura and Thunderbowl Raceway (Tulare) offer some great racing with great events ie Oval Nationals, Turkey Night and Trophy Cup, plus they WOO races at two of them

Kern Raceway and Irwindale (to close very soon) offer great pavement racing.

I liked Kokomo and basciall all of ISW tracks, Lakeside was great too.   

The big tracks like Eldora or Knoxville are not my favorite for racing, that dread aero push comes into play, the year I went to Knoxville, Donnie won everything

I tend to like the smaller tracks, but any dirt track with the right cars, format and track prep can offer a great night of racing.If I narrowed it to 5, here goes

Tulare, Ventura, Kokomo, Perris and Chilli Bowl (haven't attended)   

1. Attica

2. Wayne County (OH)

3. Lawrenceburg

4. Mansfield

5. Fremont

Grandview

Lernerville

Lawrenceburg 

Fremont 

Lincoln

All under a 1/2 mile. At 1 time all had a nice cushion. Close, hard racing...

My top 5 places:

1.  Anywhere but work, watching a race, beer in hand

2.  Anywhere but work, watching a race, beer in hand

3.  Anywhere but work, watching a race, beer in hand

4.  Anywhere but work, watching a race, beer in hand

5.  Anywhere but work, wathcing a race, beer in hand

In-fucking-deed, sir.

Yep the bullring

Ok, interesting post. Guess I can only choose tracks I've watched sprints at in person;

1. River Cities

2. Knoxville

3. Cedar Lake

4. Princeton, MN

5. Husets

My favorite California tracks I have been to are:

1. Tulare

2. Petaluma

3. Placerville

4. Stockton

5. Calistoga

Honorable mention: Antioch, Marysville, Hanford, Quincy, Chico, Bakersfield, Santa Maria, and Ocean speedway.

Tracks  in CA that I want to go to:

1. Perris

2. Ventura

3. Kern County

4. Merced

5. Chowchilla

My favorite tracks that are now gone:

1. Baylands

2. San Jose speedway

3. Ernie Percell

* yes I am old enough to remember going to great races at these tracks  

Looking forward to the new Golden State King of the 
West series schedule! 

Winged sprintcars = the fastest and most exciting 
racecars on dirt! 

Perfect resume!

Similar to a thread a while back about "raciest" tracks.....Out of the 30 or so tracks that I've been to, in no particular order, in terms of "raciest":

Attica

Susquehanna

Belle Clair, Illinois

Path Valley

ANY Indiana bullring

First 3 I've only visited once, but racing was great!

Now if we go by quality of cars & drivers, easy: Kokomo & Knoxville

Loved the mention of EP in Grass Valley. I loved going up there in those days.

1-River Cities Speedway

2-Knoxville Raceway

3-Tulare 

4-Eagle Raceway

5-peavly