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What is your favorite track to watch a race at?  Your favorite race?

Favorite track Cottage Grove speedway in Oregon.  Love that place.  Calistoga, Knoxville and Tri State honorable mention.

Favorite race:  Schatz winning his first outlaw race at Cottage Grove.  

Weirdest race: The night of fog at Knoxville

Penn National was my favorite place to watch a race back in the day or the Reading fairgrounds but of current tracks Eldora and the World 100

Favorite track: Lernerville- great configuration and prep always leads to good racing.

other favorites: Attica, Sharon, Port Royal

least favorite: Mercer- been here often but don't think I've seen a good race. The flat corners and weird shape imo are not conducive to sprint car racing plus always very dusty.

Best race: Lernerville Silver Cup this year with Schatz, Sweet, Larson

weirdest: Sharon speedway Lucas oil late model race a few years ago. Was the first race on the new clay and it had rained a ton the days leading up to it. Track rutted up so bad apparently down to the old surface in areas. The spent a lot of time working on it during intermission but it didn't help. The Lucas guys voted for it to be no points before the A and once the track got bad a bunch pulled off, I think only 6 or so cars finished. https://youtu.be/OCXxlVMOYVc

Favorite: Volusia.  Everything is new.  So fast and great racing.  That first smell of methanol for the year.  

Other Favorites.  Any track a sprint car is at.

Favorite to Race:  I haven't raced many, but love Lexington, TN.  Looks like a shit hole of a track surface when you show up, but i get out of the car with a smile every time no matter how many times I got lapped.  

Best Race: Getting to watch King Kinser when at Volusia his final year.  The feeling was unbelievable to witness it in person.  I still watch it on Dirtvision and get goosebumps.  

Brandon McLain
United Sprint Car Series Driver
2014 Season
National Rookie of the Year!
National Points - 8th
Southern Points - 3rd
Asphalt Points - 3rd
18 Races, 3 Top 5's, 14 Top 10's

My list of favorite tracks. 

1. Knoxville - simply the best

2. Eldora - great but only second

3. Lincoln speedway PA

4. Selinsgrove Speedway

I judge tracks by the racing not the facility.  So if you didn't make this list and from Pa you work to do on your surface!! 

Let's go Sprint Car Racing!

Knoxville - Best Track In the USA!
Eldora - 2nd Best Track in the USA!

best track: The Tulare Thunderbowl for Trophy cup!

Thankfully I live in California and we have lots of tracks to watch races at and I have been to almost every dirt track here. My favorites in addition to Tulare are Placerville and Petaluma. Big shout out to my local dirt track, Marysville Raceway Park, for having the most races this year due to covid restrictions and a much improved track surface! 

favorite race: For a recent race it would have to be Shane Golobics Outlaws win at Placerville last September. 

weirdest race this year was at Marysville when Shane Golobic and Tanner Carrick got  tangled up at the finish line and Tanner won. Shane wasn't happy, but he got over it and appologized to Tanner. 

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

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

Favorite track - Lernerville

Favorite race - Tuscarora 50 (Port Royal)

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Favorite Track: Knoxville if I have to choose 1 overall but its only slim over several other tracks. I am fortunate to be able to go to so many good tracks near where I live

1) Knoxville 2) Lernerville 3) Eldora 4) Attica 5) Waynesfield

Favorite Race: 2013 Sprintacular at Eldora. Had All Star 410, Sprint Invader 360, Boss Wingless and over 100 total sprints. Jac Haudenschild held off Hannigan by maybe 1/4 of a car length. Shane Stewart had gotten by and it was a 3 car battle in the final 5-6 laps. 360 and Wingless feature were good too. Honorable Mention - 2018 Knoxville Nationals

Weirdest Moment - 2015 Kings Royal during the rain delay. People on the track sliding down it, people taking cover, others sliding down the hill in turn 3 & 4, bar stayed open the whole time, Racing started around 2am and didn't get done until around 4:30am.

While living in Oregon I went to alot of the California tracks.  Never got to Tulare so havent seen it in person, but the amount of torn up equipment there is something else.

I live between Huset’s Speedway in Brandon, SD, Jackson Motorplex in Jackson, MN and Knoxville Speedway. A good location to attend races at all three locations. Right now I would have to vote Husets as the very best sprint car track since it just recently opened under new ownership after having a ton of money spent on it to upgrade the facility by the former owner.

Path Valley

Jared Esh's first win.

While I love a lot of places, Knoxville is it. Can't pick one race - the two that come to mind are an early 2000s Nationals prelim night where Lasoski, Schatz and Tyler Walker had an absolute knifefight in the dark, or the inaugural 1200-pound Nationals - 100ish 410s in the pits representing a half-dozen sanctions with some great invaders - drama was high both nights. 

I do have a soft spot for a few other tracks: Jacksonville, LaSalle, Spoon River, Lee County Speedway (great 410 track), I-55 and Eagle (been once and was amazed). 34 Raceway gets honorable mention but it just lacks something for 410s despite being my home track - seen some great races there and it's a fantastic facility but on average it gets a little meh.

Strawser,  I agree, in no order. I've never seen knoxville dusty. Eldora, are you kidding me ? The place is 1 huge dust cloud, usually slicks off bottom to top, slide job dam good racing.  Lincoln and Selinsgrove could easily be above eldora. Read my view points on eldora and yet you hate port royal. Really ?

The last two times I was at eldora it was really fast and unruly. Times were in the high 12 or low 13 second bracket every night except one during time trials.  That is flat out fast.  Dust doesn't have any concerns for me.  Hard black and dry all night long does though!! Very good racing 6 out of the last 7 races I was at eldora.

Razor Steve and his thoughts about a race can't be good unless it is a junk track is so very wrong.  I am paraphrasing what he said.  He is WRONG!!!  Slides jobs that take two time zones to complete doesn't thrill me in the least.  

The port o potty is nothing more than a asphalt track!!  Worst prepared track in PA....hands down..one of the best facities....but I don't go to the races for the facilities!!!

Let's go Sprint Car Racing!

Knoxville - Best Track In the USA!
Eldora - 2nd Best Track in the USA!