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What's your home track that you go to every week? Mine's Husets Speedway in Brandon S.D. I've been going Sunday nights since 1984.

not sure if this applies to anybody but i wasn't able to type in the text field for a reply for at least a few weeks.  maybe people haven't been able to post.

Knoxville since 89-90, Before that a mix of West Liberty, Columbus Junction, Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds, Hawkeye Speedway (Bluegrass Ia - Now gone) and Farley Speedway (Maybe gone now as well?)

Farley Speedway (now 300 Raceway) is showing the only race of the year there is the Yankee Dirt Track Classic later this year in late August.

West Liberty is another track that only races a couple times a year.

Would this "friend" have been wingspeed by chance?

I said the same thing about a year ago.  If it is, it's great publicity for him.  

This information trickled out on the "down low" before the season started - want to say December - January.  

I have only been to Farley a couple of times, Saw a WoO race there back in late 80s early 90s. West Liberty however was my every weekend track. It's been a few decades since then though! It was all fender racing with the likes of Gary Webb, Kosiskis, Pokey West, Tony Stewart, David Birhoffer (Brians Dad). That track was hopping for a lot of years but like you said, Now it's a ghost town...

I didn't realize they don't have a regular show anymore.     I used to be a Gary Webb fan and remember seeing the Kosiskis at the Yankee every year.  Ray Guss Jr., Steve Boley, Jeff Aikey.  Some good racing there when that place was going well!!

West Liberty usually had the season lid-lifter for Iowa and we'd make the 300-mile diagonal trip across the state and arrive really early and park near the pit entrance near corner 1 to watch all the teams arrive and check out their new cars for the season.

Of any track I'd ever been too, it had the longest and widest corner entry, and I swear they'd back 'em in so long that if Ernie Derr looked out his right side he could probably see his highway exit for Keokuk.

Another thing I'd never seen at a track before was the handful of gigantic oak(?) trees in the infield between corners 1-2. That created a pretty cool effect from the stands at race time. The tree canopy would be above your line of vision of the cars, so it was really something to see.

Farley had lots of memorable YDTC events also. But in typical Iowa fashion, it was usually a week or two after Boone and by then it was usually pretty frigid...but 5 minutes after the race on the way home you'd forget about how cold it was and have the memories of a great weekend of racing.

Spent many nights freezing until 2:00 a.m. for the Yankee, no doubt!!  And yes, there were some memorable ones.  The one that sticks out to me was the year Birky was slated to start on the front row.  During the parade lap, he pulled into the pits, and they began to reshuffle the line-up.  Right as they were taking the one to go, he re-emerged from the pits, tagged the field, and took the lead somewhere on about lap 75 or 76.  (if memory serves me)  I cannot remember what the issue was on the car, but I remember them being amazed they got it changed in time!

For the love of all that is good...why?

Well someone asked if this forum was dead so I livened it up a little.

Yep, we used to park and watch the races from under that big Oak in turn 2... Spent a ton of weekends there from back when they ran the Jalopies up until about the late 80's. Columbus Junction was another that we went to a whole lot. They actually still run a weely show there with I believe a decent turnout. 

What did it cost to get into the races back when they raced jalopies and the pit crews wore white pants and shirts?

Even though I may not know you, I 
care what most of you think!

is it possible the hl/woo split has taken away some of the enthusiasm from fans and that's why there's less conversation around here?  i mentioned the technical issues but maybe there's more going on.

i saw brad sweet's gold car over the weekend and thought about how cool it would be to see it in pa and take pictures of it.  then i remembered he won't be here.  on the flip side...i'd love to see guys like rico and sunshine come through more often.  

It would appear to be the enthusiasm aspect is covered based on this 5-figure crowd shot from Saturday night

(but several users had experienced forum issues a week or two ago...appears to be working better now)

You are the playing both parts as dumb and dunber!

Let's go Sprint Car Racing!

Rico - 6 wins
Donny - 0 wins

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

Nope never met him!

Let's go Sprint Car Racing!

Rico - 6 wins
Donny - 0 wins

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

This actually makes more sense than just about any other scenario.