top_shelf_12 Posted July 18, 2017 Report Share Posted July 18, 2017 Tracks that are closed: RGS CCS Odem SOS SAS Texas Dirt Texas Thunder Longhorn CTS Texas World Tracks that are open: STS I37 TRP BGS HOT HMP CBS KSP Devil's Bowl Non Oval: Alamo Dragway Cabaniss Dragway Centex Go Kart track Los Fresnos MX Oso Creek MX Floresville MX/Cycle Ranch Highlands MX Lake Whitney MX Bastrop MX Astrodome Supercross Think that's all of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffmedic42 Posted July 19, 2017 Report Share Posted July 19, 2017 Illinois Sycamore Santa Fe Kankakee La Salle Fairbury route 66 speedway old configuration, new 3/8 this year Rockford Grundy county Byron MX Wisconson Hales corner Marshfield Iowa Davenport 34 raceway Missouri West plain I-55 Arkansas Batesville Georgia Golden Isles Florida East Bay North Carolina Thunder Valley Texas I-37 Central Texas San Antonio Shady Oaks Michigan Michigan International Speedway Just remembered this one! There maybe more just can't think of the rest of them right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
see86go Posted July 19, 2017 Report Share Posted July 19, 2017 Florida Daytona Hialeah Illinois Chicago Motor Speedway Michigan Flat Rock Michigan International Speedway North Carolina Charlotte Bowman-Gray Stadium Ohio Barberton * Cleveland/Burke Lakefront (Temporary) Lorain County * Lake County * Mansfield Mid-Ohio Midvale * Raceway 7 Sandusky Wayne County Pennsylvania Lake Erie Texas Alamo Dragway Austin Quarter Midget 85 Speedway Bellmead Boyd Corpus Christi Cowtown Devil's Bowl Heart 'O Texas Kennedale Little River Dragway Lone Star Quarter Midget Longhorn Pan American San Antonio Texas Thunder Texas World Thunderhill * = Raced at these tracks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Budman Posted July 19, 2017 Report Share Posted July 19, 2017 Been to a few around Austin, S.A., DFW, Houston. Didn't see Oak Hill Downs or Austin Speedway mentioned. Meyer Spdwy. Houston, Pam American (original one), Pikes Peak Hill Climb (as they called it) in Colorado. Also, in Austin once each year in the 60s into the 70's they held the Austin Aqua Festival. As part of that they would set up a street track. The main strait ran on Riverside drive from around S. 1st street down to just past the railroad tressel then do a hair pen back for a couple of blocks, then back behind the old coliseum and Palmer Auditorium parking lot, then back to Riverside. Those were sports car races. It was a pretty big deal they put on each year with lots of cars from all over and lots of classes, as they do in sports cars. You could watch many original Shelby 427 Cobras flying past, as you sat in your lawn chair along Riverside Drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh42 Posted July 19, 2017 Report Share Posted July 19, 2017 Ah the old Austin Aqua Festival man that's some good memories there. Dad even told me how they would have drag boat races on Town Lake (Lady Bird Lake). They would start right by the bridge on 35 and go east. The top fuel boats would launch water up on to 35 when they took off. Then some people loving residents of east Austin complained and they shut the drag boat races down for a while. They tried to resurrect them again out at Decker Lake but more often then not they would have to stop the races because of wind. Didn't some of the TIDA and local racers run in the Aqua Festival races? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Budman Posted July 19, 2017 Report Share Posted July 19, 2017 Yeah, Josh, I went to most of those on "Town Lake" as they called it then. You can see some of it on youtube. I couldn't get the link to work on here. It eventually became such a divisive cultural clash in Austin, the races were shut down by vote of the city council. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeilTPS Posted July 19, 2017 Report Share Posted July 19, 2017 Josh42: You asked, "Didn't some of the TIDA and local racers run in the Aqua Festival races?"YES ... As part of the Austin Aqua Festival, the River City Road Races were conducted. When the event was held, several TIDA-LM Series drivers and many Texas Pro Sedan drivers participated. Both had road racing experience at Texas World Speedway in the TROC and in Monterrey Mexico 24 Hour Race for 4 cylinder cars.I raced in the Austin event several times. The 1 1/2 mile course used about a half mile of Riverside Drive, turned left just prior to the railroad underpass, ran through several parking lots and around what I recall known as the Convention Center or Auditorium.It was quite a road racing experience. I am glad that I participated and placed well each year.Neil Upchurch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RodneyRodriguez Posted July 19, 2017 Report Share Posted July 19, 2017 would love to see that one make a return! Neil I said on our radio show last month all of these people going crazy about the "Roval" at Charlotte are way behind on the times. You all did that at TWS before most of these people were born! What events those were! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MUmscheid 51 Posted July 25, 2017 Report Share Posted July 25, 2017 Raced at: Longhorn THR/CTS HMP CC Wichita Falls TMS (both legends tracks) Sunny South (Mobile, AL 1/4 mile) Sandia (Albuquerque) Irwindale Charlotte (legends track) Sebring Florida Hickory NC Crewed at: Every Texas asphalt track (from 1998 - present) Indianapolis Daytona (Road Course) Twin Rings Motegi (Japan) Homestead St. Petersburg TMS Kentucky Kansas Michigan Watkins Glen Richmond Milwaukee Nashville Phoenix Chicagoland Infineon/Sears Point Pensacola Altus (1/4 mile) Spectator at: Every asphalt track in Texas (from 1984 - present) Altus 1/2 mile Birmingham AL Mobile AL TWS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PAPosse Posted August 16, 2017 Report Share Posted August 16, 2017 Irwindale Events Center (Irwindale Speedway) announced January 31, 2018 will be it's last day of operation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PAPosse Posted January 3, 2018 Report Share Posted January 3, 2018 New life for Irwindale Speedway. Looks like it will be open for at least 2 more seasons. Just in case any of you want to travel west and add it to your list! https://jalopnik.com/californias-irwindale-speedway-is-staying-open-1821652738 http://autoweek.com/article/nascar/irwindale-speedway-avoids-shutdown-again-will-have-2018-season Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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