What is your favorite dragstrip?
 

Hey everybody, what is your favorite dragstrip to race at and why?

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Numedia (PA), great track and beautiful landscap. Everyone is always friendly and the food (pie and ice cream) is reasonably priced and good. They should have an open or divisional race again.

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X2...Then have to go with Atco.

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I have to agree with you Joe and Dennis. Numidia, then Atco but then I'll have to go with Maple Grove for a 1, 2, 3.

Ken Kopecky
1454 E/SA

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Gotta say it...WHATEVER TRACK I'M AT!!!

WORK SUCKS!

See you somewhere next weekend!

Chris Barnes
Wagons of Steel
Stock 6621

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vegas, dinwiddie

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Favorite:Atco,Cecil Co. close second
Least favorite:Englishtown (9 miles away),close second,none.

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Dunn-Benson

great facilty and close to home.

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To bracket race Tri-State (Cinn Oh) / NHRA Div. race Norwalk/ NHRA Open Indy/ IHRA Div. Mooresville/ IHRA TOC Piedmont. Most hated National Trails!

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I won't pick an absolute favorite out of the 276 I've attended but here are two memorable current tracks:

George Ray's: It took me eleven years to win class (H/SA) but I finally did it in 2004. In 2009, I finally won an eliminator there. Ungodly tough racing but a wonderful experience every time I've ever pulled through the gates.

Isom, KY: Maybe the toughest racing I've ever experienced but was lucky enough to win an event there; paid in cash and the trophy is the tallest I've ever won...including season point championships!

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Without question it's Beech Bend in Bowling Green.

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Bret,
Has to be Utica Rome ! lol

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Mine would be Rockingham. Been going there since the early 70's and it's Home.
I also like Bristol , Norwalk, and MIR
Chip Johnson

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In D1 it's got to be Numidia , Great track and people and the best track food anywhere !
Shame we dont get to go there more often.

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No Problem Raceway, followed by Beech Bend. Third would go to Gainesville ( mostly because i grew up going to the gators there and its kinda like hallowed ground to me)

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South Georgia Motorsport Park ..All concrete track, well Groomed pits. Plus a round track on the grounds.


Hammer

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Beech Bend ! It was the best time I had racing my SS Camaro back in 1978. I also raced there in 1968-69 while I was still in the Army. Love the shaded spectator stands. Makes for a better time watching during the hot summer days. All tracks should do this. Racing was less complicated then to.

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Norwalk, Bristol

...and there was always just a certain feel and sound at Maple Grove in the fall

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The Strip at Las Vegas
Awesome pits and bathrooms all over the place. No portajohns.

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Well I'll go with Numidia as my #1, great food, great people, great track and Bob and his family are some of the nicest you will meet. The man has put ALOT of work into the track and is only making it better! Only wish we could get a D-1 Divisional / Open up there again.

#2 - Atco - It's my home track and Joe has also put a lot of love into the track over the years.
#3 - MIR - Great Facility and Royce is one of the nicest guys around.

Least Favorites - Atlanta Dragway (If the track doesn't kill you then the piles of fire ants that are all over the ground will)
Cecil County - Track just needs someone to give it an "Extreme Makeover" soon!

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The track that you grew up at!
(in my case, Island Dragway!)

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I remember it well.................

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Mine would have to be Orlando Speed World ( Central Florida Dragway). Many good times and memories! Jim

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No Problem Raceway. Great facility, great staff and great food. Doesn't get any better.

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My two favorites:
1) Quaker City in Salem OH (home track)
2) Mason-Dixon in Hagerstown MD (beein doing S/SS races there since 1996)
Honorable mention: Keystone Raceway/Pittsburgh Raceway Park

Ones I'm not to crazy about: MIR and Atco (all paved parking makes it brutal when it's hot, no shade)...no motels really close to the track at either place (1/2 hour drive or more, and all the ones at MIR are close to, or over, $100 per night. Beaver Springs doesn't have any close motels either).

I've had fun and enjoyed every track I've ever been to, though. Everything from an old outlaw 1/8 mile track that used to be an airport (Steubenville OH) to Indy and a lot in between.

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Yep.............. Aint that the truth..............

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For me it's not the track,it's the people at the track,my friends and family, if it wasn't for them I wouldn't race at all.

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For me there no better feeling than racing on "Parker Avenue" Sunday afternoon .........Either in February or November .

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The track I grew up at - New England Dragway.

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Vegas hands down , lots of Paved Pits , Traction most of the time is good and lots of stuff for wife or family to do away from track:):D

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Tri state
Earlville, Iowa

EDDYVILLE RACEWAY PARK ,
Oskaloosa, Iowa

for small tracks these are some of the nicest

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Don't forget it is all pit parking on pavement also for everyone....
My 2 Cents
Rick Cates

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Always liked something about Conn. Dragway.Always enjoyed running there while it was open. Enjoyed running Island Dragway and miss Dover in Wingdale,NY. Don't know what ya got til its gone. Was only 20 min. from the house. Since moving to N.C. in '99, I like running Fayetteville. Ray , the announcer does a great job promoting the stock/SS cars on the PA system. Since moving south ,also have come to love IHRA and how well they treat sportsman racers.
Joe Huestis
"Annies Song" 9724 L/SA

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M.I.R./Budds Creek

Cecil County Dragway

75-80 Dragway

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Bradenton and SGMP have been very good to me, won a bunch of money!

Dragway 42 and Moroso I miss, good people,partys.

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When you're at the Beaver, you CAMP! Beaver Springs is old school, and I love it for the clean yet no frills nostalgic feel, and that's exactly what they hang their hat on. Gasser Magazine's Gasser Reunion (pics: http://www.beaversprings.com/results...%20Reunion.htm), York US 30 Reunion Nostalgia Nationals (pics: http://www.beaversprings.com/results...gia%20Nats.htm), Flashback Friday (more Nostalgia Super Stocker, Junior Stock racing, coming up Aug 12), Jalopy Showdown Drags... great lineup.

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Currently called Speedworld, used to be "Mel Larson's" when I grew up there. But no doubt Vegas is the best in the west.

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Bowling green ky!!

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Bandimere Speedway for three reasons:
1. No other track I've been to has a cool down island that'll cool up to 12 cars at once...just don't drink that water!
2. Stadium seating...it's like being at "Red Rocks" for a concert! They need handrails though!
3. Down hill staging lanes...lower engine temps due to less need for starting your engine to move your vehicle...also no need to push it until you're nearly under the tower!

Note: Although I love the track for those reasons, I don't care for the north 40, and it's isolation from the racing action. However, the pros outweigh the cons.

Honorable mentions:

Thunder Valley Raceway, Marion Sd., since that's the only track I've raced at that I've earned triple digit money at every time, and the shaded pits were cool for camping around too!

Douglas Motor Sports Park, Douglas, Wy. At no other divisional I've ever attended did the towns people come out and offer fresh fruit like they did for the '96 divisional...that was a major attraction for the whole town, and the people there showed us racers/crew how much we were appreciated for attending the event!

Southwestern International Raceway, Tucson, Az. Where else can you enjoy Bacon and eggs, and watch race cars blaze by heading down the quarter-mile?

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1. ZMax
2. MIR
3. Maple Grove

Least favorite: Lebanon Valley