Short track bucket list: Little 500 is a must-see - Motorsport.com
Annual race at Indiana's Anderson Speedway has 33 sprint cars on a quarter-mile oval. ANDERSON, Indiana – There are five short-track races that should be on the bucket list of any serious American race fan. And by “short tracks,” I’m talking about half a mile or less, and not Bristol Motor Speedway or Martinsville Speedway, because you already know about those NASCAR Sprint Cup venues. Not that they aren’t some of the best NASCAR racing of the season. --The Knoxville Nationals, sort of the world series of winged sprint car racing held at Knoxville, run in August at Knoxville Raceway in Iowa. There are several other good events during the season – if you don’t like the massive crowds that attend the Nationals, pick another race weekend there. --The NASCAR Craftsman Truck series race at Eldora Speedway in Ohio. Feel free to substitute any other big Eldora race – the World 100, the Kings Royal, the Four Crown Nationals – Eldora seldom fails to entertain, and you need to go there at least once. The International Motor Contest Association, organized in 1915, is the oldest such sanctioning body in the U. S. They sanction races at short tracks all over the county, specializing in dirt modifieds, and those racers tend to converge on Boone... Source: www.motorsport.com
