The track a day announement is done for one reason, its not drama, its website clicks. Us drag week guys will go back to hotrod.com about 5000 times today between all of us waiting for for day three to be announced, this will happen even though we know it probably won't be until this evening lol. That kind of traffic is good for hotrod. Its not drama its money.

Yeah I know its the number of hits they get.. they use
to announce all the tracks at one time until a couple
of years ago

Its working I already checked once LOL.

I look forward to seeing the rampage.

I am waiting for the hotel announcements so I can
get in at the host hotels
EDIT
I am just now finishing up raising the front of the
Rampage for better road clearance... today or tomorrow
I will be done doing the front end alignment.. I HAD to
lift it up for the BAD roads here in Mich... I touched
my headers last year and it wasnt all that bad of a hole

Crossing my fingers for a track like Martin or Milan. I'd come out to spectate for sure. I could see Martin (or maybe Columbus?) for day 3, Joliet or GLD for day 4, and back to Gateway on day 5.

Or they could go south...

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Unfortunately, DW is not in the cards for me this year. Too many other things going on this year. I am thinking the "every other year" thing is probably a good schedule for me.

No Rocky mountain race week?

There is guys doing the Rocky Mountain and I think
they are doing DW also... I'm not sure what the Rocky
dates are

No. I really really really wanted to do it this year, but it falls too close to another trip we are taking to Florida.

My buddy Casey Cunningham (White '73 D100) is signed up though.

Day 3, Great Lakes Dragaway!

Day 4 Guesses anyone. I will guess Cordova Raceway Park

I think it pretty much has to be Cordova... I sure HOPE they
dont send us through Chicago on the way to Union Grove...... PLEASE

My Dad graduated high school in 1962, and had never been very far from NE Oklahoma up until that point. Then he got a job with a company that was tearing up old rail road tracks. On his first trip north he experienced his first look at big time drag racing. The Gebhart boys have heard the story over and over again about Art Arfons and the Green Monster at Great Lakes in Union Grove, Wisconsin.

It was also his first look at the 63 Max Wedge cars! If not for that fateful day, I might be Stage 1 Billy, or Buick Billy!!

I was really hoping for Joliet, and Earlville Iowa. I've been to Cordova twice, but never made a pass there, so that would work as well!

Cordova puts the mileage according to google maps at 980 something, a little low for drag week but that doesn't mean its not impossible. The Hot Rod routes will add some miles no doubt. Going to Muncie or Cedar Falls on the other hand would make the mileage 1100-1200 before Hot Rod puts their twist on the routes.

I'm glad that it looks like I will get to add two more new tracks to my list.

I know one thing.. I'm gonna have to get more in tune
with my GPS.. it does a lot more than I'm use to... plus
I need to run a second GPS.. doing DW with a buddy in the
passenger seat makes life much easier but I'm not sure if
I will have a passenger

I'm gonna say TriState in Earlville.

That will be a long run back to Gateway... when I looked at that
one I think it was 340 miles as the quick way on mapquest so if
the DW crew ran back roads it would most likely be longer yet

We went over 400 on day 4 in 2012..... and yes, it sucked.

Drag Week isn't in the cards for me but BIR certainly is so maybe see you guys there this summer...

That was a long and loud day with the rain delay and all. At one point on I-40 my passenger reached down to turn up the radio and it was already as high as it would go. Running between the construction barrier and semis at 3800-4000RPM so we wouldn't get run over made for a long day of ignoring the tach and temp gauge lol. Oh yeah and the route sheet was the worst I have had in the three years I have gone.