Columbus Motor Speedway/ Kil Kare

[FlaShortTrackFan]

The final two nights of our Ohio vacation we spent it at local short tracks. Friday night at Kil Kare raceway and Saturday we were at Columbus Motor Speedway for the "John Knuckles Memorial". Friday at Kil Kare they had Too many fans decent car count. There was about 45 cars between 4 classes. But about 300 fans at $10 a person kids 12 and under free. Great racing thought out the whole night.

Saturday night we visited Columbus. Rain was looming and it actually down poured at the track around 330-4oclock. But with every track closing they has to get it in. And man did they put on a show for about 300 fans.they had the same 4 divisions as Kil Kare. Late models crazy compacts sport stock and modifieds. 23 lates... 22 compacts... 13 sport stocks... 13 modifieds... They put on one hell of a show. All classes qualify. But the compacts are alittle different. They bunch qualify. 6 at a time. Then they take your time and if you run .4 tenths faster than your qualifying time you get black flagged. The leader was walking away with it and all of a sudden black flag.

Another I noticed is since both of them are NASCAR sanctioned tracks. They are about 1 1/2 hrs apart but run the same or close to the same rules. Qualifying starts at 6 heats at 7. 745 national anthem then right after features. Would say 2 of the best short tracks I've been to.

[Circledude]

Glad to hear about my home tracks. I raced there in the early 80s before moving to Florida. The tracks were under the TARA (tri area racing assoc.) and had the same rules and separate points at each track. Another track that was part of the TARA was Shady Bowl Speedway in Urbana. They ran saturday night and Columbus ran Sunday. Many of the drivers raced all three tracks each weekend. Probably watched alot of drivers I know or raced against. Glad you had a great time. I haven't been back since 1985. Mike

[Ocala Camper]

good tracks to race at

Glad to see someone talking about the tracks we ran up north from years ago. Columbus was one or our all time favorites. The Nuckles family knew how to run a track and treated the fans and racers well. We raced there several times coming from up in northeastern Ohio. Only raced at KilKare Speedway twice. This was the only track that I ever raced at the you ran uphill coming through turns three and four. Another great short track.

[FlaShortTrackFan]

Fla promoters and officials should take a ride up there to watch a weekend show because both tracks are run perfectly.

[Darren]

unless I read this wrong, why sure FL promoters look at what these tracks do. reads like FL tracks low fan and car count.

[Frasson118]

71 cars in 4 classes is respectable. Most tracks around here would kill for an average of 17.75 cars per class.

Having fewer classes, with common rules to other area tracks, is the common sense approach. If you want to race, pick 1 of 4..... not 1 of 13 like we have here.

[Circledude]

Ocala camper- what class do you race in and when? Did you ever run Shady Bowl? That track you went uphill off 2 and downhill into 3. Sharp left turn out of 4. If you missed 3 and went over the fence you had a 15-20ft drop. Some ppl lost a lot cars that way. These tracks always ran 3 classes, 4 at the most. A lot of cars and fans, but I haven't been back since 1985.

[steadysteve]

cms and kil-kare

My br other (zerofor) raced back in the 70's and early 80's in what was a street division that they called "Bombers". Similar to what Full Throttle runs as Road Warriors.

One thing at Kil-Kare is it is D shaped.You have to make a very hard left out of turn 4.Not as many cars as in the past,but a fun and unique track to race at.

Sounds like you had a great time,and thanks for the look back on our home tracks.

[FlaShortTrackFan]

Less classes and same or close to the same rules acrossed the board at almost every track in state is the key for success. For example showtime on Sarurday had what 85 cars between 8 divisions? Columbus had 75 between 4! How much better car count do you need?