Southwestern International Raceway (Tucson AZ)
Firebird International Raceway (Chandler AZ)
Infineon Raceway (Sonoma CA)
Pomona Raceway (LA County Fairplex)
Bandimere Speedway (Morrison CO)
Pueblo Motorsports Park (Pueblo CO)
Bradenton Motorsports Park (Bradenton FL)
Atlanta Dragway (Commerce GA)
Route 66 (Joliet IL)
Indianapolis Raceway Park (Indianapolis IN)
Tri-State Raceway (Earlville IA)
Heartland Park Topeka (Topeka KS)
SRCA Dragstrip (Great Bend KS)
Red River Raceway (Gilliam LA)
Maryland International Raceway (Budds Creek MD)
U.S. 131 Dragway (Martin MI)
Brainerd International Raceway (Brainerd MN)
Yellowstone (Acton MT)
Nebraska Motorplex (Scribner NE)
LVMS (Las Vegas NV)
Rockingham Dragway (Rockingham NC)
National Trail Raceway (Hebron OH)
Norwalk Raceway Park (Norwalk OH)
Thunder Valley Raceway Park (Noble OK)
Cherokee County Raceway Park (Rusk TX)
Houston Raceway Park (Baytown TX)
Texas Motorplex (Ennis TX)
Virginia Motorsports Park (Dinwiddie VA)
Pacific Raceways (Kent WA)
Douglas International Raceway (Douglas WY)
The only track on that list I literally hated was the last one, Douglas WY. Armco guard rails, and a lack of track prep vehicles. They didn't have a sweeper truck or tractor, marbles on the track were handled with push brooms. No sand trap or catch fences at the end of the shutdown area, if you ran off the end, you got a downhill ride into a gully. I suppose that would be expected at a track in the '60's or '70's, but that's how it was after the new millennium.
The timing tower barely had room for race control (the smallest tower I've seen anywhere) so I got stuck in a closet in the pit shack by the front gate. No air conditioning, and the temps were over 100 degrees everyday of the three day event that I worked. Walking back and forth to race control to get run logs were 10 minutes round trip, so that would have been impossible to do during eliminations. They could send ladder sheets from the tower to the pit shack during eliminations via a computer line, until someone in the pits cut the line while attempting to get their rig out.
I was on premium remote dial-up (paid for every minute that I was online), so I kept my connections to an absolute minimum. The track personnel had radios, but they'd defer to hardwired phone lines at the drop of a hat. Their hardwired system developed some bugs during qualifying, and I got blamed for tying up those lines when I wasn't even online!
The icing on the cake for the weekend from hell came when I needed "the book" after the race was completed. Since I had to enter everything at the event by hand, I needed the round-by-round pages to cross check and edit my work before sending it to National Dragster. The track owner's wife insisted on charging me 10 cents per page for the round-by-round pages, a printing surcharge, because she didn't think I really needed that info. She gave me a real deal, $4 for 44 pages. By that time, I was so disgusted with the entire event, I didn't argue with her, I just paid the $4 and said "thanks".
If that track ever gets a points race again, my fee for working it will be at least double what it usually is, or I won't go. I've never encountered a staff that was more clueless, nor a track so ill-prepared for such an event. ....sorry for the rant, but that place really sucked!
