Eldora Speedway Named 2015’s Favorite Track of Fans of Fast
(1/9/2016)
Close Voting Showcases Surge in Dirt Racing Popularity Across the United States with over 600 Different Tracks Receiving Votes
As the mid-winter lull engulfs the overall world of motorsports, RacingIn.com is proud to recognize Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, OH as 2015’s Favorite Track of Fans of Fast. In incredibly close voting among the top 3, Eldora narrowly edged out Lucas Oil Speedway in Wheatland, MO by just 0.5% of the total vote. Even closer, last year’s Fan Favorite, Fairbury American Legion Speedway in Fairbury, IL garnered just 0.1% less of the total votes to come in 3rd.
Being named a favorite track is nothing new to Eldora Speedway as the track has also topped the voting in other national polls in prior years. "This is an exciting day for everyone involved at Eldora," said Joe Crowley, Eldora's public relations director. "We are always building on what Earl Baltes (Eldora Founder) put here and Tony Stewart (Eldora Owner), Roger Slack (Eldora General Manager) and all of our employees are committed to our fans. We’ve had 62 great seasons and we are certain we’ll have a great year in 2016.”
As 2015’s Favorite Track of Fans of Fast, Eldora doesn’t just receive the title, but they’ll also receive a $500 donation from RacingIn.com to evenly divide among all class purses on their opening night of 2016 racing. “RacingIn.com was launched in 2009 to connect race fans with tracks all across the United States,” explained Scott Kosak, founder of RacingIn.com. “As more and more Fans of Fast use it to find great racing, we will continue to focus on finding more ways to support grassroots racing all across the United States!”
Showcasing just how many different tracks have a wealth of fan support, 13 of the Top 15 different tracks garnered at least 1% of the survey votes which specifically asked fans to name their favorite track that they had actually been to in 2015. In addition, given the growing popularity of dirt track racing, it was no surprise that 13 of the top 15 were dirt ovals. Ten different states are represented in the top 15 with Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan all having multiple representatives. (Click on any track name for their profile)
- Eldora Speedway, New Weston, OH
- Lucas Oil Speedway, Wheatland, MO
- Fairbury American Legion Speedway, Fairbury, IL
- Kalamazoo Speedway, Kalamazoo, MI
- Knoxville Raceway, Knoxville, IA
- Kokomo Speedway, Kokomo, IN
- Atomic Speedway, Chillicothe, OH
- Sycamore Speedway, Sycamore, IL
- Lincoln Speedway, Abbottstown, PA
- Tri-State Speedway, Pocola, OK
- Tri-State Speedway, Haubstadt, IN
- KAM Kartway, Rhome, TX
- Fremont Speedway, Fremont, OH
- Orange County Fair Speedway, Middletown, NY
- Berlin Raceway, Marne, MI
Voting for this year’s Favorite Track of Fans of Fast survey saw over 600 different tracks recognized by thousands of race fans over a 2 month period, from early October to early December of 2015. Nearly twice as many race fans voted in 2015 as in 2014 with tracks recognized from 46 different states.
“It’s absolutely amazing that we were able to connect over 1 million different race fans with grassroots racing lin 2015,” continued Kosak, “As the page turns to the 2016 racing season, we are looking forward to continuing to grow as the most used free promotional resource for every track in the nation to take advantage of so that they continue to attract more fans to their individual tracks”
In addition to simply asking fans about their favorite track, RacingIn.com also compiled data from thousands of race fans about their habits in visiting race tracks across the United States. This data includes information about how often fans made it to race tracks, the number of different tracks they found their way to, and much more. Stay tuned to RacingIn.com for additional information in coming weeks that will help race tracks understand more about the fans they hope to attract.
About RacingIn®.com
RacingIn® is the only socially engaged race track and racer directory that has been actively connecting millions of grassroots race fans with great racing across the United States since 2009. Accessed by over 1 million different race fans in 2015 who viewed over 3 million pages of content about grassroots racing, RacingIn.com is also a free promotional tool for every race track in the directory, allowing them to increase their exposure by controlling their track profile at the site so that they can expose their individual events to every visitor to the site. With a focus on engaging grassroots race fans, RacingIn.com also serves as the only place where sponsors seeking direct engagement with a collective audience of grassroots race fans across the United States can do so through a single unified platform including over 1,300 race tracks.
For more information about RacingIn®.com, please call Left Turn Marketing, Inc. at 630-369-1664 or submit your questions via e-mail at this link.
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