S&N's Trackside is THE place to be in the winter months, offroad racing can see up to 80 cars/night depending on which day of the week you showed up. For major events like the Midwest Offroad Championships in December, we can have as many as 180-200 cars, the pits are literally jammed and they've started setting up card tables on the adjacent carpet track.
For the longest time the place would go dead in the summer, everyone's moved outside to race nitro. Carpet racing was pretty much all they'd have, UNTIL last year when the dirt oval thing started to grow. They flattened the offroad layout, bowled each end, put a cross in the center, and now they hold dirt oval and figure 8 races, and there's been a huge response, prolly 50-60 cars per night, with the biggest turnouts being the Stock Slider (bone stock Losi Slider sprint cars, you're only allowed to buy hot-rod batteries & change springs & shock oil) and TCLM, electric touring cars using rubber tires, 19T or equivalent BL motors, and dirt late model bodies.
I'm going to push Scotty Ernst to hold an "Open Show" night like they used to do in the old days, when guys like Bill Prietzel were building freakish creations like "The Wedge" for no rules anything-goes dirt racing in SeWis.
