Geographic center of Late Model Racing?

[dirtSLMracing]

As far as a place for a team to be based in I'd say along I-81 in eastern Tennessee around Bulls Gap. I havent added them up but probably 25 tracks with in 6 hours from that area that run Supers.

[Pennsboro32]

I think some are misinterpreting the question.

[BloomerWon]

Why do you think Bloomer located himself in northeastern Tennessee?

[PushinTheLimit]

If you are located between Knoxville, Chattanooga and Bristol, TN... you have tons of tracks within a 4 hour drive to race supers at. Maybe not as much weekly super racing, but regional super racing galore.

[hardracer32]

If you look at the North East corner of Georgia, where Tennessee, Ga, and N.C. all come together, I belive you would find yourself geographically located to cover pretty much all the Dirt Late Model racing you can handle. From that area you can be almost anywhere there is racing going on in 8 hours or less. A huge portion of that is less than 6 hours, and there are plenty of good solid regional shows within 2 hours or less. When I was racing Supers I used to dream about being able to go out and run the roads on a regional level and I thought about where I would live if I could pick based on that. I figured I couldn't do any better that where I'm at right now. Even if you wanted to race on a National level, the farthest races would be tracks like Lernerville and up in the North East, or the races that go past the midwest region. Maybe I'm biased. If I had to pick somewhere other than that, I would say middle to northern Tennessee would be your best bet to be right smack in the middle of everything. That puts you within a reasonable commute to do the Hell Tour, you could still cover a lot of SAS, Schaeffer's, even the Carolina's, and you would be a little closer to some of the action that happens up in the North East.

[MasterSbilt_Racer]

That is incorrect. There are a lot of good Late Model teams in Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, Arkansas, etc. which are all west of Illinois.

There are a few national teams. Some other decent regional teams. Is it near what there is from the coast thru Indiana? No way.

[fryefan]

Off topic, but the best racing is in Iowa and Missouri where they have formats that produce good racing. The freight-train format that UMP uses leads to a lot of snoozers (I am aware that there are some exceptions).

[Taboo62]

Why do you think Bloomer located himself in northeastern Tennessee?

Because his dad owned land there and Kingsport was paying $2K a week for weekly racing back then(Early/Mid 80's). Just a fact.

[BloomerWon]

Because his dad owned land there and Kingsport was paying $2K a week for weekly racing back then(Early/Mid 80's). Just a fact.

True that. Geographically the center point of dlm racing. Still is...

[Highside Hustler25]

Tennessee/Kentucky area would be my guess as well.

If you said Illinois, I don't think you understood the question.

[Bloomerdirtking]

Definitely it is Brooks Road, Mooresburg Tennessee 👍🏼

[flagone]

When you are talking GEOGRAPHICALLY based on where the highest concentration of DLM races happen it is absolutely closest to Florence Speedway. It is one of the reasons that the NDLMHoF remains there and not at Eldora or anywhere else.

[JimmyOinthe20fan]

Scott Bloomquist, Jimmy Owens, Mike Marlar, Shannon Buckingham, John Blankenship, Vic Hill, Donald McIntosh race team all racing out of 50 mile radius. I'd say some where around the I 40 and 1 81 split.

[MasterSbilt_Racer]

Scott Bloomquist, Jimmy Owens, Mike Marlar, Shannon Buckingham, John Blankenship, Vic Hill, Donald McIntosh race team all racing out of 50 mile radius. I'd say some where around the I 40 and 1 81 split.

That's how many Conley's we have. 🤣

[Barbecueboy]

Tennessee/Kentucky area would be my guess as well.

If you said Illinois, I don't think you understood the question.

Didn't take it literal.....took it more as which state is the toughest to win in if you don't live there....the most talent and Slm racing per sq. mile I guess?