Boyd Raceway

It’s an interesting story on how I came to be at the Boyd Raceway this (past) Saturday. Basically a friend of mine is a professional pyro-​technician (Is that a word? Anyway, he puts on firework shows). The Boyd Raceway firework show for the 4^th of July was rained out and this was the rescheduled day. I was out there to help with the show (setting up, and then loading /​re-​loading launch tubes during the show — Talk about a blast!).
So after showing up well before the races even start, and getting my special «pit pass» wrist band, we start setting up the show. Once that is done, we have some time to kill before the races start and even more time until the show. So I end with a lot of time to do some exploring and watch plenty of racing. This was a very busy night as there were a lot of makeup races due to all the rain earlier in the month.
The classes for tonight were: IMCA Modified, IMCA Stock Car, IMCA Southern Sport Mod, IMCA Hobby Stock & Mini Stock and also featured the Lucas Oil ASCS Sprint Cars & Smiley’s 305 Sprint Cars.
The sprint cars were particularly amazing as I could not believe the speed they would reach on the rack. Oh, the track. So this is a short oval dirt track, which I do think makes thinks very interesting. It takes a different kind of racing skill to keep it together on a dirt track. Most of the racers did a great job, but some did not. Now factor in that only about ¹⁄₃ of the track has any kind of a wall or barrier, and where we were set up for the show was not one of those places. We saw several cars come flying over the banked track. Very thrilling!
Even though I was working, this turned out to be a very cool introduction to the Boyd Raceway, and I’ve kind of made a mental note to come back and enjoy the raceway from the stands. It struck me a a very unique and interesting way to spend a Friday.
There is a concession stand, and the food looked OK, though I did not try it. It also seemed bringing a cooler was allowed, but you might want to double check on that.
PS. See the website (
) for map and location, as Google does not map Private Road 4786 (Yahoo! does though), which is what you want. 4786 is off County Road 4781, just south of FTM 4028. Yes, you are practically in the middle of nowhere!