Yes New Jersey Has Stock Car Racing

  I have been a regular at many of the various stock car tracks located in New Jersey most of my life. Yes, New Jersey has stock car racing. It has dirt tracks, an asphalt oval, an asphalt road course, and it even has hosted a Nascar Craftsman Truck Series  race not too many years ago at the since closed Flemington Speedway.
  When it came time for me to take my three year old son to an actually race for the first time, my choice was a natural one for me, Wall Stadium. The 1/3 mile high banked oval located in Belmar, down the Jersey Shore, was the sight of my first race. I went there with my father, and now I got to take my son. When we arrived at the track for it's Opening Night, we were joined by a friend and his daughter, and my brother, his girlfriend, and her young daughter.
  A short time after their arrival, I was greeted with the question I get from most first time local track race attendees. My brother's girlfriend asked, "Is Dale Earnhardt Jr. here?" Needless to say he wasn't.
  Her initial disappointment was quickly replaced by her enjoyment of the night's races. The Legend cars zipped around the track, their small size making the track look like a superspeedway. The Street Stocks banged doors all the way around the track, reminding me of how Nascar used to be. And the Modifieds, an open wheel car actually faster than Sprint Cup cars, put on a race Nascar wished they got every week on television.
  Yes New Jersey has stock car racing, and if you are a Nascar fan and haven't yet visited one of these tracks, you are truly missing out. The racing on most nights is much, much better than anything you'll see on a Nascar telecast. Do yourself a favor and get out to Wall Stadium, New Egypt Speedway, or Bridgeport Speedway.