North Carolina · The Carolinas · The Southeast
We cover dirt and asphalt.
Local Race Chat was a state of the art news and message board in North Carolina, and a community of dirt and asphalt fans. From 2005 into 2016 it carried race news, results and argument from thirty four short tracks across the Carolinas and the Southeast.
This site is an archive restoration. Local Race Chat closed in 2016. The board is not live, no accounts are being taken, and nothing here accepts posts. How this was rebuilt.
What Local Race Chat was
A short track board, run by the people who went to the races
LRC ran on a vBulletin board with a news portal on the front page. Track operators posted schedules, racers argued setups in the tech section, and results went up the same night they were run. It was regional, unglamorous and busy.
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Board sections, from the track forums to tech to the back stretch.
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Tracks with a forum of their own, dirt and asphalt.
2005
First capture, November 2005. The last useful one is November 2016.
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Thread URLs the Internet Archive holds from the board.
Around the site
Racing News
Fifty one dated headlines recovered from the front page portal, each with the member who posted it and a link to the capture.
The Forums
The full board directory as it stood in 2016, all forty eight sections in the seven categories they were filed under.
Tracks We Covered
Thirty four short tracks from Bowman Gray Stadium to Virginia Motor Speedway, each with a forum of its own.
From the news archive
Respect is the key
The house rules said it plainly
This is NOT a forum to openly bash individuals, tracks, or officials. As always, we ask that subjects be related to racing, and if you have something to say, please do it in a respectful way. Read the site rules as they were written.
