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Atlanta Dragway was built in 1975 by Gene Bennett and originally had been graded out for an airport. The original airport tower served as the original timing tower, and the track direction was the same as the airport without asphalt, just Georgia red clay. In 1980, the track was sold to Norman Pearah and became an NHRA-sanctioned track.
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A dragstrip is a facility for conducting automobile and motorcycle acceleration events such as drag racing. Although a quarter mile (1320 feet, 402 m) is the best known measure for a drag track, many tracks are eighth mile (201 m) tracks, and the premiere classes will run 1,000 foot (304.8 m) races.
On April 8, 1958, The Atlanta Constitution reported that the First Georgia Securities Corporation, led by president Richard W. King, announced plans to build a $1 million (adjusted for inflation, $10,560,554), 50,000-seat, 400-acre racing facility 20 miles (32 km) south of Atlanta along a location near U.S. Route 41.
George Ray's Dragstrip is an automotive drag racing strip in Paragould, Arkansas. Built in 1961 by the famous George Ray, it is the oldest single-purpose drag racing facility in Arkansas. It is located on Arkansas Highway 135, east of Paragould, with racing occurring (in season and weather permitting) every Sunday.
On November 14, 1965, Richard Petty took home a victory in the "Georgia Cracker 300". November 13, 1966, saw Richard Petty win at the half mile oval with an average speed of 84.112. The movie Harder Charger was partly made. Tiny dropped out of the race with a broken distributor gear.
Savannah Dragway was an eighth-mile (200 m) dragstrip used by the NHRA located near in Savannah, Georgia. The track opened as a quarter-mile (400 m) facility in 1968, but safety concerns and rising insurance costs caused it to convert to the smaller distance in the mid-1980s. They were forced to close down at the end of 2005, this was because a ...
In addition, the Charlotte Motor Speedway complex features numerous adjacent tracks, including a 1 ⁄ 5 mile (0.32 km) clay short track, a 2 ⁄ 5 mile (0.64 km) dirt track, and a 1 ⁄ 4 mile (0.40 km) long drag strip. The main track also features an infield road course that is used with the oval to make a "roval".