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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.
NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series: In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip (Pomona Raceway) Pomona: California: 1951: Concrete: 1/4 mile: NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series: Keystone Raceway Park: New Alexandria
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 ...
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Georgia is home to approximately twenty-two race tracks and drag strips. Some of the twenty-two tracks in Georgia are the Atlanta Motor Speedway, Road Atlanta (where the Petit Le Mans is held), Atlanta Dragway, Dixie Speedway and Roebling Road Raceway. [22] One of the most famous racers to come from Georgia is Bill Elliott. [23]
104.3 Drag strips. 105 South Korea. ... Luddenham Raceway, Luddenham, New South Wales; Mallala Motor Sport Park, ... Georgia. Rustavi International Motorpark, ...
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.
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.