3-B Drag Strip (Newton)

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Also known as Dale County Dragway

Billy "Big Deal" Jacobs took top eliminator in his '61 Super Stocker on August 20, 1961

Raced: 1961-64
State: Alabama
What's left: You can still spot it in aerial photos, or broken pieces of the track surface remain.
First race: June 25, 1961
Surface: Paved
Location: One mile off Highway 231, one mile north of Newton
People: Frank Moring, owner (1963)
Eldon Phillips, owner (1963)
Don York, owner (1963)
Elevation: 178 ft (54 m)
Coordinates: 31.35950, -85.59349

This pin shares its exact coordinates with another strip in the source data, so it may be misplaced.

This paved strip sat a mile off Highway 231, one mile north of Newton, which put it eight miles south of Ozark and fourteen miles north of Dothan. It opened on June 25, 1961. At a race on August 20, 1961, Billy “Big Deal” Jacobs took top eliminator in his ‘61 Super Stocker. New owners Frank Moring, Eldon Phillips and Don York took over in September 1963. Racing seems to have stopped around 1964, and the track appears to have come back around 1980 as Dale County Dragway.

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