Action Dragway/Crossroads Dragway/Wabash Valley Dragway (Terre Haute)
ActiveActive Still racing today.
An NHRA member eighth-mile strip at the Vigo County Fairgrounds south of Terre Haute, dating to the early 1970s. It is known for weekend bracket racing and the Bernie Mann Memorial no-delay race.
- Designed by NHRA Division 3 director Bob Daniels
- Bob Glidden won pro stock in August 1973
- Raced
- 1972-present
- State
- Indiana
- Raced on
- Built as a drag strip
- First race
- July 8, 1972
- Sanction
- NHRA Division 3
- Track
- 1/8 mile
- Address
- 3701 S US Highway 41
Terre Haute, IN - People
- Mike Hane, founder (1971)
- Bob Daniels, designer (1971)
- Elevation
- 482 ft (147 m)
- Coordinates
- 39.42195, -87.42117
- Contact
- racewabash.com (812) 233-0545
Big races
Bernie Mann Memorial No Delay Nationals
A long-running no-delay box race honoring local racer Bernie Mann, run by Final Call Promotions with more than $25,000 in prizes and racers from several states.
Weekly bracket racing and Drag and Meet nights
Weekend bracket racing with junior dragster programs, a Pink Ladies series and occasional drag-and-car-meet nights.
Back to the Streets
A drag-and-drive: racers drive their street cars from track to track over several days and race at each stop.
History
Mike Hane filed incorporation papers for this eighth-mile strip on November 9, 1971. It was built for $200,000 north of the Action Track, a half-mile dirt oval at the Vigo County Fairgrounds, now the Wabash Valley Fairgrounds. Bob Daniels, then director of NHRA’s Division 3, designed it, and it has been NHRA-sanctioned since it opened. It started with bleachers for 3,000 and a three-story timing tower. The grand opening ran on Saturday night, July 8, 1972, with Norm Paddack’s ‘72 Vega BB/FC from Indianapolis among the features. Ads that season urged women to have their guys take them where the action is. At a two-day event in August 1973, Bob Glidden won pro stock with a 5.76 at 122.28 mph. The track took the Wabash Valley Dragway name in 2002, was called Crossroads Dragway from 2009 to about 2018, and then went back to Wabash Valley. It still runs under NHRA sanction.
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