Avra Valley Drag Strip (Tucson)
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Raced
- 1959
- State
- Arizona
- What's left
- You can still spot it in aerial photos, or broken pieces of the track surface remain.
- On the site today
- Marana Regional Airport
- Raced on
- An airport runway
- First race
- September 13, 1959 (grand opening)
- Location
- On Avra Valley Road, off the Casa Grande Highway, about five miles outside Tucson
- Elevation
- 2,023 ft (617 m)
- Coordinates
- 32.41314, -111.21630
This strip on Avra Valley Road, a short way off the Casa Grande Highway about five miles outside Tucson, held its grand opening on September 13, 1959. The opening announcement is the only record found. The racing almost certainly took place at what is now Marana Regional Airport.
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