Barberton Speedway
Status unknownStatus unknown Closed, but nobody has checked how much of the site survives, or the exact spot was never found.
- The Arfons brothers' first three Green Monster dragsters appeared here in 1954
- Raced
- 1954
- State
- Ohio
- What's left
- How much of the site survives hasn't been checked yet.
- On the site today
- Operating oval speedway
- Raced on
- At an oval speedway
- First race
- July 14, 1954
- Location
- Barberton Speedway quarter-mile oval
- Elevation
- 986 ft (301 m)
- Coordinates
- 41.03675, -81.61702
The Arfons brothers’ first three Green Monster dragsters made appearances, of a sort, at this quarter-mile oval on July 14, 1954. A later Green Monster showed up in 1962, though it may never have started or made a run. The oval was built in 1948 and still operates.
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