Blaney Drag Strip (Elgin)
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Hosted NHRA regional points meets from 1969
- Ray Beadle set a 6.28 at 220.04 MPH funny car track record in 1976
- Raced
- ca. 1962-ca. 1983?
- State
- South Carolina
- What's left
- The site was redeveloped, but the strip or its layout lives on in whatever replaced it.
- On the site today
- Residential area
- Location
- Elgin, twenty miles north of Columbia
- People
- Hazel Mayers Smith, incorporator (1962)
- Ed Smith, track manager (1969)
- Sanction
- NHRA
- Elevation
- 373 ft (114 m)
- Coordinates
- 34.16725, -80.76667
Hazel Mayers Smith filed incorporation papers for this strip on June 19, 1962. It was in Elgin, twenty miles north of Columbia, and was NHRA sanctioned by March 1969, when Ed Smith was the manager. Big purses and frequent match races brought in racers, and from 1969 it hosted NHRA regional points meets. Don Garlits raced at a points meet in 1975. At the 1976 points meet Gary Beck won top fuel and Ray Beadle won funny car, setting a track record of 6.28 at 220.04 MPH. The site is a residential area today, and the years the track ran are still uncertain.
