Bostian Crossroads Drag Strip
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
Also known as Sloop Airport
- Raced
- 1961
- State
- North Carolina
- What's left
- You can still spot it in aerial photos, or broken pieces of the track surface remain.
- On the site today
- Known as Sloop Airport
- Raced on
- An airport runway
- First race
- March 19, 1961
- Location
- Bostian Crossroads, later Sloop Airport
- People
- Arnold Barnhardt, track manager (1961)
- Elevation
- 788 ft (240 m)
- Coordinates
- 35.52211, -80.52294
This strip opened March 19, 1961, racing Sundays and Wednesday nights under Perfection Timing sanction, with Arnold Barnhardt as manager. Eliminator and class winners got trophies and cash. Nothing has been found beyond 1961. The site has more recently been known as Sloop Airport.
