Brown County Dragway (Bean Blossom)
ActiveActive Still racing today.
A rustic strip in the woods of Brown County, best known nationally for hosting the War in the Woods no-prep race.
- Runs as an outlaw track
- Has stayed in the same family for many years
- Raced
- 1963-present
- State
- Indiana
- First race
- 1963
- Track
- 1/8 mile
- Address
- Gatesville Rd, Morgantown, IN
- People
- Carl Brummett, owner, possibly the first (1970s and later)
- Donnie Allender, owner (until 1992)
- Tim Haney, owner (until 1992)
- Sandy Fields, owner and operator (1992-)
- Elevation
- 715 ft (218 m)
- Coordinates
- 39.26556, -86.24211
Big races
War in the Woods
A large two-day no-prep race founded by Jeff Thomas with small tire, big tire, true street, stick shift and nitrous classes; spectator admission is cash at the gate.
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
According to the track’s website, this outlaw eighth-mile strip opened in 1963. Carl Brummett may have been its first owner and certainly owned it in the 1970s and later. He died in 1995. The strip is on the north side of Gatesville Road in wooded country, five miles north of Nashville and half a mile east of Bean Blossom. Sandy Fields owns and runs it now. The strip has been in her family for many years, and she bought it in 1992 from her brother, Donnie Allender, and his business partner, Tim Haney.
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