Camp Wheeler Drag Strip (Macon)
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Don Nicholson ran 11.24 in his A/FX Mercury Comet station wagon on January 16, 1964
- Raced
- 1957-64?
- State
- Georgia
- What's left
- A good length of the old track surface is still there, in poor to good condition.
- First race
- 1957
- Surface
- Concrete
- Location
- Concrete roadway on the former Camp Wheeler World War II base
- People
- Charles Baker, owner
- Elevation
- 372 ft (113 m)
- Coordinates
- 32.81911, -83.56721
Racing at this strip started as early as 1957, though incorporation papers weren’t filed until April 14, 1961. Cars ran on a concrete road on the site of the former World War II military base, and Charles Baker was the owner. On January 16, 1964, Don Nicholson ran 11.24 here in his ‘64 fiberglass A/FX Mercury Comet Marauder station wagon. The track’s exact location and years of operation haven’t been pinned down. One longtime racer thought it closed soon after Warner Robins opened in 1965, but another track is documented as running in Macon in 1968.
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