Cherokee County Motorsports Park (Rusk)
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Ashley Force won her first NHRA race there in June 2004
- Hosted NHRA Division 4 Lucas Oil events from 2004 to 2007
- Raced
- 2004-8?
- State
- Texas
- What's left
- A good length of the old track surface is still there, in poor to good condition.
- Raced on
- Built as a drag strip
- First race
- 2004
- Last race
- 2008 (last documented)
- Track
- 1/4 mile
- Location
- About two miles south of Rusk
- People
- Johnny Isaacs, builder (2004)
- Ken Hall, operator and lessee (2004-06)
- Molly Hall, operator and lessee (2004-06)
- Adam Attaway, lessee (2006)
- Sanction
- NHRA
- Elevation
- 505 ft (154 m)
- Coordinates
- 31.75199, -95.14156
Johnny Isaacs built this NHRA-sanctioned quarter-mile strip about two miles south of Rusk in 2004, and Ken and Molly Hall ran it. At the NHRA Division 4 Lucas Oil race in mid-June 2004, Ashley Force won the first NHRA race of her career in a top alcohol dragster and set a track record of 5.453 at 259.36 MPH. The strip hosted another Division 4 Lucas Oil event in mid-June 2005, where Steve Torrence won top alcohol dragster. In 2006 Adam Attaway and Red River Raceway owners Ken and Molly Hall were reported to have leased the track to run under NHRA sanction, and Spencer Massey won the top alcohol dragster class at that year’s Lucas Oil event. A two-day Lucas Oil event followed in mid-May 2007. When the strip closed isn’t known, but the last record found is from 2008.
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