Collierville Drag Strip
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Raced
- 1963-70
- State
- Mississippi
- What's left
- You can still spot it in aerial photos, or broken pieces of the track surface remain.
- On the site today
- A road in a junkyard
- Raced on
- Built as a drag strip
- First race
- possibly May 31, 1963
- Track
- 1/4 mile
- Surface
- Asphalt
- Location
- On U.S. 72, about a mile into Tennessee
- Elevation
- 407 ft (124 m)
- Coordinates
- 34.98705, -89.60803
This strip may have opened Friday, May 31, 1963. It’s named for the Tennessee town to the northwest but sits about a mile into Mississippi on U.S. 72. On November 22, 1964, it featured a match race between Joe Lunati and Jerry Inman in his ‘40 Willys. The quarter-mile asphalt track shows on a 1969 aerial photo and is now a run-down road in a junkyard.
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