Cordova Island drag strip (El Paso)
Status unknownStatus unknown Closed, but nobody has checked how much of the site survives, or the exact spot was never found.
- Races were held on internationally disputed land between the U.S. and Mexico
- Raced
- mid-1960s
- State
- Texas
- What's left
- How much of the site survives hasn't been checked yet.
- On the site today
- National Monument
- Raced on
- A public road
- Surface
- Paved road
- Location
- Cordova Island, the disputed land between El Paso and Juárez
- People
- Reymundo "el Rey" Sandoval, organizer (mid-1960s)
- Club Aceleración Juarense, organizer (mid-1960s)
- Elevation
- 3,704 ft (1,129 m)
- Coordinates
- 31.75707, -106.46138
In the mid-1960s Reymundo “el Rey” Sandoval organized Club Aceleración Juarense to hold drag races on the internationally disputed land between El Paso and Juárez, as a venture in international cooperation in racing. A man who went once remembered a new paved road lined on both sides with young, evenly spaced cottonwood trees, and said only a few races were held. The United States acquired the land on October 28, 1967, in the exchange of parcels agreed in the Chamizal Convention of 1963, and it is now a National Monument. Despite the name, it wasn’t really an island. The land lay on both sides of the current channel of the Rio Grande.
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