Eddyville Dragway
ActiveActive Still racing today.
Also known as Eddyville Raceway Park
An eighth-mile strip on more than 60 acres between Eddyville and Oskaloosa that opened in 1965, now operating as Eddyville Raceway Park. It runs weekly brackets and a few big shows, including a nitro funny car and fuel altered weekend.
- Tommy Johnson, Jr. started racing here
- Record 161 cars on August 3, 1969
- Tommy Ivo ran his four-engine dragster here in 1982
- Raced
- 1965-present
- State
- Iowa
- Raced on
- Built as a drag strip
- Track
- 1/8 mile
- Address
- 3260 Merino Ave
Oskaloosa, IA 52577 - People
- John Rempe, builder and owner (until 1993)
- Carl Moyer, owner (1993-2006)
- Scott Gardner, co-owner (2006-14)
- Gerald Kramer, owner (2006-)
- Sanction
- IHRA, WDRA
- Elevation
- 710 ft (216 m)
- Coordinates
- 41.18104, -92.63192
Big races
Funny Car Nationals / World Fuel Altered Nationals
Two eight-car fields each of fuel altereds and funny cars, plus a shootout for non-qualifiers and sportsman heads-up classes.
WDRA Midwest Bracket Finals
Regional bracket finals for WDRA member tracks, which the track bills itself as the home of.
Friday test-and-tune and Saturday brackets
Friday fun nights and Saturday bracket and points racing, with classes like Sweet Corn Outlaws and Mopar foot brake; adults $10 to $15, kids free.
History
John Rempe built this eighth-mile strip on sixty acres eight miles south of Oskaloosa and owned it from its opening until 1993, when he sold it to Carl Moyer of Ankeny. Moyer rebuilt the place completely, with a much bigger pit area and modern amenities. Scott Gardner, owner of Cordova Dragway in Illinois, and Gerald Kramer of Pella bought it in 2006, and Gardner sold his share to Kramer in 2014. It now runs as Eddyville Raceway Park under IHRA sanction. On Sunday, June 12, 1966, Nile Cornelison was booked for three exhibition runs in his “Voo Doo” dragster. On Saturday night, August 3, 1969, a record 161 cars raced before a capacity crowd. Tommy Ivo brought his four-engine dragster in 1982. Fuel driver Tommy Johnson, Jr. started his racing career at Eddyville.
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