El Dora Speedway (New Weston)
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Raced
- 1961
- State
- Ohio
- 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
- Surface
- Asphalt
- Location
- State Route 118, south of New Weston and about two miles north of Rossburg
- People
- Earl Baltes, builder and owner (1954-61)
- Elevation
- 1,021 ft (311 m)
- Coordinates
- 40.31925, -84.63558
Earl Baltes built a half-mile dirt track in 1954 on State Route 118, south of New Weston and about two miles due north of Rossburg. In early June 1961, newspapers reported that his new asphalt drag strip was almost ready to race. Nothing more about it has turned up.
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