Unnamed drag strip (Elfrida)
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Raced
- 1958
- State
- Arizona
- What's left
- You can still spot it in aerial photos, or broken pieces of the track surface remain.
- On the site today
- Airstrip barely visible in satellite photos
- Raced on
- An airport runway
- First race
- August 24, 1958
- Location
- Abandoned airstrip six miles due north of Elfrida, just west of old Highway 666 (now U.S. 191)
- People
- Highway Saints Drag Club, sponsor (1958)
- Elevation
- 4,215 ft (1,285 m)
- Coordinates
- 31.77601, -109.70978
On August 24, 1958, the Highway Saints Drag Club sponsored a race on an abandoned airstrip six miles due north of Elfrida, just west of what was then Highway 666 (now U.S. Highway 191). The strip is barely visible in satellite photos today. The program included an exhibition race between two kids driving Micro Midgets. A Sunday race there in October 1958 was rained out and moved to October 12. General admission was 50 cents, and a pit pass cost another 50 cents.
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