Fairfield Drag Strip
Nothing leftNothing left No longer racing, and nothing of the track remains.
- Hosted an AHRA Grand American divisional points race on June 2, 1968
- Raced
- 1966-73
- State
- Illinois
- What's left
- The site was never redeveloped, but every trace of the strip has been removed.
- Location
- Route 45, 2.5 miles south of Fairfield
- Sanction
- AHRA
- Elevation
- 506 ft (154 m)
- Coordinates
- 38.34570, -88.36295
This strip, 2.5 miles south of Fairfield on Route 45, was open by 1966 if not earlier. It usually raced Friday nights in summer and Sunday afternoons in the cooler spring and fall months. It hosted an AHRA Grand American divisional points race on June 2, 1968, and ran the occasional match race, such as a three-out-of-five on May 17, 1970, between the “Hustling Hillbilly” Chevy II from Mayfield, Kentucky, and Rich Thomas in his Cuda from St. Louis.
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