Fischer Farm drag strip (Pilot Point)
Nothing leftNothing left No longer racing, and nothing of the track remains.
- Railroad ties and steel cable lined the strip to protect spectators
- Raced
- 1960s
- State
- Texas
- What's left
- The site was never redeveloped, but every trace of the strip has been removed.
- On the site today
- Private landing strip (as of the early 1970s)
- Raced on
- Built as a drag strip
- Track
- 3/4 mile
- Surface
- Concrete
- Location
- Albert Fischer farm, southwest of Pilot Point
- People
- Albert Fischer, farm owner
- Jerry Fischer, owner's son, later turned it into an airstrip (early 1970s)
- Elevation
- 677 ft (206 m)
- Coordinates
- 33.39075, -96.97690
In the early 1960s a three-quarter-mile concrete drag strip was built on Albert Fischer’s farm southwest of Pilot Point. His son Jerry remembered all kinds of people coming out on Sundays to race. Old railroad ties were sunk along the side of the strip with heavy steel cable strung between them, so a car that got away from its driver wouldn’t hit anyone standing by the track. People stood along the edge or sat in their cars to watch, and plenty of them raced too. As drag racing’s popularity faded, the strip was left to the weeds. In the early 1970s Jerry Fischer fixed it up as a private landing strip for planes.
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