Fort McMurray Highway Drag Racing
Nothing leftNothing left No longer racing, and nothing of the track remains.
- First highway drag racing permitted in Alberta in fifteen years
- Raced
- 1977
- Province
- Alberta
- What's left
- The site was never redeveloped, but every trace of the strip has been removed.
- Raced on
- A public road
- Track
- 1/4 mile
- Location
- Lynton Road, ten miles south of Fort McMurray, bypassing the airport toward the Lynton rail yard
- People
- Clearwater car club, race organizer (1977)
- Elevation
- 1,243 ft (379 m)
- Coordinates
- 56.64124, -111.17014
The Clearwater car club was the first in Alberta in fifteen years allowed to drag race on a public highway. Quarter-mile races ran on a stretch of Lynton Road ten miles south of town, a road that bypassed the airport on the way to the Lynton rail yard. The strip had a small hill at the end. At a June 1977 race, 600 spectators paid $2 each to watch Garry Whitfield take King of the Hill in his Roadrunner. Timing was done with makeshift equipment, and a fire truck and ambulance were always on hand. The club hoped to hold six races in 1977.
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