Guntersville Drag Strip
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Trophies awarded in 37 classes at the first race
- Raced
- 1957-59
- State
- Alabama
- What's left
- A good length of the old track surface is still there, in poor to good condition.
- Raced on
- An airport runway
- First race
- September 8, 1957
- Surface
- Airstrip coated with asphalt and sand
- Location
- At the Guntersville airport
- People
- Night Hawks car club, operator (1957-59)
- Elevation
- 733 ft (223 m)
- Coordinates
- 34.34575, -86.31271
The Night Hawks car club ran this strip at the Guntersville airport, coating the airstrip with a mix of asphalt and sand. The first race was on September 8, 1957, with trophies in 37 classes. Billy “Cowbird” Cowen was the flagman in 1959.
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