Hagerstown Speedway
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Raced
- 1952
- State
- Maryland
- What's left
- A good length of the old track surface is still there, in poor to good condition.
- Raced on
- At an oval speedway
- First race
- April 20, 1952
- Surface
- Clay
- Location
- Six miles west of Hagerstown
- People
- King Promotions, promoter (1952)
- Elevation
- 369 ft (113 m)
- Coordinates
- 39.66099, -77.84524
The first drag race at this clay half-mile oval, six miles west of Hagerstown, ran Sunday, April 20, 1952, and Earl Douglas won overall in his 1951 Mercury. It went over well enough to run again the next week, this time open to spectators. King Promotions of Washington, D.C., promoted the drags, which ran weekly through 1952.
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