Hope Drag Strip
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Richard Tharpe set an Arkansas record of 209.78 mph in the Bush-Payne top fueler in 1966
- Raced
- 1965-68
- State
- Arkansas
- 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
- by 1965
- Surface
- Runway
- Location
- Hope Municipal Airport, four miles northwest of Hope
- People
- Bob Thompson, track manager (1967)
- Sanction
- NHRA
- Elevation
- 341 ft (104 m)
- Coordinates
- 33.71975, -93.65905
Drag races ran at Hope Municipal Airport, four miles northwest of Hope, by 1965 and possibly earlier, every two weeks that year. On June 12, 1966, Richard Tharpe drove the Bush-Payne top fueler from Dallas to a track and Arkansas record of 209.78 mph. By 1967 the track was NHRA-sanctioned and raced on the second and fourth Sundays, with Bob Thompson as manager.
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