Iowa State Fairgrounds (Des Moines)
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Raced
- 1980
- State
- Iowa
- What's left
- A good length of the old track surface is still there, in poor to good condition.
- Raced on
- Fairgrounds
- First race
- June 1980
- Surface
- Dirt
- Location
- Half-mile dirt oval at the Iowa State Fairgrounds
- People
- Lefty Robinson, ran the program (1980)
- Elevation
- 808 ft (246 m)
- Coordinates
- 41.59665, -93.55547
Newspapers advertised spectator drag races every Saturday night from June 1980 on the State Fair’s half-mile dirt oval. Cars were paired off, but they probably didn’t race on just a straightaway, so it likely wasn’t true drag racing. Lefty Robinson ran the program.
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