Unnamed drag strip (Irving)

Nothing left

Also known as Sunset

Remembered as a private test strip in a corn field

Raced: late 1960s
State: Texas
What's left: The site was redeveloped and nothing of the strip remains.
Location: Just east of the President George W. Bush Turnpike (TX-141) and Texas 114 Express Toll Road, south of a gravel road toward Story Road
People: Bob Harrington, owner, used it as a private test strip
Elevation: 487 ft (148 m)
Coordinates: 32.88186, -96.98280

What’s known about this strip comes from the memories of a few old-timers. The best directions put it on a barren tract just east of where the President George W. Bush Turnpike (TX-141) meets the Texas 114 Express Toll Road. One old-timer gave the most detail: a gravel road turned south and then east toward Story Road, and the track lay south of it, running north and south in a corn field. With nothing else around, it looked almost like a runway. He said Gary Byers remembered seeing cars run there and thought it may have been called Sunset, but he had only heard of it as the private test strip of Bob Harrington, and maybe Mark Harrington. The Harringtons’ son had a pro stock car.

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