Kansas City International Raceway
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Hosted the AHRA Finals on October 4-6, 1968
- Raced
- 1967-2011
- State
- Missouri
- What's left
- You can still spot it in aerial photos, or broken pieces of the track surface remain.
- On the site today
- City public park (planned)
- Raced on
- Built as a drag strip
- Last race
- November 27, 2011
- Address
- 8201 S. Noland Road, Kansas City
- People
- Jim Rodgers, track manager (1968)
- Mr. and Mrs. Charles Harmon Jr., co-owners and operators (1980)
- Sanction
- AHRA, NHRA
- Elevation
- 796 ft (242 m)
- Coordinates
- 38.97651, -94.42227
This strip on 93 acres at 8201 S. Noland Road in Kansas City largely took the place of the old Kansas City Timing Association strip. It was NHRA-sanctioned as early as January 1968 but switched to AHRA a few months later. Jim Rodgers managed it in 1968, when it raced every Sunday from March through November and hosted an AHRA Grand American points race on July 20 and the AHRA Finals on October 4-6. Another AHRA Grand American race ran July 4-7, 1974. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Harmon Jr. co-owned and ran it in 1980, racing Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The last race was November 27, 2011, and the city bought the property for a public park.
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