Kansas State Fairgrounds (Hutchinson)
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Drag races run with the Jayhawk 200 stock car race
- Raced
- 1959
- State
- Kansas
- What's left
- A good length of the old track surface is still there, in poor to good condition.
- Raced on
- Fairgrounds
- Location
- Straightaway of the half-mile oval at the Kansas State Fairgrounds
- People
- Frank R. Winkley, promoter (1959)
- Elevation
- 1,534 ft (468 m)
- Coordinates
- 38.07708, -97.92375
Minneapolis promoter Frank R. Winkley came up with the idea of tying drag races to major stock car events in 1959, as stock car racing looked to cash in on drag racing’s popularity. At the Kansas State Fair, drag races ran under portable floodlights on the straightaway of the half-mile oval along with the Jayhawk 200. Time trials were set for Saturday night and eliminations for Sunday night, with trophies for class winners.
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- Closed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there. Jetmore Municipal Airport 1961