Kreamer 522 Drag O'Way (Selinsgrove)
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
Also known as 522 Drag-O-Way
- A jury awarded a spectator $55,000 in 1971 after a 1969 clutch explosion
- Raced
- 1963-1970s
- State
- Pennsylvania
- What's left
- You can still spot it in aerial photos, or broken pieces of the track surface remain.
- On the site today
- Pig farm with roofed pens over the strip
- First race
- June 2, 1963
- Track
- 1/5 mile, later 1/8 mile
- Location
- About five miles west of Selinsgrove on Route 522, off Sportsman's Drive in Middlecreek Township
- People
- Cloyd Herman, owner
- Francis Moll, general manager (1963)
- Elevation
- 637 ft (194 m)
- Coordinates
- 40.81726, -76.94409
This strip opened on June 2, 1963, about five miles west of Selinsgrove on Route 522, just off Sportsman’s Drive in Middlecreek Township. Cloyd Herman owned it, and Francis Moll was the first general manager. Races were timed over a fifth-mile at first and an eighth-mile by at least 1966. At an event on Sunday, August 11, 1963, Will Leitch won C/S in his 1960 Plymouth. Newspapers noted a small grass fire near the strip in September 1964. On June 22, 1969, a clutch explosion badly injured a 21-year-old spectator, and in 1971 a jury awarded him $55,000 for his disabling injuries. The site is now a pig farm, with long roofed pens built over the old strip.
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