Lime Rock Park
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Raced
- 1958
- State
- Connecticut
- What's left
- A good length of the old track surface is still there, in poor to good condition.
- On the site today
- Lime Rock road course, still operating
- First race
- March 29-30, 1958
- Last race
- March 29-30, 1958
- Track
- 1/4 mile (on a 2,000-foot straightaway)
- Surface
- Asphalt
- Location
- Straightaway of the Lime Rock road course
- People
- Jim Vaill, builder and owner of the road course
- Elevation
- 599 ft (183 m)
- Coordinates
- 41.92752, -73.38345
Jim Vaill built a 1.5-mile asphalt road course in Lime Rock, on a site where he also owned and ran a gravel pit, and it opened in 1957. The course, still running today, has a 2,000-foot straightaway 40 feet wide, which was used for timed quarter-mile drag races on March 29-30, 1958. Newspapers called it the first drag racing event of the season, which suggests there may have been drag racing in 1957, but nothing has been found to show it. No other drag race at the course has turned up.
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