Midstate Dragway/Central Illinois Dragway (Havana)
ActiveActive Still racing today.
Also known as Mason County Raceway
Eighth-mile track near Havana in central Illinois that went back to its original Midstate Dragway name after Vashawn Young bought it in 2022. It runs IHRA points races, big bracket weekends and nostalgia events.
- Raced
- 1969-present
- State
- Illinois
- First race
- 1969
- Track
- 1/8 mile
- Address
- 12016 N County Rd 1650 E
Havana, IL 62644 - Sanction
- IHRA
- Elevation
- 497 ft (152 m)
- Coordinates
- 40.23537, -90.05606
Big races
Midstate Twin 10K Bracket Series
Three-day bracket weekend with $10,000-to-win races on Saturday and Sunday plus junior dragster and no-box bonuses.
Edelbrock Sick 66 stop
Sick the Magazine's Sick 66 drag-and-drive tour uses Midstate as one of its racing stops.
Nitro Chaos / Nostalgia Drags
Two nostalgia drag events a year, including a nitro-themed weekend with trackside camping.
Friday test-and-tune and Saturday brackets
Friday night test and tune and Saturday bracket racing, plus no-prep, street car, motorcycle and junior dragster programs.
Sick 66
A drag-and-drive: racers drive their street cars from track to track over several days and race at each stop.
History
The track’s website says it opened in 1969, and 8mm film shows racing there in 1971. Newspapers had it open every Sunday starting in March 1972, with ads promising top cars and top payout. In 1977 and 1978 it was advertised for sale or lease. It went by Mason County Raceway around 1994-2003, and in 2011 the eighth-mile strip was renamed Central Illinois Dragway.
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