Midway Speedway/Drag Strip (Gatesville)
Nothing leftNothing left No longer racing, and nothing of the track remains.
- Competed with the Road Angels' Drag Strip four miles away
- Raced
- 1956-59
- State
- Texas
- What's left
- The site was never redeveloped, but every trace of the strip has been removed.
- Raced on
- Built as a drag strip
- First race
- April 8, 1956
- Track
- 1/2 mile
- Surface
- Dirt, then paved
- Location
- Highway 84 (McGregor Highway) near Coryell Creek, six or eight miles east of Gatesville
- People
- Central Texas Timers Association, helped run races (1956)
- Elevation
- 787 ft (240 m)
- Coordinates
- 31.42295, -97.60899
This half-mile strip was built in 1956 and competed for racers and fans with the Road Angels’ Drag Strip, built the same year four miles to the west and closer to Gatesville. Midway Speedway was six (or eight) miles east of Gatesville on Highway 84, the McGregor Highway, near Coryell Creek. It opened April 8, 1956, and 500 people watched the April 15 race. It started as a graded dirt strip and was paved by June 1. The Central Texas Timers Association helped run the races.
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