Mo-Kan Dragway (Asbury)
ActiveActive Still racing today.
IHRA member strip near Asbury in the southwest corner of Missouri, open since 1962. It runs quarter-mile, 1,000-foot and eighth-mile races and has a packed calendar of small-tire, funny car, nostalgia and drag-and-drive events.
- Oldest continuously run drag strip in Missouri
- Don Garlits and Benny Osborn match raced there in 1966
- Raced
- 1962-present
- State
- Missouri
- Raced on
- Built as a drag strip
- First race
- 1962
- Track
- 1/4 mile and 1/8 mile
- Address
- 30753 Baseline Blvd
Asbury, MO 64832 - People
- Jim and Ron Wilbert, original owners (1962-1999)
- Carl Blanton, owner (1999-)
- Sanction
- IHRA
- Elevation
- 915 ft (279 m)
- Coordinates
- 37.31236, -94.61556
Big races
Edelbrock Sick 66
Sick the Magazine's week-long drag and drive starts and finishes at Mo-Kan.
Funny Car Chaos and Nitro Chaos
Weekends for outlaw-style funny cars and nitro exhibition cars.
Memorial Weekend Classic and Labor Day Weekend Classic
Holiday weekend bracket races that count toward track points.
Titans of 10.5 and American Hot Rod Reunion
A 10.5-inch tire heads-up race in August and a fall nostalgia hot rod gathering.
The Circuit
A drag-and-drive: racers drive their street cars from track to track over several days and race at each stop.
Race Week 2.0
A drag-and-drive: racers drive their street cars from track to track over several days and race at each stop.
Sick 66
A drag-and-drive: racers drive their street cars from track to track over several days and race at each stop.
Rocky Mountain Race Week
A drag-and-drive: racers drive their street cars from track to track over several days and race at each stop.
History
Jim and Ron Wilbert were among the original owners of Mo-Kan Dragway, the oldest continuously run drag strip in Missouri. Its website says it has operated at the same spot since 1962, two miles north of Asbury and ten miles southeast of Pittsburg, Kansas. Races ran every Sunday. Walt Arfons ran his ‘Green Monster’ jet dragster there on October 27, 1963, and came back for exhibitions on June 21 and October 4, 1964. Benny Osborn and Don Garlits met in a match race on May 8, 1966, and an AHRA Grand American divisional points race ran May 19, 1968. Good shows with regular big-name bookings kept it going. Jack Chrisman, Dickie Harrell, Stone-Woods-Cook, Tommy Ivo and E. J. ‘The Michigan Madman’ Potter all appeared in the 1960s and 1970s. Carl Blanton bought the track from the Wilberts in 1999.
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