Mobile Drag Strip/Dauphin Island Dragway
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Don Garlits appeared there in April 1959
- Raced
- ca. 1959-63
- State
- Alabama
- What's left
- The site was redeveloped, but the strip or its layout lives on in whatever replaced it.
- First race
- on or before April 10, 1959
- Location
- On Cedar Point Road in Mobile; possibly near Drag Strip Lane in Coden
- People
- Don G. Baldwin, incorporator (1958)
- Frank B. Baldwin, incorporator (1958)
- Helen Baldwin, incorporator (1958)
- Betty Jo Goforth, incorporator (1958)
- Bob C. Goforth, incorporator (1958)
- Pascagoula Timing Association, race sponsor (1963)
- Elevation
- 11 ft (4 m)
- Coordinates
- 30.39685, -88.11379
Ads from 1959 put this strip on Cedar Point Road in Mobile. Don G. Baldwin, Frank B. Baldwin, Helen Baldwin, Betty Jo Goforth and Bob C. Goforth filed incorporation papers for the Mobile Drag Strip on November 19, 1958. It was open by April 10, 1959, when Don Garlits appeared at a Sunday race. By April 7, 1963, it had become Dauphin Island Dragway, with races sponsored by the Pascagoula Timing Association and run under NASCAR rules. Everything known comes from newspaper ads, and the exact site hasn’t been pinned down. Cedar Point Road becomes Dauphin Island Parkway, and near the south end of the parkway in Coden is a Drag Strip Lane that may mark the old strip. Topographic maps from 1975, 1984 and 1986 show what could be a drag strip or an airfield landing strip.
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