Montague County Fairgrounds (Bowie)
Status unknownStatus unknown Closed, but nobody has checked how much of the site survives, or the exact spot was never found.
- Motorcycle acceleration races during fair week
- A loose Brahma bull hooked a stunt rider
- Raced
- 1948
- State
- Texas
- What's left
- The exact spot was never found. If it's on the map, the pin only marks the general area.
- Raced on
- Fairgrounds
- Location
- Montague County Fairgrounds, Bowie
- People
- Wichita Falls Motorcycle Club, performers (1948)
No one has pinned down where this strip was yet.
During fair week, twenty members of the Wichita Falls Motorcycle Club put on nightly shows that included drag races, billed as acceleration races. On Friday night, September 24, a rider was doing a motorcycle leap, called a broad jump, when a Brahma bull got out of the pens and hooked him, hurting his right leg.
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