Mountain Motor Dragway (Isom)
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Shares the complex with a 3/8-mile dirt oval dating to 1969
- Raced
- 1990-2016
- State
- Kentucky
- What's left
- A good length of the old track surface is still there, in poor to good condition.
- First race
- October 1990
- Last race
- possibly 2016
- Track
- 1/8 mile
- Location
- Near Isom
- People
- Barry Lane Proffitt, filed incorporation papers (2003)
- Elevation
- 1,126 ft (343 m)
- Coordinates
- 37.19579, -82.88554
This racing complex near Isom has a 3/8-mile dirt oval, dating to 1969, and an eighth-mile drag strip. Little about it is documented. Race track historian Allan E. Brown put the strip’s opening in October 1990, and Kentucky racing historian David McGee had a friend who remembered drag racing there around 1991. Barry Lane Proffitt filed incorporation papers for the strip on July 29, 2003. It seems to have closed in 2016, though that isn’t certain.
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