Northern Dragway (Sault Ste. Marie)
Status unknownStatus unknown Closed, but nobody has checked how much of the site survives, or the exact spot was never found.
Also known as Fifth Line Drag Strip
- Raced
- 1966-74?
- Province
- Ontario
- What's left
- How much of the site survives hasn't been checked yet.
- Raced on
- Built as a drag strip
- Last race
- about 1973-74
- Track
- 1/4 mile
- Location
- East of and adjacent to the Northern Raceway (Fifth Line Raceway) oval
- People
- John Wagner, builder
- Allan Gold and Larry Walls, promoters (1968-69)
- Dick Chraftchick, promoter (1970-ca. 1974)
- Elevation
- 886 ft (270 m)
- Coordinates
- 46.57557, -84.33461
John Wagner built a quarter-mile drag strip on the east side of the Northern Raceway (or Fifth Line Raceway) oval. It was supposed to close with the oval in 1968, but Allan Gold and Larry Walls rented it for $50 a week and promoted it in 1968-69. Dick Chraftchick took over in 1970 and ran it until about 1973-74. Some knew it as Fifth Line Drag Strip.
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