Partington Drag Strip (Sterling Heights)
Nothing leftNothing left No longer racing, and nothing of the track remains.
Also known as Partington Pasture Speedway
- Raced
- 1953
- State
- Michigan
- What's left
- The site was redeveloped and nothing of the strip remains.
- On the site today
- St. Rene Parish Church
- Raced on
- At an oval speedway
- First race
- August 30, 1953
- Last race
- November 22, 1953
- Surface
- Dirt
- Location
- North of 15 Mile Road on Ryan Road
- Elevation
- 630 ft (192 m)
- Coordinates
- 42.55767, -83.07123
Partington Pasture Speedway, a quarter-mile and half-mile dirt oval from 1941 to 1952, hosted a drag strip in 1953. Newspapers put it north of 15 Mile Road on Ryan Road. The first race ran August 30. Del Lee set a track record of 68.08 in his English Allard on September 6, and on September 27 Bob Albright set a motorcycle record of 72 mph and Henry Hovland won the stock class. The last race of the year was November 22. A 1964 aerial photo shows only the oval, with no sign of a drag strip. St. Rene Parish Church later replaced the old tracks.
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