Preston Raceway
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Became a landing strip after closing
- Raced
- 1987-93
- State
- Mississippi
- What's left
- A good length of the old track surface is still there, in poor to good condition.
- On the site today
- Preston Airways landing strip
- Raced on
- Built as a drag strip
- Last race
- about 1993
- Track
- 600 feet (1,700 feet overall)
- People
- C. Victor McTeer, filed incorporation papers (1987)
- Jacquelyn Moore, filed incorporation papers (1987)
- Don Simmons, owner (1988)
- Elevation
- 487 ft (148 m)
- Coordinates
- 32.94671, -88.85330
C. Victor McTeer and Jacquelyn Moore filed incorporation papers for Preston Raceway on May 12, 1987, and newspapers called 1988 its second full season. Don Simmons owned the track. The racing distance was 600 feet, and with the burnout, launch pad and shutdown the whole track ran 1,700 feet. Track news appeared monthly in the Winston County Journal. By 1991 Scott Fricker held the track record with a 5.16 in his altered roadster. It closed around 1993, and by 1997 it was a landing strip called Preston Airways.
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