Quarter Aces Drag-O-Way/South Mountain Raceway (Boiling Springs)
ActiveActive Still racing today.
Also known as South Mountain Dragway
An NHRA member eighth-mile strip in Cumberland County, opened in 1962 as Quarter Aces Drag-O-Way and now known as South Mountain Raceway.
- Built by a car club that bought the land in 1958
- Opened with a 75-cent entry fee and a gravel shutdown area
- Raced
- 1962-present
- State
- Pennsylvania
- Raced on
- Built as a drag strip
- First race
- 1962
- Sanction
- NHRA Division 1
- Track
- 1/8 mile
- Surface
- 100-foot asphalt launch pad and 900 feet of gravel at opening; repaved 1997
- Address
- 1107 Petersburg Rd
Boiling Springs, PA 17007 - People
- Quarter Aces Car Club, founders and builders (1958-71)
- H. Robert Davis, helped fund the land purchase (1958)
- Ron Wallace, owner (1971-2000s)
- Ed Stambaugh, owner (1971-2000s)
- Stanley Dye, owner (2007-14)
- Mike Natoli, owner (2014-)
- Elevation
- 537 ft (164 m)
- Coordinates
- 40.11905, -77.14295
Big races
Drag Racers Reunion Weekend
A gathering of past and present racers tied to the strip's long history.
History
In 1958 the Quarter Aces Car Club, with help from local doctor and community leader H. Robert Davis, raised the down payment on 44 acres along Petersburg Road in South Mountain Township to build an eighth-mile drag strip. Getting it ready took four more years. It opened in 1962 with a 75-cent fee to race, a 100-foot asphalt launch pad and 900 feet of gravel. Ron Wallace and Ed Stambaugh bought it in 1971 and renamed it South Mountain Dragway. They owned it for more than thirty years, built a new tower in 1983 and made many other upgrades. The track joined NHRA in 1985. Lights and Friday night racing came in the early 1990s, alongside the regular Sunday program, and the track was repaved in 1997. Stanley Dye bought it in 2007 and brought back the original name, Quarter Aces Drag-O-Way. After many improvements he put it up for sale in early 2014. Mike Natoli bought it, revamped it, renamed it South Mountain Raceway and reopened it.
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