Reynolds Field (Jackson)
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Newspapers called it the first sanctioned drag race in Michigan
- Raced
- 1956
- State
- Michigan
- What's left
- A good length of the old track surface is still there, in poor to good condition.
- Raced on
- An airport runway
- First race
- August 26, 1956
- Surface
- Runway
- Location
- Reynolds Field, two miles west of Jackson
- People
- Jackson Accelerators car club, ran the race (1956)
- Elevation
- 991 ft (302 m)
- Coordinates
- 42.26074, -84.46233
On August 26, 1956, 9,000 people watched 200 racers at what newspapers called the first sanctioned drag race in Michigan. The Jackson Accelerators car club ran it on a runway at Reynolds Field, two miles west of Jackson, an airfield dating to 1940.
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