Route 40 drag strip
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- State Patrol officers inspected and approved the cars before racing
- Raced
- ca. 1953
- State
- Ohio
- What's left
- A good length of the old track surface is still there, in poor to good condition.
- Raced on
- A public road
- First race
- 1953
- Track
- about 1 mile of road
- Location
- Unused section of old Route 40 east of Hebron
No one has pinned down where this strip was yet.
Before the Newark Timing Association formed in 1956, Newark racers were allowed to race on an unused part of old Route 40 east of Hebron while the highway was being rebuilt. Bob Farrow, the NTA’s last surviving member as of 2020, told his nephew Donald M. Farrow about it. In 1953 a mile of the old road was out of use, and the Newark kids who would later form the NTA raced there with the blessing of two Ohio State Patrol officers, who checked the cars and cleared them to race. Bob Farrow also raced at Powell and Hyde Park.
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