Salem Dragway
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Hosted the first Ozark Drag Racing Championship in 1971
- Raced
- 1969-after 1971
- State
- Missouri
- What's left
- The site was redeveloped, but the strip or its layout lives on in whatever replaced it.
- On the site today
- Private Lane 303
- Raced on
- Built as a drag strip
- Track
- 1/8 mile
- Location
- Off Highway 72, now Private Lane 303 off County Road 3210, northwest of the hospital
- People
- Gary Morton, filed incorporation papers (1969)
- Salem Jaycees, sponsor (1971)
- Elevation
- 1,197 ft (365 m)
- Coordinates
- 37.67214, -91.57490
Gary Morton filed incorporation papers for Salem Dragway on July 14, 1969. The eighth-mile track was on Highway 72. On Sunday, May 16, 1971, the Salem Jaycees sponsored and hosted the first Ozark Drag Racing Championship with a $2,000 total purse. Randy Smith, whose father and uncles raced there, placed the old strip on what is now Private Lane 303, running southwest off County Road 3210, northwest of the hospital.
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