Sand Mountain Dragway (Section)

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The strip sat abandoned until Dillon Eason and his crew bought it and brought it back. DragCoverage showed the before-and-after in October 2026, with the track racing again.

A public prayer opens each regular event

Raced: ca. 1972-present
State: Alabama
Track: 1/8 mile
Address: 846 County Road 419, Section, AL
People: Phillip Owens, owner (ca. 1999-2003)
Elevation: 1,282 ft (391 m)
Coordinates: 34.55369, -85.96316
Contact: (256) 242-3443

When this eighth-mile strip opened hasn’t been found, but it shows on a 1972 topo map, so it was probably there earlier. Races ran on Friday nights in 1975 and 1976, including one on May 9, 1975. On July 30, 1976, Stan Ewing of Cullman won super stock with a 7.05 in his Camaro Z28. On August 23, 2003, Phillip Owens, who had owned the dragway for more than four years, was killed at his own track when his dragster ran off the end of the strip. Each regular event today starts with a public prayer.

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