Unnamed drag strip (Santa Fe)
Status unknownStatus unknown Closed, but nobody has checked how much of the site survives, or the exact spot was never found.
- Formed to get street racing off Cerrillos Road
- Raced
- 1979
- State
- New Mexico
- What's left
- The exact spot was never found. If it's on the map, the pin only marks the general area.
- First race
- July 22, 1979 (one of the first)
- Last race
- August 26, 1979 (last documented)
- Location
- Three miles south of Santa Fe off State Highway 14
- People
- Capitol City Street Rods, organizer (1978-79)
- Elevation
- 6,895 ft (2,102 m)
- Coordinates
- 35.65646, -105.96184
In spring 1978 local drag racers formed the Capitol City Street Rods club to cut down on street racing, especially on Cerrillos Road. They asked permission to run a temporary strip that summer where St. Francis Drive dead-ends at its south end, and they were scouting sites for a permanent one. Whether they got permission that summer isn’t known, but they did race in 1979. One of the first races that year was on Sunday, July 22, three miles south of Santa Fe off State Highway 14, with trophies in two brackets. Racers paid $2 and spectators $1. Another race followed on August 26, when Clayton Smith made exhibition runs in his econo dragster. Those two may have been the club’s only races.