Seabreeze Drag Strip (Corpus Christi)
Nothing leftNothing left No longer racing, and nothing of the track remains.
- Raced
- 1965-68
- State
- Texas
- What's left
- The site was redeveloped and nothing of the strip remains.
- Raced on
- A military airfield
- First race
- April 25, 1965 (season opener)
- Surface
- Runway
- Location
- Rodd Field, Corpus Christi
- People
- L. M. Sullivan, co-manager (1965)
- Roy Trevino, co-manager (1965)
- Elevation
- 17 ft (5 m)
- Coordinates
- 27.64768, -97.37157
Newspapers reported the season’s first drag race for Sunday, April 25, 1965, on a runway of Rodd Field, with about 200 entries expected. L. M. Sullivan and Roy Trevino co-managed the races. More Sunday races followed in 1965 on June 13, June 27 and July 11. At the July 11 race the CKC racing team’s 427 c.i. Chevy II from San Antonio raced a 427 Falcon. The strip appeared in a 1968 list of U.S. drag strips in the Swedish magazine Start & Strip.
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