Shangri-La Speedway Drag Strip (Owego)
Nothing leftNothing left No longer racing, and nothing of the track remains.
Also known as Tioga Motorsports Park
- Raced
- 1959-63
- State
- New York
- What's left
- The site was never redeveloped, but every trace of the strip has been removed.
- First race
- 1959
- Track
- 1/8 mile
- Surface
- Concrete starting pad
- Location
- Shangri-La Speedway, Route 17 west of Owego
- Sanction
- NASCAR
- Elevation
- 854 ft (260 m)
- Coordinates
- 42.09193, -76.28555
This pin shares its exact coordinates with another strip in the source data, so it may be misplaced.
Little has been found about this strip beyond the fact that it was a working eighth-mile with a concrete starting pad. It belonged to Shangri-La Speedway, an old paved half-mile track on Route 17 west of Owego. NASCAR-sanctioned drag racing started in 1959 and ended a few years later. Twenty-five years after that, drag races came back to the same spot as Tioga Motorsports Park.
Background
Besides the half-mile oval and the eighth-mile drag strip, Shangri-La had a tenth-mile oval for microds, the wooden-bodied go-karts popular in upstate New York clubs. The track later ran as Shangri-La Motor Speedway from 1979 to 1991 and Tioga Motorsports Park from 1992 to 2005, though fans kept calling it Shangri-La.
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