Smithville Drag Strip
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Home track of Super Stock racer Charlie Lee
- Closed after a tornado damaged it in April 1968
- Raced
- 1960-68
- State
- Tennessee
- What's left
- The site was redeveloped, but the strip or its layout lives on in whatever replaced it.
- On the site today
- Housing subdivision; the strip is now Earl Avenue
- Last race
- before April 1968
- Location
- Southwestern outskirts of Smithville
- People
- Earl Evans, owner and operator
- Elevation
- 1,089 ft (332 m)
- Coordinates
- 35.94518, -85.83735
This strip on the southwest edge of Smithville was the home track of Super Stock racer Charlie Lee. Earl Evans owned and ran it. A tornado badly damaged it in April 1968, and rather than pay to rebuild, Evans turned the land into a housing subdivision. The old strip is now Earl Avenue.
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