Unnamed drag strip (St. Charles)
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Raced
- 1953
- State
- Missouri
- What's left
- You can still spot it in aerial photos, or broken pieces of the track surface remain.
- Raced on
- An airport runway
- First race
- November 1953
- Surface
- Paved runway
- Location
- Probably St. Charles Municipal Airport
- Elevation
- 439 ft (134 m)
- Coordinates
- 38.84832, -90.50343
A drag race at St. Charles in November 1953 drew 140 racers and 2,000 spectators and was sanctioned by the Automobile Timing Association of America. Photos show it ran on an airfield, probably St. Charles Municipal Airport. That field opened in 1941 as a Navy pilot training site, had a 2,000-foot paved east-west runway, and closed in 2010.
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