Starkville Raceway (West Point)
ActiveActive Still racing today.
- Raced
- ca. 2010-present
- State
- Mississippi
- Raced on
- Built as a drag strip
- First race
- by 2011
- Surface
- Paved
- People
- C. J. Collier, incorporator of Starkville Raceway, Inc. (1968)
- Joe A. Camise, incorporator of Starkville Raceway, Inc. (1968)
- Elevation
- 248 ft (76 m)
- Coordinates
- 33.53142, -88.67545
Little is documented about this strip beyond aerial photos, YouTube videos and a few news stories. C. J. Collier and Joe A. Camise incorporated Starkville Raceway, Inc. on February 5, 1968, possibly for an oval or a drag strip, but it doesn’t seem to have gone anywhere, and dissolution notices followed between 1971 and 1989. A 2007 aerial photo shows either a dirt strip or construction, more likely construction since 2009 looks about the same. By 2010 there was an entrance, a staging area, a paved strip and a rough shutdown. A 2011 video shows it running. There seems to have been no return road until about 2013-14. On September 6, 2015, a 68-year-old driver was killed hitting a guardrail. The track didn’t run in 2020-21 because of Covid-19 and restarted in 2022.
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