Stuttgart Dragway
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Hosted the first national motorcycle drag championships in 1969, where Dave Campos set a world record of 161.6 mph
- Raced
- 1964-72
- State
- Arkansas
- What's left
- A good length of the old track surface is still there, in poor to good condition.
- Raced on
- A military airfield
- Surface
- Runway
- Location
- Runway of Stuttgart Army Airfield
- Elevation
- 221 ft (68 m)
- Coordinates
- 34.59595, -91.57557
According to the Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture, drag races were held on a runway of Stuttgart Army Airfield. The Swedish magazine Start & Strip included the strip in a 1968 list of 325 U.S. drag strips. On May 18, 1969, at the first national motorcycle drag championships, Dave Campos of Albuquerque, New Mexico, rode his fuel Harley to a world record 9.37 at 161.6 mph.
Background
The old Army airfield is now Stuttgart Municipal Airport, owned by the city and located eight miles north of Stuttgart in Prairie County. It's used for general aviation.
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