Texoma Dragstrip (Whitesboro)
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Raced only stockers and gassers at first
- Raced
- 1964-67
- State
- Texas
- What's left
- A good length of the old track surface is still there, in poor to good condition.
- Raced on
- Built as a drag strip
- First race
- November 1, 1964
- Track
- 1/2 mile
- Location
- 2.5 miles west of Whitesboro, one mile north of Highway 82
- People
- Bob Garvin, co-owner (1964)
- Homer Brookshear, co-owner (1964)
- Whitesboro Auto Club, helped run races (1964-65)
- Jerry Sewell, operator (1967)
- Sanction
- NHRA
- Elevation
- 841 ft (256 m)
- Coordinates
- 33.66672, -96.95908
This NHRA-sanctioned strip opened on Sunday, November 1, 1964, for stockers and gassers only. It was 2.5 miles west of Whitesboro and a mile north of Highway 82, owned by Bob Garvin and Homer Brookshear. The Whitesboro Auto Club helped run the Sunday races. The strip was half a mile long and forty feet wide, and spectators had to stay at least fifty feet back. In its first year it averaged 400 to 700 spectators and 50 to 75 cars, and 650 people came on February 14, 1965. Jerry Sewell ran the track in 1967. Nothing has turned up after that year.
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