Tri-City Speedway (Granite City)
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Raced
- 1963-64
- State
- Illinois
- What's left
- A good length of the old track surface is still there, in poor to good condition.
- First race
- about late August 1963
- Track
- 1/8 mile
- Surface
- Dirt
- Location
- Near Illinois Route 203, four miles north of Granite City
- Elevation
- 415 ft (127 m)
- Coordinates
- 38.75248, -90.09702
This half-mile dirt oval, four miles north of Granite City near Illinois Route 203, started running eighth-mile drag races on Thursday nights around late August 1963. In 1964 drag races ran every Wednesday night.
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