Tri-State Drag Strip (Hamilton)
Status unknownStatus unknown Closed, but nobody has checked how much of the site survives, or the exact spot was never found.
Also known as Tri-State Dragway
- The 1977 IHRA Title Series race drew over 350 entries from 27 states
- Raced
- 1961-2016
- State
- Ohio
- What's left
- How much of the site survives hasn't been checked yet.
- Raced on
- Built as a drag strip
- First race
- June 25, 1961 (time trials May 27, 1961)
- Track
- 3,300 feet
- Location
- Off Highway 128 (Hamilton Cleves Road), three miles south of Hamilton, west of the Great Miami River
- People
- Don Loos, operator (1973)
- Sanction
- IHRA, NASCAR, NHRA
- Elevation
- 559 ft (170 m)
- Coordinates
- 39.34759, -84.59419
This 3,300-foot strip, now called Tri-State Dragway, opened with time trials on May 27, 28 and 30, 1961. The first official race, on June 25, 1961, was NASCAR sanctioned, and the Music brothers of Dayton won top eliminator with a track record of 155.17 mph and 9.90 in their dragster. That first season, motorcycles raced Saturdays and cars Sundays. The February 1969 Hot Rod listed it as NHRA sanctioned. Don Loos ran it in 1973. The IHRA Title Series race on July 9-10, 1977, drew over 350 entries from 27 states. The strip is three miles south of Hamilton off Highway 128 (Hamilton Cleves Road), just west of the Great Miami River. It was IHRA sanctioned when it closed.
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