Vidalia Drag Strip
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Runways refurbished with state money from Governor Lester Maddox in 1969
- Held many pro stock match races in its early years
- Raced
- 1964-mid-1980s
- State
- Georgia
- What's left
- A good length of the old track surface is still there, in poor to good condition.
- On the site today
- Vidalia Municipal Airport, still active
- Raced on
- An airport runway
- Last race
- mid-1980s
- Track
- 1/8 mile
- Location
- Runway of Vidalia Municipal Airport
- People
- Harvey Fountain, operator (1969)
- Elevation
- 275 ft (84 m)
- Coordinates
- 32.19381, -82.37537
Larry Sams remembers racing at the Vidalia Airport strip as early as 1964. Harvey Fountain ran the strip and filed incorporation papers for it on August 27, 1969. Races ran on a runway of what is still the active Vidalia Municipal Airport, once a World War II auxiliary field. In 1969 Governor Lester Maddox made money available to refurbish the runways, which improved the racing surface. According to one researcher, it was advertised as an eighth-mile strip and held a lot of pro stock match races in its early days. Nobody knows why it closed in the mid-1980s.
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