Waverly Dragway
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Raced
- 1959
- State
- Illinois
- What's left
- A good length of the old track surface is still there, in poor to good condition.
- Raced on
- A public road
- First race
- August 23, 1959
- Surface
- Dirt
- Location
- Extension of South Curtiss Street, just outside Waverly's southeast city limits
- People
- Waverly Stockers, race organizer (1959)
- Elevation
- 649 ft (198 m)
- Coordinates
- 39.58608, -89.94746
The Waverly Stockers began holding drag races on a dirt strip that was simply an extension of South Curtiss Street, just outside Waverly’s southeast city limits. Kenny Miller of Auburn won top eliminator in his ‘59 Chevy at the first race on August 23, 1959. Races ran every Sunday that year through at least early November.
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