Westgate Outdoor Theater (Racine)
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Demonstration drag race at a drive-in theater before the movie
- Raced
- 1959
- State
- Wisconsin
- What's left
- The site was redeveloped, but the strip or its layout lives on in whatever replaced it.
- First race
- June 23, 1959
- Location
- Westgate Outdoor Theater, Racine
- People
- Racine Pacers car club, race organizer (1959)
- Elevation
- 695 ft (212 m)
- Coordinates
- 42.71670, -87.83804
On June 23, 1959, the Racine Pacers car club put on a demonstration drag race at the drive-in theater before the movie, with trophies for the winners. Gordy Cape, a DJ at WRJN radio, announced.
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