Wilmot Hills Road Race Course
Nothing leftNothing left No longer racing, and nothing of the track remains.
- Drag races ran on a road course straightaway
- Raced
- 1954
- State
- Wisconsin
- What's left
- The site was never redeveloped, but every trace of the strip has been removed.
- On the site today
- Dirt oval racing (2015)
- First race
- September 26, 1954
- Last race
- October 17, 1954
- Track
- 1/4 mile
- Surface
- Blacktop
- Location
- South of the Kenosha County Fairgrounds
- People
- Kenosha County, operator (1954)
- Elevation
- 793 ft (242 m)
- Coordinates
- 42.50016, -88.18994
Kenosha County ran a blacktop road racing course south of the Kenosha County Fairgrounds. Its first quarter-mile drag races ran on the course’s straightaway on September 26, 1954, and the last of the year on October 17. Dirt oval racing was still held at the site in 2015.
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