Winnsboro Drag Strip/East Texas Speedway
Status unknownStatus unknown Closed, but nobody has checked how much of the site survives, or the exact spot was never found.
- Rebuilt and reopened in September 1963
- Raced
- 1956-59, 1963-66
- State
- Texas
- What's left
- The exact spot was never found. If it's on the map, the pin only marks the general area.
- First race
- by May 1956
- Location
- Old Tram Road, about a mile off the Perryville road (Highway 852), two miles southeast of Winnsboro
- Elevation
- 525 ft (160 m)
- Coordinates
- 32.92115, -95.27116
Drag racing at this strip goes back to at least May 1956. It was about two miles southeast of Winnsboro, a mile off the Perryville road (Highway 852) on what’s known as the Old Tram Road, and raced every Sunday. When it reopened on April 7, 1957, ads called it the East Texas Speedway. An ad for the October 11, 1959, race promised a Chrysler-powered altered coupe that had been clocked at 143 MPH. A gap in the record makes it hard to say whether it ran from 1960 to 1963, but a September 1963 ad said the strip had been rebuilt and would race every Sunday, with trophies for class winners and cash for top eliminator. Ads in 1965-66 told men not to stay home fussing with their wives and to bring them out to the strip instead.
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