Winston County Drag Strip (Lynn)
ActiveActive Still racing today.
An outlaw-style strip in Winston County that was revived for no-prep racing in recent years.
- Known for Outlaw Pro Stock and Outlaw Pro Mod events
- Cooney Hicks' "Mopar Kid" Hemi Colt raced Grumpy Jenkins and Roy Hill
- Raced
- 1970s-present
- State
- Alabama
- Raced on
- Built as a drag strip
- Track
- 1/8 mile
- Surface
- Asphalt
- Address
- Lynn, AL
- People
- Verlie Barton, builder and owner (1970s)
- Lid Barton Hicks, owner
- Elevation
- 687 ft (210 m)
- Coordinates
- 34.03227, -87.51001
Big races
No-prep racing
The strip was reopened for no-prep racing without a Christmas tree or track prep, per BangShift.
History
This track was open by 1972. Verlie Barton built it in the 1970s on family land near his Verlie Barton Lake, on Alabama Highway 5 in Lynn. He later sold it to his daughter, Lid Barton Hicks, who kept it going as a “Southern Outlaw/Wildcat” strip with many Outlaw Pro Stock and Outlaw Pro Mod events. The family raced competitive Outlaw Pro Stock cars: Verlie’s son Wallace Barton ran a Pro Stock Vega, and Lid’s son Cooney Hicks took his “Mopar Kid” Pro Stock Hemi Colt up against stars like Grumpy Jenkins and Roy Hill. Newspapers reported the track had closed for the summer in early June 1977, and the 1978 season ended on Saturday, August 26. It apparently still runs as an eighth-mile asphalt track.
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