Woodward Drag Strip
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Raced
- ca. 1961-ca. 1973
- State
- Oklahoma
- What's left
- You can still spot it in aerial photos, or broken pieces of the track surface remain.
- First race
- by 1961
- Location
- Woodward
- People
- Charles Rice, owner (1961)
- Al Norman, owner (1961)
- Elevation
- 1,883 ft (574 m)
- Coordinates
- 36.42983, -99.35374
Woodward Drag Strip was running by 1961, owned by Charles Rice and Al Norman. Ronnie Vanderslice won Super Stock and Top Eliminator in his ‘60 Ford on July 16, 1961, and James Johnson set a track record of 12.45 in his D gas dragster on October 1. On August 10, 1968, Doug Parsons, 19, was killed when he lost control of his car. The Swedish magazine Start & Strip listed it among 325 U.S. drag strips in 1968.
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