Drag Strip
The track hosted Friday night drag races and Wednesday evening Test and Tunes. Weekly divisions included: Super Pro, Foot Brake, Motorcycle, Quick 16, and Top Street 5.8. The drag strip, when first used in 1953, was originally an 1/8th-mile dirt track, and the first officially-sanctioned drag strip on the East Coast.
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