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Montreal Drag Strip

Montreal, QC

Status
Closed

Years in Operation: 1960-62

Name History:


Track Configurations:
1/4 mile drag strip

Notes:
  • Organized by the Alouette Motor Club of Montreal (possibly only in 1960)
  • Promoter was Gordon Atkinson
  • NASCAR sanctioned
  • Appears to have opened in September 1960
  • Located on a rented airstrip owned by Pratt & Whitney in the Jacques Cartier suburb of Montreal - Route 3, three miles east of Jacques Cartier Bridge
  • Facilities were very basic in 1960
  • Timing equipment and crowd control added for 1961
  • Lease was canceled early in the 1962 after only running 2 events