During the 1950s and 1960s, the sport of Drag racing exploded in popularity. 30 Drag Strip, Dover Drag Strip, Pittsburgh International Dragway, Connecticut Dragway, Pocono Drag Lodge, Lakeland International Raceway, Green Valley Raceway, Dallas International Motor Speedway, Hudson Drag Strip, Shuffletown Dragway, Brainerd Optimist Club Drag Strip, Brainerd Optimist Drag Strip, Paradise Drag Strip, Double H Drag Strip, Southeastern International Dragway, Smithville Drag Strip, Lloyd\'s Drag Strip, Harriman Drag Strip, Green Valley Raceway Drag Strip, Drag City, Loudon Raceway..
Tracks include: Lions Associated Drag Strip, Orange County International Raceway, Riverside International Raceway, Bee Line Dragway, Motion Raceway, Motor City Dragway, Oswego Dragway, U.
S.
Lost Drag Strips is a 2013 International Automotive Media Competition award winner and won best-of in the book category.
The stories are true and the photos are thought provoking, which makes this book hard to put down.
For fans of Drag racing\'s past, it\'s a sobering and interesting study.
The images are teamed with vintage shots of Drag racing\'s glory days, sharing what once was one of America\'s most popular pastimes with the modern reality facing these facilities today.
Others are ghostly remnants of what once was, offering a sad and even eerie subject for the photographer.
Some of them are gone completely, paved over to make room for housing developments or strip malls.
This book takes a look at many of the Lost quarter-mile tracks across the country.
For whatever reason, they are no longer in business, but evidence of their existence remains.
Others were relatively unknown, but served a local area\'s needs for a safe place for local speed addicts to run their cars.
Many of these were places of legend where the biggest names in the sport got their start or ran some of their most memorable passes.
This was great, for a while, but with the sprawl of suburbia and various economic conditions including the growing expense of racing, hundreds of Drag racing facilities were Lost across the country.
As a participant sport, Drag racing made itself very accessible, and as a result, Drag racing facilities sprang up all over the country, some national in scale and others very small and local.
In its early days, Drag racing had a class for everybody, from professional rails to four-door sedans.
During the 1950s and 1960s, the sport of Drag racing exploded in popularity
