325 Dragstrips in the US in 1968 ?

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: mockingbird812</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Just noticed they included W. Germany above in the &quot;Sanctioned Drag Strips&quot; that Ramstein AB (USAF) was included. Never knew they had a drag strip there. Very Cool! </div></div>

It was an old portion of autobahn A-6, that used to run through the Base. That piece of A-6 is still there and leads out to the 435 CTS site leaving the West Gate. When I was stationed at Zweibrucken AB back in 80-82 we would do rapid runway repair on that portion of the old A-6, EOD would blow a hole/crater and we would go out and practice patching a simulated piece of the runway. Fun stuff (NOT).

Sembach AB runway was also used for weekend races, they had road races on it and thru the taxiways and had a drag strip layed out, the runway was inactive for quite a while then got repaired and opened back up.

Bitburg AB runs drags on the summer weekends now.

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