Brief History: Like many Drag Strips, they
came about so that various car clubs, who would normally meet on the
streets to race, had a place to hold organized Drag Racing.
Several area Clubs had merged to form the Southern Ohio Timing
Association (S.O.T.A.) in March of 1956. SOTA was led by Carl
Poppe, a Cincinnati Police Highway Patrol Officer, and the Club had
plans to built a Drag Strip in the Cincinnati area. SOTA obtained a
plot of land near the Lunken Airport , but the money that needed to be
raised to build and pave the track originally fell well short of the
total finances need. It was through a Club member, who had a connection
to a local Paving Company that led to the completion of the the Drag
Strip. The Beechmont Drag Strip opened in 1958.
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