STRAIGHT TALKING
A little bit out of our area but following the closure of Britain's second permanent drag strip for more than 40 years; Long Marston Airfield's Shakespeare County Raceway in 2017 to make way for the government backed Garden Village, there is a huge push at the moment to revive the old York Dragway site to help re-establish drag racing and sprinting again at Melbourne Airfield situated in the Vale of York. 38
Situated not far from Elvington Airfield, home to many British Land Speed Record breakers, motorcycle drag and sprint organisers Straightliners led by founder Trevor Duckworth, and the UK Timing Association, have mounted a campaign to get the old facility up and running again since the main run and drag strip has been occupied by the Mintex Corporation for its straight line test strip.
Although a crowd funding scheme had been established in 2018 to assist in generating the required funding to resurface the existing drag strip, and prove to the land owners that a drag racing facility in the north can exist, fell at the last hurdle after a breakdown of communications! Now, after a successful revival meeting held last year, a fresh incentive instigated by Trevor and his team have already
