Edgewater Sports Park

    As long as I can remember I have been involved with racing. Starting when I used to help my dad paint race cars in our garage, and then we would go watch ¾ midget races at Rushville. We also watched a lot of drag racing. Our local dragstrip was Edgewater Sports Park. Located in Miamitown, OH. Edgewater is kind of in the middle of no where. which is great, because the drive there and back is half the fun. Every weekend during the summer Edgewater has races. Friday night is test and tune, Saturday is bracket racing, and if there is a special event it is on Sunday.

    In the late 1980’s my dad used to have a sand rail that he would take to Edgewater to race on the Dirt 1/8th mile that was located behind the far side grandstands. His sandrail was equipped with all the goodies and ran on methanol. It was a purpose built racecar. None of this hillbilly gas buggy junk. It was painted candy red and had tons of polished aluminium and chrome. Dad had a lot of fun with it and always ran well. My mom however hated it because she wanted something they could drive on the street.

    Unfortunately my dad sold the Sandrail before i was born. and i never got to see it (except for pictures), and the dirt track behind the far grandstands disappeared. My dad used to tell me stories about how he had the christmas tree all figured out and could get crazy fast reaction times. He would tell me that he could always tell when the lights were about to go green because the third amber light would start out dim and progressively get brighter until finally the green would light. Edgewater is a super historic race track that has played a huge roll in the history of drag racing. This was just a little side venture that took place for maybe a decade or so. However, I have seen very few pictures and heard  very few stories of  the little ⅛ mile dirt strip and if anyone has any please feel free to share!