Cornhusker Raceway Park

[cruiznlow]

just purchased a july 2nd 1971 national dragster, found a story about the track here is the info form the story

TOP FUEL RETURNS TO CORNHUSKER
Jack Mitchell & Howdy Williams, Howdy won with a 7.30 at 200.44 pass.
Comp eliminator Hoot Gibson/George Crow in their AF/D Chevy beat Ron Ellis with a 7.95 at 186.02 pass
Modified eliminator Mike Daughertys chevy ran a 12.77 at 112.97 to beat Bob Belik both drivers from omaha
Super stock Jim Schlotman & Jim Hayes raced, the win going to Scholtman in his plymouth with a 121.29 ,11.42 et pass. Jim Hays was driving the former Macs Chevrolet 69 Camaro Jim ran a very close 11.57 ET Schlotman got the holeshot at the lights

[aspen5816]

The Grove Bros A/G opel was driven by Jim Grove, who won the Div 5 Modified title over John Prestons Wunderbug Carmen Ghia who won the Modified title at the last Cornhusker WCS race and was also r/u @ the World Finals at Amarillo that year. He moved out west and won the 75 Div 7 Mod championship by winning 4 of the 5 div races. Broke in the final round of the 5th race.

[duke66]

Originally Posted by cruiznlow

just purchased a july 2nd 1971 national dragster, found a story about the track here is the info form the story

TOP FUEL RETURNS TO CORNHUSKER
Jack Mitchell & Howdy Williams, Howdy won with a 7.30 at 200.44 pass.
Comp eliminator Hoot Gibson/George Crow in their AF/D Chevy beat Ron Ellis with a 7.95 at 186.02 pass
Modified eliminator Mike Daughertys chevy ran a 12.77 at 112.97 to beat Bob Belik both drivers from omaha
Super stock Jim Schlotman & Jim Hayes raced, the win going to Scholtman in his plymouth with a 121.29 ,11.42 et pass. Jim Hays was driving the former Macs Chevrolet 69 Camaro Jim ran a very close 11.57 ET Schlotman got the holeshot at the lights

Howdy's car is now in a collection in Lincoln and probably was a Hemi by this time. Hoot used to sub for Howdy now and then. Mike Daugherty was a Black 57 Chevy, He and a couple of guys owned a Speed shop on Q St. Mike, I believe has a Chevy dealership in California. Bob Belik's car was the lime green 56 Chevy with a little 272 inch and was the Belick Bros.
Gary Malmberg and I about got in big trouble at a WCS in Denver running one of their 272's. I made the comment to someone about how good we were running considering we didn't have the right engine in the Corvette. They took it we were claiming 272 instead of our usual 331 engine. We had all the Tech guys over at the car looking it over. They were ready to pump the engine when I pointed out for them to look for the oil filter mount or the bolt holes on the side of the block for motor mounts. They looked and there are not either on a 265 block and they were happy and left us alone.
Jim Hayes, of course has been talked about here about his Camaro.

[Tom Meyer]

If I remember right the tower in above pic was moved to scibner track back in the day. Tom

[aspen5816]

Right you are Tom, you and I had some good races at Scribner. Dennis Stahlnecker