Sutton’s nitrous oxide-injected small block-powered S-10 Chevy often carried the wheels well past the 150 ft mark.  (Jeff Burk photo)

Words by Jeff Burk
Photos by Jeff Burk and James Sisk

Sikeston Raceway is an iconic Midwest “outlaw” eighth-mile drag strip located about a two-hour drive down I-55 from St. Louis towards the Bootheel in southeastern Missouri. It’s known as an “outlaw” track in that it is not affiliated with either the NHRA or IHRA although most of the cars that race there are legal to run with either of those sanctioning bodies.

(Jeff Burk photo)

The track is owned by a former partner in the fabled Union Grove (Wisc.) Drag-a-way, Dominic “Dyno Dom” Blasco, who moved his entire family to Sikeston from the Chicago area when he acquired the track last year. The track has concrete guard walls and a large paved pit area, and the track itself is in good shape. The track had its Grand Re-opening a couple of weeks back.
 
Editor-at-Large Bret Kepner, who races his deadly Merc Grand Marquis bracket car there regularly, and I made the trip from St. Louis for the re-opening that featured a Nostalgia Pro Stock match eace and a “275 Tire” heads-up doorslammer show. The facility has been refurbished and repainted and now has a license to sell beer!