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Track Information and History
85 Speedway is a 1/4 mile, semi-banked, clay oval dirt track located in Ennis, Texas that hosts Saturday night races for classes such as Twister, Jr. Mini Stock, Cruiser, Bomber, Street Stock, IMCA Southern Sport Modified, and IMCA Modifieds, with special events held throughout the season with guest race classes, candy giveaways, bicycle giveaways, wheelbarrow races, tricycle races, an Independence Day fireworks show, and more.
2010's special classes included the Lone Star Dwarf Car Club and the Southern Street Stock class from Texas Dirt Motorplex in East Texas. 2011 will feature the Lone Star Dwarf Car Club and others are being scheduled. 85 Speedway will participate in the inaugural SMP Longhorn Speedweek in 2011. The track is also host, each season, to the Regional IMCA Southern SportMod race which brings cars from Texas and the surrounding states.
Fans, drivers, and car owners will be impressed with the track staff members who work hard to ensure that the evening is fun and entertaining, and that each fan, driver, and car owner knows how their support of local racing is appreciated. The tradition still continues each year, bringing family entertainment and exciting racing action.
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In 2010, track owner and promoter, Roger Archer, and his wife, Wanda, are celebrating their 25th year as racetrack operators. Fifteen of those years have been spent in Ennis, Texas at 85 Speedway, the oldest racing facility in Ellis County. Previously, the Archer’s owned Texas All-Star Speedway, in Bellmead, Texas, but sold the track in 1995 to relocate to Ennis.
Roger was born and raised around cars his entire childhood. Later, he opened his own car repair businesses, and owned and operated the garage for 45 years. Racing and cars were in his blood. He went to his first car race when he was 9 years old, with his dad. Roger started racing sprint cars when he was 26 years old, building and maintaining the car. Roger was his own boss, so every week, he was making his way to tracks in Texas, New Mexico, Kentucky, Louisiana, and Oklahoma. Roger was lucky enough to have raced with Johnny Rutherford, Jim McElreath, and Eldon Dotson, among many others. Roger has also been featured in Circle Track Magazine, and is well-known and respected in the dirt track racing sport.
After 22 years of racing, Roger finally decided to stop racing, and put all his talent into Texas All-Star Speedway in Bellmead, Texas, just outside of Waco. Roger and Wanda, their daughter Tila, and granddaughter Melanie operated the track for nearly 10 years before 85 Speedway became available for sale in 1995, and the Archer's made the track, which was originally opened in 1985, their new home.
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