{"id":3812,"date":"2025-12-15T14:14:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T14:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/?p=3812"},"modified":"2025-12-15T14:14:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T14:14:49","slug":"atmore-dragstrip-officially-closes-following-final-race-leaving-behind-nearly-50-years-of-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/?p=3812","title":{"rendered":"Atmore Dragstrip Officially Closes Following Final Race, Leaving Behind Nearly 50 Years of History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atmore Dragstrip is officially closed following its final race on Saturday, ending a nearly 50-year run that began in 1976. For generations of racers and fans across South Alabama and Northwest Florida, the track was more than asphalt and guardrails \u2014 it was home.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/img_0435.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3811\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat started as a track became so much more,\u201d owners Misty and Joey Barber shared. \u201cIt became a place filled with friendships, family, laughter, passion, and memories we\u2019ll carry with us forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wish things could have turned out differently,\u201d they said. \u201cBut we find comfort knowing we gave it everything we had.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though the gates are now closed, the Barbers say the memories and friendships will live on. \u201cYou weren\u2019t just racers or spectators \u2014 you became family.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atmore Dragstrip is officially closed following its final race on Saturday, ending a nearly 50-year run that began in 1976. For generations of racers and fans across South Alabama and Northwest Florida, the track was more than asphalt and guardrails \u2014 it was home. \u201cWhat started as a track became so much more,\u201d owners Misty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3811,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[61],"class_list":{"0":"post-3812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/img_0435-600x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/img_0435-600x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"DC Media","author_link":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/author\/auteejay"},"authors":[{"term_id":61,"user_id":5,"is_guest":0,"slug":"auteejay","display_name":"DC Media","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d51765f05e753046aaf69cf0314e9a0f5c5945d8d9ed498ce027408f7d38abf9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","first_name":"DC","last_name":"Media","user_url":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3812"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=3812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}