Andrews County Airport (Andrews)
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Proceeds funded Andrews Boys Club programs
- Raced
- 1966-69
- State
- Texas
- What's left
- A good length of the old track surface is still there, in poor to good condition.
- Raced on
- An airport runway
- First race
- September 25, 1966
- Last race
- June 29, 1969
- Surface
- Runway
- Location
- Andrews County Airport
- People
- Andrews Boys Club, sponsor (1966-)
- Sanction
- AHRA
- Elevation
- 3,166 ft (965 m)
- Coordinates
- 32.32917, -102.53260
Drag races first ran at the airport on Sunday, September 25, 1966, under AHRA sanction, and continued on the fourth Sunday of each month. The Andrews Boys Club sponsored them and used the money for its programs. The feature at the second club race in October 1966 was billed as Mr. Tomatoe in his ‘65 nitro-burning, wheel-smoking Dodge against Humpin’ Henry Jr. in his ‘66 Falcon with a red-hot hemi. A special benefit race on June 29, 1969, honored five Andrews residents killed in a 1966 plane crash. Officials from Odessa Raceway Park and the Hobbs drag racing association ran it.
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