Unnamed drag strip (Auburn)

ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.

Raced
1956
State
Nebraska
What's left
A good length of the old track surface is still there, in poor to good condition.
On the site today
Airstrip called Farington Field
Raced on
An airport runway
First race
September 30, 1956
Surface
Dirt
Location
Three miles east and one mile south of Auburn
People
  • Auburn Timing Association, organizer (1956)
Elevation
911 ft (278 m)
Coordinates
40.38738, -95.78744

On September 30, 1956, about fifty cars ran in the Nebraska dirt track drag championships at Auburn. The Auburn Timing Association put on the event three miles east and one mile south of town, on a dirt airstrip now called Farington Field. Little else is known about it.

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