Clatsop County Airport (Warrenton)
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Raced
- 1954
- State
- Oregon
- What's left
- A good length of the old track surface is still there, in poor to good condition.
- On the site today
- Airport
- Raced on
- An airport runway
- First race
- August 8, 1954
- Last race
- August 8, 1954
- Surface
- Taxiway
- Location
- Taxi strip at Clatsop County Airport
- People
- Astoria Chinooks car club, sponsor and organizer (1954)
- Ed Bornholm, club president (1954)
No one has pinned down where this strip was yet.
On August 8, 1954, a thousand spectators watched 48 entries race on an airport taxi strip. It was the first race by the new Astoria Chinooks car club, which had 34 members, thirteen of whom raced and six of whom placed. Club president was Ed Bornholm. Don Fancher had the fastest speed, 113.89 mph. The PA system and the timer both failed early on but were fixed. The club paid $400 for insurance and broke even. It was the only drag race at the airport, though a stock car race had run there a month earlier.
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