Conrad Airport
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- First drag race ever held in central Montana
- Raced
- 1961
- State
- Montana
- 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 3, 1961
- Last race
- October 1, 1961
- Location
- Conrad airport
- People
- Central Montana Timing Association, ran the first race (1961)
- Conrad Car Club, ran the second race (1961)
- Sanction
- NHRA
- Elevation
- 3,535 ft (1,077 m)
- Coordinates
- 48.16986, -111.98081
The Central Montana Timing Association of Great Falls held an NHRA-sanctioned race at the Conrad airport on September 3, 1961, the first drag race ever in central Montana. It drew 134 racers and 3,000 spectators. Stan Hester won Little Eliminator in his dragster, and the Wren-Maart-Goldspeed & Blake team from Missoula won Top Eliminator. The Conrad Car Club ran a second race there on October 1, 1961.
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