Unnamed drag strip (Dayton)
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Spectators got in free, with racers' entry fees paying for trophies
- Raced
- 1953-54
- State
- Nevada
- 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
- June 21, 1953
- Track
- 1/4 mile
- Location
- Silver Springs Airstrip, about sixteen miles east of Dayton on Highway 50
- People
- Desert Draggers, organizer (1953-54)
- Elevation
- 4,242 ft (1,293 m)
- Coordinates
- 39.40623, -119.25169
The Desert Draggers, a Reno hot rod club formed in 1951, ran a series of races in 1953 on a quarter-mile strip they had just taken over at the Silver Springs Airstrip, about sixteen miles east of Dayton on Highway 50. Races were held on June 21, July 5 and July 19, 1953. Spectators got in free, and racers paid entry fees. Leo and Aldo Teglia were quickest with a 14.57 in their Mercury-powered roadster. By 1954 the club had a new, better timer, and entry fees paid for trophies for every class winner. Bill Ewers had top speed at 107.14 MPH in his Mercury-powered ‘34 Ford on June 13, 1954, and was fastest again two weeks later at 106.45 MPH. In summer the club raced on a dry lake north of Reno.
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