Foster Field (Victoria)
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Racers left in 1958 over new helmet and spectator-distance rules
- Raced
- 1957-58
- State
- Texas
- What's left
- A good length of the old track surface is still there, in poor to good condition.
- On the site today
- Victoria County Airport
- Raced on
- A military airfield
- First race
- June 1957
- Location
- About six miles northeast of Victoria
- People
- Victoria Timing Association, race operator (1957-58)
- Elevation
- 104 ft (32 m)
- Coordinates
- 28.85253, -96.92379
The Victoria Timing Association started holding drag races at Foster Field in June 1957. In June 1958 field officials told the association that every racer now had to wear a helmet and spectators had to stay 100 feet from the strip. The association wouldn’t accept that, feeling it took the excitement out of racing, and began looking for another site, including asking about Aloe Field. Foster Field, about six miles northeast of Victoria, was a U.S. Air Force base during World War II and stayed one until 1959, when it became the civilian Victoria County Airport.
Background
Foster Field, about six miles east-northeast of Victoria, trained pilots during World War II and reopened in 1952 as a Tactical Air Command fighter base until it closed for good in 1959. It was named for Lt. Arthur L. Foster, a Georgetown native and Army Air Corps instructor killed in a 1925 crash at Brooks Field.
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