Halls Dragway
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
Also known as Arnold Field Airport
- Raced on a World War II army air base runway
- Raced
- 1955-70
- State
- Tennessee
- What's left
- A good length of the old track surface is still there, in poor to good condition.
- Raced on
- A military airfield
- Surface
- Runway
- Location
- Former Army Air Base two miles north of Halls (Arnold Field Airport)
- People
- Memphis Rodders, race operator
- Sanction
- NHRA
- Elevation
- 293 ft (89 m)
- Coordinates
- 35.90226, -89.40579
Drag races ran on a runway of the former Army Air Base two miles north of Halls. Built in 1942, the base was inactivated after the war and turned over to civilian use as Arnold Field Airport. The Memphis Rodders ran the races, usually on the fourth Sunday, and NHRA sanctioned them around 1959-60. On July 3, 1960, John Mathis, 35, was killed when he lost control and careened into a field, with 2,000 spectators watching. It was the only fatality in the six years the track had operated. After that, racing seems to have been sporadic or stopped until 1968, when it picked up again for three years before ending for good.
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