Holloman Air Force Base (Alamogordo)

Military and civilian members formed the Phantom Timing Association in May 1975 to improve morale and relations between the base and nearby Alamogordo. Bake sales and similar fundraisers paid to start a quarter-mile racing program. The first race ran on the west side of Runway 03 on Sunday, July 13, 1975, insured and sanctioned by AHRA, with trophies and money for winners. Morris Calkins, a tech director at the El Paso strip who owned a machine shop in Alamogordo, ran the racing. Admission was $1, or 50 cents for club members, children and military, and racers paid $5 or $10 depending on membership. An overflow crowd of 1,500, more than twice what was expected, saw Russ Hall of Las Cruces beat fifty entries for top eliminator and $200.

Dust was a problem that first day, so the runway was cleaned before the August 10 race, where 2,300 spectators with lawn chairs watched 65 racers. Stan Jaramillo, a former timer at Fremont Drag Strip in California, was starter, Dennis Hagymasi announced, and club officers Bob Ivey and Floyd Stringer coordinated. The third race, September 14, paid $1,100 plus trophies, with local businesses donating for trophies. The association also held picnics along with its regular meetings. Chuck Bella set a strip record of 7.52 at over 180 MPH on October 12. Monthly events kept going. A few years in, the base ruled that the club could no longer charge admission and could only take donations, which hurt, but the races continued. Racing moved to Taxiway 9 in 1979, switched to the eighth mile in 1980, and the club became the Holloman Drag Club in 1981. Nothing has been found about racing after 1994.