Homestead Air Force Base
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- The Ramblers club was featured in the 1954 RKO short film Hot Rod Galahads
- Raced
- 1954
- State
- Florida
- What's left
- A good length of the old track surface is still there, in poor to good condition.
- Raced on
- A military airfield
- First race
- May 16, 1954
- Surface
- Runway
- Location
- Main runway, Homestead Air Force Base, near Miami
- People
- Ramblers' Road Club of Miami, sponsor and organizer (1954)
- Elevation
- 3 ft (1 m)
- Coordinates
- 25.49083, -80.38326
The Ramblers’ Road Club of Miami, about a year old and affiliated with NHRA, held a race on the base’s main runway on May 16, 1954, and scheduled its first annual charity drag race there for May 30, with thirty classes. Another race ran August 1, and a meet was set for November 6-7, 1954. A Miami News article on August 23, 1954 said the club sponsored races at Homestead every Sunday that year. RKO Pictures featured the club in a 1954 short film, Hot Rod Galahads, which has good footage of a drag race that may have been at Homestead. One online source says drag racing at Homestead started in 1952, but no record confirms it.
Video
More in Florida
- Nothing left No longer racing, and nothing of the track remains. Amelia Earhart Field (Hialeah) 1956-62
- Closed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there. Boca Raton Airfield 1953-54
- Active Still racing today. Bradenton Motorsports Park 1971-present
- Closed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there. Brooksville Municipal Airport 1954-59
- Closed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there. Buccaneer Drag Strip (Fernandina Beach) 1961-65
- Closed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there. Buckingham Field/Drag Strip (Fort Myers) 1954-66
- Active Still racing today. Central Florida Dragway/Orlando Speed World Dragway 1966-present
- Nothing left No longer racing, and nothing of the track remains. Central Florida Speedway (Casselberry) 1954
- Closed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there. Corry Field (Pensacola) 1967-70
- Closed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there. Countyline Dragway (Pembroke Pines) 2007-14
- Nothing left No longer racing, and nothing of the track remains. Davie Drags 1959-61
- Closed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there. Daytona International Speedway 1961-62