Joe Foss Field (Sioux Falls)
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Six thousand people watched the 1957 race
- Raced
- 1955-57
- State
- South Dakota
- What's left
- A good length of the old track surface is still there, in poor to good condition.
- On the site today
- Sioux Falls Regional Airport
- Raced on
- An airport runway
- First race
- August 21, 1955
- Last race
- August 25, 1957
- Surface
- Runway
- Location
- Sioux Falls city airport
- People
- Sioux Falls Igniters, organizer (1955-57)
- Sanction
- NHRA
- Elevation
- 1,422 ft (433 m)
- Coordinates
- 43.58581, -96.74290
The Sioux Falls Igniters car club ran a drag race at the city airport, now Sioux Falls Regional Airport, on August 21, 1955. Under NHRA sanction, hot rods, stock cars and motorcycles raced in 27 classes for class trophies, and the Lions Club helped with parking and patrols. The event drew 69 cars and 9 motorcycles from South Dakota, Iowa and Nebraska. A second race followed on August 26, 1956. Six thousand people watched the third on August 25, 1957, when Igniters president Bob Schriever won top eliminator.
