Ladd Air Force Base (Fairbanks)
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Raced
- 1959
- State
- Alaska
- What's left
- A good length of the old track surface is still there, in poor to good condition.
- On the site today
- Military airfield at Fort Jonathan Wainwright
- Raced on
- A military airfield
- First race
- summer of 1959
- Last race
- summer of 1959
- Surface
- Runway
- Location
- Base runway, now the military airfield at Fort Jonathan Wainwright
- People
- Arctic Slicks Hot Rod Club, race organizer (1959)
- Elevation
- 453 ft (138 m)
- Coordinates
- 64.83482, -147.61541
The Arctic Slicks Hot Rod Club got permission to hold a single drag race on a runway at the base in the summer of 1959. The airfield is now part of Fort Jonathan Wainwright in Fairbanks.
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