Lake City Municipal Airport
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Don Garlits won his first NHRA event here at a 1955 Safety Safari meet
- Hosted the 1956 Florida championships
- Raced
- 1955-56
- 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
- 1955
- Location
- Lake City airport
- Sanction
- NHRA
- Elevation
- 194 ft (59 m)
- Coordinates
- 30.18192, -82.57592
Don Garlits got his first win at an NHRA-sponsored event at the Lake City airport strip, a Safety Safari meet in 1955. He took top eliminator at 12.1 seconds and 108.17 mph, then the fastest run of his life. Ora Cook won the 1956 Florida championships here on July 4, 1956 in his Mercury-powered dragster. The Navy built the airport during World War II and handed it to the city after the war.
Background
Lake City Municipal Airport is now Lake City Gateway Airport, a city-owned general aviation field about three miles east of downtown.
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