Lincoln Air Force Base

In January 1957 an Air Base Auto Club formed and started talking about drag racing on a base taxiway. Its third race, on April 21, 1957, drew 3,000 spectators, and Major Dean Kirby took Top Eliminator in his 1957 Pontiac in 15.6 seconds. The Lincoln Timing Association formed in March 1958 and by early October had run six events on the base landing strip and one on the National Guard runway, under an arrangement among the base, the Nebraska Air National Guard and the club. The races were NHRA sanctioned, charged a modest admission and drew 50-100 entries each. On October 26, 1958, before 1,000 spectators, Cliff Miles of Dunlap, Iowa, won Super Stock at 90.90 MPH in his 1958 Chevy and Kirby ran 121 MPH in his A dragster. Miles ran 102.58 MPH on November 2, and Howdy Williams took Top Eliminator at 132.35 MPH in his B dragster on November 16.

In 1959 the Shaundos car club got NHRA sanction and, with help from the Rodders car club, ran races on a 3,800-foot Air National Guard taxiway. They bought new timing equipment and a fuel analyzer and put up new fencing, and the place became known as the Shaundos Drag Strip. On August 30, 1959, 3,000 spectators watched 180 racers, and Jack Moss ran 9.9 seconds at 135 MPH. The NHRA bonus points race on July 31, 1960 drew 5,300 people, and Howdy Williams set top speed at 153.35 MPH. On May 9, 1965, Williams won top fuel eliminator in his Speed Engineering AA fuel dragster with an unofficial and doubtful 7.7, and two weeks later set the track record at 8.2 seconds and 188.9 MPH. The base closed in 1966, and the field became a civil airport shared with the Nebraska Air National Guard.