Lincoln Park Airfield (Calgary)
Nothing leftNothing left No longer racing, and nothing of the track remains.
- Raced
- 1962
- Province
- Alberta
- What's left
- The site was redeveloped and nothing of the strip remains.
- On the site today
- Mount Royal University
- Raced on
- A military airfield
- First race
- May 20, 1962
- Surface
- Runway
- Location
- Lincoln Park RCAF airfield, southwest Calgary, entered through the Sarcee Road gate
- People
- Calgary Drag Racing Council, race organizer (1962)
- Elevation
- 18 ft (6 m)
- Coordinates
- 51.01060, -114.13160
In 1962 the Calgary Drag Racing Council held at least two races, on May 20 and August 12, at Lincoln Park, an RCAF airfield on the former base in southwest Calgary. Newspaper ads for the races are the only record found, and they told fans to use the Sarcee Road gate. Mount Royal College was built on the southern part of the Lincoln Park airstrip in 1972. The northern part survived into the 1980s and was used for autocross and go-kart racing. In the 1990s the last of the airstrips were torn up for the expansion of Mount Royal, by then a university.
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