Merrill Field (Anchorage)
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Labor Day weekend 1962 event drew 3,000 spectators
- Raced
- 1961-62
- State
- Alaska
- What's left
- A good length of the old track surface is still there, in poor to good condition.
- Raced on
- An airport runway
- First race
- June 1961
- Surface
- Runway
- Location
- Merrill Field airport runway, a mile east of Anchorage
- People
- Anchorage Timing Association, race sponsor (1961-62)
- Elevation
- 130 ft (40 m)
- Coordinates
- 61.21383, -149.84091
Merrill Field opened in 1930, a mile east of Anchorage. A drag race ran on its runway in June 1961, and in 1962 a Labor Day weekend event drew 3,000 spectators and 65 entries. The Anchorage Timing Association, made up of four car clubs (the Demons, Swappers, Ghost Riders and Iceworms), sponsored the racing.
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