Mitchell Drag Strip/Tuskegee Army Airfield
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
Also known as Sharpe Field
- Ran on a World War II field that trained Black pilots
- Raced
- 1956-57, 1960
- State
- Alabama
- What's left
- A good length of the old track surface is still there, in poor to good condition.
- Raced on
- An airport runway
- Surface
- Asphalt runway
- Location
- West-side runway of Sharpe Field, Tuskegee
- People
- Uphapee Timing Association, race organizer (1960)
- Sanction
- NHRA
- Elevation
- 232 ft (71 m)
- Coordinates
- 32.49150, -85.77544
In 1956 drag racing ran on a runway at Sharpe Field, which newspaper ads billed as the “South’s best asphalt drag strip.” It was called Mitchell Drag Strip, almost certainly after the TB-25 Mitchell trainer the base had used to train pilots. During World War II the field trained Black pilots, and afterward it went back to the city of Tuskegee as a civilian airport. In 1960 the Uphapee Timing Association held NHRA-sanctioned races every two weeks on the 5,200-foot north-south asphalt runway on the west side of the field.
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