Mountain Home Air Force Base
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
Also known as Tumbleweed Raceway
- Hosted the 1956 Idaho state championship drag race
- Raced
- 1956, 1963, 1979
- State
- Idaho
- 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
- September 16, 1956
- Location
- Runway at Mountain Home Air Force Base
- People
- Boise Timing Association, race organizer (1956)
- Sanction
- NHRA
- Elevation
- 2,992 ft (912 m)
- Coordinates
- 43.04494, -115.87015
The Idaho state championship drag race moved from Boise’s Gowen Field to a runway at the Mountain Home air base for September 16, 1956, with the Boise Timing Association running it. Races may have continued between 1956 and 1963, but that hasn’t been confirmed. The 1963 season opened on March 17. Around 1979, drag races at the base ran as Tumbleweed Raceway under NHRA sanction.
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