Newport Municipal Airport
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Raced
- 1953-54
- State
- Oregon
- What's left
- A good length of the old track surface is still there, in poor to good condition.
- On the site today
- Airport
- Raced on
- An airport runway
- First race
- 1953 or earlier
- Location
- Newport Airport
- People
- Surfriders car club, race organizer (1953)
- Northwest Timing Association, race organizer (1953-54)
- Elevation
- 92 ft (28 m)
- Coordinates
- 44.58056, -124.06139
This pin shares its exact coordinates with another strip in the source data, so it may be misplaced.
The Surfriders car club of Newport held drag races now and then at the Newport Airport in 1953, and possibly earlier. On February 28, 1953, four car clubs drove in a hot rod caravan from Salem to Newport, but bad weather stopped the race. The May 10, 1953 race was run by the Northwest Timing Association and the Surfriders, and the NTA opened the 1954 season there on May 2.
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