Pan-American Raceway (El Paso)
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Raced
- 1965-68?
- State
- Texas
- What's left
- You can still spot it in aerial photos, or broken pieces of the track surface remain.
- Location
- Near McCombs Road in northeast El Paso, two miles south of the New Mexico line
- People
- Pan-American Raceway, Inc., leaseholder (1965)
- Horizon Drag Race Corporation, promoter (1965)
- Elevation
- 4,026 ft (1,227 m)
- Coordinates
- 31.95084, -106.41901
Horizon Drag Race Corporation first wanted to build a drag strip in Horizon City, and when that fell through it turned to El Paso. In mid-July 1965 the El Paso Public Service Board approved leasing 31 acres in northeast El Paso to Pan-American Raceway, Inc. for a drag strip, near McCombs Road two miles south of the New Mexico line. The rent was $1,488 a year, with an option to renew after five years. The strip appeared in a 1968 list of U.S. drag strips in the Swedish magazine Start & Strip, but no reports of races there have been found.
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