Pease Air Force Base (Newington)
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Raced
- 1953
- State
- New Hampshire
- What's left
- A good length of the old track surface is still there, in poor to good condition.
- On the site today
- Portsmouth International Airport at Pease
- Raced on
- A military airfield
- First race
- September 1953 (reported)
- Surface
- Runway
- Location
- Runway just south of Newington
- People
- New England Hot Rod Council, organizer (1953)
- Elevation
- 74 ft (23 m)
- Coordinates
- 43.07993, -70.82239
For a short time the base let the New England Hot Rod Council race on its runway, reportedly at two meets in September 1953. The field was just south of Newington and is now Portsmouth International Airport at Pease. Little else is known.
