Porter and Sims Drag-A-Way (Las Cruces)
Nothing leftNothing left No longer racing, and nothing of the track remains.
Also known as Porter-Sims Racing Association
- Owners paid the city half their net income to use the runway
- Raced
- 1969-70
- State
- New Mexico
- What's left
- The site was redeveloped and nothing of the strip remains.
- On the site today
- Residential and ball fields
- Raced on
- An airport runway
- First race
- November 23, 1969
- Surface
- Runway
- Location
- Unused runway at East Airport, east of the National Guard Armory near Solano Drive and Griggs Avenue
- People
- Rex Porter, co-owner and operator (1969-70)
- John Sims, co-owner and operator (1969-70)
- Elevation
- 3,992 ft (1,217 m)
- Coordinates
- 32.31655, -106.76465
John Sims filed incorporation papers for the Porter-Sims Racing Association on August 1, 1969. He and Rex Porter, racing partners who won the 1967 Arizona drag championships with their “Orange Blossom Special,” got permission to use part of an unused runway at the city’s East Airport, paying the city half their net income. The strip was east of the National Guard Armory near Solano Drive and Griggs Avenue. The grand opening was Sunday, November 23, 1969, with Eddie “The Flying Farmer” Marcak of Deming booked as the feature in his ‘69 Mach I Mustang. Races continued into 1970, with cash for eliminator winners, and Hot Rod listed it as a sanctioned strip in February 1970. The old airport site is now houses and ball fields.
