Provo Airport
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
Also known as Provo Municipal Airport
- Apparently a single race
- Raced
- 1950
- State
- Utah
- What's left
- A good length of the old track surface is still there, in poor to good condition.
- Raced on
- An airport runway
- First race
- September 30, 1950
- Last race
- September 30, 1950
- Track
- about 1 1/4-mile runway
- Surface
- Runway
- Location
- East-west runway, Provo Municipal Airport
- People
- Provo Clutchers car club, race organizer (1950)
- Elevation
- 4,488 ft (1,368 m)
- Coordinates
- 40.22152, -111.73179
The Provo Clutchers car club got approval to hold drag races on the east-west runway of Provo Municipal Airport on September 30, 1950. The runway was about 1 1/4 miles long. Spectators had to watch from outside the airport’s perimeter fence. Fifteen cars entered, and Ken Dove was overall winner. As far as anyone can tell, it was the only race held there.
Background
Provo Airport, owned and run by the city, sits on the east shore of Utah Lake at the southwest edge of Provo. It has regional flights to western U.S. destinations and ranks as Utah's second-busiest airport after Salt Lake City International.
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