Punta Gorda Airport
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Raced
- 1956
- State
- Florida
- 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
- March 11, 1956
- Location
- Punta Gorda Airport
- People
- Rod Rattlers, sponsor and organizer (1956)
- Elevation
- 19 ft (6 m)
- Coordinates
- 26.92135, -81.99430
Drag races were held here at least as early as March 11, 1956, when the Rod Rattlers sponsored and ran a race expected to draw about sixty entries, including Ora Cook’s Olds-powered dragster and C. M. Cook’s flathead Ford-powered dragster. In 1961 the Jaycees asked the Charlotte County Commission for permission to hold drag races but were turned down.
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