Smartt Field (Portage des Sioux)
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Written up in Hot Rod in March 1952
- Raced
- 1951-52
- State
- Missouri
- 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
- probably 1951
- Track
- 1/4 mile
- Location
- East side of Grafton Ferry Road, fifteen miles west of Alton, Illinois
- People
- Mound City Timing Association, ran early races (1951-1952)
- Aero Ranch Hot Rod Club, ran weekly races (1952)
- Elevation
- 435 ft (133 m)
- Coordinates
- 38.92917, -90.43114
Timed quarter-mile drag races ran at Smartt Air Field in Portage des Sioux by May 1952, and a March 1952 Hot Rod article suggests racing there probably began in 1951. The Mound City Timing Association ran those early races, and the Aero Ranch Hot Rod Club ran the weekly Sunday races in 1952. The field was on the east side of Grafton Ferry Road, fifteen miles west of Alton, Illinois.
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