Stillwater Municipal Airport
Status unknownStatus unknown Closed, but nobody has checked how much of the site survives, or the exact spot was never found.
- First race drew over 2,000 spectators
- Raced
- 1955
- State
- Oklahoma
- What's left
- How much of the site survives hasn't been checked yet.
- On the site today
- Airport
- Raced on
- An airport runway
- First race
- January 30, 1955
- Track
- 1/4 mile
- Surface
- Runway
- Location
- Stillwater airport runway
- People
- Slow Pokes car club, race organizer (1955)
- Elevation
- 963 ft (293 m)
- Coordinates
- 36.16173, -97.08399
The Slow Pokes, a car club formed by Oklahoma A&M students in December 1954, held drag races on the Stillwater airport runway. Their first race, on January 30, 1955, drew over 2,000 spectators, with trophies in fourteen classes. Buddy Jackson of Oklahoma City was fastest overall at 112.26 mph on his motorcycle, and Ted Oney of Oklahoma City was fastest on four wheels at 111.23 mph in his rail job. It may have been the only race held there.
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