Tonopah Airport
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Held during the Jim Butler Days town celebration
- Raced
- 1975-76
- State
- Nevada
- 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
- May 26, 1975
- Last race
- 1976 (last documented)
- Surface
- Runway
- Location
- Tonopah airport runway
- Elevation
- 5,411 ft (1,649 m)
- Coordinates
- 38.05841, -117.09034
Drag races were first run on the Tonopah airport runway on May 26, 1975, as part of the four-day Jim Butler Days celebration honoring the town’s founder. The racing came back for two days during the 1976 festival. The celebration has continued, but it’s not known whether drag racing stayed part of it.
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