Tyndall Air Force Base
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- The base commander, Col. Fred Gray, won the first race in his 1956 Chevrolet
- Seventy cars entered the first race
- Raced
- 1956-57
- State
- Florida
- What's left
- A good length of the old track surface is still there, in poor to good condition.
- Raced on
- A military airfield
- First race
- 1956
- Location
- Tyndall Air Force Base, twelve miles east of Panama City
- Elevation
- 10 ft (3 m)
- Coordinates
- 30.06614, -85.57220
Seventy cars ran in the first drag race at this base, twelve miles east of Panama City, in 1956. Col. Fred Gray, the base commander at the time, won in his 1956 Chevrolet with a 15.70-second run. A second annual event was scheduled for runway 13 on March 31, 1957.
Background
Tyndall is an active Air Force base east of Panama City, named for World War I pilot Lt. Frank B. Tyndall. Hurricane Michael badly damaged it in 2018, and it's being rebuilt to host F-35A squadrons.
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