Victory Field (Vernon)
Nothing leftNothing left No longer racing, and nothing of the track remains.
- Raced
- 1958-60
- State
- Texas
- What's left
- The site was redeveloped and nothing of the strip remains.
- Raced on
- An airport runway
- First race
- possibly 1957; first documented June 15, 1958
- Track
- 2,700-foot runway
- Surface
- Concrete
- Location
- Victory Field, Vernon
- People
- Leon Taylor, sponsor (1958)
- Elevation
- 1,230 ft (375 m)
- Coordinates
- 34.15587, -99.32756
Victory Field opened in 1941 as a World War II flight school for the Army Air Force and became a civilian airport with a 2,700-foot runway after the war. In 1950 the state took over the buildings north of the runway for a mental hospital. Drag racing on the old runway may have started as early as 1957, but the first record found is a race on June 15, 1958, sponsored by Leon Taylor of Quanah. In 1958 races ran on the first and third Sundays of each month, with trophies for every class winner, and the concrete strip was being reconditioned.
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