Walker Army Airfield (Victoria)

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Also known as Walker Timing Association Drag Strip

Hosted the 1955 Kansas state championship drag races
Walt Arfons ran his jet dragster there on August 4, 1963

Raced: 1955, 1963-64
State: Kansas
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: October 16, 1955
Track: 1/4 mile (8,000-foot strip, 144 feet wide, in 1963)
Location: Runway at the old Walker Air Force Base near Victoria
People: Walker Timing Association, race organizer (1963-64)
Sanction: AHRA, NHRA
Elevation: 1,969 ft (600 m)
Coordinates: 38.89657, -99.10028

The Kansas state championship drag races ran on a runway at Walker Air Force Base near Victoria on October 16, 1955. NHRA sanctioned the quarter-mile event, and admission was fifty cents. In 1963 the Walker Timing Association prepared a runway at the old base for its first race on May 5, run under AHRA rules on a strip 8,000 feet long and 144 feet wide. Ads that year called it the Walker Timing Association Drag Strip. Walt Arfons made three exhibition runs in his “Green Monster” jet dragster on August 4, 1963. Races ran on the first Sunday of each month. Twelve races were held in 1964, when the strip switched from AHRA to NHRA sanction.

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