Whiteman Air Force Base
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Speeds were clocked with police radar
- Raced
- 1958
- State
- Missouri
- 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
- June 8, 1958
- Surface
- Concrete runway
- Location
- Old east-west concrete runway at the south end of Whiteman Air Force Base
- Elevation
- 832 ft (254 m)
- Coordinates
- 38.73054, -93.55400
This pin shares its exact coordinates with another strip in the source data, so it may be misplaced.
A drag race on June 8, 1958 used the old east-west concrete runway at the south end of the base, with sixteen class trophies. The Sedalia police department supplied radar to clock speeds, and Carl Deifendorfer was fastest at 99 mph in his 1958 Corvette. Drag racing came back to Whiteman almost twenty years later as Knob Noster Raceway.
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