Fernald Field Dragway
ActiveActive Still racing today.
Also known as Winterport Dragway
Winterport Dragway reopened as Fernald Field Dragway under Crystal Lancaster after the town awarded her a new lease in 2025. Local coverage and the operator's current site confirm its 2026 racing program.
- Ran for years as a nonprofit outlaw track owned by eleven racers
- Raced
- 1967-present
- State
- Maine
- First race
- 1967
- Track
- 1/8th mile
- Address
- 141 Airport Road
Winterport, ME 04496 - People
- eleven racers, owners
- Crystal Lancaster, leaseholder (2025-)
- Sanction
- IHRA
- Elevation
- 174 ft (53 m)
- Coordinates
- 44.65143, -68.90624
- Contact
- fernaldfielddragway.com
Big races
Bangor Auto & Truck Center Street Day Series
A recurring street-car program intended to welcome both experienced racers and newcomers.
History
This strip opened in 1967 as a quarter mile, though the online source for that year cites no documentation. A racer who ran there in the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s came back for the August nostalgia event years later and said that standing on his trailer and looking around, it felt like 1967 all over again. He called it an out-of-the-way place time never caught up with. The earliest newspaper mention found is from 1972, about a young man who won a trophy in F/SA with his ‘67 Cougar. For several years it ran as an unsanctioned, outlaw, nonprofit eighth-mile track owned by eleven racers, and by the mid-1990s it had IHRA sanction. Lease problems came up in 2025, and longtime racer Crystal Lancaster leased the track to keep it going as Fernald Field Dragway.
Video
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