Fri Mar 17, 2017 10:43 pm
#1525388
I have been going to Santa Pod Raceway for seven years starting as a spectator, then as a driver (Sportsman ET) and now as a crew member. In that time frame I have seen various types of aircraft landing on a small grass strip at the south end of the site.
Google earth shows it to be a strip of some 700m (ignoring the tapered bits at the end) in the Red Circle albeit with a path/track through the middle of it as per the image below:
I have walked all the way down to the bottom of the camping field (Orange box) and been down to the end of the strip to collect a race car (Yellow, 1/4 mile strip Purple 1/2 mile shut down area) for towing and neither view provides any more information than the above picture, there is (or was) a windsock and a Nissen hut (blue circle). Podington is marked as a disused airfield (which relates to what is now the racetrack) but the grass strip it is not marked on a 1:250000 scale or upwards map.
I have been asked if I know anything about it and I cannot find any info relating to it, my assumption is that it is a private grass strip owned by a farmer, hopefully somebody on these forums has some information.
Google earth shows it to be a strip of some 700m (ignoring the tapered bits at the end) in the Red Circle albeit with a path/track through the middle of it as per the image below:
I have walked all the way down to the bottom of the camping field (Orange box) and been down to the end of the strip to collect a race car (Yellow, 1/4 mile strip Purple 1/2 mile shut down area) for towing and neither view provides any more information than the above picture, there is (or was) a windsock and a Nissen hut (blue circle). Podington is marked as a disused airfield (which relates to what is now the racetrack) but the grass strip it is not marked on a 1:250000 scale or upwards map.
I have been asked if I know anything about it and I cannot find any info relating to it, my assumption is that it is a private grass strip owned by a farmer, hopefully somebody on these forums has some information.