While I was living in Overland Park, KS (1993 - 2002), they held air races at New Century. Several of the local roads were blocked off because of overflight during the races. I wish I could find the photos. We had pit passes, which let us walk around the parking apron. There were a couple of P-51 Mustangs, a clipped-wing F-4U Corsair, a YAK-3 (I believe), an F-8F Bearcat or two, and many others that I can't remember. The pace plane was an F-80 Shooting Star. He led them around for warm-up laps, and when they dropped to the deck for the start of the race, the F-80 left them in the dust like they were standing still.