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"Drag City" is a 1963 song by Jan and Dean, written by Jan Berry, Roger Christian, and Brian Wilson. [2] It describes the narrator's trip to a drag racing strip and borrows heavily from an earlier Jan and Dean song "Surf City," also co-written by Berry and Wilson. "Drag City" was released as the title track from the album of the same name.
The Famoso Bakersfield Raceway still hosts the March Meet but it is now strictly a "nostalgia drag racing" event. In the 2000s, "Saturday Nitro" events featured Fuel altereds then switched to nostalgia funny cars around 2010. After a driver died in an on-track hit on the guardrail, they stopped hosting these non-sanctioned events.
The Last Drag Race, Shav Glick, Los Angeles Times, October 29, 1983. Orange County Drag Strip Opens Tonight , Los Angeles Times, August 5, 1967. 33°39′43″N 117°44′51″W / 33.66200°N 117.74750°W / 33.66200; -117.74750 ( site of Orange County International
From 1994 through 2006 Goodguys staged the West Coast Championship Series which at the time was America's premier points circuit for vintage drag racing. Also in 1994, Goodguys resurrected the March Meet drag races at Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield, California, tapping into the event's rich heritage. Over time, the Goodguys March Meet became the ...
When the event was first brought to Pomona, the event was sponsored by Winston (after NHRA's main title sponsor at the time, RJ Reynolds' "Winston" cigarette brand). From 2010 to 2019, and again from 2021 to 2022, the event was sponsored by the Automobile Club of Southern California , which is affiliated with AAA.
That year's racing was also the subject of a film produced by Hot Rod, "The Hot Rod Story—Drag Racing", narrated by Dick Enberg. [10] At the 1966 championship, McEwen would win the Top Fuel title, while Mike Snively did (in Roland Leong's Hawaiian, with a 7.07 second pass at 221.66 mph (356.73 km/h)) in 1967.
With songs featured on 'Drag Race' increasing 138% in streams on average, insiders reveal the challenges and triumphs behind the iconic Lip Sync For Your Life.
[5] In addition to horse races, the track hosted the final round of the American Flat Track motorcycle racing series in 2009 and from 2011 to 2014. [6] The Fairplex is home to a large dragstrip known as the Auto Club Raceway at Pomona, which hosts both the opening and closing rounds of the NHRA drag racing series.