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The Hockenheimring dragstrip, 2005 Looking down a drag strip. Note the Christmas tree countdown lights in the center Drag racing vehicles ready to race Bring your own cars waiting to run down the dragstrip Snowmobile vs. Motorcycle. A dragstrip is a facility for conducting automobile and motorcycle acceleration events such as drag racing.
Drag racing was imported to Europe by American NATO troops during the Cold War. [17] Races were held in West Germany beginning in the 1960s at the airbases at Ramstein and Sembach [18] and in the UK at various airstrips and racing circuits [19] before the opening of Europe's first permanent drag strip at Santa Pod Raceway in 1966. In the 1990s ...
The Pomona Raceway (currently named the In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip, previously named the Auto Club Raceway at Pomona), [2] is a racing facility located in Pomona, California that features a quarter-mile dragstrip.
Drag strip (or Dragstrip) may refer to: Dragstrip, track used for drag racing; Drag Strip (Transformers), Transformer character who is one of the Stunticons;
The quarter-mile, $20 million drag strip features a four-story, 38-suite complex. The 30,000-seat grandstand surrounds the start line and features 40 rows of fully backed seats. [3] In 2010, the dragstrip was repaved. [4]
The track hosts fun racing, where the general public can race their own car or motorcycle on the drag strip. The track also has monthly special events such as Real Street Drags, where the scoreboards are disabled, and flag or flashlight starts, instead of the "christmas tree" are available; an International Hot Rod Association Summit Summer Series bracket racing event; Import Wars, an event ...
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.
Santa Pod Raceway is Europe's first permanent drag racing venue for 1 ⁄ 4 mile (1,320 ft; 402 m) and 1 ⁄ 8 mile (660 ft; 201 m) racing. [1] Located in Podington, Bedfordshire, England, the drag strip was built on a disused Second World War Royal Air Force (RAF) airbase, known as RAF Podington; once used by the USAAF's 92nd Bomb Group.