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In 1952, a car club known as the "Choppers of Pomona" aided by a young police officer, Sergeant Bud Coons, advocated that a safe place should be provided for local area drag racers. Coons, along with fellow hot rod enthusiast, Pomona Police Chief Ralph Parker, and the city government of Pomona asked to lease the parking lot of the LA County ...
In a video announcement, Lynsi Snyder, In-N-Out president and owner and granddaughter of founders Harry and Esther Snyder, said she used to watch her father, Guy, drag race at Pomona.
A dragstrip is a facility for conducting automobile and motorcycle acceleration events such as drag racing. Although a quarter mile (1320 feet, 402 m) is the best known measure for a drag track, many tracks are eighth mile (201 m) tracks, and the premiere classes will run 1,000 foot (304.8 m) races.
Woodburn was the first drag strip on the West Coast to use electronic scoreboards. In 1999, Livingston added track bleachers that had previously been used in Seattle Kingdome. [1] In 2004, the track manager estimated that Woodburn Dragstrip hosts more than 200,000 fans and participants annually, contributing more than $20 million to the local ...
George Ray's Dragstrip is an automotive drag racing strip in Paragould, Arkansas. Built in 1961 by the famous George Ray, it is the oldest single-purpose drag racing facility in Arkansas. It is located on Arkansas Highway 135, east of Paragould, with racing occurring (in season and weather permitting) every Sunday.
1960 – A group of local racers from the Eastern Custom Car Association – including George Weiler, Carl Ruth, Bob Eveland and Lee Crupi – approaches Stauffer about converting track into full dragstrip that can be used by cars. [2] [3] 1962 – Maple Grove Drag-O-Way opens in August as a nationally recognized racetrack.
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 Brainerd strip became known as "one of the quickest and fastest in the world". [7] It was completely resurfaced in 2003. [8] In 2005, Tony Schumacher turned in a speed of 337.58 mph (543.28 km/h), "the fastest quarter-mile time ever", [9] and in 2016 and 2017, national NHRA records in Funny Car were set there. [10]