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The 2025 West Coast Stock Car Motorsports Hall of Fame 150 will be the 1st stock car race of the 2025 ARCA Menards Series West season, and the 9th running of the event.The race will be held on Saturday, January 25, 2025, at Kevin Harvick's Kern Raceway in Bakersfield, California, a 0.50 mile (0.80 km) permanent asphalt quad-oval shaped short track.
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.
Additionally, after groups of 5 races of the season, drivers that compete in all 5 races receive 50 additional points. [26] These points bonuses will be given after the races at Bakersfield in June and Madera. Bold – Pole position awarded by time. Italics – Pole position set by final practice results or rainout. * – Most laps led.
The event became officially known by its nickname, the "March Meet," when the Smokers sold the rights to the name "US Fuel & Gas Championships." In 1959 the first Smokers' March Meet was advertised as an "East-versus-West" showdown, with California drag racers taking on infamous Floridian Don Garlits , who had been credited with record speeds ...
Kevin Harvick's Kern Raceway hosts events with NASCAR's NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series along with an ARCA Menards Series West race since 2013. [2] [3] The track has banks of 8° in the straightaways, with 14° paved corners. The track has 15,000 seats for fans, and room to expand to 17,000 seats for various events.
NASCAR races at Mesa Marin Raceway (2 P) Pages in category "Sports competitions in Bakersfield, California" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 ...
Bakersfield is the home of several motor sports venues. During the formative period of American auto racing, Bakersfield, in 1911, hosted an American Automobile Association (AAA) Indy car event. The race took place around the local oil derricks, and was won by Harvey Herrick. The Bakersfield Speedway is a 1/3-mile (500m) banked clay oval track. [5]
The 1967 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships men's competition took place between June 26–28 at Memorial Stadium on the campus of Bakersfield College in Bakersfield, California. The women's division held their championships a little over a week later, separately, eighty miles southwest at La Playa Stadium on the campus of Santa Barbara ...