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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.
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.
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 ...
The plane crashed near the drag strip, apparently while attempting to land at nearby Brackett Field Airport, according to a statement posted by NHRA officials. The four people on the aircraft were ...
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 race itself is a "grueling 50-mile cross country" event that starts at the local drag strip, winds its way through the mountains on two-lane roads and ends at the same drag strip. Throughout the race, Arny and Jim Lawrence (Brett Halsey) battle for the lead, with Jim repeatedly trying to force Arny off the road. However, Arny is a better ...
The dragstrip is proud to extinguish the "nowhere else to go" excuse used by illegal street racers, and local police often hand out flyers to offenders for free entry into drag races at the dragstrip to promote safe racing and has re-opened. The drag strip closed on December 21, 2024. [12]