(Photos by Wes Allison) – It was a great first day of action at Auto Club Raceway Pomona on Thursday as the racers in the Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series took to the drag strip for time runs and qualifying. We’re talking a day full of stock, super stock, index classes, and then the mighty alcohol funny cars and top alcohol dragsters took on the historic quarter mile at the oldest continuously operating drag strip in the country.
The weather is going to be SoCal perfect all weekend long and that means the people and the cars will be stacked up on the grounds of the Pomona Fairplex for the 58th year in a row. Rather than blast you with a bunch of words, take a look at the photos below and stay tuned all weekend long as we bring you all the news and action that’s fit to print from the NHRA Winternationals!
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I may be wrong, but isn’t Famoso Raceway the oldest continually operating drag strip? First Smokers Meet in March of 1959 I believe.
If you count the two annual national events we continual operation, which are the only events currently run at the track, then they opened in 1951.
The only time a Mustang II makes sense, is at a Drag Strip
At $200+ per person for the weekend now, I stay home and watch it on TV.
Have a couple friends running S/C there. To bad the FS1 coverage is weak. Already ordered my tickets for Sonoma in July (including parking on the green for my SBC MGB)
The NHRA all access.
All Access is a viable alternative, but I work Fridays and weather permitting drive my MGB on weekends, just do not have an extra hundie at this moment for when I might have time to watch. If they would show more racing on FS1, less talk etc. would be happier with their broadcasts, oh yeah-no win lights during qualifying is a terrible idea.