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DRO: Where the Pavement Ends – Metallic crab salad and crushed toes in Bakersfield
Drag Racing Online: Where The Pavement Ends
“But through all of that, the biggest story was the turnout: Yes, in a scene reminiscent of a Steinbeck novel or a dusty Henry Fonda movie, hordes of racers and race fans fired up their rust-buckets, rail-jobs and stripped-down coupes, took to the highway and made the migration to Bakersfield and its drag strip out by the oil fields, Famoso Raceway. More than 500 race cars entered. Twenty-nine Funny Cars slugged it for eight slots on the Elimination ladder. On Saturday morning, it took an hour to crawl five miles from the exit off of Highway 99 to the track’s parking lots and entrances. Bill Groak, the event’s publicist, marveled, “What recession?” in reference to the legions of go-cat-wild gearheads that overran the facility.”
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A Coterie of Nitro Funny Cars Coming to DragFest
Beach City Chevrolet
As a follow-up to yesterday’s report of Top Fuel cars coming to Bakersfield May 1-3 for Drag Fest, there is also a complement of Nitro Funny Cars that are slated to appear at this Rod & Kulture Magazine-sanctioned drag race. Among the rumored and proposed Famoso Raceway-bound entries: Jack Wright’s Joker Challenger, Dale Pulde’s War Eagle Trans Am, the Future Flash Dodge Charger, the Beach City Chevrolet Corvette, Mendy Fry in McCain’s Bomb Squad Plymouth Duster, the Fighting Irish machine, the Crazy Horse Mustang, Lee Paul Jennings and his American Revolution (nee Code Red), Kris Krabil in bike magnate Gary Turner’s Pedaler, and the Burnin’ Money Camaro.
Pontiacs, Plymouths, Chevrolets, Dodges, and Fords, etc…? There will be more diversity at Drag Fest than the registration line at the Rosemead DMV… – Cole Coonce
Top Fuel Slingshots Slated for Drag Fest
Apparently, the All American Fuel Dragsters (a collective of front-motored Top Fuelers) have booked themselves into Rod & Kulture’s “Drag Fest,” to be held on May 1-3 at Famoso Raceway, north of Bakersfield.
During Drag Fest, the Top Fuel contingent will run in what is billed as the North Versus South Championship…
The booked-in entries are, from the North: Brendan Murray’s in his “Running Wild” machine, current points champion, “Son of a Surfer” Adam Sorokin in Champion Speed Shop streamliner, The “Birky Bunch” out of Santa Rosa, Mike Fuller Motorsports, Rick Williamson, driving for Craig-Berger & Schartz
From the South, entries include Troy Green in the Highspeed Motorsports AA/FD, Mark Hyla and the Circuit Breaker, San Diego’s Rick White, Brad Thompson, and Terry Cox in the Cheetah III….
News and rumors of “classic fuel altereds” and Nitro Funny Cars making laps at Drag Fest are also beginning to percolate….
More information on the North Vs. South Nitrofest con DragFest is here: AA/FD News
