The Famoso Bakersfield Raceway dragstrip is located in McFarland, California just north of Bakersfield, California , and is known historically as the home to the annual March Meet , also known as the U.S. Fuel and Gas Championships.
6-621: The strip, located on Famoso Road between Highway 99 and Highway 65 east of the Highway 99 and Highway 46 interchange, was originally built in World War II as an Poso Auxiliary Field training base for the nearby Army Air Corps training base at Shafter's Minter Field . After World War II, the Army abandoned the field. It was in the 1950s that an aspiring group of drag racing pioneers from the Bakersfield area,
12-708: A motor sport venue is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Poso Auxiliary Field Poso Airport ( FAA LID : L73 ), also known as Poso-Kern County Airport , is a county-owned public-use airport located four nautical miles (7 km) east of the central business district of Famoso , in Kern County , California , United States . It is mostly used for general aviation . Poso-Kern County Airport covers an area of 400 acres (160 ha ) at an elevation of 635 feet (194 m) above mean sea level . It has one runway designated 16/34 with an asphalt surface measuring 3,000 by 60 feet (914 x 18 m). For
18-457: 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 track also hosts A.N.R.A (American nostalgia racing association) events and the annual NHRA Museum's California Hot Rod Reunion in October as well as
24-587: A high school racing series and other smaller events. It is run by the Kern County Racing Association, Inc. with major sponsorship from the Automobile Club of Southern California , which also sponsors NASCAR and NHRA events and tracks throughout Southern California. This article about a sports venue in California is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about
30-525: The 12-month period ending March 17, 2010, the airport had 1,000 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 83 per month. Built as the Poso Auxiliary Field or Poso Field Aux No. 6 , this was a satellite training airfield of Minter Field named for the city of Poso, California , that was renamed Famoso, California. Poso Auxiliary Field covered 400 acres and was used for training World War II pilots in landing and takeoff. The US Army built
36-652: The Bakersfield Smokers, purchased the west of strip and made the necessary adjustments to allow for drag racing. The Famoso Bakersfield Raceway hosted the first ever March Meet in 1959 and it helped establish the National Hot Rod Association's (NHRA) legitimacy. The east part of Poso Auxiliary Field became the Poso Airport . The Famoso Bakersfield Raceway still hosts the March Meet but it is now strictly
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