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SATURDAY NIGHT NITRO, JUNE 26, 2014, FAMOSO RACEWAY. Summertime is a time for traditions – summer camp, fireworks, lazing by the pool and Saturday Night Nitro at Famoso.  There is no better way to spend a warm summer evening than track-side with the smell of nitro filling the Read More

The inaugural 1959 March Meet was uniquely able to attract a racer from outside California pulling in a young Don Garlits from Florida.  March Meet has grown to become a worldwide attraction as the 56th version hosted teams from New Zealand, Norway, and Canada as well as from Read More

22ND CALIFORNIA HOT ROD REUNION, FAMOSO RACEWAY, Oct. 18-20, 2013 Sunday Racing It’s amazing to see what amounts to flat open land around the Famoso dragstrip transform into a small “city” during Hot Rod Reunion.  The population of that 3-day “city” Read More

    Robert Overholser in the California Hustler on his way to winning   A hot Saturday produced a track temperature of 152 degrees and hinted at the sizzling night of racing to come.  Friday night test and tune had affirmed that points leader Dan Horan, Jr.’s Read More