Unnamed drag strip (Alameda)

Closed

Drag racing on private property as early as 1931, with no timing or classes

Raced: 1931-33
State: California
What's left: The site was redeveloped, but the strip or its layout lives on in whatever replaced it.
Surface: Paved
Location: Paved road running west from Webster Street to the site of the later Naval Air Station, Alameda
People: Oakland auto club, race organizer (1931-33)
Elevation: 20 ft (6 m)
Coordinates: 37.77401, -122.28069

In a 2007 interview, Jack Hagemann (1916-2009) described drag racing in Alameda from 1931 to 1933. A paved road ran west from Webster Street to what later became the Naval Air Station. The Oakland auto club held drags there with no timing and no classes, and since it was private property, police left them alone.

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