Bishop Drag Strip
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Raced
- 1963-68, 1974
- State
- California
- What's left
- A good length of the old track surface is still there, in poor to good condition.
- Raced on
- An airport runway
- First race
- 1963
- Location
- Airport two miles east of Bishop (almost certainly)
- People
- Jim Dominique, founder of the 1974 strip (1974)
- Sanction
- NHRA
- Elevation
- 4,118 ft (1,255 m)
- Coordinates
- 37.37226, -118.36522
NHRA sanctioned drag racing in Bishop in 1963, and the Swedish magazine Start & Strip included the strip in a 1968 list of 325 U.S. drag strips. Races ran on the second Sunday of the month, almost certainly at the airport two miles east of Bishop, built around 1940. Jim Dominique, a founder of a later Bishop Drag Strip, dated that version’s start to 1974, under NHRA sanction.
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