Fallon Naval Auxiliary Air Station

Hot Rod began listing the strip at the Fallon Naval Air Station among NHRA’s sanctioned tracks in 1961. In late October or early November 1962, Roger McDunnah and Don Scoville of Reno’s Marquis Car Club won top eliminator in their A roadster. The Hurricams car club ran a race on one of the station’s runways on Sunday, May 12, 1963. In August 1965 more than 85 cars from Nevada, California, Washington and Oregon came for the Cal-Neva Championship Drag Races.

The Hurricams ran another NHRA-sanctioned race on May 29, 1966, where Jim Lewis set a Nevada record of 8.14 seconds at 190.26 MPH in the Masters & Richter AA/FD. On July 17, 1966, the Masters & Richter Special from San Leandro set the Nevada quarter-mile record at 8.23 seconds and 197.98 MPH. Other fuel dragsters there included Jim Herbert’s “The Lizard” from Sacramento, Warren Welsh’s “Shoehorn Ghost” and the Rickman Brothers’ “Bonanza.” About 40 Cal-Neva club members raced on September 11, 1966, when the Rickman Brothers broke the M&R car’s track record with 198.86 MPH. Elmer Snyder of Newman, California, won top eliminator in the Jorge & Snyder Special, then the fastest Chevy-powered gas dragster in the world. No newspaper record after 1966 has turned up. Fallon Drag Strip did appear on a 1968 list of 325 U.S. drag strips in the Swedish magazine Start & Strip, but racing after 1966 seems unlikely.