Manzanar Drag Strip (Lone Pine)
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- Raced
- 1972-73
- State
- California
- What's left
- You can still spot it in aerial photos, or broken pieces of the track surface remain.
- Raced on
- An airport runway
- Last race
- 1973
- Surface
- Runway (rough)
- Location
- Manzanar Airport, east of the Manzanar Internment Camp and Highway 395, about nine miles north of Lone Pine
- Sanction
- NHRA
- Elevation
- 3,841 ft (1,171 m)
- Coordinates
- 36.73698, -118.14831
Racing on a runway of Manzanar Airport ran under NHRA sanction in 1972. It may have started as early as 1970, though that hasn’t been confirmed. The airport sat east of the Manzanar Internment Camp and Highway 395, about nine miles north of Lone Pine. One old-timer said only street-legal cars ran because the track surface was rough. According to Jim Dominique, the strip closed in 1973.
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