Norton Drags
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
Also known as San Bernardino International Airport
- Drag races held as part of San Bernardino's Route 66 Rendezvous in 1994
- Raced
- 1993-94
- State
- California
- What's left
- A good length of the old track surface is still there, in poor to good condition.
- Raced on
- A military airfield
- Track
- 1/8 mile
- Surface
- Runway
- Location
- Former Norton Air Force Base (San Bernardino International Airport)
- Sanction
- NHRA
- Elevation
- 1,103 ft (336 m)
- Coordinates
- 34.09719, -117.24031
This eighth-mile strip ran under NHRA sanction on a runway at the former Norton Air Force Base, which was deactivated and renamed San Bernardino International Airport around 1993-94. Drag races were held there on September 10 and September 17, 1994, as part of San Bernardino’s Route 66 Rendezvous. Top fuel and alcohol cars weren’t allowed. Racers paid $15 to enter and spectators $5.
Background
Norton Air Force Base sat two miles east of downtown San Bernardino and was an active Air Force facility from 1942 to 1994, so the drag races ran right as the base was closing.
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