Twin City Drag Strip (Marysville)

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Also known as Marysville Drag Strip

Noel Black ran 200.04 mph at the first Sacramento Valley Crown race in 1967

Raced: 1965-1970s
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: September 18-19, 1965
Surface: Taxiway
Location: Taxiway C, northeast corner of Yuba County Airport, just south of Marysville
Elevation: 62 ft (19 m)
Coordinates: 39.09954, -121.57080

The strip’s grand opening was September 18-19, 1965. Under the name Marysville Drag Strip, it appeared in a 1968 Start & Strip listing of 325 U.S. drag strips. Steve Kroeger reported that races were held on Taxiway C at the northeast corner of Yuba County Airport, just south of Marysville. On March 5, 1967, the first of a series of Sacramento Valley Crown races was held there, and 1,200 spectators watched Noel Black run 200.04 mph and Don Allen set low ET at 8.2 seconds. Nothing else has turned up.

Clint Logan of Yuba City (right) in his E/S Plymouth GTX beat Dave Miller of Olivehurst in his D/MP Ford in an early round of the fourth eliminator bracket at Twin Cities Dragway on Nov. 2, 1969. Photo published in Marysville Appeal-Democrat, Nov. 5, 1969, courtesy of Rich Roberts

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