Meet Me in St. Meet Joe Black movie poster - Brad Pitt poster - 11 x 17 inches. Fuel and Gas Championships. It was in the s that an aspiring group of drag racing pioneers from the Bakersfield area, the Bakersfield Smokers, purchased the strip and made thenecessary adjustments to allow for drag racing. Today the Famoso Raceway still hosts the March Meet but it is now strictly a nostalgic hot rod and dragster event. The track also hosts fuel-altered events and the annual California Hot Rod Reunion in October as well as a high school racing series and other smaller events.

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The Bakersfield March Meet takes place on a sacred piece of asphalt that has been luring drag racers to Bakersfield, Calif. Its long history of nitro, horsepower and hot rods has helped make the Good Vibrations Bakersfield March Meet the most prestigious nostalgia drag race in the world. The legend began in when the local car club, the Smokers, hosted the inaugural U. Fuel and Gas Championships. Art Chrisman beat Bakersfield local Tony Waters for the Top Eliminator crown, and drag racers have been trying to conquer the same quarter-mile ever since. Anticipation for the March Meet the NHRA Hot Rod Heritage Series season-opener was at an all-time high as over fuelers, floppers, altereds, gassers, coupes and rails packed every inch of the grounds.


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Top Fuel Eliminations Roundup. Fry staged in and ran a full pass on a single with a 5. Victory arrived with Fry driving the same dragster that she earned her Top Fuel license back in after working up the drag racing ranks from Junior Fuel.