Dragsters, ATV’s and paddle-tires on bikes with expansion chambers separated from the faster and larger air-cooled buggy’s, dragsters and tube chassied “Jeep” replicas. The staging lanes had a steady stream of Jr. With heavy-duty farm equipment supplied by motorsports legend and local mega-farmer Larry Minor, his crew repeatedly groomed a finely manicured 300-foot sand and dirt dragstrip and shutdown area all day and late into the night over the three days of racing and timed runs. Saturday was cloudy with off and on light drizzle, but the smell of 2-stroke and racing fuel out on the riverbed behind a busy SoCal IndianCasino told us we’d arrived at the right place. Go to the Southern Californa Sand Drag Association website at event information and background about sand drag racing.(Words and Photos by Darr Hawthorne) -After spending the last six weekends at one dragstrip or another and a week at the Vegas SEMA Show, for me it was a coin flip if I’d do it on one more weekend for the Southern California Sand Drag Association Finals at the Soboba Casino in San Jacinto, CA. Qualifying events began Friday, April 12.

Spectators may bring their own lawn chairs, but some seating is available. eliminations rounds, followed by elimination rounds for other racers with the final race round starting at 7 p.m.Īdmission is $10 a day for adults and ages 13 and up, $5 for children ages 8 to 12 and free for younger children. On Sunday, the childrens’ test and tune begins at 9 a.m.

There is a mandatory drivers meeting before racing begins. Sand drag racing continues through Sunday, April 14, at the third annual April Fuel’s Day event at the Soboba Casino/Motor Complex on the Soboba Indian Reservation near San Jacinto. Al McKinney’s racer lifts off at the Southern California Sand Drags Association races held at Soboba Casino in San Jacinto in 2011.īy GAIL WESSON | The Press-EnterpriseApat 6:06 pm

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