Positive Cases Among Kern Residents: 311,891
Deaths: 2,639
Recovered and Presumed Recovered Residents: 307,147
Percentage of all cases that are unvaccinated: 70.89
Percentage of all hospitalizations that are unvaccinated: 83.09
Updated: 3/23/23
As is often the case at March Meets, Bobby Cottrell made his Funny Car victory on Monday at Famoso Raceway look easy.
As far as rainfall totals, the amount of precipitation that fell from a couple of cells at Famoso Drag Strip on Sunday wasn't much.
Dorothy McLennan has spent countless hours at countless drag strips throughout the country over the decades.
So far, so good for Kamaka Pocock and the California Hustler Funny Car team.
Just talking with Rodney Flournoy will lift your spirits.
Last September Tyler Hilton and family were about to throw in the towel.
Wayne King loved life.
The International Speedway Challenge is just the beginning of the 2023 campaign at Kern County Raceway Park.
After Kevin Harvick announced Thursday that the 2023 season would be his final NASCAR campaign, the city of Bakersfield responded by showing its love and sharing its memories of his racing career.
After spending nearly 35 years competing across the Atlantic Ocean, the U.S. national speedway team is coming back home.
The racing world at large got introduced to Kevin Harvick when he joined the NASCAR Cup Series in 2001. But Bakersfield, and his native Oildale in particular, knew him well long before then.
Buddy Kolfold will be seeking his third straight USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship race victory at Bakersfield Speedway on Tuesday Night.
When Tyler Hilton failed to qualify at the last event, he and his family went all in - parking their Chevy-powered Nostalgia Top Fuel Dragster and pushing a former championship winning Chrysler-powered car.
The normal oildowns, a trip to the sand, a crash and yep, even a few early evening raindrops, made for a long Saturday during the 20th NHRA California Hot Rod Reunion at Famoso Dragstrip.
Bret Williamson left Famoso Drag strip seven months ago with a Nostalgia Top Fuel win at the March Meet and the early NHRA Hot Rod Heritage Series points lead.
He stumbled out of the gate due to mechanical issues, but Bakersfield’s Buddy Shepherd has the hot hand heading into the Spears Southwest Tour 134 on Saturday night at Kern County Raceway.
Conceived as a one-time event to honor the people and machines from the early days of drag racing, the NHRA California Hot Rod Reunion celebrates its 30th anniversary Friday through Sunday at Famoso Drag Strip.
Six divisions of racing will take place on Friday and Saturday night at Bakersfield Speedway as the track hosts the 39th annual Budweiser Nationals.
The Bakersfield Speedway hosted the 2022 Mike Moshier Classic on Saturday, featuring IMCA Modifieds, IMCA Sport Mods, Hobby Stocks and American Stocks.
Many of the drivers competing Saturday night at Bakersfield Speedway never knew Richie McGowan, such is the passage of time.
Bakersfield’s Buddy Shepherd could almost see his second Spears Southwest tour victory and a $10,000 payday Saturday night at Kern County Raceway Park.
Rick Stewart, the National Hot Rod Association's chief starter and a longtime racer himself, died Friday at the age of 80, according to the NHRA's official website.
After a four-year absence from Bakersfield Speedway, the World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Cars returned with a bang on Friday night. After an early wreck that claimed the top three cars on the track, Fresno's Giovanni Scelzi took the lead and never looked back for the 20-year-old's f…
There were a lot of pistons, superchargers and engine blocks sacrificed Sunday at Famoso Dragstrip.
Dan Horan was practically unbeatable in the Nostalgia Top Fuel Dragster class a year ago.
Ron Capps acknowledges that stepping away from his day job and driving an AA/Fuel Altered may not be the brightest thing to do.
Driving a front-engined Top Fuel dragster is a bit of family tradition for the Horan family.
It’s not yet back to normal, whatever “normal” is anymore, but it is looking much more like normal at Famoso Dragstrip as the Good Vibrations Motorsports March Meet revs up for action this week.
Talk about making up for lost time.
Notice was served Sunday during the NHRA California Hot Rod Reunion at Famoso Dragstrip: There’s a new player in the Nostalgia Funny Car ranks.
Bakersfield native Derek Thorn won the Spears SRL Southwest Tour Series "Bulwark 'FR October Classic 150" at Kern County Raceway Park on Saturday night. It was his ninth win of the season, granting him a $10,500 prize and his sixth Southwest Tour Series Championship. Preston Peltier original…
Derek Thorn is poised to claim his sixth Spears SRL Southwest Tour championship in his home base of Bakersfield.
Since the day he was born, Kamaka Pocock has been immersed in the hot rodding culture.
It wasn't as dominating a performance as two years ago, but it came close.
A bit of Bakersfield Speedway history was a victim of the COVID pandemic in 2020.
With a first-place finish at the JM Environmental Wild West Shootout in Stockton on Saturday, Bakersfield’s Derek Thorn won his seventh consecutive Spears SRL Southwest Tour race.
It wasn’t a dominant performance, and it certainly wasn’t easy, but Derek Thorn continued his win streak on Saturday.
If anyone needed any extra validation of how dominant Bakersfield’s Derek Thorn has been this season, a local sponsor helped solidify things by sweetening the pot for the remainder of the SPEARS SRL Southwest Tour Series.
Derek Thorn is making it look easy in the Spears SRL Southwest Tour series.
The roar of powerful racing engines filled the air west and north of Bakersfield on Saturday night as both Kern County Raceway Park and Bakersfield Speedway kicked off the 2021 racing seasons.
The Bakersfield Condors are hoping a new environment might bring different results when they host the San Diego Gulls on Friday night at Mechanics Bank Arena.
I had the most amazing dream last night. It was the type of vision that was so vivid, that I woke up and immediately had to check my phone to confirm the details.
When all is said in done, the year that was 2020 will be more significant for what didn’t happen than what did — at least in the local sports landscape.
