Does anyone know where the location is that the Monday night street racers are racing at in their latest shows?
I'm thinking in SO CA, maybe in the high or low deserts in Coachella Valley or maybe up in the Antelope Valley near Palmdale or maybe even up in the San Joaquin or Sacramento Valley

I think they are out near Desert Center. A bunch of them did Air BNB in the indio/palm desert area IIRC.


Looks like they painted up the airstrip by the chuckwalla raceway. I don't recall any roads out that way that are 4 lanes, not to mention the lanes they are racing on are VERY wide.

It is indeed the airstrip at Chuckwalla.

Crazy how all the planes land in that one spot……

They laid that out for this deal. No chance the FAA would be cool with them striping the airstrip with a double yellow line, etc...

Add to the end as a runoff, test area, and shutdown area is the actual strip.

The pictures I recall seeing didn't have the extra finger on that runway 5.

I don't think so, it is too flat where their racing to be between Indio and Blythe. Big hills on the south side of I-10 between Indio and Blythe and a lot of little ones on the north side of I-10
Were in the heck is Chuckwalla airstrip?
I thought I knew were all the small and large airports are from L.A. to the Colorado River down to Mexico by flying into a lot of them

LOL OK... nevermind.

Our local strip has a road course, they do no prep races on the back stretch while they have "regular" drag races on the strip. 2 for 1 deal

I look up that airport, it is northeast of Desert Center on the county road to Rice and Vidal Junction, CA and then onto Parker AZ and it is very small and narrow privately own airport located at the bottom of the grade with hills very close to it.
I lived in Desert Center back in the days when my Mother and Father were going through their divorce, it (Desert Center) hasn't change very much since the mid 1950 when my grandfather was station their working for CA Department of Highways long before it became Cal Trans.
I know that area well, there is a whole lot of nothing out their but greasewood bushes, sand, rock mountains and hills and desert critters that you don't want them to bite or sting you
I ended up living in the Victor Valley from 1970 to 2005 before we moved up here to Bend, OR. I've driven and flown over most of SO CA from Sacramento south and from the coast to the Colorado river, the background shots they were showing on T.V tonight show reminded me of the Palmdale, Lancaster area in the Antelope Valley due to the flatness and the business and housing lights in the distance away from where they are racing, the high radio tower in background with the aviation flashing red warning light makes me think it t is near Palmdale, CA

“Chuckwalla Valley Raceway” on Facebook Cab….

https://youtu.be/vzKC8njixZI

7:40 shows them arriving.

Dennis

Like J said there is a racetrack at Chuckwalla.....Been in operation for a few years and they have made steady but small improvements along the way. Just in the middle of nowhere for sure.

I'm really surprised that anyone would build a facility like that in that location so far away from a city of any size for spectators to attend
This is America and things happen here that couldn't happen anywhere else
Kaiser steel use to have an iron ore mine about 10 to 15 miles west of that location, they closed it a long time ago due to being able to buy and import iron ore cheaper than their mine could produce it
My how times have changed

Well, SoCal, right ?
If you're gonna have a racetrack there of any type, it has to be in the middle of nowhere.
Land values & development & whiny neighbors have closed down so many SoCal tracks since the '70s,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Mountain,_California

Eagle Mountain cab…. Still guarded to this day. My desert exploration led me there three years ago. Fascinating history. A Roadkill episode was filmed out there as well as one of Jesse James shows. I think they finally removed the Eagle Mountain Railroad trestle…..

and Desert Center is probably the picture in the dictionary for the middle of nowhere.

Northern Nevada has a whole lot of nothing up their also, townships after townships and miles and miles of nothing,
And a bunch of restricted air space also

When we lived in Desert Center the owner of that airstrips wife was the Post Master in Desert Center, theirs was only one house on that property back then, nearest house to them was back near Desert Center.
I saw my first Sidewinder in the desert near Desert Center and my first desert tortoise. I experience several other first their
We moved to Blythe in the summer of 1958 and I started eight grade their and went to school up to the fall semester of my junior year in 1961 when we moved the 29 Palms. I hated changing schools, did it way too many times
I was really proud that I was able to keep my kids in the same Christain school in Hesperia, CA from kindergarten to 12 th. grade when my daughter graduated from it, my Son ask to transfer to the public school in his junior year after seeing the first Top Gun Movie that made him want to go to junior R.O.T.C that the public high School offered, he join the navy reserve on his 17th birthday and went from high school one week after graduating from high school to Navy Boot camp at Great Lakes Naval training center. He had qualified for Officer Canidate School when he took the initial ASFAB testing and was planning on attend O.C.S. after getting his A.A. or A.S degree at the local junior college to qualify for OCS, but President Goerge Herbert Walker Bush change that requirement to needing a B.S.or a B.A.to go to OCS in 1989 and he ended up not wanting to go to a four year college to get one those degrees so that plan went kaput

When you are in "no where", the best place to be is right in the middle.