Santa Pod Raceway
Santa Pod is Europe’s first permanent drag racing venue, and this aerial photo was taken on a race day. This site us a disused WW2 American Air base once called RAF Podington and it was here that Sammy Miller set the current world drag racing record with a time of 3.58 seconds and a speed of 386mph.
Now I’m not much of a Drag Racing expert, but the cars line up at the north end (you can see a few waiting up there) and then race 1/4mile in various different categories called weird things like “Top Fuel”, “Pro Mod” and “Top Alcohol Funny Car”. Halfway along the track there’s also a tractor – but I think it’s just cleaning up rather than racing.
More info on Drag Racing, as ever, on Wikipedia.
Thanks: Rick
the field to the right of the track doesn’t look too healthy!
Also, do they do car boot sales there, cos it looks more like that than a race day!
Well, that field might not look too healthy, but if the farmer simply clicks the sponsored link above the image, he’d be able to buy a remote control camera-plane! Wonder why they advertise it as something for agricultural use, I could come up with some more interesting uses…
Not a Carboot sale, it’s just shocking parking.
Awesome! My crazy uncle used to race his custom mustang at this track.
I think it’s a drag racing track
Ader, I can see you tent ! Chris I can see your pile of empty stella cans…