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    JAY LENO

    Jun 23, 2021 3 minutes

    bout two weeks ago I drove my Tesla Model S to Famoso Dragstrip in McFarland, California, just north of Bakersfield. A few weeks earlier it had hosted the US Fuel and Gas Championship, which is a nostalgic drag-racing event. It’s a classic quarter-mile track, not one of those 1000ft deals they have now that slows everybody down. It was originally built as an auxiliary field training base for the Army Air Corps. After World War Two the Army abandoned the field, leaving behind a beautiful

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