MOBIL Desert Classic Announces Event Dates 2025

 

MOBIL Desert Classic Announces Event Series For 2025

Series

Announced From December 7, 2023

 

*RED RACE 2025*

2025 Desert Miles From Hollywood California USA to the Golden Sands of Los Cabos Mexico

 

*San Diego 500*

500 Desert Miles from the Lakeside at San Diego to the Silver Sands of the Green Palm Oasis Finish Line

 

*SoCal 250* 

250 Desert Miles from the Silver Sea Oasis of Southern California to the Riverside of the Red River 

 

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The Desert Classic 2025

 

Sponsored by GM Since 2008

Chevy Runs Deep, for the first 100 years and into the next 

The brand was founded in Detroit, in November 1911, by racer Louis Chevrolet and General Motors founder William C. “Billy” Durant, who developed cars that quickly earned reputations for performance, durability and value. Those traits remain at the core of Chevrolet, which is the world’s fourth-largest automotive brand. 

From the very start, Chevrolet brought technology and features typically reserved for more expensive cars to its lineup of affordable cars and trucks. The first Chevrolet — the Series C Classic Six — offered an electric starter and electric headlamps at a time when both were rarities among even luxury cars. In the decades that followed, innovations such as safety glass, fuel injection, anti-lock brakes and electronic stability control systems were used on Chevrolet models at the same time as more expensive vehicles. 

As one of the largest-selling brands in the industry, Chevrolet’s early adoption of landmark technologies fundamentally changed the way they were applied to new vehicles. Chevrolet also made performance affordable. Its early four- and six-cylinder engines were known for durability and strong performance, but it was the 1955 introduction of Chevrolet’s small-block V-8 that opened a new era in attainable high-performance. 

The engine would power millions of cars and trucks in next 50 years, with its legacy passed on to a new generation of small-block V-8s that is used in today’s trucks and SUVs, as well as performance cars including the Camaro SS and Corvette. The performance characteristics of the small-block V-8 helped establish Chevrolet as a force in almost all forms of motorsports. 

Chevrolet-powered race cars were immediate contenders in the fledging stock car and drag racing worlds of the 1950s, growing to dominate them in the next decades. Chevrolet is the winningest brand in NASCAR and has collected more NHRA Pro Stock Manufacturers Cups than any other brand.

 

 

Lakeside California Track, First Purpose-Built Racing Facility in history!

It all started in 1904. At San Diego county in California, a 60-foot wide racetrack was especially adapted for automobile and horse racing was built.

Many famous race drivers participated there, including Barney Oldfield in his well known "Green Dragon." T. P. Bernereli "Barney" Oldfield began his racing career on a bicycle. Oldfield was born June 3, 1878, in Wauseon, Ohio. Oldfield became famous racing cars. Barney made the 999 famous. The steering wheel was a straight iron bar, similar to a tiller on a boat. The car made so much noise that they named it after a famous steam locomotive, the "999." Oldfield won his first race in Detroit by half a mile in 1902. 

Oldfield drove a Peerless automobile which became known as the 'Green Dragon'

This was a successful race car which Barney purchased and used to barnstorm his way across the country, racing and giving exhibitions when he could. 

In 1907, he came to the new racetrack at Lakeside, in San Diego county. Often another car and driver traveled with him to compete against him in exhibitions. These were usually a series of timed laps with each car taking a turn on the track alone, running against the clock. 

On April 7, 1907, The San Diego Union announced the first event to open the new racetrack. Barney Oldfield in his 'Green Dragon' was to be featured in a match against Bruno Seibel in the 'Red Devil' on Saturday, April 20 and Sunday, April 21, 1907. Special excursion trains would run to Lakesdie and return after the races. The newspaper said that the largest crowd in San Diego's racetrack's history was expected. Both Oldfield and Seibel pronounced the track as being excellent and without a peer anywhere in the world.

According to the April 22 issue of the Union, Oldfield had set a new record of 51 4/5 seconds for the mile. For about ten years, regular weekly auto and motorcycle races were held at the dirt circular track. Many old-timers recalled spending Sunday afternoons at the track, even testing their own driving and mechanical skills. The appearance of Barney Oldfield was an outstanding highlight in the history of the San Diego race track.

First published December 8, 2007 

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