A 75-year-old race car driver has died after hitting a wall at 100-plus miles an hour at Sonoma Raceway, the sheriff’s office has confirmed on Twitter.
The driver was racing his 1976 Ford Pinto in the Wednesday Night Drags program on the raceway’s quarter-mile strip.
The accident happened at around 6:15 p.m.
He was the only race on the track at the time.
The driver, a Napa resident died on Wednesday night.
Deputies have no further details.
This is the first on-track death in the 30-year history of the Wednesday Night Drags program.
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