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NHRA PRO MOD DRAG RACING SERIES THE STRIP AT LAS VEGAS MOTOR SPEEDWAY NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series: NHRA Las Vegas Nationals Track physical address: 7000 Las Vegas Blvd. North, Las Vegas, NV 89115 Shipping address: 7000 Las Vegas Blvd. North, Las Vegas, NV 89115 Main phone number: (702) 644-4444 Ticket office number: (702) 644-4444 PR department phone number: (702) 632-8266 PR fax: (702) 644-7774 Web site: lvms.com\strip\ Track contacts: Jeff Motley, vice president of media relations, (702) 632-8266, jmotley@lvms.com John Bisci, public relations manager, (702) 632-8231, jbisci@lvms.com Track opened: 2000 Track surface: concrete/asphalt Concrete launchpad: 762 feet Track direction: south to north Elevation: 2,100 feet above sea level Radio frequency: 103.9 FM DIRECTIONS From Las Vegas: I-15 north to Speedway Boulevard exit. TRACK HISTORY Located on 1,600 acres, Las Vegas Motor Speedway opened in 1996. The multi-facility motorsports complex includes a 1.5-mile superspeedway, half-mile dirt oval, 3/8-mile paved oval, quarter-mile drag strip, road courses and various go-kart and motocross tracks. Speedway Motorsports, Inc., purchased the facility in 1998. The state-of-the-art drag strip was completed in the spring of 2000, featuring the first-of-its-kind corporate suites located on the back of the spectator grandstands. A foot tunnel underneath the drag strip allows spectators easy access between the west and east grandstands. TRACK RECORDS 5.824 seconds by Don Walsh, Oct. ’12 256.70 mph by Personett, Oct. ’11 40
EVENT TRACKS OLD BRIDGE TOWNSHIP RACEWAY PARK NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing: Toyota NHRA Summernationals Track physical address: 230 Pension Road, Englishtown, NJ 07726 Track shipping address: 230 Pension Road, Englishtown, NJ 07726 Main phone number: (732) 446-7800 Ticket office number: (732) 446-7800 PR department phone number: (732) 446-7800 PR fax: (732) 446-1373 Web site: RacewayPark.com Track contacts: Michael Napp, president, mdnapprp@aol.com Alex Napp, vice president, alexnapprp@aol.com Kim Beyer, marketing and hospitality director, kbeyerrp@aol.com David Napp, public relations director, dnapprp@aol.com Track opened: 1965 Track surface: concrete/asphalt Concrete launchpad: 700 feet Track direction: northeast to southwest Elevation: 60 feet above sea level Radio frequency: 87.9 FM DIRECTIONS From the north: New Jersey Turnpike south to Exit 9, follow the signs to Route 18 south. Go six miles to the Englishtown exit. Take Route 527 south five miles. Make a left onto Pension Road (Raceway Park billboard on left). Go 1/4-mile, track entrance on the left. From the south: New Jersey Turnpike north to Exit 8 to Route 33 east. Go eight miles to the Englishtown Exit. Take Route 527 north. Go through Englishtown. Make a right onto Gordons Corner Road. Go 1/4-mile, make a left onto Pension Road. Go two miles, track entrance is on the right. TRACK HISTORY Old Bridge Township Raceway Park opened in July 1965 and has since become the Northeast’s premier drag racing facility. Conceived by Vincent Napp Sr., his brother Louis, along with Vincent’s sons Richard and Vincent, Jr., the former 308-acre farm was converted into a drag strip in just over a year’s time. A great success from the start, “Englishtown,” as race fans worldwide know it, was selected to be an official stop on NHRA’s national event tour in 1968, when it held the NHRA Springnationals. The NHRA national event tour returned to Raceway Park in 1971 with the NHRA Summernationals. Now known as the K&N Filters SuperNationals, the event returned to the month of June in 2004. The famed Englishtown strip is not only one of NHRA’s most historic quarter-miles, but also one of the busiest. Raceway Park hosts a variety of events including car shows, swap meets, family-oriented thrill shows, as well as the area’s largest import, domestic, motorcycle, and nostalgia racing events. Constant reinvestment, renovations and expansion of the property have kept Raceway Park in the forefront of drag racing and the entire motorsports community. In 1975, a one-mile motocross track was added to the grounds. In 1996, an eighth-mile drag strip was built to host the NHRA Jr. Drag Racing League, a program created at Raceway Park. In 2000, Raceway Park added a motocross practice facility and, in 2002, a karting oval and road course were opened. A 1.35-mile asphalt road course is currently under construction. In its 40th year of operation, the facility is still owned and operated by the Napp family and has become an icon in the world of drag racing. TRACK RECORDS 5.772 seconds by Melanie Troxel, June ’11 258.71 mph by Troxel, June ’11 41
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