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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
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