Many-Time NHRA and IHRA Champ Tunes Up This Week’s JEGS/SFG $1.1 Million Event Taking advantage of the opportunity to log some track time in advance of this week’s JEGS/SFG $1.1 million bracket race, many-time NHRA and IHRA World Champion Edmond Richardson of Greenbrier, Tenn., was among the winners in the IHRA Summit Sportsman Spectacular at [...]
This Friday-Sunday, June 5-7, US 131 Motorsports Park will be hosting an event exclusive to young racers ages 6-17 years old. The Protect the Harvest Midwest Jr. Dragster Super Series featuresh multiple classes racing each day, there is much entertainment on the track. Tickets are $15 per day, or $40 for a weekend pass, children [...]
The NMRA/NMCA All-American Nationals will be contested at US 131 Motorsports Park over the weekend of August 27-30, 2020. The change in venue is due to Summit Motorsports Park’s decision to remain closed for 2020 as they regroup and plan for a return to action in 2021. “It has been a crazy year but one [...]
Amid Restrictions, Northern Nationals, Funny Car Nationals Remain on Schedule With no clear indication of when government prohibition of spectator attendance at Michigan sporting events might be relaxed amidst the continuing Covid-19 pandemic, US 131 Motorsports Park officials reluctantly announced the cancellation of the track’s popular “Night of Thunder” event which was to have been [...]
Due to the new executive order from our Michigan governor, Gretchen Whitmer, regarding the ever-evolving world issue of the Covid-19 virus, our opening date has been revised to Saturday, April 18, 2020. For our racers who have Annual Tech Inspection appointments, we will be contacting you to reschedule those appointments. Because the information around this [...]
Do you need a gift for the racing enthusiast on your Christmas list? Let us help with the PERFECT idea! Going on sale today, for the first time ever, our 2020 EVENT PASSES! Of course, your enthusiast would never expect this amazing opportunity to participate in the first of its kind! Imagine their excitement when they open this new gift. [...]
Fireworks Show, Live Band Among Extras at 30th annual Super Sled Shootout~Jeff Kerridge's title in the Pro Outlaw class will be defeated this weekend when the world’s quickest snowmobiles share Michigan’s fastest track surface with the area’s hottest street bikes for the 30th renewal of the Super Sled Shootout and Dash for Cash motorcycle races [...]
‘Detroit Tiger’ Also a Winner as Kapp, Sanborn, Dishon Get Nostalgia Victories~ Allan Middendorf of Columbia, IL, drove the “American Outlaw” Dodge past the Chevy Monte Carlo of point leader Ken Singleton of Chickasha, OK, Saturday to win the Funny Car Chaos Series “A” division final at the 15th annual Funny Car Nationals at US [...]
Nostalgia Drag Racing League Shares Stage with Nitro Burners and Jet Dragsters~Four of the winners of this year’s NHRA Hot Rod Reunion at Bowling Green, Ky., including 7.0 champion Jeff Sanborn of Shelbyville, Tenn., will be competing for Nostalgia Drag Racing League championships this week in a race-within-a-race at US 131’s 15th annual Funny Car [...]
15th Annual Funny Car Nationals Also Features Jets, Nitro Ninja Top Fuel Dragster~ This week Friday and Saturday (Sept. 6-7), get ready to step back in time, to the days of “Sunday, Sunday, Sunday” radio ads when a race car’s personality was as important as its performance, to an era in which it actually was [...]
