posted 06-21-2013 01:27 PM                  

Friday, June 21, 2013

NHRA has entered into a multiyear agreement with Sun Valley Marina Corp., a corporation of the Gila River Indian Community, to bring an NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series event to newly named Wild Horse Motorsports Park outside Phoenix beginning in 2014.

Since 1985, the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series has visited the Valley of the Sun, and this agreement ensures that the stars of NHRA will continue to make an annual trek to the greater Phoenix area for years to come. Beyond the national event, preserving the right to race for the local and regional racers is very important to NHRA, and this agreement ensures that the track will remain open for business.

The track is scheduled to open in September and will begin running NHRA’s racing programs in October.

“We are extremely excited to announce today that the excitement of NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series is here to stay in Phoenix,” said NHRA President Tom Compton. “Working together with the Sun Valley Marina Corp., the new management team, and the Gila River Indian Community, we look forward to staging NHRA Drag Racing at all levels of competition at the track well into the future.”

NHRA will announce the 2014 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series schedule soon, but NHRA fans can anticipate the Phoenix event being held in its traditional place at the beginning of the season. The facility also will continue to host an NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series divisional event.

Wild Horse Motorsports Park, formerly Firebird Int'l Raceway, is under new management led by Paul Clayton and Darren Smith of Copper Train Development Partners. Most recently, Copper Train Development Partners hired longtime Daytona Int'l Speedway track executive Dick Hahne to oversee operations.

posted 06-21-2013 02:05 PM                  

Now,,,,,if Phx International Raceway can get the Indy Cars back to Phoenix?,,,I'll be a happy guy