![]() ![]() There will be qualifying rounds on Friday (2:45 and 5:15 p.m.) and Saturday (12:45 and 3:15 p.m.), and final eliminations will begin at noon on Sunday. “It’s like now we brought history back to life again,” Brown said.įranklin is hoping to have 30,000 spectators at VMP over the Virginia Nationals’ three days. Buy Tickets Now The K95 Night of Fire is back on Saturday, July 30 and it’s going to be wilder than ever The PDRA Summit Racing Equipment ProStars return with the best stars and cars that the PDRA has to offer in Pro Nitrous, Pro Boost, Extreme Pro Stock, Pro 632, Top Sportsman, Top Dragster, Pro Jr. Hagan competed at the track when he raced on his own dime, driving Pro Modified cars.īrown competed there in 1998, his first year racing Pro Stock Motorcycles. VMP also has a bit of nostalgia for people like Hagan and Top Fuel driver Antron Brown. “Which will allow us to apply more power to the racetrack to be able to go faster,” Hagan said. Matt Hagan, a Funny Car driver from Christiansburg, said the concrete will stay cooler and allow the rubber from the racers’ tires to hold better. The drag strip was previously half asphalt and half concrete. After a brief time with IHRA beginning in 2010, the track returned to NHRA in 2012. It has a seating capacity of 23,000 spectators. It opened in 1994 and originally hosted the NHRAs Virginia NHRA Nationals. In February, the VMP track surface was replaced. Virginia Motorsports Park (VMP) is a 1/4 mile (0.402 km) dragstrip in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, just outside of Petersburg. Known as one of the top-ranked racing tracks in the US, Virginia Motorsports Park was inaugurated back in 1994 for all race lovers out there. ![]() So he worked really well with me to put the deal together to make this thing happen.” Virginia Motorsports Park March 26-27 Located just outside Petersburg in Dinwiddie County, Virginia Motorsports Park is a state-of-the-art dragstrip. “So he didn’t bend much on a lot of those offers. Foley was definitely interested in it staying a racetrack,” Franklin said. ![]() Franklin’s purchase became official last October. There was the possibility that a new buyer could turn the site into something other than a drag strip. He was one of the original owners of the facility, which was built in 1994. “We did it on a four-month timeframe.”įranklin is an accomplished drag racer and a Virginia native - he grew up in Woodbridge and lives in Fredericksburg.įranklin said that VMP’s previous owner, Dale Foley, had been looking to sell the track for a while. “A lot of these events they want to have six months plus to try to market it up and get it out there,” Franklin said. It’ll feature Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock Car and Pro Stock Motorcycle racing in the Mello Yello series, the NHRA’s top circuit. The event will run Friday through Sunday. ![]()
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