King of the North Dragway/Bonfield Event Park

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Bonfield Event Park occupies the former King of the North facility.

Built in a man-made hollow with downhill staging and an uphill shutdown

Raced: 2013-14, 2018-present
Province: Ontario
Raced on: Built as a drag strip
Sanction: NHRA Division 1
Track: 1/8 mile
Address: 357 Development Road
Bonfield, ON P0H 1E0
People: Linda Groves and family, owners (2018-)
Elevation: 909 ft (277 m)
Coordinates: 46.23446, -79.12463
Contact: thebafm.com/contact-us (705) 487-3663 [email protected]

Big races

Test and tune and bracket racing

summer · bracket / test and tune

Test-and-tune days drew about 90 racers from Ontario and Quebec when racing resumed after 2020.

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Snowmobile drag racing

varies · snowmobile

The strip has hosted sled drag racing alongside cars and trucks.

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History

Work on this eighth-mile strip in northern Ontario began in early 2011. It was built in a man-made hollow, with downhill staging lanes, an uphill shutdown and camping on the grounds. It opened under IHRA sanction and raced every weekend and some evenings until noise complaints closed it in 2014. In 2018 Linda Groves and her family, owners of the Barrie Automotive Flea Market, bought the 152-acre site. They promised to cut racing to four to six events a season, engineer ways to reduce the noise, and hold an occasional flea market there. As Bonfield Event Park it became an NHRA member track in July 2021.

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