Lancaster National Speedway and Dragway
ActiveActive Still racing today.
Also known as Lancaster Motorsports Park; Lancaster National Raceway; Dunn Tire Raceway Park; Elegant Builders Raceway Park
The input address identifies the Lancaster dragway, which also used NYIRP branding.
- A new grandstand collapsed during a race on August 7, 1975, injuring 22
- Raced
- 1961-present
- State
- New York
- Raced on
- Built as a drag strip
- First race
- August 17, 1961
- Track
- 1/8 mile
- Surface
- Paved
- Address
- 57 Gunnville Rd
Lancaster, NY 14086 - Sanction
- WDRA
- Elevation
- 736 ft (224 m)
- Coordinates
- 42.95257, -78.62723
Big races
Daddy Dave Racing No Prep Series
No-prep racing event tied to Street Outlaws personality Daddy Dave.
Weeknight bracket and test and tune
Junior dragster, trophy class, nostalgia and street car racing on weeknights.
History
Lancaster Speedway, a half-mile dirt oval on Gunville Road, opened in 1959. In 1961 it built a paved eighth-mile drag strip next to the oval on its west side, and the first race ran August 17, 1961. In 1963 the dragway joined the Timing Association of North America (TANA), a group of New York strips with Speedland at Canandaigua, Jackson’s in South Butler, Oswego and Milray, all speedway ovals except Jackson’s. On August 7, 1975, a newly built grandstand collapsed during eliminations at a Thursday night race, injuring 22 people. After repairs, racing resumed about a week later. On Sunday night, August 17, 1975, 18-year-old David Ayers was killed when he lost control of his Mustang convertible and crashed. The dragway was IHRA sanctioned from 2000 through 2022 and switched to WDRA sanction for 2023. Over the years it has also been Lancaster Motorsports Park, Lancaster National Raceway, Dunn Tire Raceway Park and Elegant Builders Raceway Park.
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