Maple Grove Raceway (Mohnton)
ActiveActive Still racing today.
Also known as Brecknock Speedway; Maple Grove Park Drag-O-Way; Custom Car Association Drags
Maple Grove Raceway reopened in September 2026 after an August suspension and resumed a fall sportsman-racing program.
- Has hosted an NHRA national event every year since 1985
- Began with motorcycle drags inside a 1937 dirt oval
- Raced
- 1962-present
- State
- Pennsylvania
- Raced on
- Built as a drag strip
- First race
- 1957 (motorcycle drags inside the oval); car strip opened August 1962
- Track
- 1/4 mile
- Address
- 30 Stauffer Park Lane
Mohnton, PA 19540 - People
- Albert Stauffer, owner (1940-)
- John Stauffer, builder (1962)
- Roy Stauffer, builder (1962)
- Bob Eveland, lessee (1964)
- Sanction
- IHRA
- Elevation
- 520 ft (158 m)
- Coordinates
- 40.20854, -75.95769
Big races
NHRA Nationals (Reading)
The track hosted an NHRA national event for 40 years through 2025; the event did not continue after the IHRA bought the track.
ET Series and Friday Night Test N Tune
Points bracket series, Little Racers junior program and Friday night test and tune.
Down And Dirty
A drag-and-drive: racers drive their street cars from track to track over several days and race at each stop.
Hot Rod Drag Week
A drag-and-drive: racers drive their street cars from track to track over several days and race at each stop.
History
Brecknock Speedway, a flat half-mile dirt oval, opened in Maple Grove Park in 1937, and Albert Stauffer bought it in 1940. In 1957 he let the Friendship Motorcycle Club run eighth-mile drags inside the oval, and he paved the starting line with concrete so the bikes wouldn’t throw rocks. In 1960 local racers from the Eastern Custom Car Association asked Stauffer about turning it into a drag strip for cars, and he liked the idea. John and Roy Stauffer built a strip a fifth of a mile long and 30 feet wide, and Maple Grove Park Drag-O-Way opened in August 1962. In 1963 it was widened to 40 feet and got a dual-lane timer, and Hot Rod’s August 1963 list of NHRA tracks called it the Custom Car Association Drags. After a visit to Cecil County Dragway for ideas, the Stauffers stretched it to 4,000 feet long and 60 feet wide for 1964. Bob Eveland leased the track that year, and NHRA sanctioned it. The first NHRA national event there was in 1985, and it has been held every year since, for more than thirty years.
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