Maui Raceway Park
ActiveActive Still racing today.
Also known as Maui Drag Strip
A quarter-mile strip on county land along the Mokulele Highway south of Kahului, run by the nonprofit Valley Isle Timing Association since the 1960s.
- Continuous racing since 1974, according to the track
- First NHRA sanction in 1977
- Raced
- 1963-present
- State
- Hawaii
- Raced on
- A military airfield
- First race
- 1963
- Sanction
- NHRA Division 7
- Track
- 1/4 mile
- Address
- Mokulele Hwy (Maui Veterans Hwy), next to the Pu'unene National Guard Armory
Pu'unene, HI - People
- Valley Isle Timing Association, race sponsor (1963-)
- Elevation
- 79 ft (24 m)
- Coordinates
- 20.81282, -156.45890
Big races
VITA points races
Valley Isle Timing Association bracket races through the season, with posted standings and payouts.
History
This quarter-mile NHRA strip is on the old Puunene Army Airfield north of Kihei. Racers probably used the old field for impromptu drag racing as far back as the 1950s. The Valley Isle Timing Association was founded in 1963 and sponsored racing on the airfield that year. On July 27, 1969, racer Kenneth Souza was killed when his car overturned at the Puunene strip. The track’s official website said in 2016 that VITA racing was in its 42nd consecutive season, which dates continuous operation to 1974. NHRA first sanctioned the strip in 1977.
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