Cedar Falls Motorsports Park

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Also known as Neita Raceway; Cedar Falls Raceway

The former Cedar Falls Raceway operates as Cedar Falls Motorsports Park.

Five NHRA national records set at a divisional meet on August 12-13, 1967
Tom Hoover set the track record of 8.14 at 189.86 mph in August 1965

Raced: 1965-present
State: Iowa
Raced on: Built as a drag strip
First race: July 11, 1965
Sanction: NHRA Division 5
Track: 1/4 mile
Surface: Asphalt
Address: 7227 Waverly Rd
Cedar Falls, IA 50613
People: Lavern "Red" Droste, builder and president (1965)
Raymond Steward, builder and vice president (1965)
Tony Fox, operator (1977-)
Mabel Lewis, operator (1977-)
Elevation: 878 ft (268 m)
Coordinates: 42.60497, -92.45884
Contact: racecfmp.com (319) 987-2537 [email protected]

Big races

Memorial Day bracket weekend

Memorial Day weekend · big-money bracket

A 64-car Super Shootout followed by $5,000 and $10,000 bracket races over the holiday weekend.

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BOGO Bracket Bash

summer · big-money bracket

A three-day bracket event with a $20,000-to-win Saturday race and $10,000 races on Friday and Sunday.

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Night of Fire

summer · exhibition

A summer night show paired with a $5,000 bracket bash weekend.

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Midnight Mania

select Saturday nights in summer · street / heads-up

Late-night street-legal racing from 8 pm to midnight with heads-up and flag starts; $30 to race, $10 to watch.

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NHRA Summit ET Bracket Series

April through fall · bracket points

The track's NHRA Summit points races, plus Friday Fun Nights and an NHRA Wally race for index classes.

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History

Lavern “Red” Droste, president, and Raymond Steward, vice president, built this strip four miles north and a quarter mile west of Cedar Falls near Highway 218. Construction was supposed to be done in time for racing on May 1, 1965. The NHRA-sanctioned strip was 3,900 feet long and 60 feet wide. The first race ran on Sunday, July 11, 1965, when the Power-Richley-Mauer AA/FD had the day’s best at 8.54 and 186 mph, Jerry Leik won top gas, and Massey-Roth-Saylor won competition eliminator in their A/A roadster. A big two-day race on August 7-8, 1965, drew racers with a $6,000 purse, and Tom Hoover won top fuel with a track record of 8.14 at 189.86 mph. Dick Dyke’s ‘65 Dodge Coronet and Gary Ostrich’s ‘65 Plymouth ran a two-out-of-three funny car match on July 3, 1966. Five new NHRA national records fell at a divisional points meet on August 12-13, 1967. Tony Fox and Mabel Lewis took over in 1977, and in 1984 it was renamed Cedar Falls Raceway. It ran under IHRA sanction until October 2016, when it joined the NHRA Member Track Network.