North Central Raceway/Prince George Northwest Motorsports Park/North Central Motorsports Park/Northland Motorsports Park/Rolling Mix Concrete Raceway/NITRO Motorsports Park
ActiveActive Still racing today.
Also known as Northland Dodge Motorsports Park
NITRO is a club-run quarter-mile drag strip serving Prince George and northern British Columbia.
- Hosted an AHRA Grand American regional points event in 1983
- Owner Brent Marshall gave $100,000 from big events to local charities in 2013
- Raced
- 1978-present
- Province
- British Columbia
- Raced on
- Built as a drag strip
- Sanction
- NHRA Division 6
- Track
- 1/4 mile
- Surface
- Concrete launch pad; remaining surface not confirmed
- Address
- 9285 Raceway Road
Prince George, BC - People
- Gordon Schade, builder and owner (until 1994)
- Ernie Schultz, builder
- Ron Cowie, owner (1994-)
- Shane Lodjn, owner (2010-2012)
- Brent Marshall, owner (2012-)
- Elevation
- 2,503 ft (763 m)
- Coordinates
- 54.02028, -122.95078
Big races
BIG BUX and Wally Race Weekend
A shared weekend of cash-purse bracket competition, Wally racing and the season finale.
BC DragiT Challenge
A drag-and-drive: racers drive their street cars from track to track over several days and race at each stop.
Pine Pass Shootout
A drag-and-drive: racers drive their street cars from track to track over several days and race at each stop.
History
Gordon Schade and Ernie Schultz built this drag strip ten miles north of Prince George on Chief Lake Road, spending close to $250,000 to develop it on 140 acres of private and government land. In 1983 the AHRA-sanctioned track hosted a two-day Grand American regional points event. After Schade died in 1994, Ron Cowie of Burnaby bought the strip and brought it up to NHRA specifications in 1995, but he never turned a profit, and the NHRA affiliation ended after the 2006 season. Shane Lodjn bought the 138-acre property in 2010 and put it under IHRA sanction in 2011, then sold it to Brent Marshall in June 2012. Marshall put close to $2 million into renovations. In 2013 he got two local businesses, Rolling Mix Concrete and IDL Projects, to help lay 720 feet of new concrete, a $300,000 job covering about half the quarter mile. The track, then called Northland Dodge Motorsports Park, was renamed Rolling Mix Concrete Raceway, and the whole complex became NITRO Motorsports Park, after the Northern Interior Timed Racing Organization. Marshall proposed giving all proceeds from big NHRA events to local charities chosen by the two companies, and $100,000 went to charity in 2013.
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