Old Bridge Township Raceway Park (Englishtown)
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
Also known as Madison Township Raceway Park
- Home of the NHRA Summernationals, one of NHRA's original seven major events
- Hosted a match race between Shirley Muldowney and Jungle Jim Liberman
- Raced
- 1965-2017
- State
- New Jersey
- What's left
- The site was redeveloped, but the strip or its layout lives on in whatever replaced it.
- On the site today
- Raceway Park still hosts motocross, road racing and other events, but no drag racing
- Raced on
- Built as a drag strip
- First race
- July 4, 1965
- Last race
- 2017 season (drag racing ended in early 2018)
- Location
- Englishtown
- People
- Vincent Napoliello, founder (1965)
- Louis Napoliello, founder (1965)
- Charlie Roberts, track announcer
- Sanction
- NHRA
- Elevation
- 66 ft (20 m)
- Coordinates
- 40.33206, -74.35102
Vincent and Louis Napoliello founded Raceway Park on 308 acres. It has since grown past 500 acres, with two drag strips, three motocross tracks, a 1.3-mile road course, a go-kart track and more. The drag strip opened July 4, 1965. It was also called Madison Township Raceway Park, the name Hot Rod used when it listed the track among NHRA-sanctioned strips in June 1970. Englishtown is home to the Summernationals, one of NHRA’s original seven major events. Early in 2018 the park announced it would no longer hold drag racing, though its other events would continue. Charlie Roberts, the track announcer, produced a radio ad for the match race between Shirley Muldowney and Jungle Jim Liberman.
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