Pueblo Motorsports Park
ActiveActive Still racing today.
Pueblo Motorsports Park operates a quarter-mile drag strip alongside its road course.
- Tommy Kaiser beat his brother Junior in the opening top fuel final
- Raced
- 1975-present
- State
- Colorado
- Raced on
- Built as a drag strip
- First race
- September 13-14, 1975
- Sanction
- NHRA Division 5
- Track
- 1/4 mile
- Address
- 3733 N Pueblo Blvd
Pueblo, CO 81008 - People
- Ben M. Crossno, president of Pueblo Motorsports, Inc. (1975)
- Pueblo Motorsports, Inc., builder and leaseholder (1975)
- Faasst Motorsports, operator (until 2015)
- Racing Community of Southern Colorado Motorsports, operator (from 2015)
- Elevation
- 4,903 ft (1,494 m)
- Coordinates
- 38.30481, -104.67740
Big races
NHRA Summit ET points series and King of the Track
Points series that finishes with a King of the Track showdown.
Rocky Mountain Race Week
A drag-and-drive: racers drive their street cars from track to track over several days and race at each stop.
Rocky Mountain Race Weekend
A drag-and-drive: racers drive their street cars from track to track over several days and race at each stop.
Race Week
A drag-and-drive: racers drive their street cars from track to track over several days and race at each stop.
Rocky Mountain Race Week 1.0
A drag-and-drive: racers drive their street cars from track to track over several days and race at each stop.
History
Ground was broken on January 17, 1975 on an 800-acre site west of Pueblo, part of the former State Honor Farm. Ben M. Crossno was president of the nonprofit Pueblo Motorsports, Inc., which negotiated a 20-year lease with the City of Pueblo. The strip, at Highway 50 West and Pueblo Boulevard, opened with an NHRA Division 5 points meet on September 13-14, 1975. Tommy Kaiser beat his younger brother Junior Kaiser in top fuel, even though Junior had the meet’s best run at 6.461 and 227.14 mph. Gary Burgin won funny car, Kelly Chadwick pro stock and Judy Lilly super stock. Entries at a Division 5 points race on May 22-23, 1976 included Don Prudhomme, Warren Johnson and Bob Struksnes. At the May 3, 1981 NHRA points meet, Jim Archer beat Tommy Kaiser in top fuel, though Kaiser had the meet’s best marks of 6.369 and 222.31 mph. In 2015 the city ended its long-term lease with Faasst Motorsports to run the track, and local racers formed the Racing Community of Southern Colorado Motorsports to keep it open.
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