Renegade Raceway (Wapato)

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Renegade Raceway sits on Track Road near Parker in the Yakima Valley and has run drag racing for more than 50 years, with NHRA bracket, street legal and gambler's series.

Raced: 1970-present
State: Washington
First race: 1970
Sanction: NHRA Division 6
Track: 1/4 mile and 1/8 mile
Address: 1395 N Track Rd
Wapato, WA 98951
Elevation: 905 ft (276 m)
Coordinates: 46.49168, -120.44616
Contact: renegaderaceway.com (509) 877-4621 [email protected]

Big races

Summit Series, Street Legal Drags and Gamblers Series

Spring to Labor Day · Weekly bracket and street racing

NHRA Summit bracket classes (mostly quarter-mile, Super Pro on the eighth), quarter-mile street legal classes, and an eighth-mile Gamblers bracket series. Spectators $15, featured shows $20, kids 15 and under free.

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Featured shows

Select dates (marked on schedule) · Special events

Several featured spectator shows each season at a higher gate price; dates on the yearly schedule image.

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History

The track’s website said it was 46 years old in 2016, which puts its opening in 1970. It was NHRA sanctioned by 1971, when it appeared in that year’s NHRA drag strip guide. It sits 5-6 miles southeast of Yakima and still runs under NHRA sanction. It has been a basic bracket racing track with no major events.

Listing in National Dragster, Dec. 23, 1977. Courtesy of Mel Bashore

Yakima Dodge right), driven by Dennis Lester, raced against Van Cleve Ford, driven by Jim Van Cleve, Jr. at Renegade Raceway in 1970