Siemalt Raceways/Thunder Mountain Raceway (Kelowna)
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Also known as Siemalt Speedway
Volunteer-run eighth-mile strip in the hills east of Kelowna, with camping on site and cash-only gate admission. Known locally for Street Outlaws-style small tire Friday nights, diesel drags and bracket racing; it hosted Canada's first AHRA race in 1982.
- Neil Kenney set an AHRA eighth-mile national record for B trucks on July 24, 1983
- Raced
- 1982-present
- Province
- British Columbia
- First race
- October 9-10, 1982
- Track
- 1/8 mile
- Address
- Okanagan Falls Rd (Hwy 33 corridor)
Kelowna, BC - Sanction
- AHRA
- Elevation
- 4,163 ft (1,269 m)
- Coordinates
- 49.77135, -119.12277
Big races
Mayhem on the Mountain (Dirty Diesel Customs)
Diesel truck drag day put on with Dirty Diesel Customs, one of the track's biggest spectator days.
Kelowna Street Outlaws Friday Night Instant Green
Friday night small-tire and instant-green street car racing that kicks off each race weekend.
BC DragiT Challenge
A drag-and-drive: racers drive their street cars from track to track over several days and race at each stop.
History
This eighth-mile strip is southeast of Kelowna, just off Highway 33 between the Big White turnoff and Jewel Lake, reached from the Okanagan Falls Forest Service Road on the north side of the highway. Its first race, a two-day event on October 9-10, 1982, drew 90 entries and about 1,000 spectators, when the track was called Siemalt Speedway. Bill Brush set a track record of 5.99 in his alcohol dragster. By 1983 the track ran under AHRA sanction, and on July 24, 1983, Neil Kenney set an AHRA eighth-mile national record for B trucks. Volunteers did much of the work keeping up the strip. The 2020 season was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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