Sportsman Park Drag Strip/Farmington Dragway
ActiveActive Still racing today.
Also known as Farmington Raceway Park
A drag strip near Mocksville that has run since 1963 and is known for bracket racing, the Footbrake Nationals and the Stick Shift Nationals. Events are cash only, with gate admission typically $15 and kids 12 and under free.
- Seven jet dragsters ran the 1967 Jet Nationals for a $7,000 purse
- Hosted IHRA pro stock championship meets from 1980 to 1982
- Doug Rose made one of his first appearances here after losing his feet in a 1966 crash
- Raced
- 1963-present
- State
- North Carolina
- First race
- by 1963
- Track
- 1/8 mile
- Address
- 2992 NC Highway 801 N
Mocksville, NC 27028 - Sanction
- WDRA
- Elevation
- 804 ft (245 m)
- Coordinates
- 36.01983, -80.56288
Big races
Footbrake Nationals
A long-running fall foot-brake bracket race paying $5,000 to win each day.
Stick Shift Nationals
A yearly race for manual-transmission cars that reached its 15th running in 2025 without a repeat winner.
History
Known at first as Sportsman Park Drag Strip, this track was open by 1963, eighteen miles west of Winston-Salem on Highway 801. The Bluefield Daily Telegraph reported on November 24, 1966, that jet dragster driver Doug Rose, whose feet were amputated after a crash at Cedar Bluff, Virginia, on July 4, 1966, would make exhibition runs there on Sunday, November 27, in a rebuilt Green Monster, one of his first appearances since the accident. It was under NHRA sanction by early 1967. On Sunday, November 5, 1967, seven jet dragsters raced in the Jet Nationals for a $7,000 purse: Doug Rose, Bob Motz, Dale Hubler, Fred Sibley, Bob Tatroe, Ted Austin and Ted Trischler. Around 1968 it was renamed Farmington Dragway.
An ad for a fuel funny car show at Farmington Raceway Park listed twelve big-name cars for Friday, September 7, 1973, at Farmington and Sunday at Shuffletown, among them Roland Leong, Gene Snow, Mickey Thompson and Stone-Woods-Cook. The IHRA sanctioned the track in 1978 and held a Title Series meet there on July 29-30. It isn’t known whether it was ever a quarter-mile, but it was timing eighth-mile runs by the late 1970s. IHRA pro stock championship meets ran there from 1980 to 1982, with two-day Title Series races in 1983 and 1985. In the 1980s it became a favorite of Harley-Davidson and VW racing groups. After decades with the IHRA, it now runs as a WDRA-sanctioned eighth-mile.
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