“Just this last year in Prineville at the Crooked River Round-up, we had to cross (the finish-line) say second or first to win the Rodeo. It takes strategy to a whole new level when your competing takes awareness in the arena to the next level and challenges your toughness for the win.ĭavid Gregory, a 1996 North Marion graduate and former Track and Field athlete at Western Oregon University in the Hammer and Discus, described one time where a horse about 800 to 900 pounds collided with him during a Professional Wild Horse Racers Association competition last season. Meanwhile, there has only been radio silence on the future of the property.įor now, racers are trying to enjoy what could be the final races at the famed track, with hopes that the only drag strip in the valley may survive at least one more year.By Jeremy always strategy when it comes to rodeo, but when you’re dealing with Wild Horses you are in for a crazy ride all puns intended as you have no idea what the horses will do. The Wild Horse Pass Development Authority announced on March 25, 2022, that they would close the 440-acre facility in February 2023 and begin demolition as part of a 3,300-acre development and rumored I-10 expansion.īut since that announcement over one year ago, the NHRA moved their annual national race to March, the NHRA Summit Series extended its series through June, and Travis Pastrana’s Nitrocross series announced they will race on the dirt track in November. A western staple for both professional and local drag racing, WHPMP could cease operations by the end of the year.Įvery month, the drag strip is filled with drivers from as young as five years old to 70, 80, or even “more experienced.” June 17 is the final scheduled race at the drag strip, and once the final pass is made that night, the future of the strip is uncertain. Forty years of speed and high-octane passes down the strip may soon come to an end in Phoenix.įormerly Firebird International Raceway, Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park is one of only two National Hot Rod Association-sanctioned drag strips in the entire state of Arizona alongside Tucson.
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