North Carolina’s Wilkesboro Dragway Joins IHRA

March 4, 2015 (Norwalk, OH) -- IRG Sports + Entertainment™ and the International Hot Rod Association™ (IHRA) are proud to announce Wilkesboro Dragway has signed a multi-year sanctioning agreement to join the IHRA as a member track.

Located on Dragway Road, off historic Highway 421 and four minutes from Wilkesboro in North Carolina, the 1/8-mile drag strip is owned by Pat and Phil Halbedel. Joe Green is the track manager.

“We are pleased to welcome the Halbedel’s track to our IHRA family,” said IHRA President Scott Gardner. “North Carolina is a hotbed of motorsports activity and a strong area for sportsman racing and we are happy to have them on board.”

“We purchased the track in June of last year,” said Pat Halbedel. “I had been going there since 1971. It is the oldest operating drag strip in North Carolina. It was built in 1955 and we have done some repairs to the track and want to make it nice all around.”

For more information on Wilkesboro Raceway Park, please call (336) 973-7223 or visit www.wilkesborodragway.com.

Headquartered in Norwalk, Ohio, the International Hot Rod Association (IHR) promotes professional, semi-professional and local level racing for drivers of all levels. The Nitro Jam Drag Racing Series is a North American professional drag racing series comprised of events in major cities throughout the United States and Canada. The IHRA also oversees multiple sportsman racing programs including the Summit Racing Equipment Pro-Am Tour presented by AMSOIL, Summit Racing Equipment SuperSeries presented by AMSOIL and Summit Racing Equipment Tournament of Champions presented by AMSOIL. For more information on IHRA Motorsports visit www.ihra.com or the official Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages @IHRA.

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