Snowmobiles, Motorcycles Share the State This Week at Michigan’s Fastest Track~ A Pro Mod showdown between world record holder Glenn Hall of Gordon, WI, and Robbie Lowe of Bradford, Ontario, winner earlier this year of the NHRA national event at Brainerd, MN, is among the highlights of the 33rd Woody’s Super Sled Shootout beginning Friday [...]
Tanner, Marshall, Swain, Pitsch, Perrone Among Summit Racing Equipment MWDRS Winners at US 131 MARTIN, Mich. – Mark McElwee successfully defended his championship Saturday at US 131 Motorsports Park, driving his “Buzz’s Bomber” Chevy II down Michigan’s fastest track in a record-breaking 5.321 seconds at 291.26 miles per hour to delight a great crowd [...]
2022 US Nationals Champs Among Expected Challengers at US 131 Motorsports Park~ In addition to Funny Cars, jet dragsters, a bullet-nose Studebaker wheelstander and the inimitable Bob Motz and the Original Jet Truck, this week’s 18th Honor Credit Union Funny Car Nationals at US 131 Motorsports Park also will feature racing in the MidWest Drag [...]
Nitro Funny Cars. Alcohol Funny Cars. Jet Funny Cars. Not unexpectedly, that’s the main menu for the 18th running of the Honor Credit Union Funny Car Nationals, Sept. 9-10, at US 131 Motorsports Park. But there’s so much more packed into the two-day program including the Pro Modifieds and Funny Cars of the Summit [...]
Texan Beats Lagana Family’s ‘Nitro Ninja’ in Final Round; Young Wins Nostalgia TF Texan Spencer Massey repeated as Top Fuel champion at the US 131 Northern Nationals Saturday, negotiating Michigan’s fastest track in 3.931 seconds at 290.14 miles per hour to defeat rookie Gary Pritchett, who trailed by just .004 of a second in his [...]
Worsham, Massey, Nitro Ninja, World Record Wheelstander and Shirley Muldowney MARTIN, Mich. – A star-studded lineup that includes the Lagana family’s “Nitro Ninja” plus the Top Fuel dragsters of defending champion Spencer Massey of Fort Worth, Texas and two-time NHRA World Champion Del Worsham of Villa Park, CA, three jets and a world record-holding [...]
NMCA joins NMRA at US 131 Motorsports Park for the ultimate streetcar bash billed as the Power Festival featuring Xtreme Pro Mods, X275 small-tire shootouts, nostalgia super stockers, True Street & HEMI racing, giant car & truck show, Tom Bailey’s Drag & Drive Invitational, massive midway & much more! Xtreme Pro Mod features the fastest [...]
Martin’s U.S. 131 Motorsports Park has always been a special place for drag racing legend Shirley Muldowney. Muldowney won three world championships and 18 national events, smashed gender barriers, defeated discrimination and has been inducted into motorsports hall of fames throughout the nation. They made a movie and written books about her, too. But she [...]
Discovery Channel TV Star’s Memphis Street Racer Series Features Arm Drop Starts~ JJ’s Arm Drop: America’s List TV star JJ da Boss, a.k.a. Jonathan Day, brings his Memphis Street Racer series JJ’s Arm Drop to US 131 Motorsports Park on July 15-16 with a full day of small tire racing on Friday followed by an [...]
Micro Million, SFG Half Million Offer Big Rewards over 10 Consecutive Days After a weather-induced postponement in 2021, US 131 Motorsports Park, “Michigan’s Fastest Track,” tries again to deliver 10 consecutive days of big money bracket racing with the inaugural Micro Million June 23-26 followed immediately by the SFG Half Million June 27-July 3. It’s [...]
