\u201cWilkesboro Dragway is very important to the North Carolina drag racing community,\u201d said Josh Peake with the WDRA. \u201cThe track is going on seventy years now, and multiple generations of racing families have called Wilkesboro home. I appreciate David and Stacy Staten for placing their trust in the WDRA to help them with their new venture running the facility.<\/p>\n
Wilkesboro racers will now have an opportunity to participate in the WDRA Summit Sportsman Drag Racing Series presented by SunCoast Performance in hopes of qualifying for the WDRA Summit World Championship event at Montgomery International Dragway at the end of the season. Team Wilkesboro Dragway will also be invited to compete during the WDRA Summit Southeast Bracket Finals presented by Laris Motorsports Insurance at GALOT Motorsports Park on October 2-5, 2025.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are very excited to join the WDRA family,\u201d said Wilkesboro\u2019s David Staten.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cAs new track managers, there is a lot to learn.\u00a0\u00a0WDRA has been easy to work with and a great resource for us.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The facility and its racers can reap the rewards of being part of The Alliance through several exclusive discounts and benefits provided by WDRA marketing partners. More details can be found at\u00a0https:\/\/www.racewdra.com\/wdra-racer-benefits\/<\/a>. Racers can find information on obtaining a WDRA Summit Sportsman Drag Racing Series license by visiting\u00a0https:\/\/www.racewdra.com\/license\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n To find the latest information about the racetrack, follow the Wilkesboro Dragway 2025 Facebook page as the Staten family continues to provide updates.<\/p>\n This story was originally published on January 15, 2025. The post Wilkesboro Dragway Joins WDRA Alliance<\/a> first appeared on Drag Illustrated<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The World Drag Racing Alliance (WDRA) and Wilkesboro Dragway will join forces, effective immediately, as the historic North Carolina facility has signed a multi-year sanction agreement to become part of the Alliance. \u00a0 The Ellis family built the historic facility in 1955 as a quarter-mile dirt dragstrip with no return road.\u00a0 Seventy years later, David […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Drag](\"https:\/\/dragillustrated.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/DI_flat_red-e1711481551475.png\")
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