Piedmont Dragway in North Carolina Announces IHRA Has Purchased the Facility, Bringing the Total to Five Tracks Owned by the IHRA
As we originally reported in March of 2025, the International Hot Rod Association (IHRA) sanctioning body was making some serious moves to reclaim their standings in both national and sportsman level racing.
The IHRA also planned to purchased several race tracks, and between March and May of 2025, they acquired four. The fifth, Piedmont Dragway, announced it was purchased by the IHRA on Thursday, August 7th, 2025.
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Piedmont Dragway was originally created under the Piedmont Drag Strip name, sometime between 1957 and 1958. Hosting everything from bracket racing and no-prep, to their Big Dog Pro Mods and even monthly drifting events, the track changes names to Piedmont Dragway sometime in 1991.
Piedmont Dragway made a Facebook post late Thursday evening regarding this weekend’s Big Dog Pro Mod event, as well as the IHRA’s acquisition, below:
Big Dog Racers and Fans, due to scheduling conflicts with some of our Big Dog teams and tuners attending the IHRA 125k to win Pro Mod race in Milan, Michigan, Big Dog has been rescheduled for Thursday August 14th.
We look forward to seeing everyone, as Piedmont Dragway is under new management, and IHRA is the new owner of Piedmont Dragway.
The eighth-mile track in Julian, North Carolina, Piedmont Dragway joins Galot Motorsports Park in Dunn as the second IHRA-owned track in North Carolina.
The IHRA also owns a pair of tracks in Ohio, National Trail Raceway (now named Darana Raceway) in Hebron, and Kil-Kare Raceway in Xenia, and Milan Dragway in Milan, Michigan (renamed Darana Dragway).
Written by Derek Putnam. Photos courtesy of Piedmont Dragway and IHRA.
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