Situated in north central Texas between Iowa Park and Wichita Falls opened August 18, 1956 as Red River Drag Strip, Wichita Raceway Park is the one of the oldest operating drag racing venues in Texas with a heritage and family run tradition that continues today.

The track is a 1/8th mile regulation facility with 100% ground concrete from start to finish. We take pride in our safety record, equipment and preparedness to give both the racer and spectator an exciting and safe experience.

The owners are committed to continuously update and upgrade the facility without losing it's hometown personal atmosphere. In order to further promote safety, WRP does not sell any alcoholic beverages onsite and prohibits it's consumption by drivers during all racing events.

Being just 2 hours away from the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex and Oklahoma City permits us a unique location to provide for both a racing and a testing facility for both the causal racer as well as some of the more famous Street Outlaw personalities.

The Red River Drag Strip was located near Wichita Falls, four miles north on the Iowa Park Highway on Farm to Market Road 369. Internet sources date its opening to 1952, but newspaper documentation hasn't been found to confirm that. It was sanctioned by NHRA at least by 1960, if not before. The strip has variously been called Wichita Falls Dragstrip, Wichita Drag Strip, and is now called Wichita Raceway Park. In 1962-63 it was called Pleasant Valley Drag Strip. In 1964, it changed its name to Silver Dollar Dragway, with a change in management. Drag racers Jerry Mitchell and Keith Davis, ranching partners in Kamay, operated the track on a lease arrangement. At that time it was a 3,700-foot asphalt strip adjacent to the Red River Speedrome. They ran outlaw drags starting at 10 PM on Friday and Saturday nights and a regular program on Sunday afternoon. On June 28, 1964, Bill Brittian of Fort Worth took the Super Stock class with a 12.32 ET. It is today (2015) a 1/8th-mile concrete drag strip under NHRA sanction. In 1965, the strip changed its name changed yet again when Pete Hall and Frank Moon took over the operation. They called it Wichata Falls Dragway. That name persisted at least through 1971, sanctioned by NHRA. According to an article in a Wichita Falls newspaper, on November 24, 1957, Bobby Langley won the A dragster class at Red River with a 140.06 MPH run. On January 26, 1958, 3,000 spectators watched Eddie and Buddy Reasor win top eliminator with a run of 124.13 MPH and 11.69 ET in their 1924 Ford A/Roadster powered by a 1954 Chrysler. There were almost 100 vehicles entered. Don Garlits took Top Eliminator on June 8, 1958, at a 3-day event, setting a new Texas and Red River speed and elapsed time record in the process in his Tampa Speed Special fueler. In 1959 the Red River Timing Association held races on the second Sunday.