The track faced major financial difficulties from the start and was eventually taken over by Livingston County for unpaid taxes in the mids. The track fell into disrepair and suffered some other damage due to being inoperative for nearly two years without proper maintenance. For a few years, it hosted what was to become a popular annual event in the '70s: The "Gold Cup" The track still boasts the longest shutdown area on the East Coast , at 3, feet m.
The longest running consecutive seasons occurred while it was owned and operated by Bob and Donna Metcalfe, who acquired it in It had an abbreviated opening season beginning in August of that year. Many schedule changes and facility improvements were made under Metcalfe's ownership. It once ran "test and tune" and bracket racing for trophies on Wednesday nights. Friday night the track was open to everyone for test and tune. Typically fifty to one hundred plus "pony cars" regularly showed up to race at each of these events.
On Saturdays, the track still runs its full bracket points program for paid purses. The track's original name--"Empire Dragway", was resurrected following the season.
At the end of the season, a Livingston County successful businessman, Jerry Scaccia and wife Clara, purchased the facility and intended to operate it on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday nights; The track has undergone many major improvements since the change in ownership—long needed basic maintenance, repaving, a new competitor entrance was constructed which made easier access for racers, much needed new drainage, rebuilt timing tower, updated timing system, improved lighting and installation of concrete barriers running the full length of the strip on both sides, with other minor changes as well.
The Scaccia's still own and operate the facility and continue to make further updates and improvements. Create your Account. Are you sure you want to cancel your membership with us? From the grandstands, growing crowds can experience a pair of racers-from "street" machines to specially-built dragsters generating thousands of horsepower-as they tear away from the starting line to complete the standing quarter mile.
The race is over in seconds and you bask in a few seconds of dead silence as two more contenders stage at the Christmas Tree. This fast-moving, heat-to-heat pace is one of the big draws of drag racing especially for families with young children. In addition to being the only dragstrip in New York state with nationally televised events, NYIRP runs a solid race season making it attractive for local drag racers amateurs on up to regional point winners to compete against their peers.
Saturday nights draw up to racers. Junior Dragsters, ages , don't take a back seat to their oldsters at NYIRP; they have their own specifications and drag racing point series, called the Club. If you're a car or motorcycle racer who wants to have fun and make friends while working your way up through the ranks, or if you want to leave your mini-van in the parking lot and treat the family to a fast-moving Saturday night, fasten your seat belt and aim for the New York International Raceway Park.
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