Article Courtesy Of NHRA
2/5/2010 - NHRA officials have announced that Osceola Dragway in Osceola, Ind., has switched to NHRA affiliation for the upcoming 2010 season. This is the first time that the quarter-mile facility, originally built in 1957, has operated under the NHRA banner.

Osceola Dragway will participate in the North Central Division's NHRA Summit Racing Series culminating with the track sending a team of their season's top qualifiers to the Summit Racing Series Finals at O'Reilly Raceway Park at Indianapolis, Sept. 17-19. Division champions from that event will advance to the Summit Racing Series National Championships held in conjunction with the Auto Club NHRA Finals in Pomona, Calif., Nov. 11-14.

The track will also offer racers the special National DRAGSTER Challenge, Aerospace Components King of the Track, NHRA Jr. Drag Racing League Challenge and NHRA Drags: Street Legal Style presented by AAA. The National DRAGSTER Challenge and the King of the Track events give local racers the opportunity to earn a coveted Wally trophy at their home track. And new this year the Jr. Drag Racing League Challenge will offer its own unique Wally trophy.

"We are excited to be a part of NHRA and to offer our racers the opportunity to get to race for a Wally and to participate in the NHRA Summit Racing Series," said Osceola Dragway race director Tim Medich.