Total Venue Concepts Offers Unprecedented Discount for WDRA Tracks

Springfield, IL – The WDRA is proud to announce that Kurt Johnson and the team at Total Venue Concepts have formed an alliance with the WDRA to provide an industry leading 20% discount on all services exclusively for WDRA Member Tracks. Kurt will be the guest on an upcoming WDRA hosted Tech Talk seminar where the topic will be traction compound and the WDRA will release a 2023 program offer to its member tracks.

“This opportunity makes us a market leader in offering services from one of the most knowledgeable and comprehensive providers in the industry,” said WDRA founder Don Scott. “Kurt was a great source of information for me while I was at the helm of a dragstrip and I cherish the opportunity to provide such a monumental and unbeatable offer to our WDRA family of tracks.”

TVC is an instrumental part of the T.O.P.S. track operators meetings at PRI and Kurt has never been scared to share his knowledge base with anyone who can use the advice. The TVC team will lead or co-lead many of the meetings throughout the seminar.

“We are excited to partner with the WDRA. The backbone of the WDRA are the dragstrips across America that are keeping our sport alive,” said Johnson. “TVC realizes the importance of grassroots racing and supporting the alliance as the WDRA does with this offer.”

Total Venue Concepts prides itself in being a single source for project management not only in the drag racing world, but for all forms of motorsport. TVC provides racing surface guidance, prep, maintenance, repair and renovation as well as provides custom built hardware and solutions for each facility.

Alliance Racewear To Offer Exclusive WDRA Member Discounts and Awards

Springfield, IL – The World Drag Racing Alliance announced today that Alliance Racewear has joined the rapidly growing list of sponsors that will be supporting the bracket racing community by joining the WDRA in 2023. Alliance Racewear will become the Official Protective Equipment partner of WDRA. As with the other partnerships that WDRA has announced recently, this new partnership also includes exclusive benefit offers for WDRA members and WDRA Member tracks.

Alliance Racewear owner Billy Herman has a personal drive to help increase driver safety across the drag racing world after seeing drivers without proper protective equipment or that which is sub-par. WDRA members will receive a 20% disco

WDRA Announces Fan Engagement Partnership With Winlight Bets

Springfield, IL – The WDRA is proud to announce Winlight Bets as the organizations Official Fan Engagement Partner. Winlight Bets will debut their interactive software live at the Southeast Spring Bracket Finals event at Darlington Dragway.

“In the current marketplace that drag racing lives in, our goals need to shift from trying to save money to that of offering new revenue streams to WDRA Member facilities,” said WDRA Founder Don Scott.

“Our agreement with Winlight Bets assures that our member tracks are at the forefront of this potentially revolutionary revenue opportunity as the Winlight Bets team works through the development of the system.”

Rex Simmermaker founded Winlight Bets to bring legal betting action to the fastest sport on earth, drag racing. The app, available at the events, will allow fans to engage in the action with predictive, free to play betting which will result in producing prize winners.

“We are excited to support the WDRA and be a partner with the alliance. We believe that Don Scott and the WDRA team will help so many tracks improve financially, and we will do our part to bring fan engagement to a level never seen before in our sport,” said Simmermaker. “Our goal is to help bring together a potential revenue stream to the sport we love and the WDRA fits that goal.”

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Summit Racing Equipment Joins The WDRA

Springfield, IL – The World Drag Racing Alliance announced today that the newly created sanctioning body and Summit Racing Equipment have created an alliance to support the bracket racing community with Summit Racing’s new sponsorship of the WDRA Sportsman Drag Racing Series.

The quarter-million-dollar Summit Sportsman Drag Racing Series (SSDRS) will include the race for the track championship at member WDRA tracks during the year, the WDRA Summit Bracket Finals series of events, and the WDRA

Summit World Championships at Darlington Dragway to conclude the season.

“We are beyond thrilled to have the leading supporter of sportsman racing programs join the WDRA in providing huge opportunity and national exposure to our network of US and Canadian member tracks and the bracket racers that support them,” said WDRA’s Don Scott. “Summit Racing Equipment has a

long history of supporting their drag racing customers and we look forward to doing our part to carry on that tradition,” said Scott.

The Summit Sportsman Drag Racing Series will begin January 1, 2023 and the goal of the program is to find the best racers at each WDRA member track and gather them together in head-to-head competition at the Summit Bracket Finals and the individual WDRA track champions at the Summit World Finals at Darlington Dragway in October.

“Sportsman racers along with the facilities and entities that support them will always remain as a keystone of the Summit Racing Equipment family,” said Motorsports and Events Manager Jim Greenleaf. “The opportunity to work with the WDRA, the facility owners and operators, and every racer in the program is a point of pride for us. I look forward to shaking hands with an inaugural set of Summit World Champions in the winner’s circle this fall.”

WDRA Quarter Million Dollar Bracket Series To Conclude At Darlington Dragway

Springfield, IL – The World Drag Racing Alliance will conclude the 2023 season with the Sportsman Drag Racing Series World Championships on October 19-21, 2023 at Darlington Dragway the sanctioning body announced today.  The invitation only, free race entry event will feature WDRA track champions and qualified Bracket Finals Champions in head-to-head competition for their share of the $200,000 main event cash points fund.   
WDRA is working on additional racer bonuses including a “Free Five Friday” that will feature no entry fee, $5,000 to win races for all qualifiers on Friday night.  American Race Cars became the first company to support the program by sponsoring a $5,000 to win race for the Box class racers who are invited to the World Championship event.  
“We are beyond thrilled to have one of the top facilities in the country host our World Championship event” said WDRA’s Don Scott.  “Darlington Dragway is a showplace for marquee events and we are excited to add the WDRA Sportsman Drag Racing Series World Championships to that list in 2023.” More updates and information on the WDRA Sportsman Drag Racing Series will be released in the coming weeks and posted on www.racewdra.com and on the WDRA Facebook page. 

Industry Veteran Donna Harper Joins WDRA as Membership Manager

Springfield, IL – The WDRA is proud to announce that motorsports industry veteran Donna Harper has joined the alliance as the new sanctioning body’s membership manager. Harper comes to WDRA with fifteen years of experience in membership services at the sanctioning body level. “We are very fortunate to have Donna lead WDRA’s membership services.

The depth of her drag racing membership, licensing and racing program knowledge is extensive. Her ability to make the membership and license process as quick and easy as possible for our members will be unmatched in the industry,” said WDRA’s Don Scott.

Harper will oversee a new membership system that the WDRA and its technology partners will debut January 1, 2023. The new membership system is being designed from scratch and will be the most advanced and racer focused system in the industry. “The most racer friendly system in the world isn’t any good unless you have the people behind it that understand what racers need and how fast they sometimes need it. Having Donna join the alliance will ensure we hit our mission statement of having both modernized processes and unparalleled service,” said Scott.

WDRA Signs Multi-Year Partnership Agreement With Trackside Systems

Springfield, IL – The WDRA is proud to announce a new alliance with Trackside Systems. Trackside will become the Official Technology Partner of WDRA as well as the “Presented By” sponsor of the individual WDRA Bracket Finals events.
“WDRA was created, in part, to help our member tracks become more efficient at managing their businesses. This means not only streamlining processes but lowering the yearly costs of operating,” said WDRA’s Don Scott. “WDRA found a partner in Trackside that has developed the platforms to do just that and we will be working with them to bring the business of running a facility into the modern age.”
“Trackside was purpose-built from the ground-up for motorsports. As promoters and operators ourselves, we were our own first customer which gives us unique, first-hand perspective of the business side of motorsports,” said Jason Kennedy, founder and Chief Technology Officer of Trackside. “Trackside’s mission is to modernize motorsports to compete with other forms of entertainment. The viability and growth of motorsports depends on doing business the way that modern customers expect. Digitization is occurring in all other industries, making it a key ingredient for success for motorsports to attract and retain new fans and racers.”WDRA will be utilizing Trackside’s technology to streamline the systems and processes for its racing members. “The tracks and the sanctioning body can only start to reduce costs to the racers if we all become more efficient in our businesses,” said Scott. “Technology has only kept up in the electronics of race cars and not on the business side of the sport and WDRA is going to try and change that. WDRA will debut our first racer focused project with Trackside very soon.”
“We acknowledge the need to also support legacy ways of doing business (cash/paper) during a digital transition, and we are the only solution that supports both, but still drives efficiency. Customers can adopt Trackside, still do business the way they are used to, and enable digital features at any pace they are comfortable with,” added Kennedy. “We are excited to support the WDRA and help to continue the growth and evolution of drag racing!”
Racetrack owners and operators who are interested in learning how Trackside can benefit their business can find more information at tracksidesystems.com.

WDRA Forms Alliance With God Speed Ministry

Springfield, IL – The WDRA is proud to announce a new alliance with God Speed Ministry. God Speed Ministry was founded in May of 2004 as an organization of ‘racers ministering to racers.’ God Speed Ministry has grown from serving one organization to serving eight series in North America. They cover drag races, road races, swap meets, car shows and other outdoor events across the US and Canada. God Speed Ministry seeks to provide spiritual nourishment and growth to the participants, fans and sponsors at these events with non-denominational ministry, emergency response, outreach, speakers/services, and more.

“We are thrilled by the opportunity to serve the World Drag Racing Alliance, their tracks, partners, and racers. God Speed Ministry is proud to be part of the energy and vision of WDRA,” said Renee Bingham. “We have great relationships with so many of the WDRA tracks with whom we have ministered through the years. We are thrilled to be able to continue that relationship and to build relationships in new tracks and racers. We pray the blessing of God upon WDRA, their tracks, racers and partners. Proverbs 10:22 says, ‘The blessing of the Lord brings wealth, and He adds no trouble to it.’ We speak that over the WDRA.”