Virginia Motorsports Park (VMP) is a 1/4 mile (0.402 km)

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, just outside of Petersburg.Virginia Motorsports Park
Retrieved Jun. 10, 2018. It opened in 1994 and originally hosted the

NHRA The National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) is a drag racing governing body, which sets rules in drag racing and hosts events all over the United States and Canada. With over 40,000 drivers in its rosters, the NHRA claims to be the largest motorspo ...

's Virginia NHRA Nationals. It has a

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of 23,000 spectators. After a brief time with IHRA beginning in 2010, the track returned to NHRA in 2012. On January 30, 2018, NHRA announced that a pro national event will be returning to Virginia Motorsports Park, as the

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moved from Englishtown, New Jersey, after

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decided to cancel all drag racing operations there earlier in the month.National Hot Rod Association, ''NHRA partners with Virginia Motorsports Park to host NHRA Virginia Nationals'', NHRA.com, January 30, 2018
Retrieved Jan. 30, 2018.BangShift.com, ''Bad News: Raceway Park Will Cease Drag Racing Operations – The End Of Englishtown Appears To Be Nigh'' by Brian Lohnes, January 16, 2018
Retrieved Jan. 30, 2018. The first Virginia NHRA Nationals took place in early June 2018. That event lasted two seasons before being removed by the NHRA on March 25, 2020 as part of a purge of races to reduce the schedule to 19 events because of the

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.National Hot Rod Association, 2022 Virginia NHRA Nationals
Retrieved Apr. 15, 2022. The Virginia NHRA Nationals will be returning May 13-15, 2022. Virginia Motorsports Park is also a member track of the Professional Drag Racers Association (PDRA), a regional sanctioning body of professional 1/8 mile (0.201 km) doorslammer ( Pro Stock and

Pro Modified Pro Modified, also known as Pro Mod, is a class or division in the sport of drag racing used in the NHRA and FIA (quarter-mile) and the Professional Drag Racers Association (PDRA) (eighth-mile). It is similar to the Top Doorslammer class as def ...

) style drag racing, with Pro Modified classes split by type of power boosters added (turbocharger/supercharger, nitrous oxide, and an entry-level 632ci limit format), and the Pro Stock class being Mountain Motor.Professional Drag Racers Association
Retrieved Jun. 10, 2018. The current owners are Tommy and Judy Franklin, who purchased the facility in 2017.''The Progress-Index'', ''Drag racing returns to Virginia Motorsports Park'' by Geneva Heffernan, June 8, 2018
Retrieved Jun. 10, 2018. Tommy Franklin is also one of the founders of PDRA.Professional Drag Racers Association - About PDRA
Retrieved Jun. 10, 2018. The track has been hosting the PDRA Brian Olson Memorial World Finals since October 2019.Professional Drag Racers Association, 2022 Schedule
Retrieved Apr. 15, 2022. Virginia Motorsports Park has a dirt track located beside the dragstrip which hosts

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and other events.Virginia Motorsports Park - Dirt Track
Retrieved Jun. 10, 2018. The facility also hosts the annual Dinwiddie County Fair in October.
Retrieved May 19, 2019.Discover Dinwiddie, 2019 Dinwiddie County Fair
Retrieved May 19, 2019.

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