National Trail Raceway

National Trail Raceway is a quarter-mile dragstrip located between Hebron and Kirkersville, Ohio, USA, off of U.S. Route 40.

Wally Parks, founder and head of the NHRA at the time, decided to move the Springnationals to National Trail Raceway in 1972, based on the popularity of drag racing in central Ohio.

On both Saturday and Sunday, the (admittance) gates had to be closed while cars were still sitting on Route 40 waiting to get in to the event as the grounds were already full."

But, due to Ohio's sometimes unpredictable weather, some feel this is why the performances of the race cars were usually not as quick or as fast as at other NHRA national events.

Thus, a number of crew chiefs would often have trouble knowing how to properly tune and prepare the race cars to run well.

But he was carrying so much speed, his car still went through the sand pits, across Refugee Road, and into farmer Herb White's front yard.

The NHRA and National Trail Raceway eventually worked out a deal with the Ohio State Highway Patrol to close down that area of Refugee Road during Springnationals weekends.

This allowed National Trail to connect the end of the shut down area to Refugee Road, giving drivers a little more room, if needed, to stop their race cars safely.

NTR has also hosted the NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion and Super Chevy Shows' in the past.

On November 5, 2011 the NTR held the annual Ohio High School Athletic Association state cross country running championships.