Story of Wagler Motorsports Park
Wagler Motorsports Park sits in beautiful southern Indiana, just an hour and a half from Indianapolis, on a piece of property that's been building racers and record times since the mid-1990s.
Built in 1996, Reborn in 2010
The track was originally built in 1996 as an all-concrete eighth-mile drag strip with a 1,400-foot asphalt shutdown area. After some years off the map, the facility reopened in 2010 under its current name, Wagler Motorsports Park, and it hasn't looked back since.
That comeback paid off fast. The park was named NHRA's North Central Division track of the year three years running, in 2010, 2011, and 2012 — a serious stretch of recognition for a facility that had just reopened its gates.
Today the property runs an NHRA-sanctioned eighth-mile drag strip and a dirt pulling track side by side on the same grounds, giving it a dual identity most tracks don't have: quarter-second reaction times on the concrete, and pulling sleds digging into dirt just steps away.
Home of the Scheid Diesel Extravaganza
Wagler's biggest weekend on the calendar didn't start here. The Scheid Diesel Extravaganza began back in 1997 as a TDR Rally in Effingham, Illinois, and grew so much that it relocated to Terre Haute, Indiana, in 2000, running there for two decades.
In 2020, the event made the move to Wagler Motorsports Park to get away from a city environment and into a facility built to handle it. The Extravaganza has become the diesel event of the year, packing in a Show-N-Shine contest, a vendor midway, a dyno contest, Pro Pulling League truck pull qualifying, and Outlaw Diesel Super Series drag racing all in one weekend.
More Than Just Race Day
Wagler has also built an education partnership with Vincennes University, offering vocational opportunities to students and supporting research into new automotive technology — tying the track's mission to the performance aftermarket industry as a whole, not just to race weekends.
The facility hosts truck shows, private test days, and rental bookings on top of its regular event schedule, and its location in southern Indiana makes it an easy trip for racers and fans from across the Midwest.
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