gateway motorsports park

Gateway Motorsports Park, formerly Gateway International Raceway, is a multi-venue motor sports facility and located less than 5-minutes from the Gateway Arch.  The facility was purchased in late 2010 by a St. Louis Native, former race car driver, and real estate developer Curtis Francois. The Park is home to a world class 1/4-mile drag racing facility that is host of one of the NHRAs Mello Yello Countdown to the Championships races, a 1 ¼-mile unique, egg-shaped oval with different degrees of banking on each corner, and a 1.6-mile infield road course that hosts national sports-car club racing, racing schools and motorcycle organizations. Gateway Motorsports Park has proven to be innovative with new and exciting opportunities to experience the thrill of racing.  Francois has built the facility with a vision that allows unprecedented access to the track for everyone spanning from those who have only dreamed of driving a car around the track to the seasoned professional driving at 325+ mph. This broad-based appeal is evidenced in Gateway Motorsports Parks schedule which hosts the nationally televised AAA Insurance NHRA Mid-West Nationals as well as weekly race programs with over 200 event dates per year. This establishes Gateway Motorsports Park as one of the most active racing complexes in the world and it is rapidly becoming one of the most popular for racers, enthusiasts, novices, and spectators alike.