Death Week is a Go! - Engine Builder Magazine

Death Week is a Go!

The tracks are confirmed and pre-entries have begun flowing in for the first (and only) Death Week.

Death Week will be a one-off, eighth-mile event featuring four days of racing across 2000 miles of the most beautiful and extreme landscapes this great country of ours has!

As well as racing, we will be visiting the Grand Canyon, Las Vegas, Death Valley, Sequoia National Park and more. This is as much about the road trip as the racing, a journey you will never forget.

This is the adventure you will tell your grandkids about. This event will never be repeated.

Dates:

Friday, October 20 – Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park tech and testing
Saturday, October 21 – Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park (race day one, morning)
Sunday, October 22 – Barona Drags (race day two, afternoon)
Monday, October 23 – Pacific Coast Highway, end area to be determined
Tuesday, October 24 – Fresno
Wednesday, October 25 – Sequoia Forest/Famoso Dragway (race day three, afternoon)
Thursday, October 26 – Death Valley
Friday, October 27 – Las Vegas
October 28 – Grand Canyon
October 29 – Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park (race day four, morning)

General entries open on August 26. You can access pre-entry by filling in our expression of interest form. If you fill out the form, we will send you an email detailing how to enter early.

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