NHRA officials announced today that Alien City Dragway L.L.C. in Roswell, N.M., has joined the NHRA Member Track Network as part of the South Central Division.

Alien City Dragway is located in south Roswell on former Walker Air Force Base about four miles away from the Roswell International Air Center airport. The dragway was last open in 2013.

A group of five board members have partnered to bring NHRA Drag Racing back to Roswell. The board members have hired on local resident and drag racing ambassador Rick Callaway to be the Alien City Dragway Track Manager.

“My hat is off to the Board of Directors for banding together to reopen the drag strip,” said Callaway. “I am excited to have the track reopen and cannot wait to start putting cars down the famous strip.”

Thanks to a lot of hard work from the new management team and volunteers from the Roswell community, the track is once again in great shape.

“This is a testament to the determination of the residents of Roswell that this track is going to be back up and running,” said Trey Capps, director of NHRA’s South Central Division. “They are working as hard as they can to make this track successful again.”

Alien City Dragway, with a brand new timing system and LED scoreboards, will feature both eighth-mile and quarter-mile drag races. On Fridays, the dragstrip will be open to street cars to race the quarter-mile, while weekends will feature faster cars racing the eighth-mile.

Callaway first built the track back in 1995 and it was an NHRA Member Track until he sold it in 2001 due to the loss of his daughter Lindsey to cancer. She provided the inspiration for he and his wife to get back into the NHRA family. A brand new time slip booth has been built in Lindsey’s memory because she and her sister worked the time slip booth prior to her passing. She was loved by all of the local racers.