A now-removed listing on a real estate website has NASCAR fans asking if Kansas’ Heartland Motorsports Park, a former staple of the early NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series schedule, is once again up for sale.
In December 2025, the International Hot Rod Association, known for its drag racing series, announced the purchase of Heartland Motorsports Park in Topeka, Kansas.
The venue is a well-known mixed-use site that has hosted a handful of series, from NASCAR to drag and sports car racing.
At the time, the IHRA was in the process of buying racetracks ahead of the first season of its IHRA Stock Car Racing Series, which saw venues like Heartland, Memphis Motorsports Park, and Rockingham Speedway added to its stable of tracks.
While Heartland was not on the initial schedule for the IHRA Stock Car Racing Series, the venue was set to host an IHRA Nitro Drag Racing Series event on October 8 to 10.
However, just a few days ago, the IHRA announced the cancellation of the 2026 Nitro Drag Racing Series season, which included the races at Heartland.
This was part of the rumored downfall of the sanctioning body that caught the attention of NASCAR fans just last week, which first surfaced from motorsports reporter Aaron England on X. As of press time, the IHRA has yet to confirm anything about the future of its numerous racing series or the tracks it purchased in late 2025.
While the future of Rockingham Speedway and Memphis Motorsports Park, now known as Darana Motorsports Park, Millington, is up in the air, Heartland might be on the chopping block officially, as fans noticed the property listed as the “Heartland Park Redevelopment Site” on real estate firm CBRE’s website.
The listing showed the facility as 621 acres, with the venue’s road course and drag strip included in a green outline, and suggested the site was usable for a data center, with the description saying, “Data Center For Sale – Available Immediately.”
While it seemed clear at the time that the venue was for sale, with NASCAR and drag racing fans sharing the listing across their online communities, the mystery around the venue’s future is growing as the link to the property on the CBRE website now returns a “Page Not Found” message.
While the venue has a history of hosting drag racing, with the NHRA Heartland Nationals calling it home for over 30 seasons, NASCAR also hosted races at Heartland Motorsports Park.
Alongside races from the now-defunct Midwest and Southeast Series, the track hosted the ARCA Menards Series West, then known as the NASCAR Winston West Series, in 1998, and the ARCA Menards Series in 1991 and 1992, where legends Ken Schrader and Darrell Waltrip both won races.
Its real impact on NASCAR history would be as an early staple of road course racing in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, which held races at the facility’s 1.80-mile road course from its inaugural season in 1995 through 1999.
Early legends of the series, such as Ron Hornaday Jr., Mike Skinner, Joe Ruttman, and Mike Bliss, all won races at the track.
But one of its most notable moments came in that inaugural 1995 race, when then-45-year-old Hendrick Motorsports owner Rick Hendrick made his lone Truck Series start at the track.
Hendrick would finish 23rd in what would be the final of his four career NASCAR National Series starts.
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