This Former Ohio Dragstrip Is Now Virtually Unrecognizable

Back in December of last year, we shared a real estate listing for the Marion County International Raceway (MCIR), a 1/4-mile dragstrip located on 36 acres in LaRue, Ohio. On the market practically lock, stock, and barrel for $690,000, the place had equipment, supporting buildings and structures, and even a house on the property. As such, the headline of our story read: Buy This Ohio Dragstrip, Where You Can Live, Work, And Play.

Well, one man took that mostly seriously.

Jordan Frecka, part of a family with successful business interests in Ohio and an avid car collector with a purported $60 million worth of supercars and hypercars, bought MCR to effectively turn it into a playground for he and his family and friends and their automotive YouTube exploits.

The track, which his Triple F Collection YouTube page says will reopen next week (but not to the public now, if ever, so we’ve heard) is virtually unrecognizable to all but the most eagle-eyed of locals. Gone is the multi-story timing tower, the guardrails, grandstands, scoreboards, and many of the other buildings that were once on the property. Frecka has repaved the dragstrip and the return road, and converted the former 12-lane-wide staging lanes into an autocross pad. MCR is now, as so many of us picture in our dreams, a private high-speed playground that Frecka can do with as he pleases 24 hours a day. While that’s not great news fore the locals, this fella’ is living out everyone’s dream.