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Int'l Hot Rod Association Announces Agreement With Austrlia's Wide Bay Motor Complex

The Int'l Hot Rod Association announced the signing of Wide Bay Motor Complex to a three-year sanctioning agreement. Wide Bay Motor Complex will be located on the Fraser Coast, Queensland, and is the newest addition to the portfolio of IHRA member tracks in Australia. WBMC recently signed a 30-year lease on a site five minutes east of Maryborough and the design of the motorsports complex is currently being laid out. The multipurpose facility will include a dragstrip and off-road track and it has the room to include motocross, a speedway and driver learning facilities. Announcements will be made shortly surrounding the start of construction of WBMC. The IHRA currently sanctions Australia's professional drag racing series, 400 Thunder as well as four Australia drag racing venues -- Sydney Dragway, Willowbank Raceway, Springmount Raceway and now WBMC (IHRA). 

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