Friday August 4th
Streets of Fire presented by Audi Winston-Salem
Join us as we light up the night along 4th street in downtown Winston-Salem for dragrace-style street sprints! The night will feature both professional and amateur categories in a competitively charged atmosphere along restaurant row.
Streets of Fire
presented by Audi Winston-Salem
Street Sprint Racing: 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM (classes and individual start times based on registration).
It’s going to be a hot night in downtown Winston-Salem! Street sprints featuring small groups will light it up down 4th street. Kick back in one of the street-front bars or restaurants for dinner and drinks and watch the show.
All times subject to change.
Start Location: 500 Block of 4th Street (Corner of Poplar and 4th)
Finish Location: 200 Block of 4th Street (Corner of Trade and 4th)
Racer Staging: Parking lot behind Lowery Building near corner of Spruce and 4th
Racer Parking: 4th Street Parking Deck (Corner of Poplar and 4th)
First Heat: 7:00 PM
Total Purse: $1,500
The sprint course is 200 meters in length. Riders will sprint the distance, side-by-side. Heats will be elimination-style with groups of 4-6 riders per heat. Heats will be assigned by category (male/female, age, race category) based on pre-registrations. Your first heat will be provided at the racer sign-in area located near the start line at the corner of Poplar and 4th.
Registration: Registration for all racer categories for Friday night is $20 in advance. An annual or one-day USA Cycling race license is required for the event.
You MUST pre-register online to race. Online registration will close at 12:00 PM on Thursday, August 3. There will be no onsite registration.
Free Live Music
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
We’ll have free live music all evening and dancing in the streets once the racing concludes!
Performances by:
Cracker
Cracker has been described as a lot of things over the years: alt-rock, Americana, insurgent-country, and have even had the terms punk and classic rock thrown at them. But more than anything, Cracker are survivors. Co-founders David Lowery and Johnny Hickman have been at it for more than a quarter of a century, amassing ten studio albums, multiple gold records, thousands of live performances and hit songs that are still in current radio rotation around the globe (“Low”, “Teen Angst”, “Euro-Trash Girl” and “Get Off This,” to name just a few).
Nine Days
Nine Days, formed by singer-songwriter friends John Hampson and Brian Desveaux in 1994, struck a chord with fans and critics with the relentlessly catchy “Absolutely (Story of a Girl).” The memorable single, which takes Gen Xers back to another time and place, hit the top of the charts in 2000 and propelled the band’s major label debut, The Madding Crowd, to go gold. After a decade-long break, the band re-emerged on the scene in 2015 and has been re-engaging old fans and gaining new ones ever since.