23 Aug 2014 Kent, WA – Going into the last race to see who will race for the KOT championship had only one class decided, the other classes were yet to be determined as the other three classes were too close to choose.

As the rounds went by and updated to points to keep everyone in the know, the King of the Track players came down to the final rounds as the points leaders kept going rounds.

Jake Havens, Nick Douglas, Jack Ward, Robert Steffen, Norm Braedt, Chris Benda, Kevin Rennick and Jason Biscay were the players for the KOT prize. In the end number one and two in Super Pro went for the big win.  It was the 2005 Yancer of Kevin Rennick getting the win when Norm Braedt lost traction. Congrats Kevin!

Images are now available – click here.

E.T. Class Winners

MC: Chris Benda over Mark Sires
SM: Nick Douglas over Jason Biscay
PRO: John Shwaller over Mike Sumner
SPRO: Jason Beggerly over Norm Braedt

22 Aug 2014 Kent, WA – The last Car Club of the season had wonderful weather for racing, and a crowd of racer’s wanting that last win. As in past events the range of racer rides is directly related to their own personality. Most all are daily drivers with just a few on a trailer.

This final race saw a car and truck square off in the final in a double break-out race with Maring Milsted in his 2001 Lightning getting the win over the 1968 Camaro of Don Berry.

Images of this final Car Club Event of 2014 are now available – click here.

20 Aug 2014 Kent, WA – Custom bikes, drag bikes, new cars, old cars. The range of racers rides in the High School and Urban Custom Bikes series at Pacific Raceways for a mid-week race night was large.

The last race for both and a better look for next season were in store for the bikes. The first season as a sponsor for Urban Custom Bikes was great, and they had a blast and are already looking forward to next year.

Five rounds of racing saw Chris Benda and John Plaster square off with John using a better reaction time edging Chris in a close one at the finish line.

The high schoolers pitted the girls against one lone guy, though the guy is connected to the to the very good Biscay girls. It was a gift or lucky brake work at the finish line for Peyton Biscay, as this race as in time trials something let go on her burnout putting fluid in the box stopping the run, for the moment.

Luck or what then allowed her to single to the finals and meet up with Jessica Biscay. The headline here could read “Breakout gives trophy to broken axle”. A 21.857 ET at 44.68 mph burning rubber on the left tire saw Peyton got the win as Jessica ran too fast.

Images are now available – click here to go to the photo album.

SAMPLES

The weekend began with a test and tune on Thursday to prime you up for two days of qualifying for a shot at a “Wally” on Sunday. In all more than 325 entries filled the property for their chance at the “winner’s circle”.

After mother nature’s brief stoppage on Friday the rest of the weekend went off without her interruption though the in and out sun had to give the tuner’s fits as what it was going to be at the time of their run.

There are four photo albums of the event – one for each day, and the test session on thursday.  Over 2,500 images in total.  Here are the links –

Thursday – Test – N – Tune Session
Friday – August 15th, 2014 Qualifying
Saturday – August 16th, 2014
Sunday – August 17th, 2014 Final Day and Winners Pics

Keeping up with the track and the weather to outlast the rest are as follows:

TAD: A pair from CA. with Chris Demke topping Johnny Ahten
TAFC: Agin two from CA. battled seeing Doug Gordon edging Sean Bellemeur
COMP: Jeff Lane from North Bend gifted by Adam Bowdish on his “foul”
Super Stock: BC racer Rick McKinney over the high flying wagon of Troy Olsonawski
Stock: CA. racer Karen Comstock fell to BC racer Dave Jung
T/S: Fort St John BC had Mike Lucas easy over Selah WA Shawn Herbst
T/D: Div.6 over Div.7- Nick Axtman Jr. – Jon Bradford
S/C: Running too quick Trevoy Harkema gifted to Mike Shannon
S/G: Div.7 over Div.6 this time saw Rick Cates over Steve Laskowske
S/S: From Tempe AZ Jerry Denton took out Edmonton AB racer Casy Plaizier
M/C: BC rider Jon Jenkins stopped track champ Jake Havens
S/P: In a battle of local’s Emmett McKillop over Al Chinn
PRO: Number 1&2 qualifiers here with Kory Alby winning when Hannah Lemon pushed the tree too hard

10 Aug 2014 Kent, WA – Cut a V8 muscle car in half and let the tuning begin. Carbs and eight pistons vs. four pistons, fuel injection and turbos pitted against each other in a race to the finish.

Cole Marmon and his record setting Speed Factory 99 Civic has to be the tops in the tuner class with Bryan Schmitt in his Worthy built dragster for the Muscle side. 75 racers tried to get to the top with the imports getting an early edge in the first round, though by round four a lone tuner lived in the muscle mix.

A couple rounds later the finals brought that lone tuner vs. the last muscle. In a twist to what many would think of a final being a car vs. car. Not so here as Jim Werre on his motorcycle kept the consistent E.T.’s to down the V8 racer in the other lane.

For the Muscle car crowed the 65 Malibu of Dave Connor prevailed pitting him against the bike. At the finish line a better R/T and a closer to dial put Jim in the winner’s circle.

Click here for images and to make purchases of your Tuner or V8…

09 Aug 2014 Kent, WA – This was the last chance for the Jr’s to claim their titles and go to the E.T. Finals as track champions at Pacific Raceways.

Points being checked and re-checked after each round as some are so close together every round makes a difference. As the Northwest Heads-up Association (NHUA) ran its multi-class cars the huddling in the Jr. Pits was quite visible.

Images of all the action and new champions is in the gallery – click here to go there.

WINNERS

Jr. Storm: Anastazja Gossette over Ethan Tucker
Jr. Thunder: curfew ended a tie here
Jr Lightning: Devin Lewis over Yeshua Wilcox
SG: Dustin Martin over Todd Sims
SC: Emmitt McKillop over Randy Beck
Real Street: Trevor Frye over James Taggart
Hot Street: Scott Liedes singled to the win
Outlaw 8.5: Walter Poyner over Wally Friedlander
Heavy Street: Gene Fleury over Rett Bertellotti
9.60 Index: Rick Krier singled to the win

06 Aug 2014 Kent, WA – All season long the Pacific Raceways track workers have watched over the racers going down the strip. This day it was their turn to race on the track. Personal daily drivers are the choice with a motorcycle and a true race car seeing what they can do against each other.

More for fun and a relaxed time with each other but when the green light comes on its game on, no different than when racer’s are going down the track.

An almost perfect .001 reaction time in the second round put the real race car on the trailer and set her on the way to the winner’s trophy. The finals pitted Shawna Carey against Hannah Lemon. Knowing the light’s being cut Shawna pushed the tree and gave the win to Hannah with her .017 red light.

Check out the photo album for your copies of images from the event.

03 Aug 2014 Kent, WA – For the 27th time the NHRA brought the National tour to Seattle. Hot weather with a brief delay on Friday for some sprinkles brought the fans to the seats to watch the fastest sport on wheels.

Those who attended all three days saw non-stop action with sub four second times with speeds hovering around 320 mph. From the Top Fuel class to the 10.90’s in the Super Street class for the sportsman racers, there were eleven classes contending for the coveted “Wally” trophy, which brings many racer’s to the strip for a chance at a very hard to get trophy from a National event.

It was great to see Seattle Native Mark Lyle, the chief starter for NHRA back in the northwest.  The North Bend resident was able to enjoy time home during a national event.

The Northwest Nationals winner’s for this year are:

TOP FUEL: Doug Kalitta over Antron Brown
FUNNY CAR: John Force over Gary Densham
PRO STOCK: Jason Line over Greg Anderson
T/AD: Joey Severance over Chris Demke
T/FC: Doug Gordon over Sean Bellemeur
COMP: Brandon Huhtala over Ryan Warter
SUPER STOCK: Terry Anderson over Alan Falcone
STOCK: Tim Fletcher over Mick Alley
SUPER COMP: Marc Heritage over Roger Comstock
SUPER GAS: Mick Shannon over Tanner Hiatt
SUPER STREET: Kyle Colletti over John Ermish

26 Jul 2014 Kent, WA – The 2014 season E.T. Finals and track championships are up for grabs, so points were on everyone’s minds tonight at Pacific Raceways. With another round of the “Super” classes being held, everyone watching loved the wheels up in the air launches they produce.

Over 500 images are now in the gallery – click here to go there.

The day’s class winners are:

Jr Storm: Anastazia Gossette over Alexis Krier
Jr Thunder: Korban Lewis over Luke Cavar
Jr Lightning: Kelsee Gage over Devin Lewis
MC: Jim Zevenbergen over Chris Crane
SM: Steve Horton over Don Elgin
PRO: Jack Ward over Greg Kent
SPRO: Dale Green over Bryan Schmitt
S/SS: Rick McKinney over Bill Edgworth
S/G: Todd Sims over Glen Paine Jr.
S/C: Emmitt McKillop over Darral Petitt
S/S: Steve Beggerly over David Stuckle

WINNERS