The Pacific Northwest Super Comp Association welcomes everyone to our annual Board Meeting and Awards Presentation the evening of Jan. 21^st in Fife at Johnny’s Restaurant. Located just North of Tacoma, East of I-5 at Exit 137.

Event Schedule:

4:00 pm Banquet Room Available
4:30 pm Board Meeting
5:30 Social Hour
6:30 pm Dinner**
7:30 pm Door prize(s) drawing
8:00 pm Awards Presentation

 **Dinner Menu choices: Chicken, Beef, Fish, or Pork.

Location is: Johnny’s at Fife 5211 20th ST E Fife, WA 98424  Phone: 253-922-6686

Full information and directions are available in this PDF file.

We are hoping to have a combined annual banquet and meeting on Saturday, January 14, 2012. If that date doesn’t work for everyone, we could alternately go with the following weekend (January 21). Let’s get together, celebrate the great year of racing we had, and plan for 2012!

We are looking for location suggestions in the general Seattle/Tacoma area. If anyone has any suggestions, please let us know with an email to Ed or Chris, or even a post in the forum.

A preliminary schedule for 2012 has been drafted, more on that in the next couple of days. Looks like another good year with events at tracks around the Northwest.

In the meantime, let’s celebrate 2011!

 The 2011 PNSCA Points Chase is complete. Going into the Final double header at Woodburn, five racers could still win the PNSCA Championship. Greg Pessimer has lead the points all season, with a runner-up at Bremerton 1 and Woodburn 7. Dale Hrenko was in second place for most of the season with a runner-up finish at Woodburn 4. Ed Hauter was in third place all season with runner-up finishes at Bremerton 2,10, and 11. Bob Woodruff, with only 9 races, moved up to second place in August after a win at Bremerton 10. Tom Gresham, who has been in the top ten all year, came alive with a win at Bremerton 11. Tom has had an amazing second half of the season in NHRA National and Divisional events!! Earl Cunningham, also with only 9 races has been steady all year long winning rounds.

Our Champ!

At the final PNSCA event in Woodburn the weather forecast was a big concern. After an early qualifying round with the biggest car count we have had in over 5 years 33 racers were standing around watching it rain. Ross Souza was number one qualifier with a 8:901 and Emily Williams was number 33 with a 8:52 (Lowest ET of the event in SC). Finally at almost 5:00 pm we started first round and by 7:30 pm we were down to Tom Gresham and Kurt Gross when Jay pulled the plug for the day.

During eliminations Tom got the win light in first round racing Marsha Miller, second round Michael Dalrymple, third round Brandon Yoder, fourth round Jim Glenn, with a single into the Final with Kurt. On the other side of the eliminations ladder Kurt got the win light in first round racing Natalie Peck, second round Frank Serdar, third round Earl Cunningham, fourth round single, with a win over Emily Williams into the Final with Tom. Emily Williams got to the semi’s getting the win light in the first round racing Rick Dearinger, second round Emmett McKillop, third round Tom Bayer, and in the fourth round beat Bob Woodruff driving Chris’s Brand New EFI equipped Monden dragster. After it was all said and done PNSCA awarded almost $2000 to the final three racers.

We want to THANK all the first time PNSCA racers!!

 PNSCA regulars take 4 of the top 5 spots in the final points tally. Dale Hrenko, from Port Orchard, is the Champ after good finishes at Bremerton and Mission. Rick Dearinger was the Runner-up (8 points behind Dale) with only 3 events! Rick won at Mission and went 3 rounds at both Portland races. Rick was also the point’s runner-up last year. Tom Gresham finished third, again with only 3 events! Tom was in both finals in Portland, winning on Sunday! Chuck Linne with one round win in five races finished fifth. Chuck was the SC champ last year. Bob Woodruff, ninth, and Earl Cunningham, eleventh, each won at Bremerton. CONGRATS to everyone!!!

Brad Plourd, who started his now professional racing career at Pacific Raceways in Junior Dragsters, WINS S/C at the Seattle National Event with a .009 light in the final! Brad was doing a great job all weekend with average RT of .015 in eliminations.

Tom Gresham was also on fire after two great National event outings in two weeks. At Sonoma Tom went SIX rounds, followed up with FIVE rounds at Seattle this last weekend!!

Dale Green, DG Machine, was able to survive into the 4 th. Round.

Derek McMasters from Edgewood Wa., Newcomer to SC, who has purchased Howard Johnson’s old car, also made it to the 4 th round.

Congrats to all 62 Super Comp Racers at the National Event.

See the Article in the Maple Valley Reporter

The PNSCA’s own Bob Woodruff is the subject of a wonderful article in the Maple Valley Reporter.  You can read the article here, or click on the picture at left.

Our thanks to Kris Hill who wrote the great article, and to Bob and Connie for putting such a great face on Super Comp racing.

Mike Seekins Gets the Green

Good weather finally shows up in the Pacific Northwest and with the heat came some great racing.  At Mission Raceway, for PNSCA’s only one-day race of the year,Mike Seekins came out on top, besting Emmett McKillop in the final round.

Emmett McKillop takes on Dale Hrenko

In the morning 14 cars made two qualifying runs to set the ladder. We had 8 cars from Washington, 3 from BC, 2 from Alberta, One from Saskatchewan. Dale Hrenko, number two in points, was number one qualifier, with a 8.908. After four rounds of racing it was Mike Seekins and Emmett McKillop in the final. Mike’s .018 rt and 8.978 to Emmett’s .108 rt and 8.942, with Mike getting the WIN!!

After this event the only real change in the top ten in points was Rick Dearinger moving up to the Ten spot. Greg Pessimer stretched his lead over Dale by 64 points.  Make plans to join us in Bremerton for the next PNSCA race, neatly sandwiched between the Seattle National event and the Division Six Race at Pacific Raceways.  See you there!

This weekend’s National open race at Mission Raceway will include a Single PNSCA race on Saturday. Also the track will host a Test and tune on Friday. This has traditionally been our biggest car count race.

Our next PNSCA race at Bremerton, (Aug. 13 and 14)  is strategically scheduled between Seattle National event and the Seattle Divisional Race.

Breaking news from Woodburn Dragstrip, WOW, three races in three days!!! The rained out D6 race will be completed on Friday September 16 just prior to the final 2011 PNSCA double header, September 17 and 18.

Weather forecast looks good with temperatures in the 70′s. This is a great opportunity to sharpen your skills for the upcoming D6 race in Spokane. We are hopeful that the turnout will be similar to the recent Pacific event that had 27 and 28 cars.

NHRA S/C Technical Note: New roll-cage padding rule now in effect
As a reminder to all racers, a new roll-cage padding rule goes into effect June 1, 2011. In the 2011 NHRA Rulebook on page 5 of the E.T. Section 4A and in the General Regulations Section 20, page 20 it states “ Beginning June 1, 2011, roll-cage padding meeting SFI Spec 45.1 mandatory on any vehicle running 9.99 (6.39 1/8-mile) and quicker. Padding must be used anywhere driver’s helmet may come in contact with roll-cage components.” (From www.nhradiv6.com)