Bob Woodruff had one of his racing goals come together during eliminations on Sunday. One of those goals is to earn an invite to the NHRA JEGS ­Allstar Event. Bob advanced to the third round which gave him the lead in points after trailing Brian Preszler for most of last season. Brian, who is the D6 S/C champ, lost first round giving others a chance to go to Chicago.

The race-within-a-race program for NHRA’s Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series competitors is the NHRA JEGS ­Allstars. Contested at the Route 66 NHRA Nationals in Chicago on June 28-30, the event is reserved for 100 of NHRA’s top ­Sportsman racers. The best racers in ten categories from each of NHRA’s seven geographic regions compete for team and individual ­honors and a share of the $119,000 purse. Racers ­accumulate points for the event at NHRA Lucas Oil divisional races prior to the competition.

Emily Williams, who stopped Bob in the third round, also had a great weekend advancing to the fourth round.

The Morris Family Racing team had four cars competing, Cheryl, Andy, and Kacee in S/C. Dustin Hentges in T/D. Cheryl took out Kacee in the second round on her way to the final for the Wally.

Randy Beck was disappointed with a first round loss in S/C. So he jumped into S/P and brought home that Wally.

Division 6 has a Super Class Shootout series (managed by Dennis Boley) that racers qualify for and compete in prior to Sundays eliminations. At Boise 17 cars entered in the SC shootout. After 2 rounds of qualifying, Dennis takes the top 8 for each class and puts them on the ladder for eliminations in Saturday afternoon’s remaining time runs. When it was all said and done I took home the big check beating Brian Preszler in the final.

Congratulations to everyone!!!

 (KENT, Wash) – Pacific Raceways has announced Ed Garfield as the new Drag Strip Manager for the Kent track.  Garfield worked at Champion Raceway in Southern Oregon for the past six years.

 Garfield replaces Jason Murray, who left as track manager earlier this year.  John Ramsey, the raceway’s Director of Marketing/Sales/Media had been interim drag manager.

 “Ed is a great addition to our drag team,” said Tracie Brandenburg, Pacific Raceways’ General Manager.  “We have a fantastic drag staff of really dedicated individuals and a large group of participants and fans.  We are very pleased to have Ed work with our staff and racers.”

 While at Champion, Garfield worked most positions from water box to the track’s computer operator.  He started at the raceway as the track announcer.  Garfield ran a successful sign/glass etching business in Oregon for several years.  He has relocated that business to Mill Creek, WA.   Garfield is also a self-taught computer programmer with a specialty of writing code in vb.net integrating order entry systems with CNC machinery in the glass fabrication industry.  In addition to his raceway experience, Garfield has promoted a bicycle racing series for 13 years at Champion.

 “I look forward to meeting and getting to know the racers,” Garfield said.  “The Pacific Raceways tem has welcomed me and I feel at home.”

Pacific Raceways is the Northwest’s only NHRA national event track, hosting the O’Reilly Auto Parts NHRA Northwest Nationals Presented by Super Start Batteries Aug. 3-5.  The raceway’s Auto Max USA Drag Race Series draws a large number of E.T. bracket racers to its 11-race events.  Pacific Raceways will also present an NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Race Series event Aug. 17-19, as well as be the host track this year for the NHRA Summit Racing Equipment Division 6 E.T. Bracket Finals over Labor Day weekend.

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.

 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.

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)

PNSCA Racers can enter into the National Dragster Challenge on Saturday and the ET Bracket Race on Sunday if they choose or they can choose only to enter the PNSCA events those days. FOUR RACES in TWO DAYS!! For racers only wishing to enter the PNSCA events it is $50 for the weekend, if they would like to run the National Dragster Challenge event and/or ET Race they would have to pay another $30 a day to run super pro. Yes we do have a TNT scheduled for the Friday night before and you will be able to come in and park that night also. As for start times, I want to start time trials/qualifying at 9:15 to 9:30 each morning. Everybody will get 2 hits and then go into Eliminations that should put start time for eliminations around 12 to 12:30 I would assume.

If you have any other questions let me know.

Jason Murray – jjmurray@pacificraceways.com

Additional Information: Friday Test and Tune gates open at 4:30 pm. Recent TNT’s have drawn large turn outs, so get there early. Saturday and Sunday gates open at 7:30 am. Saturday’s  race is sponsored by “PAUL”! Sunday’s race is sponsored by “STACI”! PNSCA thanks both of them for their support!!!