Prior to the banquet the PNSCA board had a meeting, and several topics were discussed, including sponsorship promotions (more on that in a few days).  The hot topic was the schedule for 2012, and with plenty of feedback, the tentative schedule was established.  Details are still being worked out, stay tuned to this site for the full schedule when it is finalized.

Connie Woodruff also announced that she will need to scale back her involvement as Secretary/Treasurer of the association as she works with her husband Bob in his quest for a Division 6 title.  The association is actively looking for a replacement.  The duties include registering racers at the races, which has been much easier with new web tools, and tracking the association’s bank account.  If you are interested, please let Ed Hauter know.  The entire PNSCA is deeply grateful to Connie for her years of service and wish both she and Bob luck as they shoot for the title.

Greg Pessemier's Third Place Hardware

After dinner, the PNSCA awards were handed out.  The trophies were lovingly handmade by PNSCA President Ed Hauter and are absolutely gorgeous.

The third place award went to Greg Pessemier who led the points chase for much of the season, but ended up falling back just a bit at the end.  Greg was unable to attend the awards due to a family emergency, but rest assured his trophy and check will be in his hands shortly.

Bob Woodruff, wife Connie, and PNSCA's Ed Hauter

In second place was Bob Woodruff, who fell just short of his quest to make it four PNSCA Championships in a row.  Bob made a hard charge at the end of the season, but a late round loss at the season ending double-header at Woodburn, coupled with a rainout for the last day of the year ended his reign at the top of the PNSCA leader board.  Nonetheless, it was great to see the perennial champ picking up one of the big trophies at season’s end.

Tom Gresham with the spoils of his victory

The winner and PNSCA 2011 Champion is Tom Gresham.  Tom was truly hot during the second half of the season, winning two PNSCA races, and going rounds at the divisional and national event level.  Aided by a new motor, Tom was tough to beat and is a very deserving champion.  Congrats, Tom!

All-in-all it was a great evening, and so good to get us all together in the dead of winter.  We’ve had a variety of feedback on the location, but the PNSCA board was generally pleased, especially with the location right off I-5 and convenient to so many PNSCA racers.  If you have feedback, positive or negative, on the location or the event, please post it in the forum where there is a thread asking for input.  We have a reservation there for next year, but are very interested in your feedback.

Thanks again to everyone who attended, and I’m sure we all look forward to a great 2012 of racing.

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 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!

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!!

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!

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.