October 5, 2019:
Hello Race Fans!
Today was the 1st Annual NW Bracket Kings Showdown
@Theplacetorace – Pacific Raceways. I took the Mustang out to support this event put on by fellow racer Freddy Hoffman and had a good time. The weather was perfect with the cool fall temps and great air making for some fast passes as you can see below as these were both record runs.
1st Qual: 11.578 @ 115.6 mph
2nd Qual: 11.568 @ 115.4 mph
I was feeling good going into 1st rd knowing all races were going to be extremely tight. I drew Gary Esnrud in his lovely yellow Mopar for a rematch from earlier in the year which too was a good race. I went .024 on the tree to his .011 and took the stripe by .016 but broke out by .008 running 11.562 on my 11.57 dial against his 11.25 on 11.23 dial.
I was able to buy back into the race against other buyback competition and got a single due to odd cars. I had a .016 rt and ran 11.551 (new record) on a 11.55 dial so felt really good after this pass.
Moving into 2nd rd I had a .044 rt to my opponents .024 rt and ran 11.556 on my 11.54 dial to his 10.709 on a 10.70 dial so another good race but i came up short.
We had a Gamblers race for both Electronics and Non- Electronic cars and I decided to give that a shot.
I lost in the 1st rd running 11.584 on my 11.57 dial due to being tardy on the tree. My opponent had a .020 rt and ran 10.08 on his 10.03 dial.
Please see below winners from both races.
SUPER PRO- Robert Strohm
R/U – Scott Imbler
SP GAMBLER – Scott Imbler
R/U – Randy Hentges
PRO – John Schwaller
R/U – Brad Burton
PRO GAMBLER – Johnny Bumgarner
R/U – Tom Wartinger
SPORTSMAN – Mark Biscay
R/U – Brian Seaberg
I feel that Freddy did a fabulous job along with Pacific Raceways, too bad more people choose not to attend these big buck bracket races.
This has been a great season for me being in Pro Bracket as the car ran wonderful. I was fortunate to get my first Wally @ Seattle Divisional in Pro and another win at West Coast Grudge event so pretty happy.
I would like to thank everyone in my family for their continued support with both the car and in cheering me on along with our fabulous sponsor Handan Trailer Repair.
Hope you all had a wonderful weekend! – Paul Young
Paul at NW Bracket Kings on October 5th 2019 – Purple Nurple photo!
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My thanks to Fred Hoffman for attempting to make this big-buck race work. I have all but given up on my fellow local racers on supporting new ideas, such as the Wild West Nostalgia races Pam and I worked hard to support with little interest from locals. Over the years of this event, only the stick-shift category grew in participation thanks to our efforts and the support of the BC Super Shifters. The other brackets actually shrunk which killed the event despite our best efforts.
Over the years I’ve watched great ideas being squashed by the very racers in our area. Perhaps Fred’s idea will gain support in the coming years but I’m not holding my breath…