Edwards & Young Racing – Seattle & Kent, WA.

On July 5th 2014, Chris earned his 1st Wally at a National Open at Champion Raceway in Medford, Oregon running a borrowed Lexus from Michelle Hobson in Sportsman bracket!

Chris and Barry went down to Medford to support Kirk Hobson, manager of Champion, and entered Michelle’s Lexus and the rest is history as they say.

Congratulations son, the first Wally for the Young family in all these many years of racing! 

On June 21^st and 22^nd, both Chris and Paul were racing at Pacific Raceways in this two-day, two-race event.

On Saturday, Chris went out in the 1^st round of Pro Bracket with a -.004 reaction time, so he ran the car through and recorded a 10.573 on a 10.58 dial.

On Sunday, Chris advanced to the 3^rd round before the Chevelle unexpectantly slowed to a 10.608 on a 10.54 dial. I suspect a valve spring problem but with 189 runs on the engine we’ll likely park the car and completely tear down the motor before running it again in 2015 if the valves springs are ok. We tested the PacAloy springs prior to this racing season but with 133 hits on these springs anything can happen!

UPDATE June 24th 2014: We randomly tested several valve springs this afternoon and they’ve dumped 20# from the start of the season, confirming that it’s time to replace them.

Paul did well on Sunday with Torri’s ’66 Pontiac Tempest in Sportsman making it to the semi-finals before losing a tight race to Gordon Rust who went on to win this race!  Paul broke out by .006-seconds as the Pontiac was running well this weekend. With this race Paul moved up in the Sportsman points to 7^th place at Pacific Raceways. Jason Biscay still leads the Sportsman field as the points chase is well underway.

Rust (L) vs Young (R)

Next up, Torri will be behind the wheel of her Tempest and we’ll get the ’57 out for some testing leading up to the 2^nd Annual Wild West Nostalgia Race at Pacific Raceways! Torri has challenged me to a match race during testing! – Roger

Chris had a good day at PR in Pro Bracket, making it to the fourth round before his competition nearly strapped on a perfect .007 package to end his day to take a well deserved win.

Here are the list of Chris’ rounds:

1st: 10.542 on a 10.56 when his competition turned the tree red.

2nd: 10.538 on a 10.56, double breakout win.

3rd: 10.529 on a 10.52 on the brakes to take the stripe.

4th: 10.532 on a 10.50 to end his day. Data shows some tire spin on the launch in this round.

This weekend, Paul found himself back behind the wheel of Torri’s Pontiac as problems continue to plague Ron’s Mustang. But this was a tough weekend for Paul as the Tempest grew legs, set a new ET record for the Tempest in the process, and Paul broke out in early eliminations on both Saturday and Sunday. Paul will have more in the near future! – Roger

Hey Guys,
 
Here is the updated data for the Pontiac, still can’t believe how quick the ol’ girl is going as she is sure trucking along.  Dad, I was telling Chris tonight that she was pulling until about 5400 or so and went through at about 5600 at the lights this weekend which is about 150+ higher than it did before. 
 

I had fun this weekend even though I didn’t do so well like I expected but Chris you did an awesome job on Saturday and feel pretty good about our chances at any race going forward as both the car & you are pretty dialed in.
 
Saturday:
 
#1 Qual:  12.337 @ 107.14 .086rt
#2 Qual:  12.471 @ 106.77 .041rt   ***Spun due to lack of good burnout***
#1 Rd:  12.384 on 12.40 dial @ 99.23 .119rt ***Took way too much stripe as approx. 12.32 pass all out***
 
Sunday: 
 
#1 Qual:  12.240 @ 107.92 .058rt
#1 Rd:   12.228 on 12.23 dial @ 103.20 .086rt  ***Took way too much stripe as approx. 12.204 pass all out***
 
Cash Bash:
#1 Rd:  12.232 on 12.23 dial @ 108.61 .046rt
#2 Rd:  12.254 on 12.22 dial @ 107.73 -.002rt
 
As you know both of my losses on Saturday & Sunday were my mistake in judging the stripe as I need to learn to tighten it up much more at the other end, no need to take a 3/4 car lengths no matter what.  I do feel much better after getting the round win in the cash bash even though I went red by the slightest margin in the 2nd rd as I just need to go rounds and have some fun doing it.  Thanks again for all of your help you guys and looking forward to the next race along with the upcoming Nostalgia race.  
 
Paul