This should get your toes tapping! Features slide show & video. “Start Me Up” instrumental by Wild Horses of the popular Rolling Stones song. And thanks to “Horsepower Heaven” for a section of video clip!
Taken at Pacific Raceways in Kent, WA. in our Super Pro ’71 Chevelle wagon on Chris’ 2nd qualifying hit. 10.51 @ 125.24 MPH. Rain cancelled the race this day.
Here’s a clip for those of you that enjoy burnouts:
Three passes taken at Pacific Raceways in 2010 featuring our ’57, our ’71 Chevelle, and Top Sportsman cars of Barry Hobson (far lane, Pontiac GrandAm) & Joe Loch (near lane, Cavalier).
On April 23, 2011, Paul won Sportsman. For more details, please see: http://northwestvets.com/racing.htm#2011
1st time run of the day above, 1st round win below
March 24, 2011: Today I made the decision that the ’57 will not race this season. I will continue to help prepare Chris’ Chevelle for racing and maintain the database and our racing site, but that will be the extent of my involvement with the racing program this year.
I was very pleased with the 10.602 we ran in 2010 at Pacific Raceways which may be my last time behind the wheel. – Roger Young 
Bang for Buck Not an Issue to Congresswoman Seeking to Defund Army Sponsorship in NASCAR – FoxNews – February 17, 2011
“…Taxpayer-funded NASCAR race cars are an absurdity at a time when the Republican-Tea Party is cutting federal support for homeless veterans, law enforcement officers and firefighters. I know NASCAR fans are passionate and patriotic. This amendment gets the government out of NASCAR and gives them the opportunity to encourage the private sector to demonstrate its patriotism by donating a military sponsorship,’ McCollum said in a release…”
“…Drivers like Dale Earnhardt Jr. and David Stremme and Jeff Gordon have all had sponsorship from the National Guard and Air National Guard. This season, dragster Tony Schumacher will Army sponsorship for his 11th year…”
House Rejects Anti-NASCAR Funding Proposal – FoxNews – Feb 18, 2011
“The House black flagged on Friday a controversial plan to end the Pentagon’s sponsorship of a NASCAR team that was introduced by a Democrat seeking to give Republicans another target for slashing wasteful spending…”
27 Jan 2011: We’ve been a bit busy of late. We have new articles we hope our viewers will enjoy and get more involved in the discussions. Here are a few updates:
1) NHRA has big plans to celebrate its 60th anniversary – read more
2) Sonny Bryant has a new monster motor over 1,000 cubes and producing over 2100 hp – Unreal ! – read more
3) There is much discussion on the various blogs and racing sites about the non-profit status of NHRA being challenged. We’ve attempted to give you the bigger picture with the links we have provided and within the comments. Every member of NHRA should be concerned and we’ll update this section as events unfold! – read more
4) I’ve updated our discussion about memories of Modified Production with two great videos from the ’78 Sportsnationals featuring some heavy hitters from that category & I’ve attempted to educate in the comment section. – read more
Like you, we’re looking forward to Spring and the start of the 2011 race season. Until then come and join us with some bench racing!
Edwards & Young