To most people the weekend is a couple days long. In Pacific’s case that can add a few day’s to the “weekend”. April 18 through April 21 at the “Spring Fair” at the Puyallup Fairgrounds started the weekend off. Entering into the Auto Alley Expo Hall the first display you see is the “Pink’s” winner Dave Wakefield’s blue Chevelle. Walking clockwise around the hall display’s by ProFormance Racing School, a trio of Jr. Dragsters, the pair of championship winning bike’s of Joe Lind.
In the same display area a father/son team of Funderburg Racing. MX race bike’s including a new YZ450 on display by Lance Smail, Pacific’s MX manager gives you an idea of just a brief look at some of the class bikes that navigate the track. The display by PGP Motorsports Park took you to the Pacific Raceways table full of info and answers.
Office personal Taffi and Malissa had it covered this day. Bracketstars fine showing rounded out just the outside of the “Alley”. The center area had a steller mix of NHRA runners, a Nostalgia player and ET series racer’s. Add in a NASCAR simulator and a few original Pace Cars from the LeMay collection, a diverse picture shows itself of what the raceway provides. That was Thursday.
Back at the track Friday brought in club roadcourse action for BMW. Many of the local car clubs can be found using the track through out the week. Lost Mines Safety Team covering the turn station’s and Race Rescue on hand just in case take care of “safety” on track.
High Performance Sport Driving Day has Saturday covered. With the affore mentioned track safety in place and “school” and oversite by ProFormance Racing School, it is a 9 to 5 lap after lap of teaching and learning.
With SpeedFactory presenting the Honda Tech Meet more than 1500 cars from all over the Northwest filled the upper and lower paddock’s on Sunday. This “annual” event brings the Honda dragracer’s to the well prepped dragstrip.
SpeedFactory’s world-record holding team laid down a respectful 8.36sec. at 184.55mph. These mistro’s of everything fast on a Honda can be found at their University Place Shop. More info at www.speedfactoryracing.net. In the mix of Honda racers, Mitch Chamberlin’s “Rodfather” a ‘AA’ Supercharged 51 Chevy made “shakedown” passes. Mother nature ended the dragracing with a downpour that scattered racers and spectators running for cover.
Not worried about a “dry” surface to run on the MX track also held practice on this Sunday. 9 to 5 practice gave the riders a good varity of surface conditions. MX racers in the Northwest do race in all weather conditions. Rain or shine they do fly.
The offsite event at the fair withstanding a ‘normal’ weekend like this takes place on the property most all weekends.
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