Motocross Practice At Pacific Raceways

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MX Practice 5-27-15 04927 May 2015 Kent, WA – With the weather getting warmer the urge to get out in it and play hits us all.

The Wednesday night Motocross sessions fit the bill for those that take part in the Friday night series at the track. With small changes that are made each week in the track layout, the rider’s get a chance to practice on it. Now bring out the riders who just want to come out and ride just because it’s fun and it gives you a good workout in the process.

Need some mid-week workout that is not in a gym, come get some fresh air and sweat when you are done with it. See the Motocross tab on the new Pacific web site layout for a date that works for you.

Images from the practice are now available – click here to go to the photo album.

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Memorial Day Final of 35th Annual John A. Forespring Memorial Races

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35th Annual John A. Forespring Memorial Races 5-25-15 31425 May 2015 Kent, WA – With now two full days of racing in the books the focus now goes to the next track. Packing up is always tough as you know the weekend is over and the process of getting ready is somewhat taken over with the fact that you can unwind and catch your breath. This is mostly true for the corner workers along with all those connected with safety, and those workers behind the scenes that put it all together.  They all did a great job as I see a lot of it through the camera lens.

A list of the winners as they came off the track are as follows. They all know their class so forgive me for omitting them.

Paul Whiting, Lance Stewart, Pratt Cole, Patrick Byrne, Todd Harris, Michele Abbate, Eric Boucher, Marco Gallaher, Jess Heitman, Kale Swifts, Lansing Stout Jr., Lans Stout, Parker Johnstone, Scotty B. White, Rick Payne, Brian McCarthy, Gary Hickman, Jeff Lederman, Michael Ottis, Edward Lever, Erich W. Joiner, Marc Hoover, Collin Jackson, Roger Stark, Russ Peterson.

This final album of the weekend caps three albums worth of photographs. Please take a look, and thank you for your support and purchases. Click here to go to Monday’s Photos. The other albums also have links in other posts below.

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Vintage Motocross Races At Pacific Raceways

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MX Vintage Race 5-23-15 07923 May 2015 Kent, WA – The Vintage Motocross race held on this day is the same day as the SCCA event on Pacific’s road layout. This gave me only about an hour at the end of the day to capture what I could of the motos that remained.

It was good seeing and hearing the old bikes, one of the riders was participating at the age of 85. Yes that’s right 85 years young and having the time of his life doing it. Can only hope the timing next time will favor more time to cover the MX races.

Images are now available of the bikes – click here to go to the photo album.

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35th Annual “John A. Forespring” Memorial Races

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35th Annual John A. Forespring Memorial Races 5-23-15 45423 May 2015 Kent, WA – Every Memorial Day weekend the SCCA racers and the legion of workers that man the corners, the clocks and pits and so on come to Pacific Raceways. The amount of people it takes to put on a weekend of racing is quite amazing.

8:00am sharp: All the workers gather for the days layout of what they corner they will be “cornering”. They all get a radio and log book, listen to the last minute instructions, and off the go to grab some munchies or more coffee and be ready by 9:00am for a combined day of practice and qualifying.

The two days of racing ahead is really only affected by Mother Nature, and here in the Northwest it can change rapidly so everyone prepares accordingly.  A famous Boy Scout motto that really has to be thought of in the spring here.

Images of today’s memorial race are now available – click here to go to the album. Thanks again for your support and purchases.

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SCCA Practice At Pacific Raceways

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SCCA Practice 5-22-15 65722 May 2015 Kent, WA – Prior to the weekend of SCCA racing at Pacific Raceways, the drivers came out today to test and tune. Like any other motorsport, things change, due to upgrades made or even a new car to race.

All of these reasons are good enough to check things out, safety first then comes the fun in just driving around the track. This fact alone has the making of some fine racing for this weekend. Come on out – it is a holiday weekend after all. See you there.

Images From today’s practice are now available – click here to go to the photo album.

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Cantrell Motorsports At Pacific Raceways

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Cantrell Motorsports at Pacific Raceways 5-20-15 46621 May 2015 Kent, WA – As the trailers of cars pulled into the paddock area for Cantrell Motorsports first appearance at Pacific Raceways for a day of lapping around the legendary 2.25 mike track you could see the excitement in Colin’s face.  One must know he was deep in thought of all the little things that it takes to pull off an event like this.

With all the cars unloaded and lined up in front of the trailer at the starting line but prior to the 9:00am starting time, last minute preps were done. The cars were cut loose into two separate groups for thirty minute sessions, and the lapping carried on till it was time for a lunch break.  It was a little sluggish after a good lunch, but the drivers soon got back into their groove and were back to the lap times from before lunch.

The lapping groups carried on thru the afternoon and into the early evening, and after a short break at 5:00pm for the corner workers to catch their breath the action continued until 8:30pm. It was long day for sure but a very good day for Cantrell Motorsports and their first time at Pacific Raceways. We’re all looking forward to the next time.

Lots of images from several vantage points are now available – click here to go to the photo album

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ProFormance Racing School – May 21st, 2015

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ProFormance Racing School 5-21-15 16421 May 2015 Kent, WA – ProFormance Racing School will forever be ingrained in one young man.   He has been waiting for his Christmas present to be opened.  This was it, a day of driving instruction from his parents and with two hands on his cheeks you could not wipe the smile away.

This young man was just one of the five men and one woman to go through the day long classroom and driving instruction. All at the end of the day were zipping around the track at a pretty good pace for first time drivers, just a testament to the quality and complete instruction ProFormance offers. Got a new ride and want to drive?  Then check out the dates on the new Pacific web page.

Images from all the action on the track today are now available – click here to go to the photo album.

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IRDC Race Day At Pacific Raceways

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IRDC Race Day 5-17-15 51917 May 2015 Kent, WA – Race day is here and people are up early. Some have a race weekend ritual that they go thru no matter what track they are at and some just go with the flow. Either way when race day comes everyone gets an anxious pang to get going. With a count of entries nearing 180 cars that makes for a full day of racing, and one group totaled over 40 cars.

There was some great pack racing with only inches separating the cars from each other – unlike other forms of racing where there might be some bump drafting, it is not really condoned here. It is good to be an aggressive driver, but not at the expense of your competitor. Watching the action has me looking to the end of July when IRDC will be back at Pacific Raceways, see you then.

Over 800 images today – from quite a few different vantage points, so take a look, and again thank you for your purchases and support!

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IRDC Qualifying At Pacific Raceways

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IRDC Qualifing 5-16-15 76816 May 2015 Kent, WA – As the paddock full of racers awoke to overcast skies above the thought of rain was on the minds of the racers and their setup for the day of IDRC qualifying here at Pacific Raceways. You want to get the best times you can and the rain or wet surface will cut that down and the setup you planned for qualifying.

Practice the day before gave the racers a good base line to go off of and no one likes change in the middle of the game plan, but the ability to adapt makes for a better racer and team thus setting you up for a better position to start up front of the pack, that’s Qualifying.

After a fine lunch served up by Bigfood Concessions and an afternoon of more qualifying Bigfoods was at again – hot and heavy putting together a selection for end of the day that would rival any concession food around. This the treat for the workers who for the labor of love that they put out doing what they do to run the race as smooth as possible.

Spotted in the pre-grid was Don Kitch owner of the onsite ProFormance Racing School – lending his driving skills for a one hour endurance race dedicated to Ron Johnson, a fitting way to end the day.

Qualifying Images are now available – click the link to go there. Thank you for your support and purchases!

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