Another reason Pacific Raceways is a joke

[Harry 6674]

The skuttle but I'm hearing is that next year the Divisional and National events will be the only drag racing at Pacific. The road course will take up the slack? Must be a different bunch running that part of the track. Also I hear that Buckey Austin and Jay Livingston are going to take over operations of Spokane Raceway Park. Hope they can get that up and running again to give us another track in Div. 6. I have faith in Jay to be racer friendly.

[Dave Noll]

Well, you can follow some of your fellow seattle competitors 160 miles east to the track that "WJ" called that ugly track in yakima, but in yakima's defense WJ adjusted to a 1.01 60 foot & the track was voted most improved in div. 6 somewhere in the 90's. I've always liked Pacific for the facilities, track prep, the tree's & I grew up in Maple Valley. I came away from there once with a $400.00 check but that was @ a bracket finals. I was there for a night race once that hit a delay and I remember hearing some yelling & then a single car went down the MIDDLE of the track, race over.

Here is a recent link about Bucky & Spokane.
http://www.spokanemotorsportspark.co...austin-racing/

[Geerhead55]

Rory is right,,,sadly the best days of this track are far back in the past. The 2 weekends when the NHRA is in town, (divisionals and nationals) are decent because those events are run by other crews, with help from some of the regular people who are not all at fault. The last time I had my car there was at the ET Finals in 05',, speaking of ET Finals,,,,, congratulations on your win Steve,,, take that Camaro all the way to the winners circle in Pomona, okay? Danny Durham

[bobby]

Originally Posted by Casey Miles

Pinks All out is supposed to be there, funny if everyone went to the gate and didn't enter! Another venue for the owners of Pacific Raceway to screw the racers. Someone should let the Pinks people know what the track is all about and maybe the Pinks All Out will pull the plug on that track.

Date Track Marketplace
Nov. 15 ('08) Montgomery Motorsports Park (Montgomery, Ala.)
Feb. 28 No Problem Raceway (Belle Rose, La.)
March 21 Texas Motorplex (Ennis, Texas)
April 25 zMax Dragway (Concord, N.C.)
May 9 Memphis Motorsports Park (Millington, Tenn.)
May 30 O'Reilly Raceway Park (Clermont, Ind.)
June 20 Maryland International Raceway (Budds Creek, Md.)
July 11 U.S. 131 Motorsports Park (Martin, Mich.)
Aug. 15 Pacific Raceways (Kent, Wash.)
Sept. 12 Auto Club Famoso Raceway (Bakersfield, Calif.)

Casey Miles
248H E/S because of 4 HP

I heard from my local track that Pinks charges the track $75,000, that's right 75 thousand dollars to use the track. That's why Pinks is not back at Houston Raceway Park this year.

[herbjr]

Yea but they put 16000 ppl in there. If it rains your screwed as a track operator.

herb jr

[Dave Goob Cook]

There are no victims at a bracket race, only volunteers.

Sounds like y'all need to plunk down 10-15 Million and operate your own dragstrip.

[bobby]

Yea, but I am not going to pay someone to use my racetrack. That would be like you to pay someone to race your car for you. Without getting any of the winnings.

[Bob Pagano]

16000 x $20 a head = $320000 -$75000 = $245000 profit and that dont count hot dogs and drinks!

[savoyracer]

Originally Posted by Bob Pagano

16000 x $20 a head = $320000 -$75000 = $245000 profit and that dont count hot dogs and drinks!

.........wish my business was so simple,AND profitable, with that much money flowing into the coffers, I am surprised that we don't have racetracks springing up all across the country......Need to change the color of my sunglasses, from brown to rose??

[Bob Berleen]

we reduced our runs at pacific as well i went to a test n tune before the natonals and after 6 hrs we only got two hits , we used to get 4-6 a night .
the tech guys had never seen the car and my eti was expired,they just picked up the tech card and never looked at the car. very sad to see a great track run into the ground by poor managment