2005 Drag Racing season is here!

Monday April 11, 2005
The 2005 drag racing season at Mission Raceway Park opened this past Friday night for the first of 18 scheduled Mopac Performance street legal events. A great field of nearly 200 cars, trucks and motorcycles were on hand with Troy Pike's 1966 Chev running low elapsed time of the night with a 10.312/130mph just slightly quicker than motorcycle rider Leigh Gallant's 10.32 at 140.77.

Of the twelve Outlaw cars on hand the best numbers after Dike were, Nathan Hansford's '82 Mustang with a 10.49 at 131, Steve Nicholson at 10.72 at 122, and the Buick GN of Clayton Crofton with a 10.80 at 125.

A total of 71 Domestic cars were lead by Rob Rempel whose S10 laid down a 10.526/133.68 followed by Jones Soto's 1985 Mustang at 11.27.

A great group of 94 Sport Compacts were out with four running in the twelve second zone including the sleeper 1974 240Z Datsun of Mike Boles with a 12.09/115, George Khoury in a '95 Lancer at 12.19/116, Douglas Suen's '99 Civic 12.82 at 108 while the 2004 Mopar SRT4 of Bron Palko managed a 12.99 at 107.

Thanks to Tom Posthma who stayed until the final run at 11:00 p.m then sent these results in, and for more got to horsepowerheaven.com for a number of Friday night photos.

We'll see you all again next Friday, April 15 for the second Mopac Friday night race followed Saturday and Sunday April 16 & 17 for our first Summit ET Bracket Series race of the season sponsored by Automotive Training Centres featuring the 'Team on a Mission' Gold Card race Saturday, the National Dragster Challenge race Sunday along with a full field of Super Pro, Pro, Sportsman and Motorcycle racers as well as the first appearance of the new Northwest Hot Rod Diesel Association, the Hot Rod class and the wild wheelstanding Vancouver Community College Stock/Super Stock Combo cars.