Lucas Oil NHRA Canadian National Open &
Street Car Shootout
July 14, 15, 16, 2006
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Top Fuel Harley
W - Ron Houneit .068/7.45/208.18 A wild,
close final after the Champ sets new track record
at 6.49
RU - John Breckenridge .086/7.872/148.53
IBHA 7.50 Pro Nostalgia Funny Cars
W - Jay Mageau .112/7.538/182.40 '57
Chevy wins as these racers put on a great
show!
RU - Tony Kupris .117/7.661/131.65
Top Alcohol Dragster
W - Trevor Lowe .114/6.209/228.54 Three consecutive
6.20s puts popular local Pro Mod in the winners'
circle!
RU - John Evanchuck .348/6.617/150.47
Top Alcohol Funny Car
n/a
AA/FA
Dave Benjamin 6.157/231.18 & 6.143/232.79
The Marysville WA veteren said this was his
last nitro ride.
Top Comp
W - Joe Mura .016/7.501/177.37 The second
year in-a-row Mura has won this race.
RU - Dave Jackson -.014/7.588/176.47
Stock/Super Stock Combo
W - Rick Pike .029/11.322/116.26 A great
turnout of 31 cars in Combo
RU - Rick McKinney .046/10.700/122.46
Pro Street
W - Jay Syvertsen .122/6.724/209.20 Takes
NW speed record at 210 & wins a GREAT final!
RU - Rash Dhaliwal .056/6.843/207.94 Runs
personal best 6.72 earlier
Real Street
W - Greg Henschell .256/9.353/146.00 Two
wins in two years for Mustang driver
RU - Keith Vahle .341/9.518/141.08
Super Comp
W - Michael Peck Jr. .013/8.927/162.13 That's
number 17 for Woodinville Wa driver's Wally
shelf!
RU - Mark Johnson .008/8.940/165.80
Super Gas
W - Mike Shannon .018/9.905/154.45 Shannon
also won BOTH Ashcroft races! 3 Wallys
in 3 days!
RU - Marv Wiebe .019/9.872/150.62
Super Street
W - Ron McKenzie .036/10.918/129.94 Super
Pro points leader is off to Seattle in fine
form.
RU - Dan Parsons .050/10.914/125.92
Bike/Sled
W - Anita Cunningham!!! .056/9.278/140.07 Fresh
off her big win at Woodburn, Wonder Woman rules!
RU - Al Omond .143/8.737/152.77
Super Pro
W - Larry Miner .022/9.603/130.28 Sedro Wooley
driver makes big moves up in S/P points
RU - Fred Hoffman .041/10.908/129.85
Pro ET
W - Chris Stone .136/10.389/125.92 BCCCA
member's first Wally!
RU - Bill Mitchell .014/11.284/116.11
Sportsman
W - Steve Adams .086/15.055/90.27 Another
Wally in '06 at MRP for the Seatac wagon
RU - Rob McDonald -.047/13.151/100.48
Junior Lightening
W - Kirtsa Kooker .143/9.089/77.08 New ride
for '06 takes a big win here
RU - Craig Olynyk .737/9.186/68.98
Junior Thunder
W - Kaetlyn Rice .130/14.767/42.39 Div 7
DD family makes trip north a winning one!
RU - Rachel Lowe .096/11.072/54.89
The Northwest Stock/Superstock Association
is pleased to announce that again this year
they are in a position to offer a $500 CDN bonus
for the winner and runner-up of the Stock/Superstock
Combo Class at the Mission National Open. The
payout of $300 for first and $200 for second
is contingent on NWSS and Vancouver Community
College decals being displayed on the cars.
See Jim or Marilyn Isherwood to obtain your
decals
Fuel Altereds Highlight NHRA National Open
at Mission
Mission, B.C., July 11, 2006 Its
become a mid-summer tradition at Mission Raceway
Park, and the NHRA National Open Presented by
Lucas Oil Products of Canada this weekend will
have something for every taste in drag racing.
Heading up the program is the return to Mission
of the nitro-fuelled AA/Fuel Altereds, vintage
race cars with their roots in the 1960s. Based
on a chassis with a very short wheelbase and
high centre of gravity, and with a Ford Model
T or similar old body style, these cars are
inherently difficult to drive. Add a fire-breathing
3,000-horsepower Chrysler hemi engine to them,
and stand back! Their antics, as they wheelstand
and slide around barely on the edge of control,
are the stuff of drag racing legend.
Also snorting nitro fuel are the fastest motorcycles
in the world, and ten Nitro Harleys will be
on hand to scorch the Mission quarter-mile at
200 mph in six seconds, if you can imagine that
level of daring.
Coming from Alberta are eight of the wildly
popular nostalgia Funny Cars of the International
Blown Alcohol Association, laying down side-by-side
burnouts and seven-second runs.
Western Canada is a hotbed for the modern
alcohol-fueled dragsters and funny cars, and
many of B.C. and Albertas fastest cars
will be on hand in a unique racing format that
will see the quickest of each type of car face
off for all the prize money and a coveted NHRA
Wally trophy on Sunday afternoon.
Those wanting a sneak preview of the action
can come down to the B.C. Lions Street Party
on Beatty St. at the Terry Fox Plaza in Vancouver,
just before the B.C. Lions game Friday night,
where the famous Nanook Fuel Altered
will be on display at the Mission Raceway Park
booth, and fired up at 7:00 pm, just to give
you a little dose of nitro thunder. Discount
coupons for a free Pit Pass to the race will
be available.
Itll be an action-packed weekend, with
something for every racing fan. Gates open Saturday
and Sunday at 8:00 am. The Fuel Altereds run
four times over the weekend at 2:00 and
9:00 pm on Saturday, and at noon and 4:00 pm
Sunday. Note that the racing program extends
into the evening Saturday, so that fans can
watch the nitro-powered Fuel Altereds after
dusk, when the flames can be seen shooting out
of their exhausts.
The Alcohol Dragsters and Funny Cars have
qualifying sessions at 4:00 and 8:00 pm Saturday,
and their first round of eliminations goes Sunday
at noon along with all the other classes.
Admission on either Saturday or Sunday is
$20.00, plus $5.00 for pit pass. Children under
12 are free with an adult.