Ed Evans

‘Bike Wars’ ran last Saturday with great weather, great racing and lots of bikes. With the bike count almost totaling the car count, every kind of bike ran, from dirt bikes to full on drag bikes.

Harley-Davidson of Smithers, the major sponsor of the weekend, brought out it’s full sales team and looked like they brought the whole store down, as there was a tent full of great product to browse through. If you had a bike license you could even take one of the many bikes on display out for a test run.

On Saturday, bracket racing classes ran and the feature
bike Jeff Knowles and his Nitro Harley from Prince
George made runs.
Knowles made some large smoky burnouts. After a good
launch, the Top fuel Harley seemed to loose power at
the top end of the 1/8 mile track and ran some numbers
that it is capable of running in the ¼ mile.
Sunday, Knowles only made one pass and suffered an
explosion at the top end of the track, that forced him
to put the bike away. Knowles said he will come back
next year and make some 4 second passes.
Sunday was ' King of the YXT' and the much awaited
 'Quick 8 for Bike's'. Racing everything from street
bikes to drag bikes to dirt bikes, the fastest two bikes
were Kitimat's Ian Berrissford and Prince Ruperts
Lloyd Etzerza.
The former rivals have not seen the track for a few
years. Etzerza not having climbed on his bike since
the  Prince Rupert Auto Club's 2005 '150 foot challenge'.
Berrisford had also made his first runs in a few years,
when he ran his drag bike in the First Annual 'Dave
Saunders Memorial Hill Climb' in Kitimat, earlier this year.
Paired against each other in the quarterfinals Berrissford
put Etzerza on the trailer and went into the finals, where
he lost to John Safonoff, who outlasted all the rest to win
the first ever 'Quick 8 for bikes' . 
	Saturday Winners
'Super Pro'
1 Chris Bie 
2 Paul Amado
3 Bruce Daum
'Pro'
1  Pierre Amado
2  Steve Burkett
3  Ben Munro
'Bikes and Sleds'
1  Jeff Barnett
2 Shawn Enmark
3 John Safonoff 
'Jr. Dragster'
1  Brianna Ray
2  Tanner Daum

 	Sunday Winners
'King of the YXT' - Dallas Wiebe
'Jr. Dragsters' -  Alaina Archibald
'Quick 8 for Bike's' - John Safonoff
'Gamblers' - Jamie Matos

Racing is back again this weekend as the track was
 left up for a scheduled 'rain-out day' to replace the
points series race in June.
The year long points series will wrap up this weekend
with winners for each class.
Chris Bie is in first place in 'Super Pro' class putting
him 42 points in front of Paul Amado, in second place
in the standings with170 points. Amado and three
others have a chance to beat Bie for first place.
Ben Monroe holds down first place in the close 'Pro'
class at 198 points. Chasing him down this weekend
will be no less than 17 cars, all of whom could take
home the championship on Sunday.
 This Saturday, September 5th, will be 'King of the YXT'
and 'Gamblers' and Sunday, September 6th  will be the
Point Series finals in Bracket Racing at the Terrace
regional airport.
Websites: www.terracedrags.ca and wwwprautoclub.com
Photo:  
Jeff Knowles and his Nitro Harley from Prince George
made some noisy, smoky burnouts at the 'Bike Wars'
at the terrace regional airport last weekend
						Ed Evans Photo