February 5, 2010

It’s official…..and it’s huge news!!!!

The American Hot Rod Association is extremely pleased to announce that an agreement has been reached to utilize the Eagle Motorplex facility to host an AHRA Reunion Tour event in Western Canada on August 14-15. Eagle Motorplex is a ¼ mile dragstrip that is located in Ashcroft, British Columbia and has been in operation for 23 years.

“ We’re very excited to have the opportunity to include Eagle Motorplex in the Tour for 2010. With major improvements being completed at the facility at this time, it has become an attractive opportunity for us to capture this market and bring Nitro Fuel cars to the area. The track is adding 6000 seats as well as resurfacing the dragstrip,” stated Troy Moe AHRA CEO.

“On behalf of our racers and spectators, we are honored to have our track chosen to host one of the most exciting races in British Columbia for years. The Reunion Tour Event featuring the nitro funny cars has the making to be one of the best events ever to be held at Eagle,” stated Joe Sye Track Manager.

My early misgivings about the AHRA are perhaps put to rest with this announcement. The big question is how will the NHRA react to this announcement. At this point the talk of the cars that will be at this event include, all the sportsman classes, as well as Jet Cars, Pro Mods, Possibly Top Alcohol Dragster and Nostalgia Nitro Funny Cars. Maybe even Nitro Harleys. Whatever the decision is on the Pro Cars this WILL be THE biggest event to ever hit the Eagle Motorplex. The divisionals back in the 80′s and Early 90′s were very good, but this has the potential to blown them out of the water. Make plans to be there!!!!!!

They also have plans to host two or three other AHRA events, one in July, the August race and one in September, called Sportsman Nationals essentially National Open type events.

Here is that info:

AHRA is pleased to announce the first ever organized Sportsmen series in Canada by a sanctioning body. This six race series will be held on an alternate basis between Eagle Motorplex , located in Ashcroft BC and Race City located in Calgary, Alberta. This will be a designated national point series with a “Big Buck” Sportsmen payout, at each race. The following dates will be run at Eagle Motorplex, Ashcroft BC, July 10-11, August 14-15 and September 25-26. The remaining three races will be held at Race City, Calgary, Alberta on June 19-20, August 28-29 and September 11-12.

www.speedzonemagazine.com/

After a two month hiatus the website is back up and operating. You will notice the site itself has changed, there is no forum but you can respond to the posts. If there is a demand for a forum let us know.

A Big Thank You goes out to Miguel Borges for getting the site running again and for hosting our site.  Great Job Miguel ! It looks great.

There are many others to thank including Rob at Data Boy and Kieth at City West for all of  your help.

We would also like to thank Ray Langelle for all of  the work in setting up and running the site in the past.  Thank you Ray!

Without all of your help we could not have this great site.  Motorheads from around the Northwest Thank You.

Now, all we have to do is figure out the site . So bear with us,  all of the newspaper column and photo’s will be added soon.

Ed Evans

Prince Rupert Auto Club

Proposed race dates for 2009

May 23rd/24th Season opener

July 4th/5th Memorial Weekend

August 2nd/3rd Hot August Nites

Aug 29th/30th Season Ender

***Sept 5th-7th Rain dates if needed

The above schedule is tentative and follows our traditional

dates, we will be securing these dates at our 1st

General meeting to be held

TDRA General Meeting

Sunday February 8th

11am-1pm

Bear Country Inn

Make sure to attend to get your 2 bits in and get updated on what’s

in store for the club and Racing for 2009.

Merry Christmas
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Prince Rupert Auto Club

By Molly McNulty – Terrace Standard

Published: October 28, 2008 11:00 PM

DAVE SAUNDERS, a well known drag racer from Kitimat, passed away on
October 7, succumbing to kidney cancer.

Saunders had been racing in the northwest for 33 years with his 1965
Beaumont, the “Purple Pig”.

Saunders raced in the Super Pro Class, Super Street Class, and Super Gas
in the United States, and three different provinces.

For almost 10 years, The Terrace Drag Race Association’s (TDRA) home has
been the Northwest Regional Airport Terrace-Kitimat.

Throughout that time, Saunders and the Purple Pig have been a present
force on the track.

Blake Bedford of the TDRA says that Saunders had been with them since
1994 when the club began.

“We have four a year (races) and he is at every one of them,” says
Bedford. “From what I’ve seen he’s been very competitive his whole
life..and he’s taken home lots of our trophies.”

“He was a seasoned racer,” added Bedford.

It was here in Terrace, August long weekend, that Saunders had his last
race.

On October 11, a procession of drag cars followed his Purple Pig, driven
by his friend Bruce, to his funeral.

In Saunders’ honour, Bedford says that the TDRA will be doing a memorial
plaque. The plaque will have Saunders’ portrait, with a border for
adding the points and winners from each year.

Bedford is in the process of getting it together, starting with this
year’s point winners on the plaque, which will be presented at the year
end banquet on November 1.

Photo:
PROCESSION OF drag cars following the ashes of Dave Saunders in his “Purple Pig”. His good friend Bruce drove his car to Saunders’ funeral on Oct.11. contributed PHOTO”

Attention: Everyone !!!

Tickets are now available for the TDRA’S 2008 year end Bash !! Just $20 bucks !!

Saturday November 1st at the Northern Motor Inn Banquet Room – Doors open at 7pm

Tickets are available from the following people

Blake Bedford 250-615-8547 / Cell 250-635-2130 / Home

I will also have tickets available at my work (Napa-Terrace)

Dennis Moore 250-615-2503 / Cell

250-638-8975 / Home

Tony deMelo 250-638-6898 / Cell

250-635-2650 / Home

Dean Franzmann 250-635-9009 / Home

Steve Richdale 250-632-3126 / Home

Hope to see everyone there !!

Hello Racers

The Last race of the Year is next weekend and we could use some help for Setup.

The Airport now requires us to have “x’s” at both ends of the runway before we can setup our gear.

We will be placing the “x’s” out on Wednesday August 27th @ 7pm, your help would be greatly appreciated.

Our normal setup will be on Thursday August 28th @ 7pm. We will be using the main entrance gate.

The gate will be locked at all times for Setup, so if everyone could show up @ 7pm or earlier, it would be easier.

The extra help would be nice on Wednesday because the “x’s” require 400 sand bags to hold them down.

Thanks

TDRA

Hi everyone,

This is a quick update on the schedule for TDRA‘s Hot August Nites

Saturday August 2nd

TDRA will be participating in the Riverboat Days parade. Anyone interested in putting their cars and having them in the parade with us are asked to contact Blake Bedford at 250-615-8547. Parade is Saturday morning. We will be displaying our guest feature vehicle in the parade brought to you by Astral Media & Terrace Totem Ford’s Fastlane.

TDRA will also be participating in the Riverboat Days Car show hosted by the Skeena Valley Cruiser’s with our feature vehicle, if anyone can display their iron there with us it would be great. Strength in numbers.

Sunday August 3rd

Hot August Nites

Gates open at 8am

Racing starts at 10am

Classes for Sunday will be:

Time trials & qualifying for Quick 8 / Morning

Brackets…Jr/Pro/Super Pro in the afternoon

Feature Vehicle passes / 3 hits

Sunday night will also be our barbeque bash which this year is hosted by our drag race friends from Kitimat. The drag racers from Kitimat have had the torch passed to them this year from last years Prince Rupert Club and will be hosting the barbeque. All racers and anyone in their vehicle will be given wrist bands when they pay at the gate, this will get them their passes for food put on by the Kitimat racer’s. Make sure you get enough passes for your crew/family & friends. This will get underway right after the races at about 6-7pm and then their will be a live band playing at 8pm from Terrace known as “Where’s Billy”. The party will continue on until midnight.

Monday August 4th

Gates open at 8am

Racing starts at 10am

Time trials & Qualifying for the Quick 8 class in the morning

Afternoon will consist of:

King of the YXT

Gamblers

Quick 8

Feature vehicle will make 3 passes

Quick 8 will work as follows:

We will be running both days during time trials to determine who the quickest 8 cars are and offer them an opportunity to buy into a separate class known as Quick 8. It will cost $100.00 above and beyond the regular entry fee to enter the Quick 8. For those 8 cars entered, if you win one round, you win $100.00 (which is basically your entry fee back), we will be splitting up $3000.00 in the Quick 8 field. 1st place will walk away with $1350.00!!!!! We will also be discussing at the driver’s meeting on Monday if we want to run a Standard tree or 4/10th or 5/10th Pro tree for the Quick 8 class. We will also award $200.00 for the Top Qualifier for Quick 8.

We are looking for Mother Nature to work with us this weekend, we have some special cars coming from far away, A barbeque with a great band, & big crowds expected. So please pass the word, let’s make this a success as it has been over the years.

TDRA

For More information: www.bvdra.ca