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TDRA Class Breakdown

Redflash — Tue, 08 May 2012 00:05:49 +0000

Just an update on the classes breakdown for 2012

starting with this upcoming weekends Season Opener.

We will be running the following classes with the changes

to the ET classes being effected in Sportsman & Pro.

Bike/Sled

Sportsman – 8.60 & slower

Pro – 7.36 to 8.59

Super Pro – 7.35 & quicker

Box allowed in all classes

Look forward to seeing everyone at the first drag races of the year.

Please pass the word on that we are racing May 12th & 13th.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Redflash — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:46:27 +0000

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

From Your Friends at The Prince Rupert Auto Club

Jet cars coming for Hot August Nites

Redflash — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:35:02 +0000

Belching smoke and flames Kevin Therres and his Bio-diesel Pickup at the 2009 “Hot August Nites”

Photo Ed Evans

By Ed Evans

The Northern View

July 27,2011

Get ready for the Drag racing event of the Season at the Terrace Regional Airport this weekend, as Hot August Nites, part of the Terrace Riverboat Day’s weekend, burns up the track Sunday July 31st and Monday August 1st.

The Terrace Drag Racing Association always brings in fast cars for this event and this year is no exception. Kevin Therres and his team at Prairieland Motorsports in Humboldt Saskatchewan will heat up the track with not one but two Jet funny cars. You might remember Therres first visit to the Terrace track in 2009, He brought his new Pickup Jet truck and made some blistering passes down the track, 4,463 seconds at 182.93 MPH. Super fast, but not quite fast enough to break the track record of 4.08 seconds set by Gary Ormesby Jr. in a top alcohol rail in 2007. Therres’s new Pickup was destroyed two weekends later in a spectacular crash in Calgary.
That track record might fall this weekend however, as an engine from a F5 fighter jet from the Canadian Forces was installed in the new car. Now, after a year of building, the 2006 Mustang Jet Funny car, Prairieland Motorsports has set its sights on going faster and quicker than ever before. They estimate this car will be able to go 270 mph in 5.9 seconds in a quarter-mile, which is 15 to 16 miles per hour faster than their other cars.

Also included this weekend is the MacCarthy Motors “Quick 8”, which will feature the fastest 8 cars as they race down the Terrace 1/8 mile track.

Don’t miss the Jet cars at the airport as they belch smoke and flame. The Bio-diesel powered jet vehicles will make your heart stop with every throttle pop. Time Trials start at 10 am, with eliminations both days starting after the lunch break.

So this is a great weekend for motor heads as the Skeena Valley Cruizers hold their annual Show and Shine from Noon to 4pm Saturday at the Terrace arena. Besides all of the beautiful cars there will be valve cover races for the kids.

For more information check out the websites: www.terracedrags.ca , www.skeenavalleycruizers.com , or www.prautoclub.com.

Tentative 2011 TDRA Schedule

Redflash — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:40:03 +0000

OK Guys,

Here’s some dates for the 2011 season that
we wanted to throw out at you for some feedback!

May 28/29
June 25/26
July 31/ Aug 1 (Hot Aug Nites)
Aug 27/28 (Bike Wars)
Sept 3/4 (Rain Out)

Thanks
Chris

Hot August Nites photo’s

Redflash — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 06:03:03 +0000

We are experiencing download problems photo’s should be up tomorrow

Driving in the rain

Redflash — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:28:44 +0000

Subject:: Driving in the rain . .This may save your life

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GOOD VISION IN
A
DOWNPOUR

How to achieve good vision while driving during a heavy
downpour.

We are not sure why it
is so effective; just
try this method when it rains
heavily.
This method was told by a Police
friend who had experienced and confirmed it.

It is useful…even
driving at night.
Most of the motorists would turn on HIGH or FASTEST SPEED
of the wipers during heavy downpour, yet the visibility in
front of the
windshield is still bad……

In the event you face such a situation,
just try your SUN GLASSES (any model will do), and miracle!
All of a sudden,
your visibility in front of your
windshield is perfectly clear, as if
there is no rain.

Make sure you always
have a pair of SUN GLASSES
in your car, as you are not only helping yourself to drive
safely with good
vision, but also might save your friend’s life by
giving him this
idea..

Try it yourself and share it with your friends!???
Amazing,
you still see
the drops on the windshield, but not the sheet of rain
falling.?

You can see where the rain bounces off the road.? It
works to eliminate the “blindness” from passing
semi’s spraying you
too.?

Or the “kickup” if you are following a semi or
car in the rain.?
They ought to teach that little tip in driver’s
training.. It really does work.

This warning is a good one!

I wonder how many people know about this
~

A 36 year old female had an accident several weeks ago and
totaled her car.

A resident of Kilgore , Texas she was traveling
between
Gladewater & Kilgore. It was raining, though not
excessively, when her car
suddenly began to hydro-plane and literally flew through
the air. She was
not seriously injured but very stunned at the sudden
occurrence!

When she explained to the highway patrolman what had happened he
told her something that every driver should know – NEVER DRIVE IN THE RAIN WITH
YOUR CRUISE CONTROL ON. She thought she was being cautious by
setting the cruise control and maintaining a safe consistent speed in the rain..

But the highway patrolman told her that if the cruise control is on when
your car begins to hydro-plane and your tires lose contact with the pavement,
your car will accelerate to a higher rate of speed making you take off
like an airplane. She told the patrolman that was exactly what had occurred.

The patrolman said this warning should be listed, on the driver’s seat
sun-visor – NEVER USETHE CRUISE CONTROL WHEN
THE PAVEMENT IS WET OR ICY, along
with the airbag
warning. We tell our teenagers to set the cruise control
and drive a safe speed – but we don’t tell them to use the cruise
control only when the pavement is dry.

The only person the accident victim found, who knew this
(besides the patrolman), was a man who had a similar accident, totaled
his car and sustained severe injuries.

NOTE: Some vehicles (like the Toyota Sienna
Limited XLE) will not allow you to set the cruise control
when the windshield wipers are on. If you send this to 15 people and only one
of them doesn’t know about this, then it was all worth it.

You might have saved a life.

Quick 8 vol.5

Redflash — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:52:53 +0000

Nice burnout !