I have posted a preview of the Northwest Tour’s portion of Saturday’s Washington 500, the Evergreen State Fair 150. You can read it here (CLICK HERE).
Wait, let’s be completely correct here. It is the American Speed Association Aero Exhaust Northwest Tour presented by ECHO Outdoor Power Equipment.
Whew — that’s a mouthful. Or I guess, while I’m typing it, a finger-full.
Anyway.
I’m not sure I’ll get to a preview for Evergreen Speedway’s Super Stock and Bomber division races. I was unexpectedly called in to my regular part-time job as a copy editor at this here fine paper (and don’t you hate it when that happens?), so let me pass some information that I received from Evergreen.
— The NASCAR Camping World Series West race is called the Toyota/Concept Race Cars and Parts 150. There will be a competition yellow at the 75-lap mark for fuel and tires. This effectively makes for two equal races, which should dramatically improve on the racing over last year, when just three cars were on the lead lap at the end of the 300 laps.
— The NASCAR Whelen All-American Series Speedway Chevrolet Super Stocks (whew! another finger-burner) will race in the N.C. Machinery 150. Terry Buell at the speedway told me today there would be no competition yellow for this race.
The top five in the race for the track and NASCAR Washington state championship are: current points leader Naima Lang, defending champion John Zaretzke, Mike Holden, Jeff Knight and rookie James Mugge.
— The NASCAR Whelen All-American Series Les Schwab Tires Bombers will open the show at 5 p.m. with a 50-lap points race — just the second time ever this division has raced on the big five-eighths mile oval.
Kevin Green, NASCAR Camping World Series West Public Relations guru, invited me to a media luncheon on Friday with drivers Jim Warn and Jeff Jefferson, and former NASCAR driver Chad Little, a 3-time winner of the West race at Evergreen Speedway and current director of the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour.
Should be a lot of fun. I worked with Kevin last year for the 500, and he made me tired watching him. The man is in constant motion, answering questions, chasing down information, taking phone calls, etc. He also made sure I got to talk to everyone I wanted to, and he went out of his way to see that the three reporters there had what we needed story-wise.
I’m told “other” newspapers and/or media outlets from our area will also be represented at the luncheon, so it should be interesting trading notes.
If you have any questions you’d like to get an answer on, drop me an email and I’ll work them into the conversation.
Personally, I’m thinking about asking Jeff Jefferson what he was thinking about while his car was in the air at Infineon. (I’ve posted it once, so if you want to see it again go to YouTube.com and search for “Jeff Jefferson flip”).
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