Finally We've Gone Back To Seattle!

After a long 5 year absence from the Seattle NHRA Northwest Nationals, now called the Schucks NHRA Nationals my wife and I finally returned to the spot where we got hitched! Right down on the starting line. See my personal geocities page for pics. You can imagine how excited I was too get back to the track and not just any track, a professionally run NHRA event track.

I couldn't wait to board the plane Fri morning from Calgary. The wait in the airport was agonizing as I knew we would be a little late for the start of the race as we wouldn't be arriving at the track til around noon after we got our rental car and checked into our hotel. Everything was going to plan until we landed at Seattle airport. It was raining and raining hard! Now I'm worried but know that the start of the race has likely been postponed for a few hours so maybe that bought us some time. After we get our car check into the hotel we are off to the track, finally!

When we got there no one was moving too fast as the track was super soaked and they had sucker trucks pumping water out of pit areas and souvenir trailer areas. Oh well time to do a little shopping for driver apparell and get my National Dragster membership renewed. Maybe get a few autographs and more pics.

Hey take a look at the new grandstand that was added a few years ago, a liitle wet to be seated though.


I'm feeling a little fat these days so we can get lots of exercise walking through Nitro Alley a million times.

The day is not looking too well for racing but being the hard core race fans that we are we are hoping for tech best! After all have been through this before and seen them run. Ok get the jet dryers out already! Finally late that day we talk to a member of the Budweiser racing team and tells us that the race has been called for the day. So now they are down to two qualifying sessions on Saturday for Sundays eliminations. Oh well back to the hotel for dinner at the new bar down the road and a hot tub later on.

But check out some more pics of some of the nostalga cars, one of which was the original Ed the Ace McCulloch's dragster from the early days of drag racing.

Hey check out who sponsors Clay Millican's New ride!