Capitol Racing Along with the Assistance from a Host of Others Have Helped People in Need Throughout the Mid-Valley
Community events have become a cornerstone of Capitol Racing. Besides individual car displays, Capitol Racing's Rich Bailey in partnership with Jim Billings, Mike Adams and Lee Morgan promote two major car shows a year. All of the profits from our outdoor show, the Night of Fire and our indoor show, the Winter Rod and Speed Show goes to people in the community with cancer and other diseases that are catistrofic and require a lot of financial needs. If a person is not chosen the money goes to a community program. Check back here for future car show dates.

The Night of Fire

The Night of Fire is our signiture event and happen every summer in the parking lot of the Salem Evanglical Event Center parking lot on Liberty Street across from the North Salem Applebees. Our shows are unique as they have a drag racing theme that includes dragster fire ups and at the end of the night a jet car fire show. We usually attract over 100 of Salem's nicest cruisers.

It's truly an incredible show that has grown to become one of Salem's marquee summer events. The events started out very informal and never very well organized although every event has been a big hit and have gone over well with the cooperation of the city of Salem.

The Night of Fire is a family oriented event and includes such attractions as "Crater" the mascot from the Volcanoes baseball team, a dunk tank, a jump tent from Funland Inflatables, a 30 foot tall rock climbing wall from the National Guard, a clown, a mobile studio doing live remotes and even some of those LA-style sadans that are lowered and jump up using hydraulics which generated a lot of interest. We also have some short on-the-spot auctions which kept things pretty lively.

The Winter Rod and Speed Show

The Winter Rod and Speed Show is an indoor show we added last year when Capitol Racing crew chief had a stroke an money was needed to help pay his morgage. The event was such a hit that we did the show again in 2009. This year's show attracted over 100 cars and over 3,500 spectators for the one day show.

Community Involvement:

Capitol Auto Group Racing is affiliated with the following organizations: Race Against Drugs, Racers For Christ and the Crew for a Day program. Crew for a Day is our own program where we invite children with cancer and other serious illnesses to be a guest at one of our races. While at the track with their families, we introduce the kids of the other drivers and can provide them indoor seating in a hospitality room if necessary. We want to credit Woodburn Dragstrip for being a partner in this important program. Without their support, this program wouldn't be possible. If you know of a child with a serious illness in Oregon or Southwest Washington that would like to be a guest on our team for a day, email us at capitolracing@hotmail.com



To Book the race car for an event:

Community involvement is a big part of Capitol Auto Group Racing. Each year, we do numerous visits to schools, scouting events, cruise-ins, and fairs. If you live in Oregon or Southwest Washington and would like to book the Capitol car for your event, shoot us an e-mail at capitolracing@hotmail.com. While we try to do as many events as our calendar and work schedule will allow, sometimes other considerations prohibits us from agreeing to do an event. We don't normally charge a fee to display the car, but we may request a small fee to cover traveling costs depending on the location of the event.