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Nitro Summer Fest Canceled
The Nitro Summerfest to have been held next weekend at Champion Raceway in Medford has been canceled according to the track's web site. No reason was given for the sudden cancelation.
Capitol Car Show this Saturday
Capitol Auto Group will be hosting a car show arranged by the Obsolete Fleet this Saturday from 10 AM to 3PM. The Capitol Dragster will be there and there might be a little bit of thunder action too. Everyone is welcome! Time flies as it doesn't seem like it's already been a year since last year's show.
Hats Off to Ashwell Racing
Ashwell Racing has had a great year so far in 2010 as they were runner-up at the NHRA Woodburn Lucas Series event and they are keeping parts breakage to a minimum. They are one of our best customers as ProMotion Motorsports designed the scheme on their new Mustang, designed their hero cards and produced their marketing proposals. It's great to see them do well and we wish them continued success for the remainder of 2010.
Ed "the Outlaw" Jones Officially Headlines the Night of Fire Benefit Car Show, Sept. 3 in Salem
Ed Jones who thrills people around the country will be in Salem for the Night of Fire
Ed "The Outlaw" Jones is headlining the 2010 Night of Fire benefit car show. Ed is the biggest attraction in the wheelstanding exhibition business. His familiar Jelly Belly sponsored stage coach and fire truck have been thrilling and delighting audiences everywhere. As the photo above illustrates, Ed does a wild fire show that is a little bit different but just as spectacular as the jet cars. Ed is a great showman, a real pro and is sure to entertain everyone who attends this annual spectacle.
The idea to book the famed Candyland Stage came to us last year when we needed a replacement for the jet car that had crashed the weekend prior to the car show. Ed was already booked at the time but luckily Twig Zeigler and Greg Lawrence were both able to fill in at the last minute. So, it was our goal to bring in Ed this year with more advanced notice. Ed is from the Boise area and will swing through Salem via back-to-back dates in Canada and Denver.
The Night of Fire is scheduled for the Friday night going into the big Labor Day weekend, September 3 and will be located once again at the Salem Evangelical Church on Liberty Street across from Applebee's. As always the Night of Fire is a family friendly event that is free for spectators and will also feature over 100 show cars, race cars and cruisers. This year's beneficiary will be announced soon.
To learn more about Ed Jones and wife Wendy please click here
Dean Alexander will be bringing his Top Fuel Dragster all the way from the Spokane area. Barring any late in the year engine catastrophies, he will start it up! Dean hope to run three events this year and is currently ding some events for the Boy Scouts in eastern Washington.
THUNDER IN THE PIPES: Part 4
I started hearing the buzz about “not enough funny cars”
By Jim Rockstad
32 Funny cars lined up in Portland in this shot Tom McEwan, Twig Zeigler and Kenney Goodell can be seen
The race fans at PIR had been buying tickets for about 8 hours since the gates opened in the morning. Without a doubt, it was the largest crowd I had ever seen there. This should be a fun evening of ground pounding for 32 funny cars…”or double your money back”, as the ads have been saying.
At PIR when the crowd starts sitting up on the hillside on the east end, that folks, is a huge crowd. This time around you could hardly see the hillside th
ere was so many people. The PIR hillside had to be one of the best seats anywhere in drag racing as you are high up and looking straight down the race course relaxing on a grassy knoll with all the action right there in front of you. Has to leave a person breathless…….it certainly did that for me.
As the clock continues to get closer and closer to rolling the funny cars out onto the race track, just before first round, we were scrambling to find a group of people on our crew that could spread out in the pits and count the funny cars.
After several different people made a bunch of trips through the pits…count and recount, count and recount, there it was as plain as plain could be…..31 funny cars! Oh crumb, just a small detail. What IF a huge group of race fans could really count them!! Whoops now what? “Do we take the chance of doing nothing, after all, there is a monster crowd jammed into this place.”
After several additional recounts and recounts the number remained the same. At that point, I suggested to Doner that we could roll his shiny new Thunderbird out on the starting line for the fire-up and then jack the front end high in the air, like a funny car, and that might cover the problem. You know, he didn’t see the humor in that at all. At that point, he was obviously concerned about what could really take place here. (I can’t say that I blame him.)
Obviously, the pressure was building on exactly how to handle this potential mess. You could envision reading the headlines in the Oregonian the next day: PIR FANS RIOT OVER T
HE SHORTAGE OF FUNNY CARS…or…..CROWD UNREST AT PIR, NOT-SO-FUNNY (ha-ha) CARS…..or….. DRAG RACES, SHORT OF PROMISED CARS, CAUSES MAJOR STIR AT PIR. Nobody wanted to see this scenario take place so something needs to be done. Promoter panic begins to set in.
Finally, after a summit meeting in the race tower that led to a rapid-fire phoning episode,
I got word that Jack Slawik of Northwest West Race Cars in Tualatin has a wonderful surprise for us. A racer from Montana has ordered a new funny car chassis and Slawik has it sitting in his shop. It’s a funny car body mounted on the chassis and could easily be loaded on a trailer. Tualatin was about 30 minutes south of Portland and Slawik said, “I’d love to see 32 funny cars tonight”.
Although not perfect, this fill-in car will solve a very scary situation. This event that evening was packed with some of the best teams in the sport making for a quality evening for those in attendance. A massive crowd added to the thrill in the atmosphere there at PIR. No doubt, it had the makings of the best 32 funny car show I had ever seen there.
THUNDER IN THE PIPES: #5 Problem solved, we now have 32 FUNNY CARS!
Cap Racing Visits Victory Racing Camp
The Capitol Auto Group Racing Team was featured at the Victory Racing Camp on Wednesday near Portland. The Christian camp is deigned for aspiring racers. Capitol driver Rich Bailey did a presentation on several areas of the sport and answered many questions. Also attending was Brian Walburn who spoke and answered questions from the young racers who raced each day at Pat's Acers an advanced Karting track near Canby.
Areas discussed included: On the track performance, safety, marketing, sponsorship and race car presentation. The kids got to sit in the car and each received a Cap Racing handout card, a dragstrip schedule and a coupon good for discount admission at any Woodburn Dragstrip event in 2010. This was the team's third visit to the camp and the only race team to make an appearance this year.
DragsterFest! Today's Subject: Roger Primm
From time to time we like to open up the scrap book to take a look at some of the cars we use to love watching from the grandstands and in Jim's case from the tower! Some of these guys are the best most professional drivers ever to race the quarter mile while others are some of the roughest, craziest characters found in drag racing and would risk jail time just to keep racing. Which ones? You decide! Rich Bailey has to search the memory bank on some of these but usually remembers something notable. The cars will change frequently so please visit the site often to see who's next....we don't even know.
Ever hear of Primm Nevada? Sure you have, it's the little town right on the California Nevada border named after the Primm familey who owned New York-New York in Las Vegas and had their own casinos on the state line for Californians who just couldn't wait to get to Vegas to pull a lever. Roger Primm also had a side business racing dragsters. Roger did the driving himself driving a Top Alcohol car before going to Top Fuel. When he went Top Fuel racing he hired who else but Ron Capps who drove the car pictured here. The team won in Seattle before Ron left to drive for the Snake. Tell Ron, Fat Schlagg said hello.
DragsterFest! Bonus
More Rare Racing Photos Uncovered!
Cory Mac in the McDonalds car loses a tire at the World Finals in Pomona but comes to a safe stop.
Dragsterfest Gallery Now Open!
See cars profiles now at www.capracing.com/fest.html
DragsterFest!
1. "Gentleman Hank" Johnson, Top Fuel, Marysville WA
2. Joey Severence, Pro Comp, Prineville OR
3. Rob Bruins & Gaines Markley, Top Fuel, Federal Way WA
4. Graham Light, Top Fuel, Edmonton Alberta
5. Ray Salter & Chuck Pinney, Top Fuel, Kent WA
6. Jerry Goddard, Pro Comp, Olympia WA
7. Gary Omlin and Dean Alexander, Top Fuel, Quinsey WA
8. Ernie Hall, Top Fuel, Cornelius OR
9. Kim Parker Top Alcohol , Graham WA
10. Craig Smith, Top Fuel, Othello WA
11. Kenny and Brandon Bernstien, Top Fuel, Newport Beach CA
12. Danakus, Graham, and Lee, Top Fuel, San Bernadino CA
13. Terry Capp, Top Fuel Edmonton Alberta Canada
14, Joe Amato, Top Fuel, Old Forge PA
15. Gordie Bonin, Top Fuel, Edmonton, Canada
16. Eddie Hill, Top Fuel, Houston, Texas
17. Frank Bradley, Santa Rosa, CA
18. Hansen Bros. Top Alcohol, Seattle WA
19. Cory Mac, Top Alcohol, Fullerton CA
19. Bill Edwards, Top Alcohol, Sumas WA
19. Bob and Paula Gage, Top Alcohol, Seattle WA
20. Larry Klinger, Ol' Rattler, Montana
21. Anderotti Bors, Reno Nezada
22. Kaiser and Rice, Top Fuel Colorado
23. Jeb Allen, Top Fuel, Santa Rosa CA
24. Whiting and Markley, Top Fuel, Seattle WA
25. Jim Barnard, Top Fuel, Portland OR
26. Gary Ormsby, Top Fuel, Auburn CA
27. Jeff Eden, Rear Engine Dragster, Salem OR
28. Butch Blair, Top Fuel. Southern California
29. Al De Boer, The Oregonian, Top Alcohol, Ashland OR.
30. Don Prudhomme, Skoal Bandid, Top Fuel, Granada Hills CA.
Bailey's Blog Sponsored by Image Action Wear
Red-Light-Itis Ends Otherwise Good Weekend at the Oregon State Championships
Photo by George Adams
I like to give away t-shirts and I like to give away handout cards but I hate giving away races which is exactly what I did this past weekend at the Oregon State Championships being contested at Woodburn Dragstrip. The car was all over the map in qualifying times as we tried different things to get the car to run quicker.
I knew that if we stuck with a .165 pill the car would run a 7.60, so I dialed-in a 7.59 just to be sure I had a little cushion. In the first round I met Randy Pressell who has been running pretty good lately so I had to be on my game. Brent reminded me several times not to red light. "No problem" I thought, "no way will I red light". But drag racing is a lot like baseball when you go up to bat as timing is everything and you don't want to be too early or too late. But the problem is that in drag racing there is one strike not three and you're out of there!
So I get up to the starting line and I flicker the stage light which means I went into the beam a little to deep. And sure enough, the lights come down I let go of the button and I go red just that quick. I kept my foot into it and what do I run? a 7.60. So, I was right on the money! And my opponent? He was off by three but he didn't have a great light so that round was mine for the taking and I didn't capitalize on it! Oh, had I only
waited just a smidge longer, oh, had I only shallow staged this report would have been much different.
We came back at the end of the day to make a heads-up exhibition pass with my good friend Garry Fauble driving the Patriot car. Not only did I red light AGAIN (which didn't really make any difference in this case since it was exhibition) but Garry opened up an old fashioned can of whoop-ass on me and ran a 6.90 to my 7.59. I got pounded but I got a good look at his red parachute but the remaining crowd were glad to see another blown alcohol race.
This was a race where I thought we would show some improvement in the car's performance after two great weekends down south and we even brought out the God Father aka Ken Logan for a little advice! But the car just couldn't get out of the high 7.50's. Plan B for us now is to get the blower stripped before our next race in Medford, the Nitro Summer Fest on July 31.The God Father believes we'll see some improvement after having that done! I sure hope he's right!
But you know, maybe we need to keep this in perspective. As racers we always want to go faster and I'm no different but faster means more inconsistent runs and broken parts as we saw with some of the teams last week in Medford. We now have a car that's running 7.50's - 7.60's on every pass (as long as we keep the main jet at a .165 so) it's now very consistent without hurting parts. With our budget and the economy where it is maybe we need to be content on this new found consistency and leave it alone and enjoy what we are doing. It's not the banzai runs and low qualifiers we once enjoyed but maybe this is what we need in order to successfully compete in Top Comp and Top Dragster? Sportsman Drag racing is a sport where racers find their niche and become successful. Maybe we just found ours after being in the wilderness for a very long time.
Cap Racing Featured in National RFC Publication
The Capitol Racing team is featured in a great front page story in the Racers For Christ's latest national newsletter. To read it please go here: Team RFC Newsletter
The "Little" Engine the Could!
Capitol Car Goes to TEW Final Round in Medford
Photos by Andi McFarland
Persistence and some fine tuning got the Capitol car back on the right track in time for the Top Eliminator West race. The association's points race was held in conjunction with the Bi-Mart Night of Fire event at Champion Raceway held over the Fourth of July Weekend in Medford. This was an important event for us as we tested two weeks before the big race in order to iron out some performance issues. The TEW race meant so much to us after missing it last year that we chose to painfully sit out the Woodburn NHRA Points race to be sure we wouldn't have a broken race car the following weekend.
In the past, we have had a pretty good win record against other blown alcohol cars as opposed to our carbureted counterparts but this year in particular it would be a pretty tall order to beat the potent TEW cars. But anytime we have a chance to race heads-up against blown alcohol cars we're up to the challenge. That's the arena we like to play in although we need to continue to work hard towards getting in the six second zone once again. At this race we leaned out the engine more and even increased the blower overdrive to 39 percent but the car still didn't respond to the changes like we had hoped. However, this would be one race where consistency and keeping the parts together would trump strong six second performances until the final round.
The field attracted seven west coast entries for an eight car field and we would qualify second with a 7.58. Sadly, there was carnage before the beginning of eliminations so our first round was uncontested. In the semi finals the Capitol team faced Steve LaBurn based out of Southern California. LaBurn has run in the 6.40's before with his unique nitrous injected hemi powered rear engine dragster so he was an opponent to take very seriously. At the hit the Capitol car got out of the gate first with an .038 to Laburns .108. By half track, Laburn got loose and got on and off the throttle. Meanwhile I increased my lead and took the stripe with a 7.56.
In the final round, we faced the 800 pound gorilla of the meet, the J Ray Concrete car owned by Jimmy Ray out of the Sacramento area and driven by Aaron Wardell. They had been running impressive 6.30 passes through out the two day meet and on paper had us covered by over a second so we knew there was little we could do to beat them unless their car went up in smoke, red lit or went under the 6.30 index.
After the conclusion of a spectacular fireworks show the final rounds in all classes began. While our car has been getting down the track in the day time, after dark was a different story as the car had traction problems the night before. This time was no exception as the car smoked and rattled the tires right off the starting line. Meanwhile Wardell was long gone with another 6.30 pass for the victory.
Our next race is at Woodburn Dragstrip this coming weekend for the Oregon State Championships where we will be competing in the Top Comp Class. The race features Pro Mods, nitro burning Harleys and funny cars. Even though we're not in the sixes, the car is running consistent and not breaking parts. With the economy and our budget the way that it is, that might not be a bad place to be right now.
As always thanks to my crew chief Brent Sanford and his assistant Chris Wollertson for doing another great job. We had a great time and would like to thank the Clevenger Race team as well as all of the TEW teams towed to Medford for a fun weekend.
Massive Exposure On the 4th at Western Days
The Capitol car was parked in a prime location prior to the fireworks show.
After leaving Medford just after midnight following the Bi-Mart Night of Fire, the Capitol team drove all night, getting into Salem at 4:30 AM just before the sun came up. After getting three hours of sleep it was time to transport the dragster to Independence Oregon, a neighboring town that features one of the best Independence Day celebrations in the country. Once there, the car had to be unloaded and the trailer taken to the end of the four mile long parade route. Before the start of the parade, the Capitol car was judged "Best Auto Entry" which complimented our great showing the night before in Medford.
Along with the annual Christmas parade, the Western Days Parade is one of the best non-racing events we do all year in terms of exposure as there are always thousands of people along the route, sometimes three to five people deep in some places. As a result, this community event is a good way for all of our sponsors to get seen. Throughout the route there is a lot of picture taking and the usual shouts from the crowd to "fire it up!" as if it were really that safe or easy to do with a blown alcohol car.
Following the parade the car along with the trailer were displayed at the festival grounds where the fireworks display would take place later that evening. With all the interest in hearing the car lit up on the parade route, we decided to fire it up a couple of times before the fireworks began making a little noise of our own.
On the second fire-up we had the largest crowd ever around the car and we surprised one guy by randomly asking him if he would like to sit in the dragster during the fire up. He took us up on the offer and loved the experience. I'm sure he had quite a story to tell around the water cooler the next day at work.
Night of Fire to Benefit Guard's Emergency Relief Fund
This year's Night of Fire benefits the National Guard's Emergency Relief Fund. The Emergency Relief Fund distributes money to Oregon families with a spouse that is serving overseas that needs help with groceries, rent, a hot water heater on the fritz, etc.
So, exhibitors and spectators from other parts of the state will be happy to know that their support helps families from all over the State and not just the Salem area. The event is Friday, September 3 and will be back at the Salem Evangelical Church parking lot across from Applebees in North Salem. For more info on the show, go down to the bottom of the page.
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Capitol Team Makes Progress In Medford
As any of our regular readers know, our dragster has been running about as good as, well...the Spring weather we have been having...down right disappointing. It got to the point were we had to regroup after our last outing and the perfect opportunity for that came in the form of a late night invite on Thursday night from Jim Taylor the promoter of Champion Raceway in Medford. The problem with going to Medford was that put us at five race in as many weeks but quite honestly we couldn't go to another race until we figured out why the car was running as bad and inconsistently as it has so far this season. We looked bad out there running against two strong running cars, The Tiki Warrior at the Opener and Eddie Wells at the Fire and Thunder race and I'll be the first to admit it.
We had our friend Spud Miller at Fuel Injection Services check out our mag and box and it came back good so I figured outside of a bad torque converter it came down to more air, less fuel or both. With the chance to make as many passes as we wanted in an environment where there was no other outside influences to consider, Medford tooked like the place to be on Fathers Day weekend. So, on short notice Brent, Chris and I drove up to Woodburn Dragstrip on Friday night and got our rig that had been parked there for the points meet scheduled for next weekend and headed south Saturday morning.
One of the reasons why we love Medford is because of the people down there. Everyone from the spectators, the concession folks, the guy in the lanes, the announcer, the photographer and the guys at the top end really roll out the red carpet for us every time the Capitol Rocketeer Dragster is in town and this time was no exception. Jim Taylor wants a full field for his featured Top Eliminator West race so he was checking up on us and carefully watching every pass probably praying we wouldn't hurt anything before his big July 2-3rd event, and to be honest, I was praying too.
Going down there was a smart move and our prayers were answered. We made 4 out of 5 good strong runs and the car's ET improved on every pass. The only exception was the last run of the night on Saturday where I blew the tires off the starting line. I really spun the tires bad and chose to idle it through. Part of the problem was that I wasn't in my tracks correctly but the track was going away fastand it began to rain. They halted racing for the night after my aborted run.
On Sunday, I made my best run so far this year... a 7.50. I know that's still way off pace but here's the deal: we now know what we need to do before the big race. We need another pulley change as our boost is still at 18 pounds and we will go just a smidge leaner. The car responded to every step change we made and Brent and Chris did a very good job tuning the car and getting it turned around quickly. We got the spuddering to stop and now know we are getting close to the sweet spot which is pending on the corrected altitude at the time of the pill adjustment so we are no longer lost.
As a result of the last minute decision to test in Medford and our very limited budget for the rest of the year, we have decided not to run the Les Schwab Lucas Oil Divisional event in Woodburn since we are not chasing points and the car has to be ready to go for the Top Eliminator West event where we will be a featured car. I pushed to bring the TEW race to Meford a year ago only to miss it after the Rodeck was destroyed, so we didn't want to take a chance and miss it again this year. This is a difficult decision for us to make since the points meet means a lot to us but in the long run I think it's what we had to do to stretch our budget through the rest of the year as this cuts some of our costs in half. The good news is that we will be back to Woodburn for the Oregon Championships on July 10 -11 following Medford's Top Eliminator West race. I appreciate everyone's understanding.
-Rich Bailey
Cap Racing Celebrates Ten Years with Capitol Auto Group with "A Decade of Speed" T-Shirts
Capitol Auto Group Racing celebrates 10 years with title sponsor Capitol Auto Group with "A Decade of Speed" shirts. The retro design shows three of the past past Capitol cars and was designed by the driver Rich Bailey. The shirts were printed by Image Actionwear of Salem OR. Visit them here: www.imageactionwear.com
Dragster at Back-to-Back Saturday Events
The Capitol Dragster was seen at two shows Saturday beginning with the High School Show at the NW Vintage Car Museum at Antique Powerland and then the Opening of the Blue Moon. The Dragster was a big hit at the High School show and the Blue Moon Attracted a steady crowd all night. We met and visited with a lot of nice people at both venues.
Racers Owe Jim Livingston Much Gratitude for Keeping Drag Racing Alive in the Valley
The NHRA Divisional event Woodburn Dragstrip in 1985 with the original tower in the background
Lions, Orange County, Baylands (Fremont), US 30, and locally, Balboa Dragway in Eugene are just a few tracks that we will always remember but can no longer enjoy because they are long gone. Today, these former sites are office parks, housing projects or barren land. In their heyday they played host to the biggest names in drag racing and nobody ever thought they would see the day when there favorite track would close. Some simply lost their lease while others closed due to political pressure.
One track that has survived politics and the high cost of real estate is Woodburn Dragstrip in Woodburn OR, located between Portland and Salem. And if it wasn't for Jim Livingston buying the track back in the early seventies, the Woodburn facility would have eventually fallen into the wrong hands and would now be nothing more than a memory too. When Jim purchased the track from the Multnomah Hot Rod Association, he worked a day job as a jobber stocking store shelves and operated the track on the weekends. Eventually he was able to quit his "day job" and run the track full time while doing vast improvements along the way.
The pits before they were widened in order to accomodate the longer tractor trailers.
Woodburn has survived because Jim knew he had to be a successful businessman and just as important, a good neighbor. He discontinued night racing to lessen the late night noise impact on his neighbors. He made the track available to the community for an occasional non racing event and even allows law enforcement to practice there. Last year the staging lanes were used for a funeral of a fallen police officer. His efforts, have not gone unnoticed as the track was awarded "Business of the Year" by the Woodburn Chamber of Commerce. Jim has provided the local area with a facility that is an asset to the community which locals can be proud of.
The dragstrip is part of the town's character and economic engine which have provided part time jobs and generates much needed business for local companies including: motels, eateries, grocery stores, gas stations, auto parts stores and even the outlet mall.
Pat Austin, one of the sports winningest drivers began his career at Woodbun.
Over the years, the dragstrip has grown with the town. Many improvements have been made to take it from a small strip to a first class facility that serves the need for speed in the Portland and Salem metropolitan areas. It also attracts racers and spectators from up and down the West Coast besides the local crowd. In 1976, the track was awarded a date on the NHRA Northwest divisional circuit which changed the track forever as the facility hosts one of the biggest divisional events in the country in terms of cars and spectator turnout.
In the late eighties Bob Glidden influenced fellow Pro Stock racers including Warren Johnson and Greg Anderson to race there between national events in Sonoma and Seattle. The race known as the Pro Stock Invatational became a major success until a change in the NHRA schedule made it difficult for the pros to continue to attend. Even without the Pro Stock Invitational, the track still has one of the best action packed schedules of any track in the country with at least one or two major events per month. Now days a lot of facilities around the country have gone to a rather lackluster bracket racing format and do not include spectator friendly events or booked in shows. Not Woodburn, as the track has more major events per season that any other track in the Northwest.
The modern timing tower and landscaping are just a few of the improvements.
Jim and his wife Lynn along with son Jay Livingston, have made the track a clean well kept family friendly destination for both fans and competitors. Fighting, drunkenness or embarrassing behavior is something you just don't ever see at Woodburn. Instead it's a friendly environment where everyone is there to have a good time. Some of the amenities include: clean restrooms, t-shirt stands, a playground and a great variety of food booths including their famous corndogs.
Now, after all of the years managing the track through the ups and downs of the sport of drag racing, Jim's selling part of the business to Jay, daughter Sherry and son-in-law Joey Severance, who is also a successful Top Alcohol Dragster racer. With their experience the track will remain in good hands for years to come. But we all must remember, that without Jim Livingston, big time drag racing would not have a home in Western Oregon. If you see Jim, shake his hand and thank him for what he's done to give racers a good place to race over the years. We all owe him a debt of gratitude. I know I do.
-Rich Bailey
Dragster to be a Part of State Fair Car Show
ZZ Top isn't the only thing coming to the Oregon State Fair as the Capitol Dragster will be there too. Jim Billings is promoting a three day car show at the Oregon State Fair September 4,5,6 following the Night of Fire being held on September 3. The show will be located inside the yellow gate. Anyone wanting to enter a car can call Mr. Billings at 503 930-7151.
Capitol Car "Shared" at Liberty School
It was sharing day in Mrs. Webb's class at Liberty School in Salem and Christine Bailey decided to bring Dad's dragster to school. Besides asking questions, the kids got to sit in the car and each received a race schedule and an 8x10 color publicity picture of the race car courtesy of Competition Printing.
Race Team Becomes Geeks as "Salem Geeks" Sign on as an Associate Sponsor
While being known as a “geek” back in high school wasn’t the best for one’s reputation, geeks today are well in demand - in the compute rindustry! One of the top geeks in town is Jared Pierson, owner of Salem
Geeks, a successful computer repair business. Salem Geeks offers computer repair, virus removal, system 
sales, parts and on-site support and training.
Pierson, a good graphic designer in his own right seems to be anything but a geek, but his humorous logo that features a nerd character with braces and big glasses along with the bright green and orange colors
have become a familiar brand around the Salem area.
While it’s obvious that Pierson has fun with his business’ image, misbehaving or crashed computers are anything but fun and can be quite frustrating but the good news is that Salem Geeks can take the sting out of a troubling computer experience with reasonable rates and speedy service. They work on both PC and Apple platforms. And best of all his friendly staff will be happy to answer questions and make the best recommendation for the consumer before they take in a machine.
The computers that ProMotion Motorsports use have all been serviced by Salem Geeks since they opened for business. “I used to panic any time our computers acted up but with Salem Geeks I never worry any more as sometimes just a call into Jared fixes the problem. Before they were in business, it was box up the computer and wait two weeks” said team owner Rich Bailey. “We are excited to add them as a marketing partner to our race team joining Capitol Auto Group and 1430 KYKN” he added.
Salem Geeks is located across from the Sunnyslope shopping Center on Liberty Road S. Call 503-362-GEEK(4335).
New Short Racing Video on YouTube!
New rock'n video made by Tyler Abbott from our exploits at the 2009 Fall Classic can be seen on You tube. Click Here to see it! That was a fun race!
