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Cap Racing
Rocks Packed House in Medford
It was
match racing like it should be at the Nitro Summerfest at Champion
Raceway. Fuel cars featuring the Mr. Explosive funny car and
the Nevada Rattler, Darren Bay's Warp Speed jet, nitro Harleys,
Pro Mods, Top Sportsman and yes an incredible best of three PRO
COMP show by none other than Sloan Taylor in the UFO Blown Alcohol
Funny car and Rich Bailey in the Capitol Rocketeer Dragster.
Excuse the pun but it was out of this world.
This was a great one night match race and the fans came out in
droves which made promoter, Jim Taylor a very happy man. Through
out the day and night fans flocked around the race cars in the
pits including the Capitol car where the team was giving out
brand new handout cards thanks to our friends at Competition
Printing.
In the opening round Bailey out ran Taylor as Taylor got out
of shape and headed for the centerline but then got back into
it, but to no avail as Bailey took the win with a 7.09. In the
second stanza, it was like a top fuel race as Bailey spun the
tire and went up in smoke but peddled it enough to get back to
full throttle and chase down Taylor who was again out of shape
for the win light. In the final round Bailey chose to reduce
the air pressure in order to avoid spinning the tires. The idea
worked a little to well as the dragster did a big wheelstand!
Bailey was able to get the car stable and then went back after
Taylor and just barely got by him by a nose at the finish line.
This was match racing like it use to be in the 70's and the fans
in the packed stands were on their feet after every round between
the dragster and the funny car. Capitol Racing would like to
thank everyone that came out for this great event and Jim Taylor
and the entire Champion Raceway staff for rolling out the red
carpet for us. Incredible Photos by Larry McFarland!
MV Mobile Detail Gives Transporter a New Look
When
Ryan Valentine approached us about detailing our truck and trailer
my thought was that there's nothing he can do that we don't already
do when it comes to cleaning up our truck and trailer. I never
could be more wrong! When I returned to MV Mobile Detail to pick
up the truck and trailer I was stunned on how nice the truck
and trailer looked and I got three times the stares as I normally
do when I was driving it home on I-5!
All of the nasty white crud that had built up around the diamond
plate and the wheels were gone. This was stuff I spent hours
trying to get off but was unable to, and now it was completely
gone! I've never seen the truck and trailer look more shiney
and clean. And the interior? Wow! I felt like I had just bought
a new truck from Capitol. It was spotless as all those coffee
and pop stains from long trips are now history. Everything inside
and out looks new again.
If you a car, truck, trailer, boat, RV, and want to return it
to the way it was when you bought it, call Ryan at 503-930-3178
or go to mvdetail.com
Rich Bailey
Capitol Racing
Capitol Car a Home Run at Volcanoes Game
The Capitol
Auto Group Dragster along with dirt outlaw cars and ET bracket
cars greeted fans as they
entered the Volcanoes baseball game on Tuesday evening for Speedway
night. All of the cars were fired up prior to game time. The
Volcanoes staff took good care of the racers by introducing them
onto the field and showing them on the jumbotron between innings.
In fact, they played a video of the Capitol car before the game
began.
At the end of the fifth inning the Volcanoes announcer Bill Post
interviewed driver Rich Bailey. The Volcanoes, an SF Giants Club
team played host to the Boise Hawks which is affiliated with
the Chicago White Sox. Throughout the evening and even after
the game the Capitol race team members were answering questions
and allowed some young baseball fans a chance to sit in the dragster.
Bailey also signed posters.
The Capitol
team stand with Volcanoes team owner Jerry Walker and Volcanoes
event coordinator Jerry Howard. The race team members pictured
include Jerry Abbot, Acacia Bailey, Rich Bailey, Brent Sanford
and Brian Walburn.
Nitro Summerfest Returns August 2nd
The Nitro
Summerfest returns to Champion Raceway in Medford, Saturday night,
August 2nd. This year's night of thrills features Daren Bay's
Jet Cars, a pair of Fuel Alterds featuring the Nevada Rattler
of Rickie Ruiz, Pro Mods, Nitro Harleys and Blown Alcohol Cars
including the Capitol Auto Group Dragster match racing a Blown
Alcohol Funny Car! In addition, none other than Gary Kenetic
and the boys come back to Champion with their incredibly awesome
"High Bucks" Blown Alcohol 55 Chevy.
Last year, the
Capitol car had transmission problems but this time around Rich
Bailey is promising a better show as long as he can keep his
string of six second passes alive. "Last year the car wouldn't
hold at the starting line and I was very embarrassed as the crew
was ready to hang me. I apologized up and down to track promoter
Jim Taylor for our pathetic performance. This year we want to
show the folks down in Medford just how well we have this car
running lately. Hopefully we won't be run out of town on a rail
like we were last year. It was a long and depressing drive home
as I remember. This year I'm optimistic that this will be as
fun for us and the fans as Yakima was" Bailey said.
"There will be a little bit of everything for the fans at
this year's event" added Jim Taylor. Last year's event was
a hot summer night showdown and anyone that saw the fuel alterds
steal the show with wild three foot flames under the lights will
be back to see them again. Gates open at noon for bracket racing
time trials. The featured cars including the dragster vs. funny
car showdown, the alterds and the jet cars will begin late in
the afternoon and go into the night. Capitol Racing is very excited
to be a part of this event and we would like to encourage fans
to make the drive to Medford and support this great annual event.
Opinion:
Pro Comp Class a Needed Solution
Scroll
to bottom of the page to read this hard hitting editorial
Steve
Iverson Injured in Seattle Crash
Steve
Iverson, the driver of the SPR super comp dragster suffered a
bad crash at the Schucks Auto Supply Nationals in Seattle during
a Friday afternoon qualifying run. Steve suffered broken ribs
and two punctured lungs. Currently, Steve is in a drug induced
coma in the ICU at a Seattle area hospital. Steve has been a
big help to Capitol Racing as we buy a lot of safety equipment
from him through the company he works for. In fact, Steve helped
us out just one week prior at the NHRA event at Woodburn Dragstrip.
RFC is requesting prayers for a complete and speedy recovery.
Anyone who wishes to send
cards or donations at the hospital may do so. The address is:
Steve Iverson Sr., c/o Harborview Medical Center, 325 Ninth Avenue,
Seattle, WA 98104.
Capitol Auto Group Racing joins B.R.A.K.E.S
Rich
Bailey driver of the Capitol Auto Group Dragster has joined B.R.A.K.E.S,
a youth driver safety program. B.R.A.K.E.S stands for Be Responsible
And Keep Everyone Safe. B.R.A.K.E.S was formed this year after
a devastating highway crash that claimed the lives of Jon and
James Herbert, the sons of Doug and Sonnie Herbert. Doug is the
popular driver of the Snap-on Tools Top Fuel Dragster.
Before Bailey began racing he pioneered the Team Safety program. Team Safety grew to 70 members and promoted about 30 events a year until Bailey left the program and joined Race Against Drugs where he won two Presidential Volunteer Awards. "All of the racers and volunteers that were a part of Team Safety really did make a difference. I hope to utilize that energy and give B.R.A.K.E.S a presence here in the Northwest. Even after Team Safety we are often asked to do schools, college driver ed classes and scouting events so partnering under the umbrella of B.R.A.K.E.S will help us give a good presentation" Bailey said. Bailey will also continue to be a spokesman for Race Against Drugs.
There was also
another reason why Bailey wanted to get involved as Doug Herbert
Racing sent boxes of t-shirts, hats and other items for one of
the Night of Fire events that Bailey is involved in each summer.
"They unloaded their souvenir trailer and overwhelmed us
with merchandise from their race team. I think they still hold
the donation record. This is a great way to give a little bit
of that back after what they did for us" Bailey said. Bailey
encourages other Northwest racers to join B.R.A.K.E.S by going
to www.putonthebrakes.com or contact Bailey by
clicking on Contact
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The Night of Fire a Major Success
NIGHT OF FIRE ANOTHER BARN BURNER
Many
turned out for one of the most entertaining car shows anywhere.
Photo by Bill Sullivan
The Night of Fire Benefit
Car Show successfully lived up to its name on Friday night, July
18th. The event which had been rescheduled due to rain turned
out to be worth the wait as over 140 hot rods and an impressive
display of race cars took over the grounds of the Salem Evangelical
Church in Salem.
Headlining the show was Richard Smith's War Hawk jet funny car which did an incredible fire show at the conclusion of the event. Also on hand was Rich Bailey's Capitol Auto Group Dragster. Bailey rented out the seat of the blown alcohol dragster to the highest bidder and raised close to $500.00 during fire ups. Tyson Parker's Parker's Electric blown dragster was also in attendance along with late model stock and sprint cars.
The show raised money for a five year old local boy, Bryan Poli who had a bout with cancer. While the Bryan's cancer is thankfully in remission, the family has faced financial challenges as a result of extended hospital stays and treatment. To help with the family's trips to Portland for treatment a car was given to the Poli family thanks to a car donation from Affordable Towing and Macco. Note: If you view the photo section you will see pics of the special presentation when the car was given away.
The Night of Fire fire has raised
well over $50,000 for people in the Salem area with cancer or
other serious illnesses since it began in 2001.
Special thanks to the car show's sponsors in no particular
order: Tom's Trophies, 1430 KYKN Radio, Uptown Music, Competiton
Printing, Royal Purple, Image Action Wear, Lancaster Firestone,
Adam's Rib, Supervinyl Signs, Affordable Towing, Macco, our venders,
and a giant thanks to Richard and Kile from War Hawk Racing for
making this the Night of Fire!
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Capitol Racing 2008 Schedule: May 17-18 Season Opener Woodburn June 7-8 Fire and Thuinder Woodburn July 4-5 Nitro Night s Yakima WA July 10-13 NHRA Divisional Woodburn July 18 Night of Fire Salem August 2 Nitro Summerfest Medford August 15-17 Vacation August 22-24 NHRA National Open Portland Sept. 13-14 Fall Classic Woodburn Sept. 21-22 Governor's Cup Sacramento * Sept. 26-27 NHRA Divisional Medford *pending avaiable funding and gas prices |
 Real Fast Facts! Best ET: 6.77 BEST MPH :198 Class: Pro Alcohol/TD Chassis: 275" Frameworks Engine: 572 Rodeck 1471 Blower Transmission: 2 Speed Glide |
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When 1979 came around, I had spent 2 full years at SIR in my attempt to understand the business side of the place. When I had ar rived there a few years prior, there was several road racing groups that rented some of the weekends for their events. Generally, they were only a flat rental fee and they do there own thing..some sell spectator tickets, some don't, some just sell entry fees for their racing group. It always frustrated me that there would be this beautiful sunny day in the driest part of the summer and we'd have a group of 30 or 40 race cars, motorcycles or go karts going around the road course all day long. You need to understand that some of the clubs have several hundred racers but a lot of the clubs are just a group of enthusiasts having a getaway for the weekend. I had one team of road racers
want to rent SIR and put on an SCCA Trans Am which had been miserable
failures over the years. I did rent them the track and had a
check in the vault of the balance of the rent. We controlled
the ticket selling at their event and when there was enough cash
in the tills, I cashed the check and put the bucks in the vault
for safe keeping. I didn't want to get caught up in the possibility
that the event would lose The event was another flop which was their problem, not ours. The racing business can be unforgiving and the track operator either takes a beating or sometimes he can make money. I always felt "our most important product" was drag racing. The losses at the road race rental was so bad that the two guys that produced the event lost their tire store and were unable to pay off the debts that were located all over the area. It was not a pretty site. (but it was not unexpected by me). I had seen Doner lose tons of dough on an L and M open wheel race back in the early 70's. He really promoted it hard with a huge list of big time names including Penske, etc. I was not going to "go there" so a rental is as far as I wanted to be with road racing. When summer came about it was time for 64 funny cars..now we are talking!! Doner had sold a sponsor to NAPA Regal Ride, a division of NAPA. Raymond Beadle and theBlue Max would be there along side of Ed McCulloch, Gordie Bonn, Pat Foster in the Super Shops sponsored funny car, along with a long list of over 20 other nitro cars. The format Doner had formulated included over 30 alcohol cars, some jet funny cars and a couple of wheel standers. This event was solid "ground pounding" for about 5 hours. (I just don't know what else you would want out of life!!). I bought the media, Doner did his customary hyped ads. I bought media all over the Puget Sound area, in Portland and a bunch of radio stations in Canada. All the Western Washington NAPA stores had discount coupons (first time we ever did that with this event). In 1979 there were little of no advance tickets and so it was drive up, buy your tickets and walk into the drag races. That is a really slow process and so to offset that we would start selling tickets Friday night at 6:00pm allowing the purchasers to camp in a parking lot until morning. We'd have several groups of ticket sellers going from Friday evening, all night long and until 8:00p Saturday night. That's about 26 hours of selling tickets!! The crowd was so massive we had to fill the pit area with spectator cars and others were parked all the way out to the highway on both sides of the entrance road. Hundreds of cars were just parked along the highway and the fans just walked in.this was a monster in the making! The attendance that Saturday night was in excess of 25,000..larger than any event ever at SIR. The crowd was so large that the logistics of running the event were so hard that it took some downtime to get the folks away from certain areas so the funny cars could even get back to their respective pit areas. Several times the massive crowd pushed out into the racing areas requiring the event to be halted. Security work hard this night, for sure. Pat Foster, the chassis genius, drove the Super Shops Arrow in a tight race final over Raymond Beadle in the Blue Max funny car. Beadle had broken a motor and changed it just prior to that final. It was many, many hours getting everyone out of SIR on that Saturday, taking to the wee hours of Sunday to clear the grounds. They had witnessed the "largest one-day independent drag race of all times"so everyone said, back then. It was one amazing evening, for sure. Doner called me weeks later saying
that he had a plan for me to buy him out of the Northwest operation.
I was stunned, to say the least. In November of 1979, I started
my own corporation with the "deal of the century".
Doner would continue to support me with radio ads and announcing
for 5 years while I took over the entire operation with my new
corporation. All my years of hard work and loyalty to Doner had
paid off in a huge way. And now, I just have to make it all work for me and my new corporation. Even though I had managed the company for over 3 years, it's a whole new ballgame when it is your corporationas I found out over the years. NUTS AND BOLTS: Featured
drag racer-- The Floyd family and drag racing
run hand in hand. Earl got his first taste of the sport in 1954
when he attempted to compete in his 1937 Ford 2 door sedan at
Scappoose at the old air strip. Over 50-plus years in the sport,
Earl has driven gassers, fuel dragsters and just about anything
with 4 wheels.and very successfully.
So enough of
the hand ringing. What's the solution for the Parkers (to much
$$$) and the Baileys (not enough) dilemma? The solution is simple.
We need a new class just for blown alcohol cars. Call it PRO
COMP! And make it simple. Start out the first year running this
class at National Open events and divisional tracks that don't
want top alcohol (read Boise). Make it an eight car qualified
field. Let them run what ever blower they want, no weight limits,
open it up to rear engine and front engine BLOWN alcohol dragsters,
BLOWN alcohol funny cars and BLOWN alcohol roadsters. No carbs
please. Make it heads up, pro light, and cap it at a 6.50 ET
just like the Top Eliminator West series. If you go faster than
6.50 in qualifying that run is thrown out and doesn't count.
If you run faster than 6.50 in eliminations? See ya, Bye bye,
the other guy wins. Otherwise run as fast or as slow as you want
as long as you can get into the show. If you didn't qualify then
you can run in Top Dragster. My guess is this class would be
an instant hit with the racers and very popular with the fans
wanting more blown alcohol cars. If it works, and I know it will,
expanded it to all divisional races too. From The Mail
Bag: I joined the Pro Nostalgia group
this year since Spokane was closed and they seem to draw quite
a crowd. I'm not big on dial ins though and think it should be
whoever gets there first also like you do. Jim Rockstad............ |
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