western races

[mick]

regarding the rumor surrounding seattle and sonoma and the 2026 schedule.
have a couple of old digger magazines that still showed what 'annual' event was running.
i think both these tracks appeared on the nhra national event calendar in the same year, 1988.
pretty sure the seattle event was call the seafair nationals? present by???
sonoma event was at 'sears point raceway' but can not remember who mite have sponsored it.
seem to remember fram/bendix had this race for a few years? was it also just referred to as the 'california nationals'?

 

[Nitro79]

regarding the rumor surrounding seattle and sonoma and the 2026 schedule.
have a couple of old digger magazines that still showed what 'annual' event was running.
i think both these tracks appeared on the nhra national event calendar in the same year, 1988.
pretty sure the seattle event was call the seafair nationals? present by???
sonoma event was at 'sears point raceway' but can not remember who mite have sponsored it.
seem to remember fram/bendix had this race for a few years? was it also just referred to as the 'california nationals'?

I recall Autolite.

 

[Joe]

I recall Autolite.

Performance Corner Seafair Nationals

 

[TF CREW]

Cameron is driving for Ron August. We just ran 3 races in 5 weeks. We're not equipped for that. We would love to go to Milan. We're just out of parts, money, and time. We will be back in September.

NO, Cam is NOT DRIVING for Ron August!

 

[TF CREW]

Jerry Freeman committed on here that Cameron is driving Ron August’s car.

John , Cam is NOT driving Ronnie's car!

 

[TF CREW]

You can thank the Countdown BS for a lot of this. All you got to do is show up enough to make the top 10 by Indy which doesn't appear to be too hard to do.

Exactly!!

 

[cknight]

regarding the rumor surrounding seattle and sonoma and the 2026 schedule.
have a couple of old digger magazines that still showed what 'annual' event was running.
i think both these tracks appeared on the nhra national event calendar in the same year, 1988.
pretty sure the seattle event was call the seafair nationals? present by???
sonoma event was at 'sears point raceway' but can not remember who mite have sponsored it.
seem to remember fram/bendix had this race for a few years? was it also just referred to as the 'california nationals'?

Sonoma event presented by TRW??

 

[mick]

Sonoma event presented by TRW??

pretty sure mark saldivar is correct. autolite.

 

[Mike]

Random thought- Would Ennis, TX have enough support for a spring race and a fall race?

 

[z28]

Random thought- Would Ennis, TX have enough support for a spring race and a fall race?

it should/ would love to see it happen or better yet a track at COTA for spring

 

[Nappy]

Random thought- Would Ennis, TX have enough support for a spring race and a fall race?

They had 2 for quite a few years

 

[Joe]

They had 2 for quite a few years

Had 2 in 1988 when it was IHRA and2 in 1997.

 

[Nappy]

Had 2 in 1988 when it was IHRA and2 in 1997.

Looks like 2 events started in1997 until 2000 at Dallas.

 

[Mike]

I could see a 3 race March or early April swing after Gainesville of Pomona/Phoenix, and Ennis either on the way out or heading back.
TX is a huge market. 2 races there makes as much or more sense than 2 in Charlotte.