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Posted: Tuesday Aug 26th, 2008 01:28 AM |
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This weekend at Grays Harbor Raceway, located at the fairgrounds in Elma it’s the Big One. The Big E Weekend will be highlighted by the World of Outlaws on Monday September 1st, and an on track interview with Washington’s own Kasey Kahne. Kasey’s show car and souvenir trailer will be at the raceway on Monday as well. There will be lots of great activities in Grays Harbor to compliment the Big E Weekend such as Quarter Midget racing Saturday and Sunday, the Celebrity Quarter Midget races on Monday with proceeds going to the World of Outlaws Benevolent Fund, the annual Outlaw Days Parade at 1:00 pm on Monday with Donny Schatz as the Grand Marshall. There will be a campsite decorating contest on Saturday and Sunday at the fairgrounds, and a fireworks show after the ASCS Show Sunday Night. There will be a city wide garage sales all weekend long, and lots of activities for Adults and Children in Elma.
The festivities will start Friday August 29th with the Grays Harbor Raceway Social from 7:00 pm until 10:00 pm, everyone is invited to come to the Raceway as there will be live music, race cars on display, as well, the ticket and souvenir booths will be open for the public.
The racing action kicks off on Saturday as the Northern Provincial Pipeline Late Model Series and the Cut Rate Auto Parts Hobby Stocks hit the track. The NPP Late Model Series is based out of Alberta, Canada, the series will be making their first appearance south of the border for the race at GHR, the series also has a year ending points fund of $100,00. On Saturday, six time Grays Harbor Sprint Car Champion Jay Cole will drive a car owned by series owner Dwight Kennedy, Cole who has many laps around GHR should be one of the favorites to win. Other contenders will Kennedy who is the current points leader along with Jason Beaulieu, Beaulieu who lives in Campbell River, B.C. is last year’s NPP Champion and is also a feature winner in 2008 at Grays Harbor Raceway in the Shipwreck Beads Modified division. The Cut Rate Auto Parts Hobby Stocks will also be in action for their last points race before season championship on September 6th, Aberdeen’s Zack Simpson is looking to make it two championships in a row as he holds down a 32 point lead over Joe German from Aberdeen, fellow Aberdeen driver Jack Parshall. Jr. is only 2 points behind German with 1288, Centralia driver Scott Westly sits in fourth with 1240 followed by Bremerton’s Keith Knowlton with 1208.
On Sunday the American Sprint Car Series (ASCS) will run their ninth race of the series in what is billed the Night Before The Big One, the Ford Focus Midget class will also be competing. Jared Ridge from Snohomish is the current ASCS Northwest Region points leader with 1078 points, tied for second is Everett’s Jayme Barnes and Bellingham’s Brock Lemley with 1046 points, Eugene’s Roger Crockett, the 2008 Speedweek Champion sit in fourth with 1022, followed by Grays Harbor Regular Jay Cole with 990 points. Other local drivers looking to contend for the win include Raymond’s Glen Borden, Enumclaw’s Henry Van Dam, Quilcene’s JJ Hickle and Tacoma’s Shawn Rice. Out of town drivers will include Langley, B.C. driver Travis Rutz, Seth Bergman from Snohomish and World of Outlaws drivers Shane Stewart, Jason Sides and Chad Hillier.
On Monday it’s the one everyone waits for all year long, the highlight of the year at Grays Harbor Raceway as the World of Outlaws roll into town. All the top drivers on the tour including, 2006, 2007 and current WOO points leader Donny Schatz, the “King” himself Steve Kinser, Craig Kinser, Danny Lasoski, Jason Myers fresh off a big win in Edmonton last weekend, “The Wild Child” Jac Haudinchild, Joey Saldana in the Kasey Kahne owned car, along with” Double Down” Jason Sides, Darin Pitman, Shane Stewart and Washington’s Chad Hillier. Top Washington 410 drivers hoping to pull an upset include Jason Sowold, Jayme Barnes and Mitch Olson, the Canadian contingent looking to break into the winner’s circle include Travis Rutz and Jeff Hodgson.
Three day ticket packages are still on sale, as well as single day tickets. For more information go to http://www.graysharborraceway.netLast edited on Wednesday Aug 27th, 2008 05:27 AM by GregB
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Posted: Tuesday Aug 26th, 2008 06:12 PM |
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Everyone enjoy the "Big E" weekend !!!! 
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Posted: Tuesday Aug 26th, 2008 08:23 PM |
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Posted: Tuesday Aug 26th, 2008 08:27 PM |
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Josh14 wrote: Too bad he's not going to race in the Outlaw race.
Sounds like the start of a bad rumor to me. The last time he made an appearance at GHR he took home a little bit of the purse and gave the fans a big surprise. Only cost 12 bucks to see the Kasey and Tony show and that was without a bunch of NASCAR fanatics crowding the stands. Last edited on Thursday Aug 28th, 2008 02:06 AM by
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Posted: Tuesday Aug 26th, 2008 08:49 PM |
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Everyone enjoy the "Big E" weekend !!!!
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Posted: Wednesday Aug 27th, 2008 03:28 AM |
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it's nice to have the chance now and then to see the hometowners that have gone on to race elsewhere run now and then, but at the same time it will be nice that the show is about the WoO instead.
i'm a nascar fan as well as a sprint car fan and find nothing wrong with what 'double nickels' posted. as i said, the WoO can stand on their own and don't need kasey running the event. if the only reason someone comes to watch a race is because of one driver, i'm not sure what kind of racing fan they are. sure to tick off a few people with that comment, but it's true.
kasey will be at the track. if you want to see him so bad, come on out, maybe get an aoutograph from him, but at the same time take in what the day is really about.....some awesome sprint car racing!!!
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Posted: Wednesday Aug 27th, 2008 04:42 AM |
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Please! No kids screaming Kasey Kahne at the top of their lungs for hours in the pits.
Last time he was here that went on till I think he was sick of it.
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Posted: Wednesday Aug 27th, 2008 05:05 AM |
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SO, the parade is Friday?  Wish it could have been Monday! How is the Grand Marshall going to get from Elma's parade in time to race at Skagit? Hmmm, I guess 3 hours will be good. (unless he's got a plane!) Busy, busy!
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Posted: Wednesday Aug 27th, 2008 05:11 AM |
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Cynbad wrote: SO, the parade is Friday? Wish it could have been Monday! How is the Grand Marshall going to get from Elma's parade in time to race at Skagit? Hmmm, I guess 3 hours will be good. (unless he's got a plane!) Busy, busy!
 Wish Granted Cynbad !
From The GHR Site:
Monday September 1 st – Breakfast with the drivers 10:00 am at the Elma Grange, Outlaw Parade 1:00 pm, Celebrity Go cart race at the Quarter Midget Track between 3:00 pm and 4:00 pm, World of Outlaws drivers Steve Kinser, Donny Schatz, Craig Kinser, Jason Myers, Jason Sides, Joey Saldana, Shane Stewart and many others, See Kasey Kahne’s Budweiser race car and souvenir trailer, as well as a guest appearance from Kasey with a on track interview. Ticket office at the front of the grandstands will open at 10 am on Monday. Back gate opens 2:00 pm, Front gates will open at 3:30 pm with World of Outlaw & NPP Late Model racing at 6:30 pm.
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Posted: Wednesday Aug 27th, 2008 05:15 AM |
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Cynbad wrote: SO, the parade is Friday? Wish it could have been Monday! How is the Grand Marshall going to get from Elma's parade in time to race at Skagit? Hmmm, I guess 3 hours will be good. (unless he's got a plane!) Busy, busy!
I was thinking the same thing. I spent two hours on I 405 just last week! Better have a helicopter or a plane! I`m not ever gonna complain about the traffic in Portland anymore! I don`t know how you folks deal with that!
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Posted: Wednesday Aug 27th, 2008 07:30 AM |
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| Everytime I go thru Portland I say the samething about Portlands traffic, how I think it sucks and is worse than seattle, like when you get across the I-5 bridge and you have to funnel down to 2 lanes for about 2 blocks and then it goes back to 3 lanes, thats some great road engineering. I see now that there going to fix that problem, Portland has to many frickin bridges.
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Posted: Wednesday Aug 27th, 2008 08:21 AM |
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Can't speak for Kahne or anyone else, but many of the "big time" drivers this day & age have ammendments in their contracts with their primary employer to limit how many non-series races they're allowed to enter.
Some drivers (Ken Schrader) will forgo opportunities with the better organizations for the freedom to race as they please, while others will sign their driving souls away.
These guys are racers at heart, every one of them....but why whould they risk a multi-million dollar payday for a 25 minute race at home? Just imagine if he defied contractual obligations to run at Elma and got injured? God forbid it happen but yikes....flush your career for a few laps to please us? I don't blame him a bit for not running if that's the case.
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Posted: Wednesday Aug 27th, 2008 08:52 AM |
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| just no reason to come on here bashing kasey for not running because he wasn't getting paid big bucks to race. so many other reasons could be the case. unless you know for sure, let it be. enjoy the fact that he is making an appearance and bring on the show!!!
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Posted: Wednesday Aug 27th, 2008 03:13 PM |
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so what we have here is the 64 thousand dollar question? Sound familiar to anyone? Come on guys, who ever started this rumor could have come up with a better number. The fact that it is 64k gives it away as a hoax. Nice try! LMAO  jmo....
It really does not matter. Be thankful that he WILL be there and mingling with the fans. Who cares if he races. The fact that he is here supporting N/W racing is good enough for me! Thankyou Kasey. 
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Posted: Wednesday Aug 27th, 2008 08:30 PM |
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| that is absolutely right! kasey has been very good when it comes to supporting racing in the nw.
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Posted: Wednesday Aug 27th, 2008 08:43 PM |
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| heck of a lot better than biffle when i see those commercials that say support your local track it makes me puke . portland speedway was his local track wish he would have supported it..
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Posted: Thursday Aug 28th, 2008 01:09 AM |
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greg's support at portland speedway wouldn't had made a difference as to whether it closed or not. closed because of a mentally challenged family that owns the property. greg running a race or two there wouldn't have helped the situation at all. he did come to the speedway once or twice and did autograph sessions. better than nothing.
by the way, he has ran at banks raceway the last couple of years. hasn't totally forgot where he is from!
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