Kresto Pacific Nationals

Presented by Destination, Downtown & Eastside H-D Dealers

June 25^th & 26th

Pacific Raceways

Elimination Day

5:30pm-Mike Lehman and Seattle…a perfect match! Lehman did it here at Pacific Raceways- after last weekend’s NHRA Divisional win right here, he charges through the traps round after round and wins the Top Fuel and Pro Fuel category at this weekend’s Kresto Pacific Nationals. A happy Rex Harris and crew are lined up with a pair of bikes awaiting a celebration in the winner’s circle right now.

More celebration’s in the winner’s circle include.. Phil Schmidt who blazed the quarter mile in the Pro Drag final one thousandth in front of the national record for the win with a 7.218 at 186.12mph over John Breckenridge who was strong all day.

A record setting weekend for Raudenbush in Pro Stock ((7.339) and he grabs the win in the final after a disappointed Mark Biernbaum was unable to keep it fired.

More prize money and points for Mike Lozano in Pro Gas with another win as Ed Biaggi takes home the runner-up cash on his birthday here in Seattle.

Only a 2^nd loss of the season for champion, Junior Pippin and it was Doug Ainsworth blowing the field away this weekend with record marks in Pro Mod. His best marks of the weekend were recorded at 8.130 at 162.22 mph.

Travis Lummus falls to Jeff King after the Gene Lummus ride shut down to coasting speed at mid track. King wins with a 9.333 at 148.09. Lummus took the low E.T. honors and top speed prior to that final with an 8.925 at 151.32mph lap.

Michael Ray is the winner in the SSC124 Challenge over Robbie McCaa…The #1 qualifyer, Cleve McConnell came away with the Hot Street prize over double-finalist, Dan Norlin..

Dan Hope redlit and gave Jeff Farnum a win to take back to California in Super Sport..as did Brett DeGood who saw red and Greg Krenik got the win light and he will share a ride home celebration with teammate, Wayne Pugh who also got the easy win after a red light from Donnie Huffman n SEP racing.

Huffman rebounded with a win in Super Eliminator over Rick Baldwin with a near perfect 10.906.

Larry Edmondson left before activating the tree and a record setting weekend ended in V-Rod racing for Jamie McNaughton with a win to add along with those records..

Tommy Loredo was the ET winning rider after a red light from Dan Norlin.

Thanks to everyone for a fantastic weekend of racing..we would especially like to thank Children’s Ride 10 for choosing the AHDRA event for their destination for the 1,700 riders who got a well deserved show here today and to our sponsors, Kresto, Downtown, Destination and Eastside Harley-Davidson dealers.

Good Night Seattle.

4:30pm

We are moments away from the semis in ET and then it’s time for the finals. We do have a 5:30pm curfew here at Pacific Raceways, so we should be wrapped up in an hour.

Exciting finishes coming up with at least two double finalist on deck.. Donnie Huffman and Dan Norlin on the Sportsman side and it’s Mike Lehamn headed to double finals in Fuel categories.

More coming on today’s finish!

3:50pm

We are racing on the track and racing the skies for expected showers, so I am busy at the keyboards keeping the numbers coming at you. We will be back at the end of today’s show with the wrap. Good racing going on here today..records set this weekend for McNaughton (V-Rod), Ainsworth (Pro Mod), Raudenbush(Pro Stock). Check out their numbers and more on the ladder pages as we keep the results coming at you quickly as possible.

1:45pm

The show is off with thousands on hand- 1700 bikes rolled in for Children’s Ride 10 and the opening ceremonies were followed by a blazing first round of Screamin’ Eagle Nitro Harley! The numbers will be coming at you throughout the day on the ladder pages and I’ll check back here with any breaking news or updates.

Check out the first round numbers in Top Fuel on the ladder pages..the crowd went wild!

Sunday- 10:00am

Good morning from Pacific Raceways. We are underway with a couple of sportsman rounds to narrow the fields before today’s start at 1:00pm. (PT).

We start a little later today due to the arrival of the awaited Children’s Ride 10. It’s a big celebration for the Children’s Hospital as they reach the 10- year mark of the generous support from many. Today’s ride will be escorted in by bike builder favorites, Paul Yaffe and Arlen Ness. They are expected to arrive around 11:00am and will be 1000-plus strong as they thunder down the return road here at Pacific Raceways.

We will be back this afternoon with updates from today’s opening round.

Qualifying Day

7:45pm-

All three rounds complete and what a finish.

Here goes my spill….

Lehman RULES in Seattle X 2…His best pass of the day in JIMS Pro Fuel came in the final round at 6.837 and the best was yet to come when he blistered the track in theScreamin’ Eagle Top Fuel field at 6.458 for the top spot .

“Let them eat cake”. And they will indeed at the Ray Price-Samson Exhaust camp as they celebrate Price’s 68^th birthday. His gift from Tommy Grimes…He’s in the field with a 3^rd round survival lap at 6.673, and the last chance round gave him the 4th spot.

Vancil finished in the 3^rd spot with a speedy 216.72 top speed of the day on the charts.

Lozano and Wagner keep it 1 & 2 in S & S Pro Gas and Raudenbush reigned in the S & S Pro Stock trio of bikes.

McNaughton backed up his numbers..reset them and backed them up again..or something like that. His best of the day was 9.382 at 141.02mph for the lead position in Screamin’ Eagle V-Rod. (Records are always subject to the verification process).

Jeff King holds on to his #1 spot in G2 Street Pro but it was Lummus getting the rebound with a move to the 2^nd spot with a 9.113 improved run.

Doug Ainsworth is chopping up the records in Samson Pro Modified with a 8.130 at 160.75- He is also subject to proper verifications before official records go down.

Michael Ray was out-running Sternotti’s numbers today and he has the S & S 124 Challenge pole after three rounds with a 9.549 best.

Joe Rodrigues was near perfect in Rucker Performance Super Gas and his 9.701 puts him in the top spot for tomorrows show.

Champion of the class- David Hope is out front in S & S Super Sport.

Galati’s 10.930 edges out the 10.932 from Kuypers and a 10.933 from Cleve McConnell in Performance Corner Super Eliminator, but McConnell got his #1 spot in the Drag Masters Hot Street field. McConnell nearly came away with the Syn3 ET best of the day, but a perfect 0.000 from Spence Jones of Portland, OR gave him the spot over McConnell’s 0.016. And last but certainly not least…“Chef” Donnie Huffman holds the SEP #1 spot.

That’s a wrap under sunny skies here in Seattle. We will be back tomorrow with all the action from eliminations.

Good night Seattle….

5:55pm

Final Qualifying on tap. Amazingly we started 4 hours late, but few delays have kept us running smoothly and less than 2 hours behind the normal final round. The sun is shining bright for today’s final round of qualifying which is underway with sportsman classes.

Great things happening on the track and forgive me if I can’t mention them all as I’m trying to keep the numbers posted rapidly- but here are a few highlights-

Dale Raudenbush is out fon in Pro Stock with his 7.46 best..Mike Lozano is running the numbers in Pro Gas, but the award for achievement in the round is Karen Wagner giving it another shot for her license. She adds a 8.315 to her rounds today and it put her in the #2 spot in the field of 8-bikes. Congratulations to AHDRA’s first time female natonal champion, we received confirmation from tech that your license has been approved.

Mike Lehman dropped to the 2^nd spot in Pro Fuel when Pat Fenderson took his spot with a 6.961 better time, but in Top Fuel, Lehman bumped Dorn with a nice 6.560. Vancil goth things working for his 2^nd round and he moves from the outside of the field to the 3^rd spot.

John Breckenridge took over the Pro Drag spot in round two…McNaughton backed up his earlier record pass in V-Rod with a bettered record number of 9.382 that he now plans to back up.

Jeff King leaps in front of the pack in Street Pro and leads the field with a 9.099.

Stay tuned for the big finish and all the numbers coming up shortly.

3:30pm

Round One goes off smoothly and we are rolling on with round two.

A Black Attack roared through the Nitro Harley field as Steve Dorn scored the top numbers of the opening round at 6.648 at 207.72mph.

Mike Lehman was 2^nd best in Top Fuel (6.834), but he was first in the Pro Fuel field with 6.989 best. Lehman is fresh off a divisional event here last weekend where he took home a Wally. (He allows visitors to peek at it in his motorhome, but no touching)!

Ray Price is celebrating his 68^th birthday this weekend and depending on rider Tommy Grimes to make it a real celebration here this weekend. Grimes ran into problems in the first round when it got sideways with him at the launch, but he’s got two more shots at making the field today.

Ainsworth is at it again in Pro Mod with a 8.185 best- just enough to better his current record number of 8.186. He’s the top man so far with the champ-Pippin in at #2 with a 8.454.

Rod Anderson stormed the Pro Drag field with a 7.491 at 171.66mph top qualifying spot over Phil Schmidt’s 7.531 for the 2^nd spot and a 7.578 from Herschberger for third.

Jamie McNaughton lit the record numbers in V-Rod with a 9.483 and looking to back it up for the official mark.

There’s lots going of exciting numbers in all classes and several nice numbers from both ladies and men in sportsman classes..check the numbers out on the result pages in your favorite class.

Back to the numbers. I’ll check back in with breaking news in round two.

1:00pm-

Looks like we will be firing up any minute now with qualifying round one. Syn3 ET will lead off a muchdelayed start to our day here at Pacific Raceways. We have a record number of racers that turned out for this event- 180 so far. (130 is the usual count) so kick back with your favorite beverage and join us for an unplanned evening of racing.

All the results will follow the rounds right here on ahdra.com.

11:00am

The sun is peaking through the clouds and the track team is making progress on the track drying. There is still a good hour or more of work ahead before we are up and running so stay tuned for the kick off in qualifying asap.

9:20am

Good morning from Pacific Raceways. We were greeted with misting rain this morning, enough to put a good soaking on the track. Track staff is hard at it trying to dry the surface, but a small mist is still present. The forecast calls for clearing and a little sunshine for the afternoon.

Stand-by as we await today’s start in qualifying.

Schedule of Events:

Friday, June 24th

Competitor and Vendor Gates Open 4:00pm

Saturday, June 25th

Sportsman Qualifying- 9:00am

Pro Qualifying- 11:00am

Sunday, June 26th

Sportsman Eliminations-(as needed to narrow to the fields)- 9:00am

Children’s Ride 10 arrives led by Paul Yaffe & Arlen Ness- 11:00am

Seattle Cossacks Performance- 12:15pm

AHDRA Opening Ceremonies- 12:45pm

Eliminations-1:00pm