This week in Mat-Su sports Aug 10, 2008
Top eliminator, top dragster points races, Alaska Raceway Park. Saturday. (Yahoo News -- Auto Racing)
News and Features for Wasilla, Alaska Jul 1, 2008
North Star, Alaska Raceway Park ready for weekend. MAT-SU Racing action around the Valley will be explosive over the Independence Day holiday, with races scheduled at both North Star Speedway in Wasilla and Alaska Raceway Park in the Butte ... Drag racing will be held Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Alaska Raceway Park. (Yahoo News -- Auto Racing)
GEORGE H. McCULLOUGH Jun 6, 2008
McCullough began the development and cleared the land for Alaska Raceway Park near Palmer, only to be stopped by Alaska s 1964 earthquake. He moved his family west of Talkeetna to the Cache Creek area to mine for gold in 1967. (Wasilla Frontiersman, AK)
On the fast track Oct 5, 2007
Thornsley earned the right to participate in the event after a stellar season at Alaska Raceway Park in the Butte ... Because Alaska Raceway Park is a sanctioned IHRA track, points earned there count toward the standings. (Wasilla Frontiersman, AK)
Drag racing world awaits Alaskan Oct 4, 2007
DAVID FOBES / Alaska Raceway Park. Nathan Thornsley, shown at Alaska Raceway Park with his 1967 Dodge Dart, is believed to be the first Alaskan to qualify for the International Hot Rod Association's Summit Super Series Bracket Racing World Finals ... Thornsley qualified in his 1967 Dodge Dart dragster, becoming one of two Mat-Su racers from Alaska Raceway Park to earn the right to race for a world title. (Anchorage Daily News)
Palmer dragster racer is confident of world title shot Oct 1, 2007
Thornsley qualified in his 1967 Dodge Dart dragster, becoming one of two Mat-Su racers from the Alaska Raceway Park to earn the right to race for a world title. Thornsley and Wasilla's Scott Roloff both qualified No. 1 in their respective classes, but only Thornsley is making his way to Rockingham, N.C., for the Oct. 19-21 event. (Anchorage Daily News)
Valley duo head to IHRA Sep 23, 2007
AUTO RACING -- Palmer's Nathan Thornsley and Wasilla's Scott Roloff qualified No. 1 in their respective classes for the International Hot Rod Association's Summit Super Series Bracket Racing World Finals after their seasons at Alaska Raceway Park. Story tools. (Anchorage Daily News)
Sunny skies mean plenty of weekend racing action Aug 15, 2007
A full schedule of racing action is on the slate for this coming weekend, with things getting kicked off Wednesday with a Sportsman Class event at Alaska Raceway Park in the Butte ... Wasilla's Randy Roloff came back from being eliminated in the Top ET class to win his first Super ET title in two years Saturday at Alaska Raceway Park in the Butte. (Wasilla Frontiersman, AK)
Rank hits 168 mph at Sunday drags Aug 8, 2007
Roy Rank cracked 168 mph to win the Top Dragster division Sunday at Alaska Raceway Park. Story tools. (Anchorage Daily News)
Nitro-powered dragsters hit mind-boggling speeds at Alaska Raceway Park Jul 6, 2007
Alaska Raceway Park Wednesday afternoon. Throughout the morning and into the afternoon, a persistent drizzle kept the quarter-mile asphalt drag strip covered in water not exactly ideal conditions for sending high-powered automobiles screaming down the track. (Wasilla Frontiersman, AK)
Valley features plenty of race action Jul 3, 2007
Perhaps the biggest event of the week will be July 4 at Alaska Raceway Park in the Butte, where four national-level drag racers will be laying down rubber on the quarter mile asphalt. hat's the big show of the year out here, said AK Raceway Park publicity director Riff Flatley. (Wasilla Frontiersman, AK)
Fulfilling the need for speed Jun 25, 2007
Drivers take to Alaska Raceway Park in Palmer for a legal way to get a rush ... Come night, he's turning wrenches on his candy-apple red Audi sports car, prepping it to speed down the quarter-mile asphalt drag strip at Alaska Raceway Park ... But another side to drag strips like Alaska Raceway Park is what happens on comparatively mellow evenings such as Wednesday, when people push everyday vehicles to the limit. (Anchorage Daily News)
Roaring into action Jun 18, 2007
Brian Aszmus gets the front tires off the ground as he rockets off the starting line Saturday afternoon at the Alaska Raceway Park in the Butte ... BUTTE Nestled at the base of the towering Pioneer Peak, Alaska Raceway Park in the Butte is arguably the most scenic raceway in the nation ... Now tooling around in a replica 1932 Bantam, Bowerman said Saturday that he believes Alaska Raceway Park is as good as drag strips get. (Wasilla Frontiersman, AK)
Thornsley edges Stimson in top elapsed time drag races Jun 13, 2007
AUTO RACING -- On a warm sunny Sunday at Alaska Raceway Park, Palmer's Nathan Thornsley took the measure of Anchorage's Joe Stimson in the top elapsed time class ... Alaska Raceway Park Sunday results. (Anchorage Daily News)
Warnke is fastest at Alaska Raceway May 29, 2007
05 mph Sunday to win the top eliminator class during the opening points races at Alaska Raceway Park in Palmer. Story tools. (Yahoo News -- Auto Racing)
