{"id":12450,"date":"2012-08-16T09:57:37","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T16:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/top-sportsmen-drivers-invade-pacific-raceways\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T05:35:40","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T12:35:40","slug":"top-sportsmen-drivers-invade-pacific-raceways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/top-sportsmen-drivers-invade-pacific-raceways\/","title":{"rendered":"Top sportsmen drivers invade Pacific Raceways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>What would August be without another big-time drag race at Pacific Raceways?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>This weekend the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Race Series, featuring the top sportsman racers on the West Coast, will be at the Kent track for a three-day race plus a Thursday test session.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The following categories will be contested: Competition Eliminator, Super Stock, Stock Eliminator, Super Comp, Super Gas, Super Street, Top Sportsman, Top Dragster, Sportsman Motorcycle, Super Pro and Pro.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Three-day entry fee for car and driver is $165 (Super Pro $100 and Pro $75).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Joining the Lucas Oil Division 6 racers will be a Saturday evening feature show of Top Fuel Harley motorcycles, jet cars, BB Funny Cars, and nostalgia front-engine dragsters, roadsters and altered race cars.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Spectator gates open each day at 8 a.m. with racing at 9 a.m. On Friday, Top Fuel Harleys, BB Funny Cars and Nostalgia cars run at 4 p.m. Saturday&#8217;s featured racers including jet cars will run at 6 and 9 p.m. Eliminations on Sunday begin at 9 a.m.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Spectator admission on Friday is $15 for adults and $20 for Saturday or Sunday.  Thursday&#8217;s test session, which begins a 1 p.m., is free for spectators.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What would August be without another big-time drag race at Pacific Raceways?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-12450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12450"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12450"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=12450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}