{"id":16413,"date":"2014-05-04T12:47:45","date_gmt":"2014-05-04T19:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/funny-cars-headline-super-saturday-race-program-at-pacific-raceways\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T07:05:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T14:05:35","slug":"funny-cars-headline-super-saturday-race-program-at-pacific-raceways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/funny-cars-headline-super-saturday-race-program-at-pacific-raceways\/","title":{"rendered":"Funny Cars headline Super Saturday race program at Pacific Raceways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong>For the Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Pacific Raceways returns to its drag racing heritage on Saturday, May 10 as a full field of Funny Cars is expected to compete in a Chicago-style format, part of a Super Saturday featuring NHRA class racers and the Swift Tool ET Series.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>In advance of the drag event, the raceway hosts a Fan Fest at The Sports Page on Thursday, May 8, beginning at 5 p.m.  Funny Cars will be on display as well as some local hot rods and race cars.  The Sports Page is at 28082 Auburn Way N.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Headlining the Funny Car contingent will be Kim Parker&#8217;s 2013 Northwest BB\/FC Association Champion &#8220;Hell on Wheels&#8221; and Greg Howland&#8217;s 2010 Champion &#8220;Zeus.&#8221;  The BB Funny Cars are known for their long, smoky burnouts and competitive side-by-side racing.  Pacific Raceways was the West Coast&#8217;s premier stop for Funny Cars in the 1970s with its world famous 64 Funny Car events.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Joining the Funny Cars next Saturday will be NHRA class competitors, including the wheel standing Stock\/Super Stock muscle cars; the super categories of Super Street, Super Gas and Super Comp plus race No. 3 in the 13-race Swift Tool ET Series.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Gates will open at 8 a.m. with racing beginning at 10 a.m.  Funny Cars will run at 4, 6 and 8 p.m.  Tickets are $15 for adults, $5 for kids 6 to 15.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pacific Raceways returns to its drag racing heritage on Saturday, May 10 as a full field of Funny Cars is expected to compete in a Chicago-style format, part of a Super Saturday featuring NHRA class racers and the Swift Tool ET Series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":16414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-16413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16413"}],"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=16413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16413"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=16413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}