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’ By SADIE McCALLUM
PR. GEORGE — Ahh, the lure

Of thetrack, 0 or -

. Where else but in stock car

racing could you travel more:

than 700 miles, lose. days off
work, spend a small fortune on
hotels, meals'and your car, and
be greasy and dirty most of the
time?

buy and completely rebuild a
motor in a couple of hours,

rebuild a transmission with just .

minutes to spare, win a trophy
and not even officially race?

- Four of our local hobby stock
drivers did. all that and more
when they headed for Prince
George on the Sept. 14-15
weekend to race in the big city.

_Five cars rolled east on board
Jamie Kluss’ 18-wheeler: Brent
McCarron’s No.: 81, Phil
Truscott’s No. 44, ‘Klass’ No,
56 and Kitimat driver Don Pear-
son’s No, 36. Also on hand as

pit crews, spare drivers and

moral supporters were Cherise
Truscott, Jeannie Pearson, Rick
McCarron, Trapper Hanson,
Chad Soallenback, Albert Web-
ber, Wes and Dawn Patterson.
* When the whole crew arrived
at the track Saturday, they
unloaded immediately and got
to work with grease,. oil and
wrenches flying in all directions,
“Working lard’ should be these
guys’ first names. ©
Saturday night racing was to
be under the lights and ona very
different, smaller track than
ours. Should make for a very

exciting night of racing, one .

would sbink: arora
“8 sta ae nig

qr achine —
A weekend at
the race track —

a The Terrace Stock Car Associa.
tion's Sadie McCallum was in |
Prince George.to report on the -

‘ arrangement: we--will- still race:

‘In what other sport could you~
- looking for the green flag. It

signals trouble. Brent McCar-

of race cars showing up, but no
hobby stock class cars. After a
brief talk with Prince George
race Officials, the Terrace
dtivers find out the hobby
stocks aren‘t.on until Sunday,

The officials make a special

tonight — exhibition style, the
boys from Terrace on their own
against each other, Well O.K.,
it’s better than nothing and a

good chance. to reaily test their -

cars On this new track. -
. They’re lined up on the back
stretch and’ coming around

flies and their off and racing.

“But a yellow light at the end
of grandstand stretch and
another on. the back stretch

ron, in No, 81, slows down. Is
something the matter with his
car? >

‘The others are still flying
around the track, but soon slow
down. and line up again. The
flagman didn't approve of the
Start, so he yellow-lighted them
for a re-start. Our guys aren't

. used to the electronics and light

systems.
‘This: time everyone is tight
and the race is on. At the end of

., the. five-lap trophy dash it’s Mc-
. Carron in No. 81 who gets to

carry the checkered flag.
Back in the pits after the race,
Phil Truscott is very unhappy
and very unlucky in No. 44.
He’s blown his motor and in a
new town with new people and
all — well, it’s time to rally
round and thank everyone.
But before you know what's
happening, other drivers are of-
fering motor parts, a garage to
work in, transportation and

-help, Everybody, else leaves to
get some sleep. while ‘our: “boys: mt
start’ an -all-night’ “session; “of

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STOCK CAR driver Brent McCarron carries the checkered flagina who headed to Prince George earlier this month to race there... :
race earlier this summer in Terrace, He was one of four local drivers 7

monkey-wrenching to rebuild ©
.the motor and race again

another day.
Early Sunday morning after
their maybe three hours of

' sleep, everyone is back at the

track, The running cars are all
out hot-lapping. Truscott’s
crew and helpers are putting the

motor back into No. 44.

McCarron ~~ who burnt up
the track the night before —
doesn't seem to be quite the
same today. Into the pits he
comes and ‘the crew starts
checking it out. The worst luck
— he’s blown the transmission
and it’s so clase to race time,

Guess that’s it for the day for
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During time trials they take
cut the tranny, take it apart,
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drivers confer,
Let’s wait and see, they say,
‘but the weather station informs

MeCarron — who burnt up the track. the night.
before — doesn’t seem to be quite the same today.
into the pits he comes and the crew starts checking
fitout. The worst luck — he’s blown the transmission
‘and it's so close to race time.

rowed ones froma P.G. driver,
and put it back on.

The two hastily rebuilt Ter-
race cars are up and rumning
again.

The first race of the day —
bomber class — is underway
and after just two laps it starts
to rain. By lap five the track is
so slick the cars are sideways,
backwards and in the gravel,
“Racing isttetiporarily suspend-

feet whilezsttack officias and

them it's only going to get
worse, Races are officially call-
ed off ~ doesn’t it just figure!
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We did get to see some really
exciting racing from the Prince
George cars. They had
bombers, street class and
modifieds running. They had
many more cars than our
classes, and longer races.

“Trophy dashes. feature six to

Our professional

on the track for the 16-lap heats
and the 2$-lap main. The
women race in all classes ~
there’s no special ‘C’* class: —

and they win. One took a heat

race and another led for more
than half of the main.

These drivers race. It’s bump-
and-pass supreme — just call it
“custom by crunch’? — with
three abreast and nobody giving
an inch.

It -was a truly exciting
weekend of facing action in
Prince George.

One more thing. Who was it
that got two traffic tickets in
downtown Prince George and

. who was spotted driving the

wrong way on a one-way street?
stock car
drivers, that’s who.-Thanks for

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