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Jet cars coming for Hot August Nites

Get ready for the Drag racing event of the Season at the Terrace Regional Airport this weekend, as Hot August Nites burns up the track Sunday July 31st and Monday August 1st.
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Belching smoke and flames Kevin Therres and his Bio-diesel Pickup at the 2009 “Hot August Nites”

~By Ed Evans

Get ready for the Drag racing event of the Season at the Terrace Regional Airport this weekend, as Hot August Nites burns up the track Sunday July 31st  and Monday August 1st.

The Terrace Drag Racing Association always brings in fast cars for this event and this year is no exception. Kevin Therres and his team at Prairieland Motorsports in Humboldt Saskatchewan will heat up the track with not one but two Jet funny cars. You might remember Therres first visit to the Terrace track in 2009, He brought his new Pickup Jet truck and made some blistering passes down the track, 4,463 seconds at 182.93 MPH. Super fast, but not quite fast enough to break the track record of  4.08 seconds set by Gary Ormesby Jr. in a top alcohol rail in 2007. Therres’s new Pickup was destroyed two weekends later in a spectacular crash in Calgary.

That track record might fall this weekend however, as an engine from a F5 fighter jet from the Canadian Forces was installed in the new car. Now, after a year of building, the 2006 Mustang Jet Funny car, Prairieland Motorsports has set its sights on going faster and quicker than ever before.

They estimate this car will be able to go 270 mph in 5.9 seconds in a quarter-mile, which is 15 to 16 miles per hour faster than their other cars. Also included this weekend is the MacCarthy Motors “Quick 8”, which will feature the fastest 8 cars as they race down the Terrace 1/8 mile track.

Don’t miss the Jet cars at the airport as they belch smoke and flame. The Bio-diesel powered jet vehicles will make your heart stop with every throttle pop. Time Trials start at 10 a.m, with eliminations both days starting after the lunch break.

So this is a great weekend for motor heads as the Skeena Valley Cruizers hold their annual Show and Shine from Noon to 4pm Saturday at the Terrace arena. Besides all of the beautiful cars there will be valve cover races for the kids.