Photos from the 40th RPM promoters workshops Nov. 28-Dec. 1 in Reno

Promoters representing 22 race tracks convened for the Western Auto Racing Promoters Association meeting Nov. 17 in Portland. Watch for more information in the upcoming issue of Inside Track.

Browse through Inside Track’s Sept-Oct 2012 edition (Issue 103) with links to some of the items from this issue. You can purchase back issues of this issue on this page as well.

Photos from the Nightfire Nationals event at Firebird Raceway by Jim Doyle

There are plenty of street rodders who can claim their vintage truck still works. But Steve Lagani can boast his vintage truck’s still works. The corn mash producing still is just one of the neat features on his Puyallup-based rat rod barbecue. Northwest race fans may recall Steve’s No. 88 Monte Carlo in the Hobby Stocks division at Spanaway Speedway when he started circle track racing in 1994. But his love for cars goes back to watching his father Frank race a C-Class dragster and a fuel car at Englishtown, NJ, during the ’50s and ’60s.

Photos and report from the NHRA Northwest Nationals event at Pacific Raceways

When Greg Orvella retired in 2010 after 14 years as a Teamster driver with the Boeing Co., he knew it was time to get to work on a project that had been waiting quietly since the company’s 757 took its very first flight. It was 34 years ago that Greg shelled out a little over two grand and brought home a 1932 Graham project car.

Tyler Ketchum from Burlington, Wash., took up Hornets racing when nearby Skagit Speedway first added the class in 2005. Decades earlier Tyler’s father Ken helped turn wrenches for sprint car driver Jerry Edson in the late ’70s.

Browse through Inside Track’s Midseason Special 2012 edition (Issue 102) with links to some of the items from this issue. You can purchase back issues of this issue on this page as well.

Robert Woodruff took up racing when he was 18. He was living in Roseburg, Ore., and had a street-legal ’66 Corvette with a 427-cid motor producing 425 hp. “I used to drive from Roseburg to Eugene to race twice a week on their Wednesday and Saturday race nights,” Robert recalls of fielding the Corvette at the now-defunct Balboa Dragstrip.