April 1, 2003

Schedule Change Notice.

To go along with the schedule change with the addition Lucas Oil event added to Mission Raceway Park on the August 21-24 weekend, The two day Street Legal weekend event (Aug. 22-23) been cancelled. As well, the one day bracket (B-1) event and the ET challenge race #4(Aug. 24) has been rescheduled. The new date for those two events (ET challenge #4 and B-1) is Aug. 9-10. That weekend will now be a double header weekend (B-2) and the ET Challenge #4.

April 3, 2003 NHRA NORTHWEST DIVISION ANNOUNCES CHANGE IN LUCAS OIL SERIES SCHEDULE. Mission gets two Div races.

Northwest division announces change in Lucas Oil Series schedule. The date and location of the Northwest Division NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series event planned at Race City Motorsport Park in Calgary, Alta., has been changed, Northwest Division director Mike Rice announced today. The event, which was initially slated for Aug. 15-17, will be held at Mission Raceway Park in Mission, B.C., a week later, Aug. 22-24. It will be the second of two Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series events at Mission Raceway Park. The originally scheduled date at Mission, May 2-4, will be unaffected by the move, said Rice.
The rescheduled event will remain an out-of-division race for all classes except TAD and TAFC.
The Northwest National Open Series race that was to run in conjunction with the LODRS event in Calgary, has been dropped from the schedule at this time. According to Rice, there is still a possibility of rescheduling it at a later date. MR

All race teams out there, book your rooms early as that time of year the hotels are fairly booked already. I have block 6-10 rooms for racers so that regular tourist don't take whats left. So if you can't get a room in Mission at the Best Western or the Super 8 in Abbotsford (12 minutes from the track), call me and I will try and fix you up. Dean

March 31st, 2003

Different weekend weather woo's hit again. Friday (under overcast and threatening skies), went off without a hitch in the High School program and the final round saw Langley Christian take on Abbotsford Christian. Langley took the win for the first race of the year. Out tsting were mostly bracket cars and a couple super class cars. Friday night the Job Rite Street Legal program went off as well. and 125 cars make 6-10 runs each under cool conditions that actually warmed up before the events was finished by around 10.15pm. Saturday morning, the weather was iffy looking again, but the day only had a couple very short weather stoppages. But due to the weather concerns, only 60 or so cars came out. With the small car count, the track decided to run the gold card "Team on a Mission" race next weekend April 5th weather permitting.

March 16th, 2003

Ya know you can't win for loosing when it comes to the weather on the Wet Coast. The staff thought long and hard about what to do this weekend as far as the test n tune goes. The entire weekend weather was supposed to suck but, so was Fridays weather and it was on and off all day. Their decision was based on alot of factors I think, mainly getting the word out with enough time on Friday, so everyone involved (racers & staff) had notice. While today (Sunday) doesn't look as good as yesterday turned out relative cool temperatures and the fact that VHT needs a certain track temperature to set up (and the supplier of VHT is shipping the stuff via a boat for inland freight, no fault of Mission it was ordered over a month ago), it made sense to do the practical thing and cancel. I read some very well though out comments by a number of posters on the team mission sight yesterday as far as running the next event as a t and t as well, but I don't know what their decision will be. Stay tuned here, and on the mission site(s) for all the updates.

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The MPR brass has changed their scheduling substantially over the past few years, so for 2003 expect a few more 'modifictaions'.

The Street Legal program hass been expanded to include three two night races. They will still run almost every Friday night starting in April, but there will be a Friday-Saturday event in May, August and September.

The Lucas Oil Event will again be held on the first weekend in May and the National Open (July 18-20) will be the weekend before the Seattle NorthWest Nationals, (July 25-27)

There are two Pro Mod events on the schedule for 2003 (June 20-22 and Aug. 29-31).

The season opens March 8/9 with the first Test n Tune of the year and ends the middle of October.

The full schedule will be posted here very soon.