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DRIVER INFORMATION

Click here to download your copy of the 2009 Race Program Guide.

You should put this important piece of information in your race box. It will let you know what will be happening on race day at all NP4A events.

2009 NP4A

Summer of Excitement II

Race #1 - May 2nd WVSO

*Shared ticket w/ ASA NW LM Tour

Race #2 - June 20th

Yakima Speedway

Race #3 - July 18th

Spokane County Raceway

Race #4 - August 8th

Stateline Stadium

and Speedway

*Sharing ticket with the ASA

NSRA Sprint Cars

Race #5 - Sept. 5th

South Sound Speedway

Championship Night

2009 Northwest Pro4 Alliance

CURRENT POINT STANDINGS

POS CAR #DRIVER TOTAL PTS

1st 16 Rick Thompson ... ... 252

2nd 8 Matt Melby ... ... ... ... ... 236

3rd 72x Eddie Secord ... ... ... ... 210

4th 41 Kameron McKeehan ... ... ... 185

5th 1Kurt Madsen ... ... ... ... ... ... ...182

6th 80 Travis Allen ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 176

7th 10 John Grosvenor ... ... ... ... ... 174

8th 3 Tom Keehan ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 167

9th 6 Rob Powers ... ... ... ... ... ... ...165

10th 21 Jerry Koepping ... ... ... ... ... ..159

11th

John Jackson ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 157

12th

Dan Hale ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...150

13th

Steve Schovares ... ... ... ... ... ..148

14th

Wayne Dillon ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 147

15th

Jeff Jones ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 141

16th

Shelby Minor-Ball ... ... ... ... ... 138

17th

Chet Thorson ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 137

18th

Bud Rumsey ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 132

19th

Larry Badoux ... ... ... ... ... ... ...129

20th

Johnny Rumsey ... ... ... ... ... ...125

21st

Eric Kaas ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 102

22nd

Bob Quarterman ... ... ... ... ... ... 95

23rd

Steve Thompson ... ... ... ... ... ... 91

24th

Bill McAdams ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 80

25th

10f

Jordan Fitch ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...76

26th

Craig Forney ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ..68

27th

Rob Golden Jr. ... ... ... ... ... ... ..66

28th

Kevin Koepke ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 64

29th

John Musser ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ..61

30th

Jeff Swanson ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 60

31st

Jeff Raver ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...53

Charles McDonald ... ... ... ... ... 53

33rd

4az

Ken Morrisette ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 42

34th

Terry Rennick ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 25

35th

Ken Chandler Jr. ... ... ... ... ... ..20

36th

Thor Hansen ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 8

Updated 6/24/09

Rookie of the Year Challenge

POS CAR#

DRIVER

TOTAL

1st

Larry Badoux

Steve Schovares

3rd

Shelby Minor-Ball

4th

Chet Thorson

5th

Bill McAdams

Rick Thompson Wins at Wenatchee Valley's Super Oval

Rick Thompson, in the Hi-Way Auto/Ashley Machine Ford #16 Pro4, held off

Mother Nature and a fast Matt Melby at the Wenatchee Valley's Super Oval. In

his first Northwest Pro-4 Alliance start, Rick won the Rockett Brand Racing

Fuel 75 in what boiled down to a last lap dual.

Rain was the main focus as the wet stuff fell during the early afternoon

leading the drivers and crews of the 32 entries wondering if they would race.

The rain didn’t matter for Steve Thompson, Terry Rennick, Kenny Chandler,

John Musser or Rob Golden, as their race cars were early casualties of the

weekend, leaving 27 cars to do battle. Once the rains stopped the race

program went into high speed mode, as a quick 15-minute hot lap session

took place followed by qualifying on a very green track. The Northwest

Pro4 Alliance staff lead by Race Director Chris Cunningham and WVSO officials made the decision to eliminate the trophy dash and the 11-car B-Main and run the full field of 27 cars in the A-main.

Qualifying saw some of the fastest four-cylinder late models in the country assembled at the Super Oval. Seven cars beat the track record of 13:583 set last year by John Grosvenor. Rick Thompson took the Lucas Oil Pole Award and set a new track record with a time of 13:197 (68.197 mph) around the fast quarter-mile oval. Next came Bud Rumsey at 13:325; Kurt Madsen at 13:360; Rob Powers at 13:456; Matt Melby at 13:520; Kameron McKeehan at 13:525; and Grosvenor at 13:576; all under last year’s track record. The fast qualifier has the honor of pulling the invert number (8, 10 or 12) and Thompson pulled a 12, putting him on outside of the sixth row. Heat races were run with Kevin Koepke and John Jackson

and rookie contenter Chet Thorson all walking away with wins in some very close racing.

A big Thank You is expressed to all of the teams that made the trip to Wenatchee and to all of our rookies who chose to step up and join the series this year.

As the field for the Rockett Brand Racing Fuel 75 took Troy Blantons green flag, the action started with Tom Keehan taking the lead. Keehan, just coming off a win the weekend before at his home track, South Sound Speedway, led until Eddie Secord in the Renegade Racing Grand Prix took over the point. Two red flags and a couple of yellows spotted the75 laps, with the “big one” coming on lap 21. This is when the cars of Johnny Rumsey and Chet Thorson tangled, triggering a big pile up that eliminated the cars of Rumsey and Kevin Koepke and caused damage to several others. The next red flag flew at lap 49, when Wayne Dillon smacked the front strait wall sustaining heavy damage. The remainder of the event ran smoothly, with Matt Melby putting on a driving school as he carved his way to the front. Meanwhile Eddie Secord and Rick Thompson were doing battle for second. A spin by Shelby Minor-Ball then closed the field to make it a dash to the end. On the restart, Secord, Thompson and Melby made their charge, with Thompson taking the lead and Melby using a slow car to make his way past the trapped Secord. Melby and Thompson made contact in the final corner, but the driver of the #16, Rick Thompson, hung on for the win. Melby had his career best Alliance finish taking second, while Secord hung on for third. Eric Kaas, John Jackson, Travis Allen, Jerry Koepping, Jordan Fitch, Jeff Jones and Pyrotect Rookie driver, Bill McAdams, round out the top 10.

RACE RESULTS

“Rockett Brand Racing Fuel 75”

Wenatchee Valley's Super Oval

1st

Rick Thompson

17th

Bob Quaterman

2nd

Matt Melby

18th

Kameron McKeehan

3rd

Eddie Secord

19th

Kurt Madsen

4th

Eric Kaas

20th

Rob Powers

5th

John Jackson

21st

Kevin Koepke

6th

Travis Allen

22nd

Larry Badoux

7th

Jerry Koepping

23rd

Johnny Rumsey

8th

Jordan Fitch

24th

John Grosvenor

9th

Jeff Jones

25th

Bud Rumsey

10th

Bill McAdam ®

26th

Jeff Raver

11th

Tom Keehan

27th

Ken Morrisette

12th

Shelby Minor-Ball ®

DNS

Steve Thompson

13th

Steve Schovaers ®

DNS

Ken Chandler

14th

Chester Thorson ®

DNS

Terry Rennick

15th

Dan Hale

DNS

John Muser

16th

Wayne Dillon

DNS

Rob Golden

Near Live Coverage From Yakima Speedway

10:45 pm

Rick Thompson repreats!

Very few Alliance drivers have won more than one Alliance event, there are now 3 to be exact. John Grosvenor won at Stateline in '07 and WSVO in '08, Steve Thompson has won both Alliance events at South Sound Speedway ('07 and '08 seasons). His Brother one ups him tonight. Rick becomes the first driver to win 2 Alliance races in a single season. He showed that his win at Wenatchee Valleys Super Oval in his Alliance debut was no fluke. He backed it up tonight with a feature win at Yakima Speedway. Matt Melby continues to be very competitive as he comes home second (again) followed by John Grosvenor.

Rookie Craig Forney ran well and the afore mentioned Steve Thompson broke with just 5 laps remaining in the nights feature event. According to Bob, "it was an exciting race, lots of close racing!" He was busy with post race festivities but promised he would get back to me with more details. I will be sure you all are updated as soon as I am.

9:30 pm

B-main action saw rookie Steve Schovares lead the first 13 laps. The race was then slowed when Jeff Swanson spun out. At the restart John Musser drover under Schovares, made the pass and held the lead the remainder of the race. Schovares came home second followed by Shelby Minor-Ball. Larry Badoux took the final transfer spot. Robert Golden rounded out the top five.

8:35 pm

The first heat was cut short at 4 laps due to mechanical diffuclties with the #84 leaking water and the #7 spinning. John Musser edged out Jerry Koepping for the win. Heat Two was run as a 5-lap hot lap session to save time and cars for the Mains.

The B-main in coming up next.

If anyone at home is following the racing action with us here on the Website, let us know what you think. If there is anything you would like to know feel free to ask. I will find out as much as I can the next time Bob calls. We hope you are enjoying the coverage.

8:10 pm

#00 and #45 Collide in turn 3 and 4 at the start of Heat One. Both cars were able to drive away, the #00 seemed to have slight front end damage. Shelby Minor-Ball bearly missed the wreck and Kevin Koepke had to drive the #44 off in the dirt to miss it. No other cars were involved. We will have the First Heat results soon along with Heat Two.

8:00 pm

Steve Thompson takes fast time at 20.058.

The top 10 qualifiers are as follows: S. Thompson, Bud Rumsey, Rick Thompson, Kurt Madsen, Matt Melby, Kameron McKeehan, John Grosvenor, Craig Forney, Wayne Dillion and Johnny Rumsey. One name missing from this list is the usually fast car of Eddie Secord. He had a poor qualifying lap and will start deep in the field. It should be exciting to see if he can work his way through.

The A-Dash win went to Wenatchee Valleys' Super Oval winner Rick Thompson and Tom Keehan in the #3 car took the B-Dash win.

Engine woes continue to plague Alliance drivers at this fast 1/2 mile. The latest victims are #33 Ken Chandler and Rookie contender Bill McAdams in the #9 car. There was one late arrival, #84 Robert Golden missed practice but was in time to qualify. This keeps the running count at 30 cars. Heat races are being run right now and those result will be posted soon.

5:30 pm

"Good luck to all of you racers way up north!!!!!!

Put on a clean and fast show for the fans."

#4AZ Tom Campbell

4:05 pm

Second practice was almost uneventful.

Only a spin by the #45 car of Steve Schovares slowed the second practice session for the Alliance cars. The rest of the session went without at hitch and the #45 was not damaged. The #14s car driven by Shelby Minor-Ball had a minor ignition problem which has been resolved.

32 cars sign in the back gate, with the engine failure in the #65 car, that leaves 31 so far ready to compete in tonights events. Among those are defending Alliance Champ #41 Kameron McKeehan and making his '09 season debut Jeff Swanson in the #26 car.

3:30 pm

The first hot lap session is in the books!

According to Bob, trackside, Rob Powers was "Evil Fast" and "Looking Good" was Ken Chandler, John Grosvenor and Eddie Secord. Kurt Madsen was also quick. Travis Allen made it and his car looked good as well. An interesting side note; the cars driven by Secord, Madsen and Hansen are all on American Racer tires.

Some new faces to join the Alliance at Yakima are Craig Forney from Washington driving the #7 car owned by Skip Markham and Charles McDonald who normally drives the #3 car, running the #31 with the NP4A today.

Making a miraculous comeback from a spectacular crash in an FSCRA event at South Sound Speedway two weeks ago, Bob Quaterman is ready to race today at Yakima!

The Alliance has unfortunately seen its first engine casualty at Yakima speedway. A rock got lodged in the timing belt on the engine in the #65 car of Eric Kaas, resulting in top end damage. He is loading the car up and will be headed back home to Federal Way, Washington. We look forward to our next chance to watch him race in a month at Spokane County Raceway.

12:15 pm

1st near live update!

I just got off the phone with Bob. He and the rest of the Alliance staff are standing at the pit gate at Yakima Speedway. He says that it is a beautiful sunny 65 degrees with a light breeze. Sounds like ideal racing weather to me!

There are 10-15 cars waiting to sign in with 15+ on their way. Travis Allen, among those, just emailed the Alliance to let us know he is on his way from Spokane Valley as we speak. Those at the gate ready to sign include Rookie contenders John Musser, Chet Thorson and Steve Schovares. The Boise, Idaho area is represented by Kenny Chandler in the cool Corvette and Rob Powers in the Bailey #6 car. Washington drivers John Grosvenor and Jeff Jones are ready to shin in their home state. Team Rennick is in attenance with drivers Terry Rennick and Californias Eddie Sercord. Making the tow from Utah are, the #1 Garret Doyle race team with driver Curt Madsen and a surprise entry, the #00 car with Neils Hansen of Merriman, Utah at the wheel.

The race program for this afternoon shows practice starting at 2 pm. The other classes in attendance include the Youth Hornets, Hornets, Sportsmans and Bump-to-pass. The Alliance drivers are anxiously anticipaiting their chance to turn some laps on this super fast 1/2 mile track.

PRO 4 ALLIANCE GETS RAVE

REVIEWS AT YAKIMA SPEEDWAY

( Yakima , WA ) 6/21/09 by Kelly Hart

The NW Pro 4 Alliance is a traveling racing group made up of 4-cylinder Late Model styled

cars from more than 5 different clubs and independent racers from all over the country. The

Saturday night field featured over 30 cars with drivers from Florida, California, Utah,

Oregon, Idaho and Washington in the field. It was a hometown driver however who came

away with the win and second straight feature for the division as Prosser, WA Rick

Thompson captured the 60-lap Main Event.

While the Main Event was slowed by 6 yellow flags and 3 red flags, the fans got to see

plenty of daring passes and side by side racing action all over the half-mile oval. There

were 4 lead changes feature 3 drivers with Thompson leading 40 total. Craig Forney

looked strong leading the first 28 laps, and Kurt Madsen held the lead for a lap and a half

when his car broke loose coming out of the 4th turn and spun wildly into the inside fence

sections on the 34th lap with the field closing rapidly. There were many lapped cars and

wherever the leaders went they seemed to be running in traffic as the NW Pro 4 Alliance

started 26 cars in the mainevent.

The night started with Steve Thompson setting a new track record of 20.035 just barely

missing breaking into the 19 second bracket. Tom Keehan and Rick Thompson won the

Trophy Dashes, and John Musser claimed the 20 lap B Main Event.

RACE RESULTS:

FAST TIME: #03 Steve Thompson 20.053 new track record

A-DASH: 1. #16 R. Thompson

2. #03 S. Thompson

3. #1 Kurt Madsen

4. #11 Bud Rumsey

B-Dash: 1. #3 Tom Keehan

2. #72 Terry Rennick

3. #81 Chester Thorson

4. #02 Dane Hale

B-MAIN : (top 4 transfer to A-Main)

1. #12 John Musser

2. #45 Steve Shovaers

3. #14 Shelby Minor-Ball

4. #2b Larry Bodoux

5. #84 Robert Golden

6. #26 Jeff Swanson

7. #172 Eddie Secord

8. #21 Jerry Koepping

A-MAIN :

1. #16 Rick Thompson

2. #8 Matt Melby

3. #10 John Grosvenor

4. #41 Kameron McKeehan

5. #172 Eddie Secord

6. #1 Kurt Madsen

7. #80 Travis Allen

8. #6 Rob Powers

9. #3 Tom Keehan

10. #45 Steve Schovaers

11. #5 Wayne Dillon

12. #2b Larry Bodoux

13. #02 Dan Hale

14. #14 Shelby Minor-Ball

15. #21 Jerry Koepping

16. #81 Chet Thorson

17. #26 Jeff Swanson

18. #84 Robert Golden

19. #03 Steve Thompson

20. #2 Johnny Rumsey

21. #12 John Musser

22. #7 Craig Forney

23. #17 Jeff Jones

24. #31 Charles McDonald

25. #11 B. Rumsey

26. #20 John Jackson

LAP LEADERS:

#7 Forney 1-28

#16 Rick Thompson 29-33

#1 Madsen 34

#16 Rick Thompson 35-60

Help out the FSCRA and South Sound Speedway by making this event on the 4th of July weekend, The FSCRA needs the car count and South Sound wants to promote this exciting form of racing we're all involved in. They need a good field of cars do it.

The FSCRA will provide $40 in tow money for all visitors who attend.

The Northwest Pro4 Alliance will add two provisional starting spots to the 100-lap Championship Night feature event, thus starting 24 cars on September 5th. One spot will go to a team in the top five in each of the twin 30's from the July 4th weekend via a drawing.

The Alliance wants to work with all of the groups and tracks to make four cylinder late model racing bigger and better. Please try to make this event, use it for a tune up race for the Alliance show in September, but most of all be there to support the racing you love.

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July 11th, 2009

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