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Rainfall postpones NSCS Brownfield Memorial
Andrew Kunas, NSCS Publicist

ELMA, Wash. - Weather continued to wreck havoc with the Northwest Sprint Challenge Series inaugural season when it rained the series out for the fourth time Saturday and has now washed away the entire weekend of the 1st Annual Fred Brownfield Memorial Sprint Challenge at Grays Harbor Raceway.

Grays Harbor Raceway and NSCS officials have agreed to reschedule the event, named for the track's late promoter, to Friday and Saturday, September 14 and 15, which follows the tour's two events in Oregon the weekend before. The September 15 event will pay $10,092 to the A-Main winner.

The 2007 Northwest Speed Week, which was to have started with the Fred Brownfield Memorial Sprint Challenge, is scheduled to continue on Monday, July 23 at Southern Oregon Speedway outside of Medford. The series continues to Cottage Grove Speedway near Eugene on Tuesday, July 24 and concludes its Oregon portion of Speed Week on Wednesday, July 25 at Willamette Speedway in Lebanon. All three races will pay $2,000 to win the A-Main event. Speed Week caps off on Friday and Saturday, July 27 and 28 with the 18th Annual Bob's Burgers & Brew Skagit 360 Nationals at Skagit Speedway near Burlington, Wash.

More information on the Northwest Sprint Challenge Series and its drivers can be found online at www.racenscs.com.

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NSCS remaining schedule

Monday, July 23 - Southern Oregon Speedway - White City, OR
Tuesday, July 24 - Cottage Grove Speedway - Cottage Grove, OR
Wednesday, July 25 - Willamette Speedway - Lebanon, OR
Friday, July 27 - Skagit Speedway - Alger, WA
Saturday, July 28 - Skagit Speedway - Alger, WA
Sunday, August 26 - Grays Harbor Raceway - Elma, WA
Friday, September 7 - Willamette Speedway - Lebanon, OR
Saturday, September 8 - Cottage Grove Speedway - Cottage Grove, OR
Friday, September 14 - Grays Harbor Raceway - Elma, WA
Saturday, September 15 - Grays Harbor Raceway - Elma, WA
Friday, September 28 - Central Washington State Fair Raceway - Yakima, WA
Saturday, September 29 - Central Washington State Fair Raceway - Yakima, WA

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NSCS: The Northwest Sprint Challenge Series
www.racenscs.com

That's really a shame that you guys get soo much rain, even in July, that you have to cancel 2 big races in a row. I know Gary Thomas and his family made a special trip and also Jon Allard skipped a GSC event to race up there. Washington and Oregon are beautiful places, but I could not take all the rain and the possibilty of having many rain outs during the year. We had a bad year a few years ago in CA for rain and I was getting sad because all our races were being rained out. I really hope the rain stops up there and you are able to get some races in. I am also glad that the Brownfield Memorial will be rescheduled for later in the year and maybe more CA drivers will be able to make the trip!

Looking forward to the new Golden State King of the 
West series schedule! 

Winged sprintcars = the fastest and most exciting 
racecars on dirt! 

Actually, rain is almost never a problem up here in July and August, and the rest of our Speed Week looks great so far. Usually its April and May we worry about and sometimes June or September. In fact, before this weekend only one Northwest Speed Week race (this obviously regarding the old Northern Sprint Tour) had ever been rained out, a show at Willamette in 1998, the first Speed Week year and the only year it was run in June before they moved it to July.

The reason why we're having so much rain up here right now is that we're getting the leftovers of the typhoon that hit Japan about a week ago or so. Lots of juice in it and therefor quite a bit of rain, and daily/monthly rainfall records are falling all around western Washington right now. One of the locals here in Elma said this was just the fourth time in the last 80 years it rained on July 21st in Elma.