MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR DOUG WALTERS

All friends and race fans are invited to a memorial service for Doug Walters that will be held Friday September 5th at 6:30 pm at the Sunset Speedway (grandstand entrance). A Celebration of Life will immediately follow at the "Fire Pit," with a pot luck-style gathering.
PUNCOCHAR PICKS UP 2ND WIN OF SEASON IN TRIBUTE TO WALTERS:

By Bill Poehler -
Sunset Speedway Park - Banks, Oregon
Saturday August 31, 2008
Doug Walters always loved a race.
The co-owner and biggest booster of Sunset Speedway died in a highway accident Thursday night, but the racers and his friends knew that he would have wanted them to continue to race.
They showed up Saturday night at the 1/4-mile clay oval at the track in Banks, doing four-wide salutes before nearly every race in tribute to the man who guided the track Full Story

VITALE WINS 67-LAP T&G THRILLER ON COORS LIGHT SERIES AT SUNSET SPEEDWAY:

Coors Light Dirt Late Model Crate Series
Sunset Speedway Park - Banks, OR.
Saturday August 23, 2008
Casey Vitale hasn't done much racing this season since his foray into dirt late model racing on the east coast.
He made his season debut at 1/4-mile clay oval Sunset Speedway in Banks worth the effort Saturday night.
Vitale, of Lebanon, passed leading Jimmy Schram with 15 laps to go and went on to garner the $2,000 grand prize in the 67-lap Full Story

SATURDAY AUGUST 23RD DIRT LATE MODEL PICTURES FROM SUNSET SPEEDWAY PARK:

Click Here to view misc. pictures taken Saturday August 23rd at Sunset Speedway Park.
LINDBERG PICKS UP SECOND WIN ON COORS LIGHT DIRT LATE MODEL CRATE SERIES:

by Bill Poehler
Coors Light Dirt Late Model Crate Series
Sunset Speedway Park - Banks, OR.
Saturday August 9, 2008
Branden Lindberg was racing with a heavy heart and a heavy foot Saturday night.
Lindberg, still reeling after the death of friend and motocross racer Troy Boggs drove from the eighth starting position to win his second Coors Light Crate Engine Late Model main event of the season at Banks' Sunset Speedway.
The evening of racing started with Scio driver Steve Moore pacing Full Story
SATURDAY AUGUST 9TH DIRT LATE MODEL PICTURES FROM SUNSET SPEEDWAY PARK:

Click Here to view misc. pictures taken Saturday August 9th at Sunset Speedway Park.
GREG WALTERS WINS BACK TO BACK FEATURES AT SUNSET SPEEDWAY PARK:

by Bill Poehler -
Coors Light Dirt Late Model Crate Series
Sunset Speedway Park - Banks, OR.
Saturday July 26, 2008
Greg Walters' early-summer swoon has ended.
That's bad news for the competition.
The driver out of Banks won in Coors Light Crate Engine Late Model Series won for the second time in as many races Saturday night on the 1/4-mile clay oval of Sunset Speedway.
A season-best 22 cars were on hand for the race night, including Warriors of Dirt drivers Bob Trout, Doug Trout, Mike Keely, Kent Dollarhyde, Full Story
SATURDAY JULY 26TH DIRT LATE MODEL PICTURES FROM SUNSET SPEEDWAY PARK:

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GREG WALTERS WINS JON MILLER MOMORIAL AT SUNSET SPEEDWAY:

by Bill Poehler
Coors Light Dirt Late Model Crate Motor Series
Saturday July 19, 2008
Greg Biffle brought the crowd, but Greg Walters brought the show.
The NASCAR Sprint Cup star originally from Brush Prairie, Wash., made his second appearance at the Jon Miller Memorial Race sponsored by Irontech Saturday night at Sunset Speedway and won a 10-lap exhibition.
Walters, of Banks, won the main event for the Coors Light Crate Motor Class from the 12th starting position. Full Story
SATURDAY JULY 19TH PICTURES FROM THE JON MILLER MEMORIAL AT SUNSET SPEEDWAY PARK:

Click Here to view misc. pictures taken Saturday July 19th at Sunset Speedway Park.
LINDBERG WINS JULY 5TH COORS LIGHT LATE MODEL FEATURE AT SUNSET SPEEDWAY:

by Bill Poehler
Coors Light Dirt Late Model Crate Motor Series
Saturday July 5, 2008
Branden Lindberg faces a long tow every race weekend from his home in Monroe, Wash., down to his home track of Sunset Speedway in Banks, Oregon.
The crate model driver had a long way to go again Saturday night in winning the OR-Cal Open - Firecracker 150 Sponsored by Airgas.
Lindberg, driver of the No. 88 car, won his first main event in three years of late model driving Saturday, coming from the 10th starting position Full Story
SATURDAY JULY 5TH PICTURES FROM SUNSET SPEEDWAY PARK:

Click Here to view misc. pictures taken Saturday July 5th Coors at Sunset Speedway Park.
JIMMY SCHRAM PICKS UP FIRST 2008 WIN ON COORS LIGHT DIRT LATE MODEL SERIES AT SUNSET:

by Bill Poehler
Coors Light Dirt Late Model Crate Motor Series
Saturday June 28, 2008
Jimmy Schram was bound to break through.
Schram, last year's Super Sport champion at Willamette Speedway, joined brother, Jerry, as an A-Main event winner Saturday Night in Coors Light Crate Engine Late Model Series action this season.
Schram, starting the main event in the seventh position, took the lead on the 10th lap and was out front for the remaining 30 revolutions around the 1/4-mile clay oval, holding off brother, Jerry, and third-place Eric Sayre for the win. Full Story
SATURDAY JUNE 28TH PICTURES FROM SUNSET SPEEDWAY PARK:

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ROB MAYEA WINS BUD I-5 RACE AT GRAYS HARBOR RACEWAY:

by Bill Poehler
Saturday June 21, 2008
Rob Mayea's patience paid off.
After seeing John Duty rocket away with the lead on lap 18, Mayea bided his for 10 laps then the driver out of Bend rode the high way around the 3/8-mile clay oval of Grays Harbor Raceway into the lead and pulled away to the Bud I-5 Challenge Series win.
For the 2004 Bud I-5 champion, it was his second straight series win at the track. The last was in 2005, the last time the series raced at the ultra-fast speed plant.
Polesitting Lisa Stroup took the initial lead for the 50-lap A-Main and paced the first three laps until Albany driver Todd Shandy went around the only female driver in the field on the outside of turn two and took over the lead. The fast cars made their way through traffic and Mayea moved into the top five on lap seven. Full Story
ERIC SAYRE WINS BIG ON ROSE FESTIVAL NIGHT AT SUNSET SPEEDWAY PARK:

by Bill Poehler -
Sunset Speedway Park - Banks, Oregon
Saturday June 14, 2008
Everything is falling into place for Eric Sayre.
The driver from Vancouver, Wash., assumed the lead with 14 laps to go Saturday night when Greg Walters' car went dead and won Saturday night's 50-lap Rose Festival Dirt Cup at Banks' Sunset Speedway Park.
Sayre also took over the Coors Light Late Model points lead with 301, three better than Jerry Schram and 11 more than Walters. Full Story
SATURDAY JUNE 14TH PICTURES FROM SUNSET SPEEDWAY PARK:

Click Here to view misc. pictures taken at Saturday Night's June 7th Crate Motor Dirt Late Model race at Sunset Speedway Park.
SCOTT "IRONMAN" PUNCOCHAR PICKS UP FIRST WIN OF THE 2008 SEASON AT SUNSET SPEEDWAY PARK:

by Bill Poehler
Sunset Speedway Park - Banks, Oregon
Saturday June 7, 2008
Scott Puncochar showed the visitors how to race at Sunset Speedway Park.
The late model driver from Hillsboro took the lead with nine laps to go and held off several determined charges to win the main event labeled "The Prelude to the Shoot Out."
When the Warriors of Dirt late model race scheduled for this past weekend at Coos Bay Speedway was cancelled due to rain on Thursday, Jerry Schram reached out with an olive branch, welcoming the cars of the competing crate model series to race at Sunset Speedway Park. Full Story
SATURDAY JUNE 7TH PICTURES FROM SUNSET SPEEDWAY PARK:

Click Here to view misc. pictures taken at Saturday Night's June 7th Crate Motor Dirt Late Model race at Sunset Speedway Park.
JERRY SCHRAM PICKS UP SECOND CARRIER VICTORY AT SUNSET SPEEDWAY PARK:

by Bill Poehler
Sunset Speedway Park - Banks, Oregon
Jerry Schram was having a solid run.
The veteran driver from Vancouver, Wash., had worked the No. 16 Schram Excavating late model from 15th to second halfway through Saturday 50-lap Coors Light Late Model main event on the 1/4-mile clay oval that is Banks' Sunset Speedway Park.
Destiny had a different idea.
Greg Walters of Banks lost his 3/4-lap lead when an ignition wire came off of the No. 97 car with three laps to go, handing the lead over to Schram, and Schram checked out on the final restart for his first crate late model. Full Story

SATURDAY MAY 31ST PICTURES FROM SUNSET SPEEDWAY PARK:

Click Here to view misc. pictures taken at Saturday Night's May 31st Coors Lite Dirt Late Model Series race at Sunset Speedway Park.
WALTERS PICKS UP SECOND WARRIORS OF DIRT FEATURE:

Greg Walters driving his familiar #97 Rayburn Warpaint Graphix Chevrolet Impala SS started on the outside of the second row and went on to win his second straight Warriors of Dirt crate motor late model main event Saturday night May 10th at Cottage Grove Speedway.
HOLLYWOOD WINS AT THE GROVE:

Greg Walters picked up his fourth main event win of the early 2008 season Saturday night April 12th at Cottage Grove Speedway. Not surprisingly the 2007 Pacific Coast champion driving a crate motor late model was able to hold off and win against the local drivers competing in much larger open motor cars. This was also the first race of the new Warriors of Dirt crate motor touring late model series.
WALTERS RACING ENTERS GREG INTO RACES AT VEGAS AND BAKERSFIELD:

Walters Racing has prepared a new 2008 Rayburn Chassis Warpaint Graphix Mick Gray Automotive Chevrolet Dirt Late Model for Greg Walters to drive in this Thursday & Friday nights February 28th & 29th Dirt Late Model Race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. After the completion of Friday nights race the plan is for the team to pull out of Vegas and head west to Bakersfield, but a last minute team decision learning of a race at Perris Speedway - Perris, California.
Thursday night update - 50 dirt late models entered Thursday night's race, Greg qualified his Rayburn 3rd in his session, bad luck bit during his heat race and Greg cut down a left rear tire after getting together with another car. Greg went onto win his B-Main qualifier race which transferred him into the A-Main event were he ended up finishing 10th.
Friday night update - 44 late models entered tonights race, Greg finished 2nd in his heat race and finished 11th in the A-Main.
Saturday March 1st. - Perris Speedway, Perris California - 20 car field, Greg won his heat race and went onto win the 25-lap A-main event.
LATE MODEL CRATE ENGINE 2008 SCHEDULED RELEASED FOR SUNSET AND OR/CALIF RACES:
Sunset Speedway released its Coors Light Late Model Crate Engine 2008 Series Schedule this week along with the Oregon/California Late Model Crate Engine Challenge Series, a 6 race series competing between Oregon and California. Click Here to view schedule.
WALTERS PICKS UP THIRD TITLE ON PACIFIC DIRT LATEMODEL SERIES:

Pacific Coast Fastrak DirtCar Series by Bill Poehler - Greg Walters of Banks, Oregon won five Pacific Coast Fastrak DirtCar Series race on his way to his third series championship in three years and fifth of his career.
Walters collected 1076 points on his way to the title by 56 points in the 12-race series for crate engine dirt late models.
He won three races at his home track of Sunset Speedway, one at Madras Speedway and one at Cottage Grove Speedway.
Walters was thousands of miles away on weekend the season's championship two-day race driving one of the Warpaint house cars for Dusty Moore and had crew member Willie Sutton drive for him.
Rookie Scott Puncochar of Hillsboro finished second in series points with 1,020, winning the Rose Festival Dirt Cup in early June at Sunset and the season finale at the track.
Steve Suckow of Hillsboro, winner of the first race of the season at Fallon, Nevada., finished third in points in his rookie season with 986.
Youngster Branden Lindberg of Monroe, Washington had his best points finish to date in fourth with 918.
Terry Ferrando of Salem was one of the most improved drivers in the series, finishing fifth in points after winning three of the season's final six races, including the $3,000 to win race at Sunset August 25.
Rounding out the top 10 were Jerry Schram of Vancouver, Washington in sixth with 904, Jason Johnson of Gresham in seventh with 888, rookie Kevin "Pork Chop" Rogers in eighth with 884, Robby Ireland of Banks in ninth with 734 and rookie Billy Workman Jr. of Canby in 10th with 690.
There were 23 drivers who competed in the series this season.
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