For Immediate Release

Evergreen Speedway – Fairgrounds Monroe

Saturdays Washington 500 is yet another ambitious day for the staff and competitors at Evergreen Speedway.  Featuring four different divisions of stock cars, and spanning afternoon into late night, this race day has become a hallmark event for stock car racing in the Pacific Northwest.  “The Toyota/Concept Race Cars and Parts 150” featuring the NASCAR Camping World Series West, will be half the length of last years race and will feature a break at the 75 lap mark.  The “shoot out” style of this year’s race makes it even more unpredictable and exciting.  This will mean that teams can no longer “ride around” waiting for the final laps as each lap will need to be “flat out”.  The .646-mile oval has hosted this division on 49 previous occasions but perhaps none with so much “value added”. 

The NASCAR Whelen All American Series will figure prominently during the Washington 500.  The “N.C. Machinery 150” fields the growing and very popular Speedway Chevrolet Super Stocks.  This premiere weekly late model series is the Northwest’s strongest and showcases the best drivers anywhere in a weekly show.  The top five in the NASCAR Whelen All American Series Track Championship hunt and NASCAR Washington State Championship chase are: points leader Naima Lang, already a five time winner, defending champion John Zaretzke, Mike Holden, the popular Jeff Knight and rookie James Mugge.  The Les Schwab Tires Bombers will open the show at 5:00pm with a 50-lap points race for only the second time ever on the big track.