2013
Event Calendar
Little Caesars
Pizza
Fox Hunt
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Gold Cup race
Thur., June 20
Pre-Event
Racer Parking/
Credentials:
6-8 pm
Fri., June 21
Opens: 11 am
Gold Cup time
trials: 12:45 pm
Race: 4 pm
Sat., June 22
Opens: 10 am
Gold Cup time
trials: 11 am
Gold Cup: 2:30 pm
Jets, Funny Cars &
Pro Mods
Show: 6:30 pm
Guys: $20
Kids 6-12: $5
Toddlers: Free
Ladies: Free
(tower side)
Ladies Pits: $10
Fairly Reliable Bobs
Club Challenge #4
Fri, June 28
Opens: 2 pm
Race: 6:30 pm
Adults: $12
Kids 6-12: $3
26th Annual
Qualafab
Street Machine
Shootout &
Gold Cup
Race
Sat., June 29
Opens: Noon
Race: 6:30 pm
Adults: $12
Kids 6-12: $3
Toddlers: Free
Test `n Tune
& Grudge Day
presented by
Larry Miller
Subaru
Sat, July 6
Open: 10 am
Testing: 11 am-
4 pm
Test: $25
Crew: $12
Kids 6-12: $3
Toddlers: Free
12th Annual
NAPA Auto Parts
Import Summer
Jam
presented by
Lyle Pearson Acura
Sat., July 6
Opens: 4 pm
Race: 8 pm
Adults: $12
Kids 6-12: $3
Toddlers: Free
Fairly Reliable Bobs
Club Challenge #5
Fri, July 12
Opens: 2 pm
Race: 6:30 pm
Adults: $12
Kids 6-12: $3
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36TH ANNUAL FOX HUNT PRESENTED BY LITTLE CAESARS PIZZA THIS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
One of the coolest major events on the Firebird schedule is the Great American Fox Hunt & Drag Races. Presented by Little Caesars Pizza, the Famous Fox Hunt returns this Friday and Saturday, June 21st and 22nd.
Racer gates will actually open from 6 to 8 pm on Thursday evening, June 20th for early parking and credentials. With a full double-header round of racing in the Boise Muffler Gold Cup Series, gates will open on Friday, June 21st, no later than 11 am (or when the line of trailers reaches the highway, whichever is earlier), followed by time trials at 12:45 and Gold Cup eliminations at 5 pm. Saturday, June 22nd will open for racers at 10 am, followed by time trials from 11:45 until 2:15 pm and first round of the second day of Gold Cup action at 2:30 pm. The Pro Show is set to officially launch at 6:30 pm. The show will continue until 10:15 pm.
Ever since “T.V. Tommy” Ivo first appeared with his spectacular Jet Dragster at the `78 Fox Hunt, the event has featured the fire-blasting Jets. No different this year, both Derek Snelson with his Alaska-based “Warhawk” will perform along side the ultra-swift “Warped Speed” driven by veteran jet jockey Richard Smith. Two Jet Funny Cars will definitely deliver a battle of the afterburner pops before each and every match up on Saturday night.
For better than two decades, many of the top Blown Doorslammers will host one of their key races in the West Coast Outlaw Pro Modified Association. Reigning Fox Hunt champion Rod Burbage and his all-new supercharged Camaro, along with a number of other top-ranked teams will be competing this weekend. Above image provided by Steve Bunker Photography.
Wheelstanders have long been a fixture at Firebird since the track first opened in 1968. In fact, during the inaugural year of the raceway, Bob Riggle with the Hemi Under Glass helped opened the fledgling new facility during the Grand Opener and Richard Schroeder appeared a couple months later with his wheelstanding Javelin. For the past three decades we’ve been treated to the remarkable wheelstanders of Ed Jones from Malad. “The Outlaw” will be bringing his Jelly Belly Stagecoach to this year’s Fox Hunt, a car the kids just love to see run the entire quarter-mile on two wheels.
Throw in one of the biggest Gold Cup events of the season (with two separate days/nights of racing in a variety of classes) and you can certainly sense that we have the makings of one of the best races of the year. Tell your friends, your family, the people you work with, your next-door neighbors that there’s one and only one place to be over the June 21-22 weekend, it’s the Fox Hunt at Firebird.
Lookin’ forward to seeing everyone at the 36th Fox Hunt – and in case you hadn’t heard: it’s the one event where all ladies get in for free!
BB/FUNNY CARS SET FOR FIRST APPEARANCE OF SEASON AT FOX HUNT
Funny Cars have long been one of the fan favorites at events staged coast-to-coast across America. Making their maiden appearance this season at Firebird will be the ultra-cool BB/Funny Cars headed up by "Burnout King" Greg Howland with his amazing "Zeus" Corvette flopper (image at right by Chris Graves Photography).
Howland blew everyone away last year when he performed a quarter-mile burnout similar to what such legends as "the Ace", "Jungle Jim", "Brute Force" and others became famous for back in the early days of drag racing.
Howland will be joined by a number of top runners from the northwest, which includes the: "Hell on Wheels" Mustang of female hot shoe Kim Parker; Todd Swinford's "Photo Op" Datsun 280-Z; and the bright orange 200 mph Cuda of Mark Tarabochia from Astoria, Ore.
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