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Stories · Press Room · August 2002

The weekend the records fell

Nitro under the lights at the World Finals. From the track's original website.
Nitro under the lights at the World Finals. From the track's original website.

The track's own news feed covered the 40th annual AHRA World Finals as it happened: "Track @ SRP is being prepped for the AHRA." Pit gates opened at 1:30. Then the track record fell twice in one day (5.833 at 240.82), a jet car went 301 MPH, and by the time the Tuesday update was posted the jet car record read 307.

The feed also asked people to "Please Remember the Jeff Phillips family," and apologized that the site's photographer had run the digital camera's battery dead.

Written for this site from the original page on spokaneracewaypark.com. See the archived original →

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