Vegas Baby! Part II

Oh yeah… Team Surrey In A Hurry will be in Las Vegas, NV, this week at the ACDelco Las Vegas NHRA Nationals ! Unlike last year though, we’re not just makingt the trip to spectate… this time we’re actually racing! Zak’s gonna take a crack at SuperGas — National Event style!

A couple of unnamed speed demons well qualified drivers have already transported Zak’s Berlinetta Beretta to Vegas in world record time a safe and sane manor. Zak and Tony will fly in like rock stars and meet up on Wednesday night.

Stay tuned for more details as they come in!

UPDATE! OK… so Zak and Tony made it to the airport… Three hours early to try and catch the first class upgrade. Wouldn’t you know it? There was one seat left. So much for flying in like rock stars…

It’s 5:52PM, the booze here sucks and we have over two hours to kill until the plane leaves. But let me tell you about the Snake Nuts! More details as we get bored…

UPDATE! Viva Las Vegas! Hold on to your valuables, ’cause Surrey In A Hurry has taken over Sin City.

We’re at ‘The Strip’ and Zak’s made a couple of time hits. The Beretta is running good for zero data. The sun is out in full force and this place runs cars through in a hurry! Over 500 cars in just 4 hours! The track must be way shorter here or something… Stay tuned!

UPDATE! 10am — Yeah! Round one is in the bag and we’re still in. Congrats Zak! Now all we have to do is wait around all day until SuperGas comes around again for the day…

UPDATE! 9:30pm… a mere almost 12 hours later… Finally… no more racing to get in the way of shakin’ it up in Las Vegas! Adios!

UPDATE! 6:00pm Friday: Bill & Bill from Steve Schmidt Racing Engines just had us in stitches for the last couple of hours. ‘Midget’ and ‘Water skis’ were awesome!

UPDATE! 9:20pm Friday… just finished up at ‘The Strip’ and on a whim we hacked a right into Las Vegas Motor Speedway. A (welched on…) big bet to entice ‘Lurch’ to take the Surrey Limo for a lap around the famous oval somehow turned into an invitation to hang out. Are they serious? We broke in and they asked us to stay? The cops must be on the way…

‘Trailer’ over and out.

UPDATE! Seriously… I don’t know how this happened, but Zak, Joe, Ron and I just blasted a lap around Las Vegas Motor Speedway… in the Surrey Limo. This was just a few a few minutes after I was encourged to slither into an Indy car at all costs for a 180mph lap around the place.. Apparently they don’t have a functioning 4XL machine around. For all you non-believers, there’s VIDEO bee-atch! We’re having a fricken’ riot…

VIDEO UPDATE: Makin’ a lap in the Surrey Limo!

2007 Ashcroft Season Finale

Surrey In A Hurry is still recovering from the 2007 Eagle Motorplex Season Finale banquet, but wanted to get some pictures up ASAP. So enjoy the few pics we have so far, including the Eagle Racing Association (Junior Dragster) raffle winner posing with his prize…

A day at the ‘Beach’

Finally! The photo's are in from Brian's Beach Party celebration at Samz pub. While I'm not so sure this is what Samz had in mind when they brought in the pool, this is what happens when you invite Surrey In A Hurry.

Hey, Lil' bro… don't get too mad. After all, these pics did come from your better half, Kim.

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‘Numba 1’ is #1

Congratulations to Surrey in a Hurry's own Ken 'Orsepower' Orser on his Lordco Super Combo Series win at the 5th  Annual Zimmer Wheaton Night of Fire Drags at the Eagle Motorplex!

For his efforts, Ken pocketed $700.00 for the late night/early morning 2:00AM win, while runner up Steve Lowe walked away with $400.00 of his own. Terry Langdon Davies claimed  $75.00 for making his way through the field into the semis. #1 qualifier and it's $100.00 bounty went to 2006 NHRA Super Pro World Champion Brad Vinje, while Warren Jacobson's "best losing package" – a 5 thou loss to Steve Lowe – earned him a Howard Hilborn sponsored $50.00 cheque. Sunday's race #2 of the scheduled double header was rained out.

Orser leads the Lordco Super Combo Series with 340 points with just three events left in the season. But this is no time to relax; Steve Lowe is only 9 points back at 331. Tom Brown and Gerry Epp are next at 294 and 286 respectively, while Vinje rounds out the top 5 with 270.

Special thanks go out to Warren & Yvette Jacobson for sending the race details and pic to us at Surrey in a Hurry. If you have information related to this or other races, or if you just think we should know about something, drop us a line! You never know what we'll get around to putting up!

Help out Bill Friend

Late in the afternoon during Saturday's time trials for the Thunder in the Alberni Valley, a local long time racer was involved in an horrific top end crash. After violently rolling and flipping multiple times, the car came to rest in the trees more than 60 feet from the track. The driver, 71 years young Bill Friend, is apparently now at home after a brief stint in the hospital. Amazingly, his injuries are not severe and he is expected to make a full recovery. However the car, a four speed '65 Comet Caliente that his family had owned since day one, is a different story. 

Almost immediately on Sunday morning, an announcement was made letting the crowd know of Bill's intention to get a race car back together. People that were interested in helping out a fellow racer in need were informed that donations could be made through Bill's good friend Grant
Klohn. Donations piled in over the next few hours and included an offer of a virtually identical replacement car! Team Surrey in a Hurry gave over $600 to the cause, with the lion's share coming from Zak's donation of a huge chunk of his Doorslammer winnings. The AVDRA kicked in $1500 dollars, and if nobody claims Saturday afternoon's 50/50 draw by the end of the week, that'll go in too.

 It's great  to see the drag racing community help out a racer in need. While nobody wants to have to deal with the potential realities of the sport, it's refreshing to see so many help out so selflessly. HorsepowerHeaven.com has more on the story,  as well as the forum from the Alberni Drag Racing Association website. We'll keep you posted as more info comes around. If you would like to help out, contact Grant Klohn via e-mail and he'll fill you in.

 Good luck Bill, and we all wish you the best.