[Blue Cobra]

Saturday morning’s drive down from the north of Everett was a few showers off and on. At the track, it was warm and humid most of the morning and into early afternoon was still dry until the parade laps when we had some real rain and a wet track that pretty much trashed the fastest racers, for the afternoon’s racing.

Last race of the Historics Small Bore Saturday afternoon, had a nasty loop out in the standing water coming out of corner #9, and ended as a head-on into the wall in front of the grandstands, the day ended under the yellow flag. Saturday was our clubs best showing with 6 cars in the corral, and sunshine all the way home.

Sunday was a wet, pithy marine layer mist that managed to pass through the iron clad waterproofing for my front windscreen to drip on my left knee. The pithy lasted until south Seattle and thank the Lord; there was not a drop the rest of the day at the track. Even though I was the only Club Cobra car in the coral on Sunday it was almost perfect weather overall for racing. But the highlight to round out a perfect day at the NW Historics. The Large Bore final race was a walk-away-win by our brethren, 1963 AC Cobra #04 (pic in last post) driven by an Auburn local, John McKenna!

I caught up with John and his team owner after the race. They explained how they had executed a perfectly planned game plan to “play with them” for the first 6-laps before John letting the hammer down on his stroker 400ci and walking away with the win.

Although the Can-Am racer Lola Frissbee GR2 ripping at 200MPH was almost as exciting; still nothing beat watching the Cobra 5-10 seconds ahead of the 2nd place car, haulin-ass down the straight capping out at 150MPH!!!!!

Cheers!
Blue Cobra Kevin and Dianne