Volume X, Issue 7, Page 39

KENT, Washington -- Like Boeing, Microsoft, Starbucks, and the Space Needle, grunge rock is a part of the Seattle social and economic fabric. So crank up the music and relive Sunday's results from Schuck's Auto Parts NHRA Nationals at Pacific Raceways.

Somewhere between Seattle and Sonoma, Calif., the next stop on the Powerade Drag Racing Series tour, Bartone might be singing the lyrics of "Somewhere," by Soundgarden:

How about two crashed race cars and a whole bunch of fires?" he quipped. "You never say die. You never give up. You keep plugging, and days like this happen.

Words by Susan Wade
Photos by Ron Lewis
7/22/2008