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Will Faules

Thunderhill Lapping Days

March 18, 2009

Thunderhill Is Excited To Announce New Track Events Called Thunderhill Lapping Days. These Events Are Designed For Street Cars And Participants With Prior Track Day Experience. Below Are Some Of The Highlights of These Events. The first on is set for March 31st. Registration Is Available Online At www.thunderhill.com
• Entry Fees Are $160 Per Car/Driver – [...]

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Help Put Thunderhill on the Map, Google Map!

November 6, 2008

11/6/08-Willows, CA- Thunderhill has just confirmed that Google will be coming out to the track to add the facilities to Google Maps and Street View. They will be here for the NASA 25hour-test day on Thursday December 4th. Google and Thunderhill want 5 cars to be in the shots for the Street View. The car [...]

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Thunderhill Pleased With Current Status of Track

November 3, 2008

11/3/08-Willows, Ca- This last weekend Thunderhill hosted The Classics Sports Racing Group for a weekend of great racing with some very beautiful historic, very expensive toys. It became very interesting when the black rain clouds were coming in on Thursday night. As you may know Thunderhill re-paved the entire 3-mile track a few months ago [...]

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Thunderhill Raceway Park is Officially Closed!

July 28, 2008

But unlike many businesses, Thunderhill has not gone bankrupt or changed ownership. The Fastest Three Miles in the West is closed for construction until the Open House Ceremonies the eve of Friday, August 8th. The $1.5 million project is making very big improvements to the facility. A 2 inch overlay of the track with [...]

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Something in the air….

January 27, 2008

There is always a different mindset whenever I wake up on a race morning. It feels like there is something different in the air. Especially at a high profile event.
I got up on Saturday morning and knew I was in for something exciting, but I had no idea….
Just driving to the track, [...]

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Just another day at THE beach

January 24, 2008

Today we showed up at the track and I had some last minute stuff to do to the car before the tech Nazi would let us go out on track. Before we knew it, it was time to get the car to pre-grid for our first practice.
Rich, team owner and driver, took the car out [...]

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Lets go to THE Beach!

January 23, 2008

Beach towel:nope
Sunscreen: nope
Volleyball: Definitely not
Board shorts: won’t need those
Tools: yup!
Spare parts: Yup
Mechanix Gloves:check!
Flame suit: I’ll need that too..
Two days ago when I was getting ready to go to THE beach, in January, I wasn’t going through the usual “beach” checklist. I was getting ready to go racing at Daytona International Raceway.

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