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Bronson Foianini flips over backward while trying to make it to the top in the Washington Nitro Nationals Hillclimb race on Sunday, May 8.
Molly Weddle of Prosser races up the 1,000-foot Washington Nitro Nationals course Saturday, May 7.
VERNITA - More than 1,000 hillclimb racing enthusiasts turned out Saturday, May 6-8, for the Washington Nitro Nationals.
Port Angeles native Jake "The Animal" Anstett won four classes Saturday to lead Washington state's contingent of racers.
At the Nitro Nationals, riders pit their skill and motorcycles against a 1,000 foot course. Many of the motorcycles are powered by nitrous oxide and methanol.
Anstett broke the 20 second mark in the open class.
Several Eastern Washington racers were among the field, including Molly Weddle of Prosser.
Activities opened with pit bike racing on Friday night, then continued with hillclimb racing on Saturday and Sunday.
The race is perennially the second-largest motorcycle competition in Eastern Washington, second only to the Desert 100 in Odessa.
The racesite is at Rattlesnake Ridge ORV park on state Highway 24 between Othello and Yakima, north of Sunnyside.
Roger Harnack is owner/publisher of Free Press Publishing. An award-winning journalist, photographer, editor and publisher who grew up in Eastern Washington, he's one of only two Washington state journalists ever to receive the international Golden Quill for editorial/commentary writing. Roger is committed to preserving local media, and along with it, a local voice for Eastern Washington.
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