Over 120 cars came out to the Yorkton Airport Sunday to take part in the Kambusters Annual Drag Racing on one of the hottest days on the calendar year.
According to Wade Stachura, a member of the Kambusters race club, the event was really a one-day show that took place on Sunday, however, it began the night before.
"We had about 90 cars here last night," he told the paper at the end of the event on Sunday.
Things started on Sunday around 9:30 a.m., and Stachura joked a bit about it when he said the sweltering heat was actually good to see.
He went on to explain that intense heat, not only from engines everywhere heating up the drag strip, but also from the sun, is both a good thing for the racers and bad thing.
"The sun!" he said when asked what the best part of, before adding "as opposed to rain".
He added that the extreme heat isn't good for making horsepower and definitely isn't driver friendly, and that any sign of rain would have brought the day to an end immediately.
"If you've ever stuck your head in the oven," he used as a comparison to drivers in the cockpit of their cars. "The drivers will overheat."
"But you can put it all to the ground," he noted.
Aside from the intense weather, Stachura said most of the drivers that said they would attend, did attend and it was good to see such a variety of cars on the track(s).
The size of the crowd grew as the day went on. Kambusters featured two biodiesel jet cars as well as nitro bikes, the latter was new this year, he said.
Stachura also noted that the track has been pretty good for drag racing and the only problems he encountered during the day were mostly computer related.
He said the setup of the track at the airport was quite a task, taking almost six hours to make ready for the nearly 2,000 people that showed up on Sunday, and by 5:30 p.m., on Sunday, Stachura said there was still plenty of work to be done.
"It's not done yet," he said laughing, crediting the many volunteers who helped out over the weekend.
"We're so glad (for them)," notes Stachura. "There's lots of volunteers. (None of this) would work without the volunteers. We depend lots on them."
