{"id":160,"date":"2014-12-19T21:12:21","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T21:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/216.161.14.55\/blog\/?p=160"},"modified":"2016-12-29T00:23:35","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T00:23:35","slug":"valley-freightliner-sponsors-south-sound-speedways-big-rig-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freightlinernorthwest.com\/news\/valley-freightliner-sponsors-south-sound-speedways-big-rig-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Valley Freightliner Sponsors South Sound Speedways Big Rig Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/dot.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"facebook_send\",\"google\",\"email\",\"linkedin\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"en_US\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"FreightlinerNW\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";var hupso_title_c=\"Valley%20Freightliner%20Sponsors%20South%20Sound%20Speedways%20Big%20Rig%20Event\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>For the second consecutive year, Valley Freightliner, Inc., sponsored South Sound Speedway\u2019s annual Big Rig race event.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->More than 4,000 spectators poured into the grand stands at South Sound Speedway this year to watch\u00a0 National Association of Big Rigs (NABR)\u00a0 annual event Saturday night July 19th.\u00a0 The awesome smoke-billowing NABR Big Rigs, the Limited Late Models, Pure Stocks and Mini Stocks wowed the onlookers. \u00a0 Eleven Big Rig race teams went head to head around South Sound Speedway\u2019s 3\/8 mile track, racers were trading paint and blowing enough black smoke to be seen in Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>Each year, Valley Freightliner, Inc., sponsors this spectacular event as a show of customer appreciation, and to say thanks to the communities of Thurston and Lewis counties for such a warm welcome into the area since opening their third location off of Exit 95 in April 2012.Professional races with trucks made for the contest are a relatively new concept in the United States. The racing championship was exclusively\u00a0a field for light cars until 1989 when the North American Big Rig Racing Association began operations in Canada, and, then in 1997, the South Sound Speedway in Washington.\u00a0 If you haven\u2019t taken the opportunity to witness the NABR Big Rigs and enjoy some racing history at South Sound Speedway, you certainly need to mark your calendar for next year\u2019s event!<\/p>\n<p>Valley Freightliner, Inc. would like to extend a huge THANK YOU to Thurston and Lewis county residents, businesses and government agencies for their continued support and seamless integration into the area.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-163 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.freightlinernorthwest.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/VFI-Sponsors-South-Sound-Trucks-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freightlinernorthwest.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/VFI-Sponsors-South-Sound-Trucks-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.freightlinernorthwest.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/VFI-Sponsors-South-Sound-Trucks-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.freightlinernorthwest.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/VFI-Sponsors-South-Sound-Trucks-326x217.jpg 326w, https:\/\/www.freightlinernorthwest.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/VFI-Sponsors-South-Sound-Trucks-700x467.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the second consecutive year, Valley Freightliner, Inc., sponsored South Sound Speedway\u2019s annual Big Rig race event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-olympia"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freightlinernorthwest.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freightlinernorthwest.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freightlinernorthwest.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freightlinernorthwest.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freightlinernorthwest.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.freightlinernorthwest.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":748,"href":"https:\/\/www.freightlinernorthwest.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freightlinernorthwest.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freightlinernorthwest.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freightlinernorthwest.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freightlinernorthwest.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}