Ron Brombelow, driving the Warlock car, and Travis Hitt in the Hittman car, both of Quilcene, move up to the starting line Saturday at the Forks Airport during the West End Thunder Drag Races. The next and final race of the season is scheduled for September 23 and 24. (Lonnie Archibald/for Peninsula Daily News)

Ron Brombelow, driving the Warlock car, and Travis Hitt in the Hittman car, both of Quilcene, move up to the starting line Saturday at the Forks Airport during the West End Thunder Drag Races. The next and final race of the season is scheduled for September 23 and 24. (Lonnie Archibald/for Peninsula Daily News)

SPORTS SHOTS: Drag racing, mud bogging on the Peninsula

There was drag racing and mud bogging on the Olympic Peninsula this weekend. At left, Joe George, near lane, and Lacey Kennedy, her head barely visible in the far lane, both from Port Townsend, race on the mud track on identical Yamaha Raptor 700 ATVs during the Mud Drag races event of the Jefferson County Fair at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds on Sunday. George won all three of the best of three races. At right, Ron Brombelow, driving the Warlock car, and Travis Hitt in the Hittman car, both of Quilcene, move up to the starting line Saturday at the Forks Airport during the West End Thunder Drag Races. The next and final race of the season is scheduled for September 23-24. (Lonnie Archibald/for Peninsula Daily News)

Joe George, near lane, and Lacey Kennedy, her head barely visible in the far lane, both from Port Townsend, race on the mud track on identical Yamaha Raptor 700 ATVs during the Mud Drag races event of the Jefferson County Fair at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds on Sunday. George won all three of the best of three races.

Joe George, near lane, and Lacey Kennedy, her head barely visible in the far lane, both from Port Townsend, race on the mud track on identical Yamaha Raptor 700 ATVs during the Mud Drag races event of the Jefferson County Fair at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds on Sunday. George won all three of the best of three races.

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