Pro Stock drivers at the NHRA Northwest Nationals, convinced the NHRA had not properly prepared the track for their class, pulled out of the staging lanes and returned to the pits just two pairs into the first round of eliminations.

Their assessment was the shutdown area at Pacific Raceways in its present condition was unsafe for them to race their cars.

updated 4:30 PM, EST - Following the second round of nitro eliminations, the NHRA completed the opening round of Pro Stock. The session was without incident with Mike Edwards capturing the low elapsed time with a 6.60.

4:00 PM, EST. - The scenario bore a striking resemblance to the NHRA Arizona Nationals contest back in February.

Pro Stock drivers at the NHRA Northwest Nationals, convinced the NHRA had not properly prepared the track for their class, pulled out of the staging lanes and returned to the pits just two pairs into the first round of eliminations.

Their assessment was the shutdown area at Pacific Raceways in its present condition was unsafe for them to race their cars.

“We have a huge discrepancy in what us as Pro Stock drivers and crew chiefs need in a racing surface and what the NHRA believes we need in a racing surface,” Pro Stock racer Greg Anderson told ESPN on Sunday afternoon. “They prep it in the way they do for the fuel cars – they run 1,000 feet. We run quarter-mile. They [NHRA] go out there and decide the track doesn’t need any extra glue for the Pro Stock cars. That’s 100-percent wrong. We preach it. We preach it. These cars have to have glue all the way to the quarter-mile. That was skipped today.”

Track prep sources have told Attitude’s CompetitionPlus.com the reason the NHRA doesn’t spray the track beyond 1,000 feet for the fuel cars is the deceleration of the nitro cars causes the tires to chunk.

The NHRA’s Graham Light has been firm in his stand against the NHRA Pro Stock drivers, as he told ESPN, “We have two winners already, we will pair them up as a final.”

Anderson cautioned, "Until we get on the same page with the NHRA and they realize what we need as Pro Stock cars, we're going to wreck cars. It was an absolute miracle we didn't crash one of the first four cars down that race track. Absolutely out of control that last eighth-mile. There's no reason for that. The race track surface didn't get bad overnight. It's how it was prepped or lack of prep."