TREVOR MONTGOMERY 2008 INDUCTEE

BMX bike racing and helping his father Neil work on his racecars in the shop helped pave the way for Trevor Montgomery to begin his own driving career at the age of sixteen at Western Speedway. Competing in the Street Stock division, Trevor won ten out of eighteen races and captured back to back championships in 1987 and 1988.

At age nineteen, he moved up to the IMCA (International Motor Contests Association) Modified class where he was the Western Speedway champion in 1989 and then the Canadian IMCA champ in 1991. In addition during this time period, he had two second place championship runs. His first ride in a Sprintcar saw Trevor on the dirt at Cassidy Speedway where he earned a second and a third place in year-end points.

He then moved to pavement sprintcars at the age of twenty-six and became the first Canadian sprintcar winner at Calgary’s Race City Speedway and following this moved to competing with the NSSRA (Northwest Super Modified and Sprintcar Association) where he proved himself to be a very talented and dedicated racer, setting all-time track records at Black Creek’s Saratoga Speedway (12.90) and at Western Speedway (13.31) which broke Davey Hamilton’s record which was set seven years previously in a Super Modified. He also set fast times at several other Northwest tracks.

His final Sprintcar was built by Victoria’s Russ Lejeune who also served as a crew member on the NSSRA circuit as did Trevor’s Dad Neil who built the engines for this car with which they won eleven of eighteen races held over a two year period. In 1997 he won Western’s prestigious Daffodil Cup, a feat which he repeated in 1999 and again in 2003 and also won the Strawberry Cup in both 1998 and 2002. Trevor became the first Canadian to secure an NSSRA Championship in 1997 in front of hometown fans at Western and won his second title the following year at Tri Cities in Richland Washington which was followed by a third at Meridian Speedway in Boise Idaho despite missing one race during that season.

With fifty plus feature race wins and numerous other awards received over his career, Trevor Montgomery established himself as one of the premier racecar drivers in the Pacific Northwest.