Age: 56
Started racing: 1973
Home Town: Portland, Oregon
Occupation: Owner T&G Trucking & Freight Inc & Promoter of Sunset Speedway.
Walters racing all started when Doug purchased a 1964 Pontiac Lemans stock car and started racing in 1975 on a small dirt track in Seletz, Oregon. Before long Doug started competing at Willamette Speedway, a dirt track located in the small town of Lebanon, Oregon. This track is well known for drawing some 100 drivers from all over the Northwest every Saturday night, the competition is fierce providing both drivers and fans with some of the best racing within the country.
For several years in the late 70s and throughout the 80s Doug would compete at Portland Speedway on the asphalt ¼ mile track, then on Saturdays he would switch out the springs, change the set up on his #67 bright red racecar, then travel to Willamette Speedway to race on the dirt.
His driving career would win him several main events at both of these tracks and he would consistently finish the year out being in the top 10 in driver championship points.
In the mid 80's Doug was racing with better equipment and would occasionally compete in a hand full of selected high profile Nascar Winston West races, for a driver not competing full time on the series he would always end the race with a respectable finish.
At the end of the 1984 season Willamette Speedway presented Doug with the "Sportsman driver of the year award" in the Super Dirt Late Model division.
During the 1998 season he made the decision to slow down and make his son Greg the teams primary driver, Greg was already racing on a limited schedule, soon found himself racing full time at Portland Speedway driving an asphalt late model stockcar, he would race every Friday night on the ½ mile against some of the best competition in Nascars late model division. This would give the young driver valuable experience racing at high speeds in the tough competition of short track racing.
Greg's dad that same season purchased a dirt late model for Greg to drive on Saturday nights at Willamette Speedway, Greg was soon racing both at Portland Speedway on Friday nights and at Willamette Speedway on Saturday night, just as his dad had year's prior.
In 2003 Doug formed and promoted the Pacific Coast Dirt Late Model Series, which competes at various racetracks throughout Oregon, Washington and California.
Today Doug has about all of his time taken up with promoting the series and Sunset Speedway located in Banks, Oregon. Doug is constantly evaluating the future for both the series and the track, working with the sponsors, track personnel and coordinating on and off track activities.