Jake Swiger: 2025 Qlispe Raceway Super Pro Champion

AIRWAY HEIGHTS, Wash. — If Johnny Cash were still alive and wanted to pen new lyrics to his song, “I’ve been everywhere,” he could have tagged along with Qlispe Raceway’s Super Pro Eliminator 2025 champion, Jake Swiger.

His trips from home in Valley, Wash., located south of Chewelah, to Airway Heights to race were short by comparison to the rest of his 2025 season that saw Swiger, often accompanied by many if not all his family, travel the West in search of more success on the racetrack.
Locally he and his 1967 GTO collected 287 points, just enough to finish ahead of Greenacres, Wash. dragster competitor, Justin Jones with 278.

Consistency was the magic potion for Swiger’s run to the title in the track’s quickest bracket.
“We finished the season with a lot of quarter-finals semi-finals and runner up’s but couldn’t quite take the top spot at many races,” he explained in an email. 

In all Swiger, 43, estimates he put some 12,000 miles on his motor home and tow rig. “It was a steady every weekend since March in Tucson up until the Thanksgiving race in Vegas,” he said. 

“We took a whole month off and went from Tucson to Las Vegas got the kids licensed in Vegas and raced the GTO there,” Swiger said. Then it was back to Phoenix and raced even more. Then they returned to Las Vegas for the “Spring Fling” with the GTO. 

Add in trips to Firebird — both in Boise and Phoenix — Tucson, Woodburn, Bremerton, Renegade, Walla Walla and Mission in Canada.

He raced 10 separate tracks this year including the Division 6 ET finals in Mission, British Columbia representing Qlispe Raceway.

“For taking almost a 20-year break from racing while busy with raising a family, we jumped both feet in,” Swiger said.

Aside from the Qlispe title, other notable efforts for Swiger in 2025 came at the Halloween Classic at Boise’s Firebird.

Swiger is self-employed and supports what he called his “bad habit” by owning and operating Jake’s Repair LLC where he works on diesel equipment repair and custom fab work with CNC plasma table. 

“We also farm and sell hay throughout the summer,” he added.
Dad is not the only champion in the family, either.

“Revy our youngest son is a junior dragster racer and captured the championship in Walla Walla this year,” Swiger said.
Swiger wants to acknowledge his family who are an integral part of his operation, and success.

“I’d like to give thanks to my wife Amanda and my six kids — Matthew, Kassandra, Bradlee, Serenna, Jacob and Revy for allowing me the time I have spent away from home the last few seasons.”
Also add to that “Scotty Wear, George Leblanc and Micheal Winston for all the advice throughout it all,” Swiger said.

Swiger and his wife both raced in high school and during the Orville Moe days at the raceway. Both families were regulars at the track. Swiger is a 2001 graduate of Mary Walker HS in Springdale.
Following a break while raising a family, he returned to racing three years ago. Swiger was able to relaunch his racing pursuits in a 1967 Nova once owned by his father. His father sold the car about 10 years ago, but Swiger was able to locate it and return it to the family.