Archive, not a live event
NissanFest was run by Northwest Nissans at Evergreen Speedway, 14405 179th Ave SE, Monroe, WA 98272, every year from 2012 through 2018. No NissanFest is currently scheduled. The facts below come from the archived NissanFest pages, preserved so this history stays online even though the event doesn't run anymore.
Before Evergreen Speedway
Before it was NissanFest, Northwest Nissans ran one of the largest Nissan and Datsun spring meets on the West Coast at Golden Gardens Park in Seattle for nine years running. "Golden Gardens 2012 is now NissanFest 2012" — the meet moved toEvergreen Speedway in Monroe, Washington, and grew into a car show, autocross and drift event.
The inaugural NissanFest, held at Evergreen Speedway with free entry. Presented by Northwest Nissans, it marked the move from the long-running Golden Gardens Park meet in Seattle to the Monroe speedway.
The second NissanFest added a Swap Meet, Drift Competition and time trials alongside the car show. Registration for autocross and drifting opened through Northwest Nissans' online store.
The third NissanFest brought back the car show and drift competition and added a dedicated autocross registration. Drag racing was announced and then cancelled. The NWmotiv "Showcase" car show ran as a separately registered event alongside the main festival.
Nissan Fest returned on April 26, 2015 (date from the caption of an archived event photo — no standalone 2015 event page survived in our archive, so we can't confirm this year's pricing or classes the way we can for the years around it).
The fifth NissanFest ran the car show, autocross and a cageless tandem drift competition, with a call for "good, experienced drivers." Both the autocross and the car show sold out ahead of the event. Doors opened at 11am.
The site credited Gaelen Norman as Event Coordinator andJason Zimmer as Media Coordinator for this season. Media wanting track access had to apply for credentials, attend a pre-event safety briefing, and publish their coverage within two weeks.
No standalone 2017 event page survived in this archive. NissanFest is described on the original site as running from 2012 through 2018, and the 2018 event refers to itself as the "6th annual" NissanFest — we're publishing what the archive actually shows rather than filling the gap with a guess.
The sixth and, as far as this archive shows, final NissanFest. AutoX was cancelled. The car show ran a full day, 7am to 4pm, with no leaving early. Team Tandem expanded to allow four-car teams.
The site continued to display this 2018 event page unchanged through at least 2019, before going dark. It now returns a 404.
About this archive
These facts are drawn from NissanFest pages captured by the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine and cross-checked against each other where more than one snapshot survived. We do not reproduce attendee blog comments, photographer photos, or the event's old staff email addresses.