Well the winters range from nice and mild (last winter) to when is this **** going to stop/flooding into July (the year before) I have been here on the valley floor at -28*f to 110*f. So there is extreme differences in the weather. We have already had days pushing 85*f this year.
As for the drag strips, the closest one is 100 miles, but the best one is firebird raceway in Boise about 300 miles away. There are actually a lot of drag racers here too.