Mindy's Sunny California Minute
Press Information: For Immediate Release Contact Information Mindy Stephens Ringers Gloves Public Relations 800.421.8454 _mindys@ringersgloves.com_ (mailto:mindys@ringersgloves.com) MINDY’S SUNNY CALIFORNIA MINUTE Moorpark, Calif. - (November 7, 2006) After being in Sin City for a week and a half, I was ready to hit the road for a change. I flew to sunny California on Saturday afternoon to spend a couple days in the Ringers Gloves home office in Moorpark (Calif.). Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love Las Vegas and everything about it. The NHRA race and the SEMA Show both were great events for us, but after losing money almost every night and not winning one penny, I was ready to bail. However, I still have to give an extra special “thank you�?? again to Brendan Gaughan, Mike Snow and everyone at South Point Racing for taking care of us at the South Point Hotel & Casino, even though the South Point was one of the fine establishments I contributed money to and didn’t get anything back from! Thanks again you guys! While I was at the Gaughan-owned casino in Vegas, the Gaughan’s South Point Racing team and driver Brendan was trying to tame the 1.5-mile oval. Brendan usually has some pretty good runs at Texas Motor Speedway, after all it is where he picked up his first NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series win, but this time around TMS wasn’t so good to him. Brendan got out of shape on lap 60 and about put himself into the wall. He was able to save his No. 77 South Point Dodge, but the rest of the race was a battle for him, fighting an ill-handling ride. After bringing his No. 77 home in 17th, the team discovered the right rear spring popped out of its place, causing Brendan the problems. Kyle Busch returned behind the wheel of the Ringers supporting team, the No. 15 Billy Ballew Motorsports Chevrolet, and gave eventual winner Clint Bowyer quite a run for his money. Within the final two laps of the race, Busch pulled within 0.279 seconds of Bowyer and that’s where he ended up finishing, the margin he was behind Bowyer in second place. The NASCAR Busch Series and the Nextel Cup Series also raced at Texas Motor Speedway over the weekend. On Saturday, the Busch Series and Ringers supporting drivers Todd Kluever and Jason Leffler competed in the O’Reilly Challenge 300. Kluever was the highest finishing Ringers supporting driver and the highest finishing rookie of the race. Kluever used his DriverX racing gloves to pilot his No. 06 Ford Fusion to a 10th-place finish. However, Leffler didn’t have very good luck on Saturday. Leffler was put out of the race on lap 55 with an expired engine, relegating him to 43rd. The Ringers team of Penske Racing South and its drivers Kurt Busch and Ryan Newman had night and day runs throughout the Dickies 500 on Sunday afternoon. Newman went a lap down early in the race and never gained it back, crossing the line in 34th. On the other hand, Busch took his No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge to the front of the field for 37 laps and brought his hot rod home in eighth place. Only two races remain in all the elite divisions of the NASCAR series, Phoenix this weekend and Miami-Homestead the following. With the National Sprint Tour (NST) season over, Ringers racer Tim Kaeding ventured to his home state of California to run the 13th annual Trophy Cup at Tulare Thunderbowl in Tulare, Calif. TK captured the win on the first night and finished second on the final night to clinch his second Trophy Cup title and sixth for the Kaeding family. His brother Bud also raced over the weekend at the Budweiser Oval Nationals at Perris Auto Speedway in Lake Perris, Calif. BK finished 12th on the first night and 10th on the second night in USAC National & USAC/CRA sprint action. BK is a former Oval Nationals winner. That’s it for this week! I am headed to Pomona tomorrow night for the NHRA finale of the season at the Auto Club Raceway at Pomona before I head back to Indianapolis to recoup for the 2007 season. About Ringers Gloves Ringers Gloves, Official Gloves of NHRA and title sponsor for the Ringers Gloves Pro Bike Battle, is a full-line manufacturer of high-end, task specific gloves, SFI 3.3/1, 3.3/10, 3.3/20 racing gloves, UnderX protective undergarments and rdigs pit boots. Keep up with your favorite Ringers racers in ‘06 by logging onto _www.ringersgloves.com_ (http://www.ringersgloves.com/) for photos and highlights! Mindy Stephens Public Relations/Marketing Ringers Gloves RingersIndy@aol.com www.ringersgloves.com