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Updated Contract with Indianapolis Convention & Visitors Association Keeps IMIS in Indianapolis Indefinitely

Updated Contract with Indianapolis Convention & Visitors Association Keeps IMIS in Indianapolis Indefinitely

INDIANAPOLIS, July 21, 2010: After substantial growth following the inaugural International Motorsports Industry Show (IMIS) last year in Indianapolis, officials from IMIS and the Indianapolis Convention & Visitors Association (ICVA) have announced an unprecedented agreement to keep the show in Indianapolis indefinitel ... Continue reading

Yokohama Tire Expands Los Angeles Angels Partnership with Home Team Pride Jersey Promotion

Yokohama Tire Expands Los Angeles Angels Partnership with Home Team Pride Jersey Promotion

FULLERTON, July 19, 2010: Beginning on July 30, Yokohama Tire Corporation will kick off its “Home Team Pride” jersey promotion as part of its sponsorship of the Los Angeles Angels baseball team. The promotion, which will run through September 12, will offer fans an official replica Angels baseball jersey with ... Continue reading

Online Voting Begins for Ford Customer Service Division’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Car Design Contest to Support Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation

Online Voting Begins for Ford Customer Service Division’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Car Design Contest to Support Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation

• Voting for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) design that will be featured on the No. 21 Motorcraft/Quick Lane Ford Fusion NASCAR Sprint Cup Series car begins Tuesday, July 6, and ends on September 3, a total of 60 days in honor of Wood Brothers Racing’s 60-year anniversary of racing Ford prod ... Continue reading

Swiss Racecar Driver Buys One-of-a-Kind Tesla Roadster

Swiss Racecar Driver Buys One-of-a-Kind Tesla Roadster

ZURICH--Swiss racecar driver and promoter Fredy Lienhard has bought a Tesla Roadster Sport that gained fame as the record-setting winner of the Monte Carlo Alternative Energy Rally. “And this particular car wrote history as the first fully electric car to win an international FIA race. Automobile racing must fully ... Continue reading

Yokohama Tire Corporation Releases Second Educational Video

Yokohama Tire Corporation Releases Second Educational Video

<b>New “Yokohama Tire Tips” segment focuses on 'how to read the sidewall of a tire' and is again hosted by off-road racing champion Cameron Steele. Video can be seen on the company’s Website and YouTube</b> FULLERTON, July 6, 2010: How to read the sidewall of a tire is the subject of Yokohama Tire Corpor ... Continue reading

Yokohama's Electric Vehicle Wins with Record Time at Pikes Peak

Yokohama's Electric Vehicle Wins with Record Time at Pikes Peak

<b>EV bests previous “Race to the Clouds” mark by over a minute</b> Vehicle driving on Yokohama tires and powered by a new AC Propulsion motor broke the record for electric vehicles in the 2010 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb in Colorado Springs, Colorado over the weekend. With Japanese driver Ikuo Hanawa ... Continue reading

Ford Customer Service Division Launches NASCAR Sprint Cup Car Design Contest To Support Juvenile Diabetes Foundation

Ford Customer Service Division Launches NASCAR Sprint Cup Car Design Contest To Support Juvenile Diabetes Foundation

• Ford Customer Service Division (FCSD) has joined the effort of finding a cure for Type 1 Diabetes by partnering with Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) in raising funds and awareness through its NASCAR Sprint Cup Program. • JDRF children have the chance to design the paint scheme of the No. 21 Mot ... Continue reading

Robin Hood Rally Arrives In Tuxedo NY June 25 & 26. Second Installment Of Televised Amateur Race Series On Closed Roads To Benefit Local Community

Robin Hood Rally Arrives In Tuxedo NY June 25 & 26. Second Installment Of Televised Amateur Race Series On Closed Roads To Benefit Local Community

Tuxedo NY, June 18, 2010: Take 55 cars, 54 men and one woman, add six miles of asphalt, $500,000 worth of prizes at stake, throw them together for two days of challenging racing in the historic Hudson Valley and what do you get? The Robin Hood Rally, www.robinhoodrally.com, a televised series of 10 amateur road races o ... Continue reading

Yokohama Adds Orange Oil-Infused Race Tires to Pikes Peak Electric Buggy

Yokohama Adds Orange Oil-Infused Race Tires to Pikes Peak Electric Buggy

FULLERTON, June 16, 2010: Yokohama Tire Corporation’s ADVAN® ENV-R2™ orange oil-infused race tires have another mountain to conquer…literally. Already the official spec tire in the IMSA Patrón GT3 Challenge by Yokohama and the new ALMS GT3 Challenge (GTC) Class, the ENV-R2 is now poised to take on ... Continue reading

Yokohama Tire Corporation's New 4-Year Contract with Union Highlights Positive Working Relationship

Yokohama Tire Corporation's New 4-Year Contract with Union Highlights Positive Working Relationship

FULLERTON, June 7, 2010: The new four-year contract between Yokohama Tire Corporation’s manufacturing plant in Salem, Virginia and the United Steelworkers (USW) Local 1023 signifies the positive working relationship between the two sides, according to Rex Simpson, Yokohama vice president, administration. Previousl ... Continue reading

Yokohama Tire Corporation To Release Series Of Educational Videos

Yokohama Tire Corporation To Release Series Of Educational Videos

<b>First “Yokohama Tire Tips” segment – featuring off-road racing champion Cameron Steele – to go live on the company’s Web site and YouTube during Tire Safety Week</b> FULLERTON, June 5, 2010: To increase public awareness about a wide variety of tire-related subjects, Yokohama Tire Corporation ... Continue reading

Drivers on Yokohama Tires Claim Redline Time Attack Victories at Auto Club Speedway

Drivers on Yokohama Tires Claim Redline Time Attack Victories at Auto Club Speedway

FULLERTON, June 4, 2010: Yokohama Tire Corporation-shod race cars took the overall win and earned three first-place finishes at the Redline Time Attack event at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California, May 29-30. The drivers scored the wins on Yokohama’s ADVAN A005® and ADVAN Neova® AD08 tires. The Redline ... Continue reading

New Race Series Set to Make U.S. Motor Sports History

New Race Series Set to Make U.S. Motor Sports History

MEMPHIS, Tenn., Sept. 25 -- The Caged Heat Racing Series is set to make motor sports history as it becomes the first racing series of its kind. This innovative series is designed to pit 30 custom-built half-scale stock cars against each other, on a custom engineered 22-foot high indoor caged racetrack. April 2010 will ... Continue reading

Sprint Car Invasion Stopped By Rain on Saturday Night

Sprint Car Invasion Stopped By Rain on Saturday Night

Contact: Lillian Bell (717) 292-1696 -FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SSP's Sprint Car Invasion Stopped By Rain on Saturday Night Newberrytown, PA (September 12, 2009) - The PA Sprint Series (PASS) invasion of Stock Car Saturday Night at the Susquehanna Speedway Park on September 12 was cancelled due to rain. The track was ready ... Continue reading

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