Racing Electonics announced recently that they have been selected and signed a multi-year deal as the exclusive scanner company for the International Speedway Corporation's racetracks.

RE is now preparing for a busy 2013 and will have additional locations, equipment and staff to assure race fans receive the very best experience possible.

In addition to racing scanners, Racing Electronics is proud to be the distributor for FanVision at all NASCAR Sprint Cup Races again in 2013.

The year 2013 marks the company’s 25th year in business. For more info on Racing Electronics, go to racingelectronics.com.

The founders of RacingJunk.com have launched a new employment website dedicated to the performance and racing industries.    

Interested job seekers can list their resume on HorsePowerJobs.com, whether they are newcomers to the industry or veterans looking for the next big opportunity.  

For an employer looking to find the right person to help their business grow, HorsePowerJobs.com allows for job listings as well.  

Free job postings are available by using the promotional code FREEJAN when listing a job.

For more, visit www.HorsePowerJobs.com.

A whirlwind week in May awaits the TRUFUEL MUST SEE RACING XTREME SPRINT SERIES and BIOBASED.US MUST SEE RACING SUPERMODIFIED SERIES as they visit two historic Midwestern tracks for five events in a seven-day span in 2013.

First up is the TruFuel “Xtreme Speed Challenge” MSR SPRINT CAR SERIES and the MSR SUPERMODIFIED SERIES at Winchester Speedway with an open testing day and a fan friendly meet and greet cookout on Saturday, May 18. Racing is on Sunday afternoon, May 19.

Winchester is one of the most notable and intimidating racing venues in the world, serving as a perfect host for the lightning-fast winged sprint cars and the return of the supers after last year’s first appearance following a 22-year hiatus. Gates open at 10 a.m., with racing getting under way at 2 p.m.

On Monday, May 20, both series move some 50 miles east to Anderson Speedway, one of the fastest quarter-mile tracks in the world. The SUPERMODIFIEDS start off the week on Monday night, May 20, returning to the Speedway after last year’s inaugural Twin 50’s event. The WINGED SPRINTS are up next on Wednesday, May 22, featuring the Must See Racing 60, one of the most frantic races of the season. A full field of WINGED SPRINT and SUPERMODIFIED cars will do battle on the tight confines of the high banks at Anderson Speedway. Gates open at 5 p.m. with racing at 7 p.m.

The week is capped off in grand style with the 65TH PAYLESS LITTLE 500 at Anderson Speedway on Saturday night, May 25. Must See Racing is the sanctioning body for this iconic racing event. The classic event will see the sprinters remove their wings for the only time this season, competing for their share of one of the largest purses in short track racing. The Little 500 starts at 8 p.m. on Saturday, with practice and qualifying taking place Wednesday through Friday. Advance race tickets are recommended.

The TRIPLE CROWN, presented by Must See Racing, will award the race team that can win the Winchester feature, the MSR60 feature and the Payless Little 500 with the same sprint car and driver a bonus of $50,000. This brings the total purse and possible bonuses for the week of racing to over $250,000.

The events will be telecast nationally on a tape-delayed basis. Well-known broadcaster Rick Benjamin will serve as play-by-play host, while Hall of Fame driver Tom Bigelow will provide color commentary. Respected writer and broadcaster Dave Argabright will serve as pit reporter.
For more information, visit www.mustseeracing.com.

Advanced Clutch Technology (ACT), Lancaster, California, is proud to announce the unveiling of a new website. Advancedclutch.com is a modernized, clean format that is easy to navigate, enabling users to find exactly what they need. Large call-to-action buttons on the homepage identify and specifically direct users to Find Parts, engage in a Live Chat or log in as a Dealer.

With the Find Parts option or the Help Me Choose Wizard, users are able to provide detailed information about their vehicles. These comprehensive search methods help to provide a more specific and tailored selection, giving consumers the key information they need to make an educated choice. The additional features of torque capacity, engagement, usage recommendations and a rating system for registered users highlights the key benefits for each product. The new website also features an up-to-date stock indicator on all parts and kit specific instructions for applicable parts.

The new Account Management system makes it easy for customers to track their recent orders, rate products they have purchased and save shopping carts for future purchases. In addition, the secured shopping cart with SSL Intregration offers multiple convenient payment options and a PayPal "Bill Me Later" option which currently offers 6 months no interest.

Following a busy offseason highlighted by format changes, increased payouts and exciting new looks to some familiar programs, the International Hot Rod Association is pleased to announce that the 2013 Contingency program is as strong as ever as postings are currently up 12 percent from last season with more sponsors on the way.
 
Already in 2013 some two dozen companies have posted for racing products with more being added every week. Heading into the IHRA Summit Racing Equipment Pro-Am Tour presented by AMSOIL season opener at Immokalee Regional Raceway these sponsors are looking forward to the start of the 2013 IHRA racing season and are excited to be involved in the new-look Summit Pro-Am Tour and Nitro Jam racing series.
 
In 2013, IHRA Contingency sponsors will be a part of upwards of 40 IHRA events including the Summit Racing Equipment Pro-Am Tour, Nitro Jam series and the IHRA Summit Racing Equipment World Finals at Memphis International Raceway.
 
Sponsors currently committed to the 2013 IHRA racing season include Altronics, ATI Performance Products, Auto Meter, Brodix, Cometic Gaskets, Dart Machinery, Ford Racing, Goodyear, Haulmark Trailers, Holley Performance, Hoosier Tires, Hughes Performance, JEGS, The Mad Scientist, Manley Performance, Mickey Thompson Tires, Moser Engineering, MSD Ignition, PTC, QA1, RJS Racing Equipment, Sonny’s Racing Engines, Strange Engineering and Summit Racing Equipment.

The spring Western swing has now become the Western dozen as the World of Outlaws STP Sprint Car Series has added Merced Speedway to the schedule.

The March 29 event marks the third consecutive year for the series at the tight third-mile oval, where Sammy Swindell has won each of the two previous World of Outlaws STP Sprint Car Series races.

The last time the series competed in the West, Donny Schatz capitalized on a hot streak en route to his fifth World of Outlaws STP Sprint Car Series championship. In nine races along the West Coast last August and September, Schatz won twice, finished second four times, placed fourth twice and his worst result was 11th.

This spring’s jaunt to the West includes 12 races at 10 tracks in Nevada, Arizona and California throughout March and the first two weeks of April.

It leads off with a two-day Las Vegas event at The Dirt Track at Las Vegas on Wednesday and Thursday, March 6-7. The series caps that weekend by making its return to Tucson International Raceway on Saturday, March 9, for the first time since 2007 at the Wildcat Shootout.

The World of Outlaws STP Sprint Car Series then finishes the trip with five consecutive weekends in California, beginning with a doubleheader at Thunderbowl Raceway in Tulare the following weekend, March 15-16.

The series will debut at the new Stockton 99 Dirt Track in Stockton on Friday, March 22, before the annual Mini Gold Cup at Silver Dollar Speedway in Chico on Saturday, March 23.

The Merced event is the only race currently scheduled the following weekend to close the month of March.

April begins on Friday, April 5, at Antioch Speedway in Antioch, where Californian Tim Kaeding threw a thrilling slide job on Schatz in turns three and four on the last lap to win last year’s lone event.

Calistoga Speedway in Calistoga hosts a race on Saturday, April 6. Schatz claimed last season’s race during his hot streak.

The trip west concludes with an event on Friday, April 12, at Kings Speedway in Hanford and on Saturday, April 13, at Perris Auto Speedway in Perris.

NASCAR announced this week the appointment of Jimmy Wilson to the position of NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour director and Juston Ellis to the same position for the NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour.

Wilson, originally from Orlando, Fla., has served the two previous years as director of the NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour. He’ll now lead the Northeast-based NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour, which traces its roots back to the first NASCAR-sanctioned event in 1948.

Ellis, who hails from Suffolk, Va., will fill the void left by Wilson. He served the two previous seasons as the technical director for the NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour.

Wilson, 37, has nearly two decades of experience as a stock car racing official. He was a NASCAR Timing & Scoring official for four seasons in the mid-1990s and served as the series director and race director for the USAR Pro Cup Series for 14 years. In two seasons leading the NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour, the car count increased by an average of five entries per event.

Wilson fills the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour director position that was vacated by the recent appointment of Chad Little to the same position for the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series.

Prior to joining the NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour officials staff in 2011, Ellis, 33, came to NASCAR with six seasons of experience as pit steward and technical director at Langley Speedway in Hampton, Va., a NASCAR Whelen All-American Series-sanctioned facility. He graduated from Old Dominion University in 2002 with a degree in civil engineering.

Wilson and Ellis will lead their respective tours for the first time in the non-points UNOH Battle At The Beach, Feb. 18-19 at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway. The NASCAR Whelen Modified and NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tours will run a combination race as part of a tripleheader of feature racing action on a .4-mile oval on the track’s backstretch.

The 2013 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour points season will commence at Thompson (Conn.) International Speedway on April 14, the first of 14 events.

The 12-race 2013 NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour points season will begin at on March 16 at Caraway Speedway in Asheboro, N.C.

Advanced Clean Air Technologies Global (ACAT), manufacturers of lightweight catalytic converter substrates, has made a significant investment in Oliver Racing Parts (formerly Oliver Connecting Rods), the Grand Rapids, Michigan-based manufacturer of high-performance connecting rods.

The first phase of ACAT’s investment has cleaned up Oliver’s balance sheet, eliminating all debt. A second phase of investment will include equipment upgrades and adding key personnel to the company, according to ACAT CEO Joseph A. Moch.

“Oliver Racing Parts complements ACAT nicely,” said Moch. “Both companies are dedicated to manufacturing well-engineered, high-quality performance products for original equipment and aftermarket use, and both are made in the U.S.A. It’s a great fit.”

“ACAT’s investment will keep our company moving forward,” said Bruce Baldwin, founder of Oliver Connecting Rods. “This enables us to build up inventories and ensure product availability, our product line will expand to cover the growing market for premium high-performance connecting rods, and Oliver will have the resources to solidify our position as one of the world’s best connecting rod manufacturers.”

The second phase of ACAT’s investment is expected to occur over the next six to 12 months, bringing machinery and new equipment upgrades to convert Oliver’s operation into a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility. Plans also call for Oliver to hire four to eight additional full-time employees and expand the company’s product line of high-performance connecting rods.

Oliver Racing Parts, which celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2013, manufactures connecting rods made from aircraft-quality steel for motorsports applications.

Chip Ganassi Racing Teams (CGRT) has agreed to a multi-year partnership with Cessna Aircraft Company, a Textron, Inc. company, to sponsor cars across all three series in which CGRT competes.

The general aviation company will sponsor multiple races on the No. 1 Chevrolet SS of Jamie McMurray in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) sharing assets with sister Textron companies Bell Helicopter and E-Z-GO golf carts. 

Cessna will also sponsor one race on the No. 10 Honda with Dario Franchitti in the IZOD IndyCar Series and one race with Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas in the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series on the No. 01 Dinan-Prepared BMW.

Each of Textron’s brands can be and often are, incorporated into every race event where CGRT competes.  From a team’s air travel to and from the host city, helicopter transport from airport to venue and ground transportation onsite, Cessna and Textron have options for all of it. 

The partnership offers a new connection to an industry that relies heavily on private aircraft travel.

In addition to the full primary sponsorships, a Textron brand will have placement on every team, race car, driver uniform and transporter, across all of CGRT’s diverse reach of racing assets. 

Those assets include each of the seven full-time drivers: NSCS drivers McMurray and Juan Pablo Montoya, IZOD IndyCar Series drivers Franchitti, Scott Dixon and Charlie Kimball and GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series drivers Pruett and Rojas.

VP Racing Fuels announced this week that Dennis Stanko, Director of Sales-Consumer Products, has been appointed Director of Sales-Specialty Products, a new position in Texas Allied Chemicals, Inc. (TACI), a sister company of VP Racing Fuels.

While TACI has engaged for some time in brokering petrochemical products, Stanko’s appointment signifies a higher level of commitment by VP to penetrating and developing that market segment.
 
Prior to joining VP in 2011, Stanko worked at Valero Energy with responsibility for Wholesale, Supply and Trading and at NuStar Energy in Sales and Business Development. An entrepreneur, Stanko also owned the i9 Sports youth sports franchise, which he pioneered in the San Antonio market, and also participated in several start-up businesses.
 
Replacing Stanko as Director of Sales-Consumer Products is Bruce Hendel, formerly Western Sales Manager for the company’s VP Racing Fuels division. In his new role, Hendel will be responsible for product development and sales of VP’s growing line of consumer products, including VP Small Engine Fuel; VP Powermaster hobby fuel; “Madditive” performance chemicals; VP Motorsport and Sportsman’s Containers; and a line of car care products currently in development.
 
Based in Southern California, Hendel managed race fuel sales for VP’s Western Region for the last 20 years, contributing substantial growth with a particular emphasis on the powersport market. Prior to joining VP, Hendel owned and operated a KTM dealership in Terre Haute, Indiana, and was also involved in a printing and packaging business prior to that.
 
VP is the Official Racing Fuel of NHRA Championship Drag Racing, American Le Mans, World of Outlaws Sprint Cars and Late Model Series and Rally America, among more than 60 VP-sponsored series and sanctioning bodies.
 
More information about VP products is available online at VPRacingFuels.com, VP-SEF.com and PowerMasterFuels.com.