Zytek Engineering Limited has signed a three-year agreement with leading high performance and competition lubricants specialist Motul.

The Repton, UK-based race engine and chassis manufacturer has named Motul, which has a long history of association with motorsport, as a technical partner and the supplier of its official lubricants.

Motul will work closely with Zytek on the development of its engines, supplying oil for its engine test facility, as well as workshop consumables and on-track technical support.

In addition to manufacturing its own V8 engines, Zytek is a European distributor and service center for the highly successful Nissan VK45DE LMP2 power unit. Thus, Motul will also provide the recommended oils for these engines from Nismo, Nissan’s motorsport arm.

All the fluids will be provided through Motul’s associate company MotulTech, including manufacturing oils.

Motul already has a strong relationship with Zytek through technical partnerships with two of its major customers, Greaves Motorsport and Jota Sport, both of which race the Zytek-Nissan Z11SN LMP2 sportscar.

In 2011, Greaves won the LMP2 class at the Le Mans 24-hours and finished the season as the Le Mans Series champion.

This year it has been joined by Jota, which took first place in class at the Spa-Francorchamps round of the World Endurance Championship.

Both teams will be the beneficiaries of the extended working relationship between Zytek, Nismo and Motul.

The International Hot Rod Association’s World Headquarters is expanding for the first time in years as the sanctioning body prepares for a massive two-day move during the first weekend in December.
 
The new IHRA World Headquarters will still be located in Norwalk, Ohio, but the move will allow for the IHRA to expand to its own racing complex that includes an office building and a huge shop to house the IHRA fleet all together on the same campus.

As of December, the new address for the IHRA will be 300 Cleveland Road, Norwalk, Ohio 44857. All phone numbers and email addresses will remain the same.
 
The move will allow the IHRA to better serve its racers, fans and sponsors as all competition and field operations will now be located under one roof.

In addition, the transition will take two days with a caravan of moving equipment spanning an entire city block relocating the office to the new campus a few miles east.
 
For more information, visit www.ihra.com.

The World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series and Hoosier have entered into a five-year agreement that will see the return of Hoosier tires to the historic traveling sprint car series. 

The World of Outlaws STP Sprint Cars, which annually completes 80 to 90 winged 410 Sprint Car events, will use Hoosiers in all four positions beginning at the UNOH DIRTcar Nationals in February 2013.

The announcement marks the return of Hoosier tires to the World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series after a three-year absence. Goodyear had served as the series’ official tire supplier during that period.

To learn more about Hoosier and its various race tire products, visit www.hoosiertire.com.

For more information about the World of Outlaws, visit www.worldofoutlaws.com. 

The American Speed Association–ASA Racing has announced that they will not be renewing their licensing agreement with the Midwest Tour Super Late Model Series and the Midwest Truck Tour for the 2013 season. 

The decision comes after a six-year relationship with the series that started in 2007. Working together, the Midwest Tour has become one of the popular super late model series in the United States.

“ASA Racing has decided not to renew our licensing agreement with the Midwest Tour in 2013,” Dennis Huth, ASA President said. “We wish Tim Olson and Steve Einhaus all the best with their future endeavors.”

Huth purchased the ASA name and licenses in 2005. Since that time, ASA Racing has sanctioned tracks and series all over the United States and Canada. 

When the Midwest Tour started in 2007, they became sanctioned with ASA Racing, creating a series that quickly became recognized by fans and competitors who were familiar with the rich history of ASA in short track racing.

Champions under the ASA banner in both the Midwest Tour and Midwest Truck Tour included: Nathan Haseleu, Dan Fredrickson, Steve Carlson, Andrew Morrissey, Jonathan Eilen, Jerry Wood and James Swan.

To learn more about the ASA Member Tracks and Sanctioned Series, visit www.asa-racing.com.

The National Auto Sport Association will be expanding its operations into the Pacific Northwest for the 2013 season.

Leading the region will be longtime NASA NorCal officials Andy Tencati and Robert Kinley who will be relocating to the area to start the region in 2013.

The NASA Northwest schedule will include dates at Pacific Raceways, Portland International Raceway, The Ridge Motorsports Park, and Oregon Raceway Park.

The events will feature NASA’s full offering of programs including HPDE, competition racing, and Time Trials. Other special events such as endurance races and rallycrosses may also be on the calendar depending on interest levels from local drivers.

For more information on the NASA Northwest Region, visit www.nasanorthwest.com, visit the Northwest section of www.nasaforums.com, or e-mail: info@nasanorthwest.com.

The Sports Car Club of America announced this week the first and earliest piece of the 2013 U.S. Majors Tour, which will begin in the Eastern Conference with the Central Florida Region’s double race weekend at Sebring International Raceway, January 4-6.

The Sebring event will also be the opener on the BFGoodrich Tires SCCA Super Tour schedule.

The doubleheader will be the first of a planned six-event schedule for the Eastern Conference. Each of the four conferences will include up to six event weekends.

“The Sebring weekend is just the first event of the Majors schedule that will make up the 2013 season,” Butch Kummer, Director of Club Racing, said. “Our staff is working diligently with the Regions with the goal of a complete schedule launch during the PRI Show in December. Because this is the first event on the schedule and a destination trip for so many racers, we wanted to announce this as soon as we could to give the maximum time for racers to make plans to attend the event.”

The BFGoodrich Tires Super Tour schedule will also be announced with the completed Majors schedule. The races will overlap, linking at least one event from each conference into the nationwide tour for the third-consecutive season.

The Sebring races will count toward the Eastern Conference point Championship for all 28 SCCA National Championship Runoffs-eligible classes, as well as the National and Divisional points titles, as announced previously. 



More information can be found at www.scca.com and on the U.S. Majors Tour at www.sccamajors.com.

When promoters convene in Reno, Nevada, November 29, history will be made as short track promoters mark the 40th year of national gatherings for promoters.

The event will be the 105th produced by Racing Promotion Monthly, the idea newsletter for auto racing promoters. 

More than 35,000 promoters, vendors, and industry leaders have attended the workshops that begun in 1972.

The Western Workshop, convened since 1984 at the Eldorado Hotel Casino in Reno, offers 26 sessions covering topics ranging from risk management to social media, from food, and beverage service to tech tools, and more with a special emphasis on assisting promotional newcomers. 

Speedway executive Chris Blair will present keynote remarks. He’ll share the spotlight with Todd Stucky, Eldora (OH) Speedway concession manager. 

Jody and Tom Deery who will offer a 40-year Workshops retrospective, and attorneys

Cary Agajanian and Ron Bennett will anchor liability and racing business law discussions.

Other sessions will include: “Class Count Crisis,” asking how many classes are too many for a nightly card; “The Challenge of Part-Time,” finding and training one-night-per-week employees; and a newly added session, “What The Other Guys Are Doing,” a look at gate, sponsor promotions from minor league baseball, hockey and basketball.

The accompanying Workshop trade show enables promoters to shop the leading national suppliers to the sport.

Promoters may download a brochure with complete information on the Workshop, as well as lodging information, and a session lineup at rpmpromotersworkshops.com.

Credentials remain available in advance, or at the door, and may be reserved online or through the promoters’ newsletter.

For more information, visit www.racingpromotionmonthly.com.

The final “Sprint Car 101” Third Thursday Series program of 2012 will take place on Thursday, November 15, with “An Evening with Robert Lawton.” 

The free and open-to-the-public program begins at 7 p.m., and will be held on the second floor of the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame & Museum in Knoxville, Iowa.
 
Since the early 1980’s, Robert Lawton has promoted the Boone Speedway in Iowa, which is home to the ultra-successful International Motor Contest Association (IMCA) Super Nationals each September. 

According to museum curator Tom Schmeh, “Today’s fans may not even realize that ‘Lawty’ was the 1992 Racing Promotion Monthly (RPM) Auto Racing Promoter of the Year, and he was a founding board member of our non-profit National Sprint Car Hall of Fame & Museum Foundation in 1988. 

“Starting in 1978 and coinciding with his time as an official with the National Speedways Contest Association (NSCA), Bob Lawton was one of sprint car racing’s major players as a regular and loyal promoter of the late Ted Johnson’s World of Outlaws (WoO) sprint car series events.  It will be fun to learn about Bob Lawton’s life around the stars and cars of dirt late model, sprint car and modified stock car racing.”

For more information on the “Sprint Car 101” Third Thursday Series, visit www.sprintcarhof.com, or call the museum at 641/842-6176.

Performance Warehouse Association has announced the following award winners for 2012:
 
In recognition of outstanding contribution and in appreciation of his conscientious dedication as an individual member to the Specialty Equipment Industry, the 2012 PWA Person of the Year is Rich Barsamian, Advanced Clutch Technology.

In recognition of outstanding contributions to the Specialty Equipment Industry and in appreciation of conscientious efforts in support of the Warehouse Distributor concept of Merchandise Distribution, the 2012 PWA Manufacturer of the Year is Advanced Clutch Technology.

In recognition of outstanding contributions to the development of the Warehouse Distributor in the Specialty Equipment Industry, the 2012 PWA Pioneer of the Year is John Mathis, formerly S.C. Performance.

For dedication in fostering the next generation of automotive aftermarket industry leaders and innovators, the 2012 PWA Sponsored SEMA Scholarship Winner is Brian Botts, Warehouse West.

For more information, contact PWA@pwa-par.org.

Summit Racing Equipment is now offering the latest Diamond Eye Performance exhaust products for late model diesel-powered trucks.

Diamond Eye’s claim to fame is the extensive line of exhaust products for late model diesel trucks. All of the R&D and manufacturing is done in-house, guaranteeing performance, quality, and fit that's second to none.

Diamond Eye’s diesel turbo-back exhaust systems use CNC mandrel-bent tubing to create a free-flowing exhaust path. That helps free up more horsepower, improve fuel mileage, and lower exhaust gas temperatures (EGTs). That last benefit is important if a truck has been updated with bigger turbos or turned up the wick with increased fuel delivery.

Diamond Eye makes these systems in 16 gauge aluminized steel or long-lasting 409 stainless steel. They are available as OE replacement kits with 3 1/2 inch diameter tubing or performance systems with 4 inch or 5 inch diameter pipes. They come complete with mufflers, hangers, clamps, and hardware.

SYSTEM APPLICATIONS: 1994-2010 Chevy/GMC, 1994-2010 Ford, and 1989-2011 Dodge/Ram diesel trucks and SUVs.

Summit Racing also offers the following Diamond Eye Performance products:

•    Turbo downpipes
•    Off-road and race intermediate pipes
•    Muffler delete pipes
•    Mufflers and resonators
•    Exhaust tips
•    Tubing, clamps, adapters, and gaskets

For more information, visit www.SummitRacing.com.