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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

European Drift Championships to Wow Middle East Car Fans

European Drift Championships to Wow Middle East Car Fans

ABU DHABI, UAE, August 16 -- Middle East car fans are to be entertained with stunning demonstrations by world-class drift racers from the "Need for Speed" European Drift Championships - Europe's premier drift championships when they headline at this year's Barbican Turbo festival. Drifting is a high skill level motorsp ... Continue reading

LADIES, START YOUR ENGINES! IT'S OUR TURN NOW!

LADIES, START YOUR ENGINES! IT'S OUR TURN NOW!

<b><i>By Theresa Earnheart, President Track Chic</b></i> <i>We know who we are. We’re passionate! We LOVE speed! We’re motorsports racing fans. Die hards! Balancing our love of the sport with our other roles of worker, mother, sister, friend, daughter, wife...</i> <b>We are the Track Chic phenomenon.</b> Shar ... Continue reading

REAL WORLD AUTOMOTIVE STIMULUS - JOIN THE VINTAGE RACING LEAGUE COMMUNITY!

REAL WORLD AUTOMOTIVE STIMULUS - JOIN THE VINTAGE RACING LEAGUE COMMUNITY!

If you've ever owned, or wished you owned a vintage race/performance car, we'd like to invite you to join the global VRL Community. <p> The Vintage Racing League (VRL) is committed to the protection and development of "living motorsports history", by showcasing the passion, power, nostalgia and excitement associated wi ... Continue reading

PRRACEwire Offers Electronic Brochure

PRRACEwire Offers Electronic Brochure

Austin TX. January 2, 2009: Potential PR, Marketing, Team and Sponsor organizations can now download and review all relevant templates for PRRACEwire's Driving Ambition (TDAP) marketing/advertising program. The self-contained e-book is entirely safe and can be reviewed online, saved to one's workstation for later use, ... Continue reading

Four 'Racing Lancer' Spearhead Mitsubishi's Bid to Claim Historic First Win with Diesel at 2009 'South America' Dakar

Four 'Racing Lancer' Spearhead Mitsubishi's Bid to Claim Historic First Win with Diesel at 2009 'South America' Dakar

TOKYO - September 8, 2008: Mitsubishi Motors Corporation and its motor sport unit, the Repsol Mitsubishi Ralliart team, in association with its partners Repsol, Valeo and BFGoodrich - will enter the new, turbodiesel 'Racing Lancer' in next year's Dakar Rally which will take competitors through Argentina and Chile from ... Continue reading

SPECIAL EVENT (BOULDER) - Carroll Shelby and Other Racing Legends to Attend Shelby American Collection's 11th Annual Holiday Gala

SPECIAL EVENT (BOULDER) - Carroll Shelby and Other Racing Legends to Attend Shelby American Collection's 11th Annual Holiday Gala

Carroll Shelby, Bob Bondurant, Phil Remington and other racing heroes will headline the Shelby American Collection's 11th annual celebration at its museum in Boulder on December 1, 2007. The annual holiday party honors the race history of Carroll Shelby, his legendary 1960s Shelby American Team and the automobiles they ... Continue reading

VIDEO FEATURE - The Race to the Track: Logistics in Formula 1

VIDEO FEATURE - The Race to the Track: Logistics in Formula 1

COLOGNE - JULY 3, 2007: Formula 1 is all about racing but away from the competitions, a different kind of race is fundamental to the workings of Panasonic Toyota Racing. For the team’s logistics department, there is a constant race against time to get the cars, spare parts and pieces of equipment, to the track on ... Continue reading

RACING SPONSORS (VIDEO FEATURE) - ING Launches Formula 1 Race Index

RACING SPONSORS (VIDEO FEATURE) - ING Launches Formula 1 Race Index

Ahead of the Monaco Grand Prix on May 27, ING launched its Formula 1 Race Index to provide new and existing Formula 1 fans with a clear and instant appraisal of the stresses and strains of all 17 Grand Prix circuits in the race calendar, providing a 'league table' ranking of the most difficult and challenging circuits. ... Continue reading

Team Rally Pan America Press Release from finish of the Dakar Rally

Team Rally Pan America Press Release from finish of the Dakar Rally

January 22, 2007 In his first racing foray into Africa, Casey McCoy brought the PAi bike home in a very respectable 31st place. Casey circled the pink lake in Dakar yesterday afternoon, successfully completing the 29th Dakar Rally. He was the 2nd American and 5th rookie in a field of very talented riders. Team Manager ... Continue reading

Petersen/White Lightning Dakar Stage 6 Race Report

Petersen/White Lightning Dakar Stage 6 Race Report

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Michael Petersen Moves to 21st Overall After Stage Six of Euromilhões Dakar 2007 Petersen/White Lightning 26th Quick in Special Tan Tan to Zouérat Stage ZOUÉRAT, Africa January 11, 2007 – With the first six stages of the 15 stage, 7,708 km/4,790 mile Euromilhões Dakar 2007 complet ... Continue reading

DAKAR: VOLKSWAGEN CLAIMS TOP FIVE POSITIONS ON FIRST STAGE

DAKAR: VOLKSWAGEN CLAIMS TOP FIVE POSITIONS ON FIRST STAGE

WOLFSBURG, Germany - Volkswagen occupies the first five positions on the leader board after the Dakar Rally’s opening stage. The opening day’s stage in Portugal was won by local matador Carlos Sousa with his German co-driver Andreas Schulz in a Volkswagen Race Touareg 2 entered by Lagos Team. Giniel de Villie ... Continue reading

LA Auto Show; Arnold Talks, Car Companies Listen - VIDEO ENHANCED

LA Auto Show; Arnold Talks, Car Companies Listen - VIDEO ENHANCED

Los Angeles Ca. November 30, 2006; Gov. Schwarzenegger Promotes Alternative Fuel Vehicles at the 100th Annual L.A. Auto Show Continuing his commitment to alternative fuels, Gov. Schwarzenegger today highlighted the important role the newest alternate fuel vehicles play in reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the state ... Continue reading

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