Longacre Signs on as Racing’s SPEEDY Awards Sponsor
Salisbury, MA – Longacre Racing Products, of Monroe, Washington, has been named the official sponsor of the SPEEDY Awards presented each year at SpeedwayEXPO. Each Award winner receives a special race-car steering wheel from Longacre as a trophy.
“With the winner’s name and details inscribed on a brass plate set into the hub, these racing wheels look great and are really appropriate,” said Karl Fredrickson, Editor of Speedway Illustrated Magazine, which produces EXPO and the SPEEDY Awards.
Tom Glithero, Longacre Racing Products Vice-President, said, “We are proud to sponsor the SPEEDY Awards. To recognize some of the excellent people in our sport, from Breakout Racer of the year to Best Individual Promotion, is outstanding!”
Longacre has been a prime supplier to the motorsports community for more than 40 years. The company has an enviable reputation for customer service and for supplying durable, highquality racing equipment and tools at reasonable prices. “Our goal is to use our experience to produce better, more reliable parts and pieces for teams who take their racing as seriously as we do,” Glithero said.
SpeedwayEXPO annually honors 11 deserving members of the racing community with SPEEDY Awards. The winners are nominated by fellow racers and fans and the winners are then selected by the editors of Speedway Illustrated Magazine. To see the SPEEDY categories and nominate deserving entrants, go to www.speedwayexpo.com/speedy_awards.php.
Produced by Speedway Illustrated and sponsored by Sunoco, SpeedwayEXPO will be at the Big E, in West Springfield, MA, Feb. 27 – March 1, 2009. It is the largest event for drivers, teams, tracks, and racing vendors in the Northeast. SpeedwayEXPO will launch the 2009 racing season with more than 200 new race cars and old favorites, and hundreds of exhibits for drivers, crews, and fans from a dozen states and Canada. Thousands of enthusiasts pack more than 130,000 square feet of exhibit space to take part in seminars and demonstrations; see retailers of racing gear and memorabilia; and meet today’s and yesterday’s racing celebrities.
For the latest information on SpeedwayEXPO and to sign up to receive the free SpeedwayEXPO ’09 E-newsletter, visit www.speedwayexpo.com.
Sources: Ted Hugger/Speedway EXPO PR