People, Places & Racing News

News and updates and from SEMA's councils and committees. 

The 2013 season of the Nitto Tires United States Touring Car Championship (USTCC) will kick off April 13, at Northern California’s Thunderhill Raceway in Willows, California. Round two will be in June at Utah’s Miller Motorsports Park, where the USTCC teams will race at the same weekend with the Lucas Oil Off Road series. In July, the teams next will head out to Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in California’s Monterey Peninsula. This is a special invitational event hosted by the National Auto Sport Association. The double-header weekend at Sonoma Raceway in September will be headlined by the FIA World Touring Car Championship. The teams then head to Southern California’s Buttonwillow Raceway in October before finishing off with another major challenge in Sonoma with a two-hour endurance season finale.

Here is a brief look at some of news and updates from around the specialty-equipment industry. Companies featured this week: Royal Purple, National Performance Warehouse, AMP Research, Motorz, Racepak, Mickey Thompson and more.

XPLORE is teaming up with Motive Club and Toyota of Escondido to give away H.E.R.O.E.S. (Help-Encourage-Rescue-Organize-Equip-Serve) charity vehicles with all of the profits donated to worthy causes. 

News and updates and from SEMA's councils and committees. 

Dick Scritchfield was a relatively new addition to the Car Craft magazine staff when he drew the assignment to cover the growing auto-stereo trend in the magazine’s January 1967 issue.

Here is a brief look at some of news and updates from around the specialty-equipment industry. Companies featured this week: EnerSys, Doug Foley’s Drag Racing School, Goodguys, Marx Group Advisors, Hot Rodders of Tomorrow and more.

This year's Royal Purple "Outperformer" documentary series kicks off spotlighting award-winning engine builder, pioneering female racer and restoration shop owner Nicole Lyons.

News and updates and from SEMA's councils and committees. 

This weekend's SummitRacing.com NHRA Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway will provide two opportunities to celebrate in the winner's circle for outstanding performers in the factory hot-rod crowd. Summit Racing driver Greg Anderson expects great things for his Chevy Camaro on the double-down weekend and rightfully so. The main event is his sponsor's title race, and the facility where it takes place is nestled in the hometown of his team owner, Ken Black. Anderson, a four-time Pro Stock national champion in NHRA's Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, has made a habit of rising to the challenge of such pressure at the Las Vegas racetrack and has accumulated seven victories there, more than any other professional driver on the circuit. However, it was not by chance that the KB Racing team found a successful combination for the desert racetrack that sits some 2,100 ft. above sea level. They were deeply motivated by the outcome of their first showing at "The Strip."