Strong select committees set council direction and ensure that councils and committees work for the needs of the membership.

SEMA Council Select Committee elections are now open to all members. Historically, nominations for Select Committee seats were only accepted from members of an individual council or committee. This year, however, all SEMA-member company representatives, regardless of council or committee affiliation, are eligible to participate in the nomination process.

Any SEMA member may nominate an individual for one or multiple SEMA council or committee Select Committee seat(s). A nominee must, however, be a member of the council or committee to which he/she is nominated. Dues payment in advance may be required.

Also new this year is a electronic nomination form that is quick and easy to complete, and requires no printing or faxing. All nominations must be received by Monday, March 22, 5:00 p.m. Follow this link to the nomination form.

Strong Select Committees ensure that SEMA councils and committees continue their work on behalf of the membership. For members unfamiliar with SEMA councils and committees, please visit www.sema.org/councils-committees for an overview.

	Strong select committees set council direction and ensure that councils and committees work for the needs of the membership.

SEMA Council Select Committee elections are now open to all members. Historically, nominations for Select Committee seats were only accepted from members of an individual council or committee. This year, however, all SEMA-member company representatives, regardless of council or committee affiliation, are eligible to participate in the nomination process.

Any SEMA member may nominate an individual for one or multiple SEMA council or committee Select Committee seat(s). A nominee must, however, be a member of the council or committee to which he/she is nominated. Dues payment in advance may be required.

Also new this year is a electronic nomination form that is quick and easy to complete, and requires no printing or faxing. All nominations must be received by Monday, March 22, 5:00 p.m. Follow this link to the nomination form.

Strong Select Committees ensure that SEMA councils and committees continue their work on behalf of the membership. For members unfamiliar with SEMA councils and committees, please visit www.sema.org/councils-committees for an overview.

POST-MARLBORO: Philip Morris has ended its long-standing sponsorship agreement with Roger Penske and the Penske Racing IZOD IndyCar Series teams. The three Penske teams were the fastest during the test session at Alabama’s Barber Motorsports Park last week.

WET AND WILD: For the first time in series history, ARCA Racing Series teams raced in the rain thanks to specially designed Hoosier Racing tires at Palm Beach International Raceway in Jupiter, Florida, during a dreary event Saturday. The race was won by Justin Marks.

SPEED DEMON: Damion Gardner continued his hot streak in AMSOIL USAC National Sprint Car Series competition this year by collecting victories at The Dirt Track @ Las Vegas Motor Speedway and Perris (California) Auto Speedway last week. He’s won four out of the five events run so far this year.

GETTING SAFER: Bristol (Tennessee) Motor Speedway has begun adding 160 feet of SAFER barriers at the exits of turns two and four. The project will be complete before NASCAR teams arrive for Food City 500 weekend March 19–21.

SOLD: Racing book publisher Coastal 181 has acquired the inventory of Witness Productions, which has published a number of racing-related books over the years.

CASH MONEY: Tim Shaffer dominated the ASCS Rebel Region events at East Bay Raceway Park Thursday and Friday, but a broken engine handed Saturday’s $14,500 paycheck to Wayne Johnson.

DEFER TO 2011: US F1 has asked the FIA to defer its Formula One World Championship entry until the 2011 racing season. US F1 has also offered to post a seven-figure bond as a guarantee that it will race next year.

SAYING GOODBYE: Gene Angelillo, a legendary New England midget-car owner with 14 Northeastern Midget Association owner titles to his credit, died Monday at the age of 74.

PURCHASED: Oregon native Greg Biffle has purchased a stake in Sunset Speedway, a three-eighths-mile dirt track located in Banks, Oregon.

NEW LADY IN TOWN: Simona De Silvestro will join Danica Patrick as the second full-time female competitor in the IZOD IndyCar Series this year thanks to a partnership between HVM Racing and Team Stargate Worlds.

SUBSCRIBE: National Speed Sport News has been published weekly since 1934. Subscribe to National Speed Sport News for a special industry rate.

POST-MARLBORO: Philip Morris has ended its long-standing sponsorship agreement with Roger Penske and the Penske Racing IZOD IndyCar Series teams. The three Penske teams were the fastest during the test session at Alabama’s Barber Motorsports Park last week.

WET AND WILD: For the first time in series history, ARCA Racing Series teams raced in the rain thanks to specially designed Hoosier Racing tires at Palm Beach International Raceway in Jupiter, Florida, during a dreary event Saturday. The race was won by Justin Marks.

SPEED DEMON: Damion Gardner continued his hot streak in AMSOIL USAC National Sprint Car Series competition this year by collecting victories at The Dirt Track @ Las Vegas Motor Speedway and Perris (California) Auto Speedway last week. He’s won four out of the five events run so far this year.

GETTING SAFER: Bristol (Tennessee) Motor Speedway has begun adding 160 feet of SAFER barriers at the exits of turns two and four. The project will be complete before NASCAR teams arrive for Food City 500 weekend March 19–21.

SOLD: Racing book publisher Coastal 181 has acquired the inventory of Witness Productions, which has published a number of racing-related books over the years.

CASH MONEY: Tim Shaffer dominated the ASCS Rebel Region events at East Bay Raceway Park Thursday and Friday, but a broken engine handed Saturday’s $14,500 paycheck to Wayne Johnson.

DEFER TO 2011: US F1 has asked the FIA to defer its Formula One World Championship entry until the 2011 racing season. US F1 has also offered to post a seven-figure bond as a guarantee that it will race next year.

SAYING GOODBYE: Gene Angelillo, a legendary New England midget-car owner with 14 Northeastern Midget Association owner titles to his credit, died Monday at the age of 74.

PURCHASED: Oregon native Greg Biffle has purchased a stake in Sunset Speedway, a three-eighths-mile dirt track located in Banks, Oregon.

NEW LADY IN TOWN: Simona De Silvestro will join Danica Patrick as the second full-time female competitor in the IZOD IndyCar Series this year thanks to a partnership between HVM Racing and Team Stargate Worlds.

SUBSCRIBE: National Speed Sport News has been published weekly since 1934. Subscribe to National Speed Sport News for a special industry rate.

POST-MARLBORO: Philip Morris has ended its long-standing sponsorship agreement with Roger Penske and the Penske Racing IZOD IndyCar Series teams. The three Penske teams were the fastest during the test session at Alabama’s Barber Motorsports Park last week.

WET AND WILD: For the first time in series history, ARCA Racing Series teams raced in the rain thanks to specially designed Hoosier Racing tires at Palm Beach International Raceway in Jupiter, Florida, during a dreary event Saturday. The race was won by Justin Marks.

SPEED DEMON: Damion Gardner continued his hot streak in AMSOIL USAC National Sprint Car Series competition this year by collecting victories at The Dirt Track @ Las Vegas Motor Speedway and Perris (California) Auto Speedway last week. He’s won four out of the five events run so far this year.

GETTING SAFER: Bristol (Tennessee) Motor Speedway has begun adding 160 feet of SAFER barriers at the exits of turns two and four. The project will be complete before NASCAR teams arrive for Food City 500 weekend March 19–21.

SOLD: Racing book publisher Coastal 181 has acquired the inventory of Witness Productions, which has published a number of racing-related books over the years.

CASH MONEY: Tim Shaffer dominated the ASCS Rebel Region events at East Bay Raceway Park Thursday and Friday, but a broken engine handed Saturday’s $14,500 paycheck to Wayne Johnson.

DEFER TO 2011: US F1 has asked the FIA to defer its Formula One World Championship entry until the 2011 racing season. US F1 has also offered to post a seven-figure bond as a guarantee that it will race next year.

SAYING GOODBYE: Gene Angelillo, a legendary New England midget-car owner with 14 Northeastern Midget Association owner titles to his credit, died Monday at the age of 74.

PURCHASED: Oregon native Greg Biffle has purchased a stake in Sunset Speedway, a three-eighths-mile dirt track located in Banks, Oregon.

NEW LADY IN TOWN: Simona De Silvestro will join Danica Patrick as the second full-time female competitor in the IZOD IndyCar Series this year thanks to a partnership between HVM Racing and Team Stargate Worlds.

SUBSCRIBE: National Speed Sport News has been published weekly since 1934. Subscribe to National Speed Sport News for a special industry rate.

POST-MARLBORO: Philip Morris has ended its long-standing sponsorship agreement with Roger Penske and the Penske Racing IZOD IndyCar Series teams. The three Penske teams were the fastest during the test session at Alabama’s Barber Motorsports Park last week.

WET AND WILD: For the first time in series history, ARCA Racing Series teams raced in the rain thanks to specially designed Hoosier Racing tires at Palm Beach International Raceway in Jupiter, Florida, during a dreary event Saturday. The race was won by Justin Marks.

SPEED DEMON: Damion Gardner continued his hot streak in AMSOIL USAC National Sprint Car Series competition this year by collecting victories at The Dirt Track @ Las Vegas Motor Speedway and Perris (California) Auto Speedway last week. He’s won four out of the five events run so far this year.

GETTING SAFER: Bristol (Tennessee) Motor Speedway has begun adding 160 feet of SAFER barriers at the exits of turns two and four. The project will be complete before NASCAR teams arrive for Food City 500 weekend March 19–21.

SOLD: Racing book publisher Coastal 181 has acquired the inventory of Witness Productions, which has published a number of racing-related books over the years.

CASH MONEY: Tim Shaffer dominated the ASCS Rebel Region events at East Bay Raceway Park Thursday and Friday, but a broken engine handed Saturday’s $14,500 paycheck to Wayne Johnson.

DEFER TO 2011: US F1 has asked the FIA to defer its Formula One World Championship entry until the 2011 racing season. US F1 has also offered to post a seven-figure bond as a guarantee that it will race next year.

SAYING GOODBYE: Gene Angelillo, a legendary New England midget-car owner with 14 Northeastern Midget Association owner titles to his credit, died Monday at the age of 74.

PURCHASED: Oregon native Greg Biffle has purchased a stake in Sunset Speedway, a three-eighths-mile dirt track located in Banks, Oregon.

NEW LADY IN TOWN: Simona De Silvestro will join Danica Patrick as the second full-time female competitor in the IZOD IndyCar Series this year thanks to a partnership between HVM Racing and Team Stargate Worlds.

SUBSCRIBE: National Speed Sport News has been published weekly since 1934. Subscribe to National Speed Sport News for a special industry rate.

Following are dates and locations for several upcoming SEMA-sponsored shows, webinars and activities. Click on an item for more details.

 

	Driving Force includes updates on legislation that can affect the industry. For a more detalied look at the bills that can become laws tomorrow, visit the SEMA Action Network website.

Legislators around the country have been busy over the past couple of months and, consequently, so has SEMA’s government affairs office. Association staff has plowed through thousands of bills and identified hundreds that may be of interest to member companies. The most pressing of these bills result in Action Alerts being shot out to members and highlighted in SEMA News and the SEMA Action Network’s monthly publication, Driving Force.

Given limited print space however, SEMA has expanded this bill-tracking effort into an online compilation provided at no cost, 24/7, on the SEMA Action Network (SAN) website, www.semasan.com. Along the left-hand column of the SAN website you will find, in red underlined letters, the words “MY HOBBY.”

Simply find your industry niche in the list, click once and you are transported to a list of legislation pertaining to your market’s interests. For a wider range of issues affecting states in which you do business, simply follow the same steps in the lower box entitled “MY STATE” to view a regularly updated resource on legislation in specific areas.

Some of the bills listed on the site will never progress past introduction; others will go on to become the laws of tomorrow. The period following a bill’s introduction is critical to its success or failure. It is at this time, immediately following introduction, that SEMA aims to inform members and enthusiasts and encourage their participation in the legislative process through e-mails and phone calls to state representatives. Such correspondence has a proven and direct impact on the decisions of legislators.

We encourage you to visit www.semasan.com. The information on this site will provide you with the tools you need to help effect real change, protect the industry from detrimental state laws and proactively support favorable ones.

Please contact Ashley Ailsworth at ashleya@sema.org if you have any questions. She would be happy to provide you with the bill’s full text, current status and committee information.

 

	Driving Force includes updates on legislation that can affect the industry. For a more detalied look at the bills that can become laws tomorrow, visit the SEMA Action Network website.

Legislators around the country have been busy over the past couple of months and, consequently, so has SEMA’s government affairs office. Association staff has plowed through thousands of bills and identified hundreds that may be of interest to member companies. The most pressing of these bills result in Action Alerts being shot out to members and highlighted in SEMA News and the SEMA Action Network’s monthly publication, Driving Force.

Given limited print space however, SEMA has expanded this bill-tracking effort into an online compilation provided at no cost, 24/7, on the SEMA Action Network (SAN) website, www.semasan.com. Along the left-hand column of the SAN website you will find, in red underlined letters, the words “MY HOBBY.”

Simply find your industry niche in the list, click once and you are transported to a list of legislation pertaining to your market’s interests. For a wider range of issues affecting states in which you do business, simply follow the same steps in the lower box entitled “MY STATE” to view a regularly updated resource on legislation in specific areas.

Some of the bills listed on the site will never progress past introduction; others will go on to become the laws of tomorrow. The period following a bill’s introduction is critical to its success or failure. It is at this time, immediately following introduction, that SEMA aims to inform members and enthusiasts and encourage their participation in the legislative process through e-mails and phone calls to state representatives. Such correspondence has a proven and direct impact on the decisions of legislators.

We encourage you to visit www.semasan.com. The information on this site will provide you with the tools you need to help effect real change, protect the industry from detrimental state laws and proactively support favorable ones.

Please contact Ashley Ailsworth at ashleya@sema.org if you have any questions. She would be happy to provide you with the bill’s full text, current status and committee information.

 

	Driving Force includes updates on legislation that can affect the industry. For a more detalied look at the bills that can become laws tomorrow, visit the SEMA Action Network website.

Legislators around the country have been busy over the past couple of months and, consequently, so has SEMA’s government affairs office. Association staff has plowed through thousands of bills and identified hundreds that may be of interest to member companies. The most pressing of these bills result in Action Alerts being shot out to members and highlighted in SEMA News and the SEMA Action Network’s monthly publication, Driving Force.

Given limited print space however, SEMA has expanded this bill-tracking effort into an online compilation provided at no cost, 24/7, on the SEMA Action Network (SAN) website, www.semasan.com. Along the left-hand column of the SAN website you will find, in red underlined letters, the words “MY HOBBY.”

Simply find your industry niche in the list, click once and you are transported to a list of legislation pertaining to your market’s interests. For a wider range of issues affecting states in which you do business, simply follow the same steps in the lower box entitled “MY STATE” to view a regularly updated resource on legislation in specific areas.

Some of the bills listed on the site will never progress past introduction; others will go on to become the laws of tomorrow. The period following a bill’s introduction is critical to its success or failure. It is at this time, immediately following introduction, that SEMA aims to inform members and enthusiasts and encourage their participation in the legislative process through e-mails and phone calls to state representatives. Such correspondence has a proven and direct impact on the decisions of legislators.

We encourage you to visit www.semasan.com. The information on this site will provide you with the tools you need to help effect real change, protect the industry from detrimental state laws and proactively support favorable ones.

Please contact Ashley Ailsworth at ashleya@sema.org if you have any questions. She would be happy to provide you with the bill’s full text, current status and committee information.