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"Editors and performance manufacturers will have a productive week at this year's MPMC Media Trade Conference", stated Karl Dedolph, Director of Performance and Racing Products for Champion. "The success every year at the conference is always a direct result of the great participation and organization that we get from the media and from SEMA."

The Great Race, presented by Hemmings Motor News and Coker Tire, is an automotive competition based on precision driving and navigational skills in classic, antique and vintage automobiles. The competition, which was founded in 1983, contains numerous timed endurance rally stages. Vehicle entries must have been manufactured in 1972 or earlier with a competition crew of a driver and a navigator in each competing vehicle.

Since 1964, Motor State Distributing has led the worldwide distribution of high performance automotive components for racing, street, and off-road use. Motor State extends excellent customer service and a complete line of high quality products to speed shops, auto parts merchants, machine shops, and chassis and engine builders. www.motorstate.com

The Speedway Motors/Champion Racing Oil Central PA Sprint Car Series will pay out over $20,000 to the top 10 racers at the end of the season. The 2017 season will kicks off at Lincoln Speedway at 2pm on Saturday February 25th. The associate sponsors for the 2017 season will be ButlerBuilt Seats, Conroy "Pneu" Control, Hoosier Tire Mid-Atlantic, Maxim Chassis, RAACE, Eagle Motorsports Inc., Winters Performance Products, Capitol Renegade, Fast Tees and CnB Chubb.

The Champion Racing Oil Summer Nationals is an event with more than 50 years of history that includes the biggest names in motorsports competing at half-mile Williams Grove Speedway, one of dirt racing's legendary venues.

The Great Race is the world's premiere old car rally, and it has traveled many miles in its 34-year existence. It is a nine-day journey that covers nearly 2,500 miles in vehicles built in 1972 and earlier. And for 2017, it will offer scenic views and historic landmarks along the Dixie Highway. The Great Race route will visit nearly 20 city stops along the way traveling through Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana and Michigan.

Karl Dedolph, Director of Racing & Performance Products for Champion Oil, announced today, "The Champion 2017 "ELITE RACER" Program in conjunction with Lane Automotive is an all-encompassing marketing program designed to link our racing and performance lubricants directly to regional and national racers for most sanctioned racing events in North America including the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA), All Star Circuit of Champions (ASCoC), American Sprint Car Series (ASCS), World of Outlaws (WoO), and the United States Auto Club (USAC).

For nearly 40 years, Jack Elam has been manufacturing racecars. The dedication to quality craftsmanship, attention to detail, and willingness to build exactly what his customers ask for have helped J&J Auto Racing be recognized as the 410 Sprint Car "Builder/Manufacturer of the Year". Just ask - Donny Schatz, Tony Stewart, Arnie McDonald, Steve Kinser, Derek Hagar, Chad Kemenah, Danny Holtgraver, Tim Shaffer, Robbie Stillwaggon, Dave Blaney, Jake Beard-Miller, Eric Riggins, Jr., Wade Nygaard, Lee Grosz, Chad Ely, Daniel Pestka, Marshall Skinner, Carl Bowser, Jarod Zimbardi, Ed Lynch, Jr., Ben Atkinson, Joe Ramaker, Tony Grams, Ray Allen Kulhanek, Josh Schneiderman, and DJ Simmerman to name a few.

Champion's Fully Synthetic Micro Sprint Racing Oils, are "Non-Street Legal –Race Only", and are the first purpose-built engine oils specially formulated to provide unmatched protection and performance in wet-clutch Micro Sprint engines. With a robust formulation, including specially designed wet-clutch additives, and premium synthetic base stocks, Champion Fully Synthetic Micro Sprint Racing Oils deliver track-proven, race-winning performance.

Starks was victorious in his home state of Washington as well as in South Carolina, Oregon, Montana, North Carolina and in Canada. He captured his first international win during the famed Gold Cup at Castrol Raceway in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, in August with the NSA Shootout. He also garnered the inaugural World Short Track Championships at The Dirt Track at Charlotte in Concord, N.C.