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ARP is Official Fastener of 2012 MBRP Diesel Drag Series

The NHRDA is proud to announce it's partnership with ARP, Automotive Racing Products, as the "Official Fastener" of the  2012 MBRP Diesel Drag Race Series!

Casey Currie Appearance

Where: Pala Raceway, Pala CA

When: Monday, December 19, 2011 (10am - 4:30pm)

What:

Casey Currie and fellow Monster Energy Kawasaki riders will make appearances to sign autographs.
Casey Currie's No. 2 Monster Energy General Tire Nissan Pro Lite truck will be on display for spectators and media.
Three full-prepped tracks including the national track, vet track, and the mini-bike track. Open practice on the vet track and national tracks from 10am – 4pm.
Beginner dirt bike school will be available on the mini-bike track.
Team Green technicians will provide maintenance seminars.
Villopoto's race bike and trophies will be setup on a Monster Energy podium for fan photos with Monster girls.
Currently working with Kawasaki consumer events to coordinate a demo fleet of Kawasaki products.
Why: Employee appreciation in celebration of 30 years of Team Green.

Who: Riders, spectators, media and vendor displays.

Price: FREE Entry for spectators and media. FREE admission with a green bike, $25 donation to Road 2 Recovery for any other bike.

Corey Kruseman Year Wrap Up

Friends & Family,
As our 2011 racing season comes to an end this week, we at Kruseman
Motorsports have a lot to be thankful for....

*       2 USAC/CRA wins
*       2 USAC-WS Midget wins
*       3 VRA 360 Sprintcar wins
*       4 VRA Midget wins
*       2011 VRA Midget Championship
*       2011 USAC-WS Midget Championship
*       2011 USAC National JR Ford Focus Championship Car Owner for Cole
Custer
*       2011 VRA JR Ford Focus Championship Car Owner for Katelyn Leer

Race Report Week Ending 11/20/11

Nascar
Camping World Truck Series
Ford 200- Homestead Miami- Johnny Sauter
Champion- Austin Dillon
Nationwide Series
Ford 300- Homestead Miami- Brad Keselowski
Champion- Ricky Stenhouse, Jr
Sprint Cup
Ford 400- Homestead Miami- Tony Stewart
Champion- Tony Stewart

Race Results Week Ending 11/13/11

NASCAR
Nationwide Series- Wypall 200- Sam Hornish
Sprint Cup- Kobalt Tools 500- Kasey Kahne

NHRA

Casey Currie Update

We were pleased to have Casey come by our booth at the SEMA show last week. 

Casey Currie was all-in at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, in his No. 2 Monster Energy General Tire Nissan, contending for the Lucas Oil Off-Road Championship. With some intense racing, and a couple of set backs, Casey drove hard and pushed through to finish the weekend strong, with one race remaining in the season—his final chance to put it all on the table.

Qualifying 10th after some steering issues on Friday, Casey was down, but not out. Saturday’s race would again challenge the team with some set backs and thus yield a less than stellar finish, only to turn up the team’s focus and motivation to push even harder for the win on Sunday.

"We had a great truck today," noted Casey of Saturday’s race. "I started 10th and quickly made my way through the field. We got all the way up to 4th and lost brakes when a rock broke a brake line—very disappointing, but out of our hands."

Game-face on for Sunday, Casey knew he had to break through traffic and move through the pack to prevent the front-runners from gaining too much ground. Casey succeeded, moving from 13th to 3rd before the competition yellow tightened the pack back up. Once in the number 3 position, Casey managed to hold off fellow Monster Energy driver Cameron Steele until Steele made a pass at turn one after battling door-to-door with Casey on the front stretch. Casey would stay on him but cross the finish in 4th.

"Starting from 13th we had our work cut out for us," Casey reflects. "We made our way through the field as fast as possible getting up to 3rd. We had some great battles and we have the truck working very well. There is some homework to do, but come time for Firebird, we will be ready."

Off-track and back in the pits, fans stopped in to get a picture with Casey and the No. 2 Monster Energy General Tire Nissan, many admiring the full-sized “Huseman #36” signage on the hood in memory of fellow Monster Energy driver Rick Huseman. Miss Magnaflow Exhaust’s presence also brightened up the pit area as she signed autographs and took pictures with fans.

Casey’s hard driving and skill overcame the weekend’s obstacles and advanced him to 5th in championship points in the Lucas Oil Off-Road Series. He will make his last stop of the season at Firebird Raceway for the final round of the Lucas Oil Championship and the Lucas Oil Off-Road Challenge Cup. Catch him December 10-11 for the action at Firebird Speedway in Phoenix, Arizona. For more information on Casey Currie, visit CaseyCurrie.com, become a fan at Facebook/OfficialCaseyCurrie or follow Casey on Twitter at Twitter.com/caseycurrie

Hot Rodders of Tomorrow

ARP is pleased to be a part of the Hot Rodders of Tomorrow program.  We are proud of Team ARP and their 4th place finish.

Las Vegas NV. - Team MOROSO - Loara High School from Anaheim CA. won the 3rd Annual "Showdown at SEMA" with a record breaking time of 21:08 minutes. As a matter of fact, the top six of the ten teams competing average this year would have beat last year's winning time of 31 minutes. All ten teams would have beat the 2009 winning time of 44:22!
 
"Showdown at SEMA" is the title of the Hot Rodders of Tomorrow Engine Challenge National Championship held at the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) Show in Las Vegas. This year 10 High School Auto Tech teams competed Nov. 1-4, 2011 in the engine teardown and rebuild contest in front of thousands of spectators.During the divisional playoffs all teams compete once. The best time wins the division and the team has the opportunity to compete at SEMA. But during the "Showdown at SEMA" all the teams compete once each day, Tuesday through Thursday, for a total of three times. At the end of the third day the times are averaged. The National Champion for 2011 - Team MOROSO (Loara High School from Anaheim CA.)was determined with the best average time of 21:08.  They were recognized Thursday night during the SEMA Industry Awards Banquet.Trophies and scholarships were given out on Friday morning at the Hot Rodders of Tomorrow award presentation.

SEMA Memorial Scholarship Fund Engine

We're almost "home" with our project to benefit the SEMA
Memorial Scholarship Fund. The engine was on display in
the Grand Lobby of the SEMA Show.
 
The bidding started the day of the show and will conclude
this coming Friday, November 11.  According to SEMA
Scholarship Committee member Anson Tse, who is an
executive with eBay, the last three days of the auction
are when the bidding really heats up.
 
We have received quite a bit of support from the media.
I've enclosed links to about two dozen stories that have
recently run. There are more. And we anticipate getting
additional coverage in both the digital and print media
upon culmination of the project.
 
Thanks again to all SEMA member manufacturers for
making this happen.
 
Bill
 
Bill Holland, Project Coordinator
SEMA Scholarship Committee
 
http://www.nhra.com/blog/nhra-notebook/2011/11/4/ed-pinksema-scholarship-engine-completed,-auction-underway/
 
http://www.enginebuildermag.com/Article/91523/ed_pinkbuilt_engine_auction_to_benefit_sema_scholarship_fund.aspx
 
http://www.streetlegaltv.com/news/engine-builder-ed-pink-builds-a-351-for-sema%E2%80%99s-scholarship-committee/
 
http://www.auctioncause.com/index.php/2011/10/ed-pink-sema-engine/
 
http://www.streetrodderweb.com/hotnews/1110sr_ed_pink_sema_scholarship_engine_completed/index.html
 
http://www.sema.org/sema-enews/2011/42/roster-of-participating-manufacturers-set-for-sema-scholarship-engine-project
 
http://www.performanceracing.com/news/20-companies-join-ed-pink-auction-engine-sema-scholarship-fund
 
http://competitionplus.com/drag-racing/news/18946-engine-auction-to-benefit-sema-scholarship-fund
 
http://stores.ebay.com/Celebrity-Charity-Auctions/SEMA.html
 
http://www.tirebusiness.com/subscriber/associationnews2.phtml?cat=15&id=1313766240&subtitle=
 
http://blogs.mustang50magazine.com/6757852/miscellaneous/roster-of-participating-manufacturers-set-for-sema-scholarship-engine-project/index.html
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kfd1VP93N5A
 
http://www.hotrodandrestoration.com/tag/ed-pink-racing-engines/
 
http://blogs.4wdandsportutility.com/6743348/editorials/engine-auction-to-benefit-sema-scholarship-fund/index.html
 
http://www.dragracingonline.com/agent1320/2011/1320-xiii_8-66.html
 
http://renegrivois.posterous.com/ed-pinksema-auction-engine-completed
 
http://mustangoverload.com/entry/2011/09/02/sema-scholarship-fund-auction-1/
 
http://4x4galore.com/2011/08/engine-auction-to-benefit-sema-scholarship-fund-36vhrh7cb7/
 
http://blogs.mustangandfords.com/2/363/ford-parts/index.html
 
http://blogs.customclassictrucks.com/6750607/classic-truck-news/sema-scholarship-fund/index.html
 
http://www.hotrodpartsguide.com/?cat=12

Matt Lennen- 1320 Racing

Last week was absolutely crazy.  We blew the motor and trans apart on Sunday 10/30, with the huge MIR World Cup Finals race coming up on the following Saturday/Sunday (11/5-11/6).  Big thanks goes out to:

-ARP for getting us the extra L19 hardware months ago
-Boost Logic for overnighting a fresh downpipe
-Brian Crower for overnighting a new set of Rods
-Elmhurst Toyota for getting us the OEM parts we were missing
-Ferrea for overnighting some replacement valves
-FTI for building a new converter last minute
-Gates for supplying us additional parts back at the beginning of the season
-Justice Racing Engines for getting the new bottom end machined/assembled and repairing the head
-PFSupercars for helping me get some last minute late night issues resolved
-Real Street Performance for overnighting a set of ACL main/rod bearings and some hoodies to keep us warm at the track
-Wiseco for overnighting us a set of Rings, and somehow getting us 4 fresh custom cut pistons to make a complete set.
-And anyone else that I texted/called/annoyed all last week (my apologies)

It was a long week filled with sleepless nights, scrambling to find parts and cleaning up one big disastrous mess.  We picked up the bottom end and head from Justice Racing on Thursday afternoon, from that point on it was go time.  Started putting the odds and ends back on the motor, ran into big problems with the oil pump, got the head on, got the accessories bolted up, did the timing belt, water pump, wiring harness, etc.  Finally had the motor in the car around 2-3pm Friday.  Started hooking up intercooler piping, radiator, wiring - got the transmission bolted up around 6pm.  Going back over all the loose odds and ends around 11pm we found a helicoil on the radiator drainplug was trashed.  Met up with Andre from PFSupercars down at their shop and came up with a temporary solution.  By 3:30am the car was completely back together and ready for some oil, a filter and startup.  Ran into an issue with an oil leak at 4am Saturday, didnt have it resolved until around 6am.  Finally had the car ready to go at 9:30am Saturday.  We loaded up, and went straight down to the track.

All week we had played it off as though there was no chance we could possibly get the car together and make the event.  This worked out exactly as we planned getting everyone at the track talking when they saw us bring the car in.  Arrived at MIR around Noon on Saturday, in time for the 2nd round of qualifying.  We unloaded the car, went up to the lanes around 4pm and pulled off a 9.26@151 right off the trailer, qualifying #1.  That was all we needed to do Saturday, decided to take it easy on the few hour old motor and park the car for the rest of the day.

Sunday the track was plagued with breakage and oil downs.  It was announced that our class would have a 32 car field and thus 5 rounds of eliminations.  We did our first round pass around 12pm, up against a high 10 second S2000.  Decided to take it easy on the car and not hurt anything until we had to, peddled the car at 40% to a 10.3@118 beating the S2000's 11.5 second pass - advancing us onto round 2.

The event was falling way behind schedule by round 2, which didnt begin until 4pm.  The track tech inspectors announced they would be measuring everyones turbo's at the scales right after the round 2 pass.  We ended up with a bye run for round 2, so to try to avoid the compressor housing inlet swelling from heat, again decided to just take it easy down the track and ran a 12 second pass.  Turbo measured up legal after the pass and we were on to round 3.

We were called up to the lanes for round 3 around 8:30pm, more than 4 hours behind schedule.  We sat in the lanes for at least another hour and a half waiting for wrecks and spills to be cleaned up.  The sun was long gone and temperatures were dropping, it was now about 38 degrees outside and dew was forming on the track surface.  For round 3 we were up against the 2nd fastest car in the class, running 9.3's consistently the last few passes.  We've had an ongoing rivalry with this racer, so we knew he was going to throw everything he had at us on this pass.  Once the amber lights flashed it was a contest of who could find traction first - we both spun hard out of the hole, and we both were quick to recover.  I managed to inch ahead and win with a 10.0@150 to his 10.2@151, advancing us to the semi finals.

After returning to the pits, an announcement was made that due to the track conditions the event would be ended early with the purse being split evenly between everyone still in the race.  This is a first for this event, and definitely a disappointment, but we'll still count it as a win.

Race Report Week Ending 11/6/11

Nascar
Sprint Cup- AAA Texas 500- Tony Stewart
Nationwide Series- OReilly Auto Parts Challenge- Trevor Bayne
Camping World Truck Series- WinStar World Casino 350- Kevin Harvick

World of Outlaws
World of Outlaws World Finals- Donny Schatz
Series Champion- Jason Meyers

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  1. ARP is Official Fastener of 2012 MBRP Diesel Drag Series
    Monday, December 05, 2011
  2. Casey Currie Appearance
    Monday, December 05, 2011
  3. Corey Kruseman Year Wrap Up
    Monday, November 28, 2011
  4. Race Report Week Ending 11/20/11
    Monday, November 21, 2011
  5. Race Results Week Ending 11/13/11
    Monday, November 14, 2011
  6. Casey Currie Update
    Thursday, November 10, 2011
  7. Hot Rodders of Tomorrow
    Thursday, November 10, 2011
  8. SEMA Memorial Scholarship Fund Engine
    Thursday, November 10, 2011
  9. Matt Lennen- 1320 Racing
    Thursday, November 10, 2011
  10. Race Report Week Ending 11/6/11
    Monday, November 07, 2011

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