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Team AMSOIL Racers to Visit Troops in Middle East

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Douglas, Hord and Jenkins will compete
in the Traxxas Troop vs. Pro Challenge
Presented by AMSOIL.

Team AMSOIL TORC Series off-road drivers Scott Douglas, Chad Hord and Mike Jenkins are heading to the Middle East for a special salute and thank-you to the U.S. Armed Forces. The tour, organized in conjunction with Armed Forces Entertainment, AMSOIL and Traxxas, will feature a fun and interactive radio-controlled off-road challenge between the TORC drivers and troops. Each stop at a U.S. Military base will feature the Traxxas Troop vs. Pro Challenge presented by AMSOIL, where troops will race Traxxas Slash 4x4s on the challenging custom-built “Traxxas Try-Me Track.” Douglas, Hord and Jenkins will act as driver-coaches to service members competing in the races, with the winners taking on the pros in head-to-head competition.

“Whenever we can add a fun ‘downtime’ activity to one of our tours it leads to a more successful mission,” said Rob Powers, founder of American300 Warrior Tours, the nonprofit organization that has worked to bring the TORC pros and sponsors to Armed Forces Entertainment. “Our organizational mission is to increase the resiliency of our troops, their families and the communities that they live and operate in by assisting the DoD’s Armed Forces Entertainment department with unique and exciting programming. The Traxxas Radio-Controlled Troop vs. Pro races are all about bringing America’s best to our service men and women and having a great time.”

Douglas will be bringing a custom “Desert Tan Troop Hood,” which he will have signed by the troops and then install on his #7 AMSOIL Ford truck for this year’s AMSOIL Cup race on September 4 in Crandon, Wis.

Tour officials will provide daily updates during their trip as the pros prepare and travel on their military adventure. The drivers will be using their Twitter feeds to keep fans up-to-date, and AMSOIL will air video recaps of the trip in early April. Follow the tour at http://www.amsoilracing.com/.

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AMSOIL Agrees to Sponsor Cup

Thursday, July 1, 2010

AMSOIL Agrees to Sponsor Cup

Crandon is famous for its Cup races. With the 17th Annual Crandon Cup race in the books, the track now turns its attention toward the biggest race of the year on Labor Day Weekend.

Previously known as the BorgWarner Shootout Cup, the end-of-the-year, winner-takes-all race will now be known as the AMSOIL Cup. The format of the race will return to the Pro 4×4 versus Pro 2wd shootout that has become popular with the more than 50,000 fans that pack the small town on the holiday weekend.

“AMSOIL loves the tradition that has evolved with this race,” said AMSOIL Race Program Manager Jeremy Meyer. “We believe that ending the 2010 TORC season with the inaugural AMSOIL Cup race, and bringing back the two-class structure, will provide an exciting finish to an unbelievable year of racing.”

The winner of the AMSOIL Cup race will have his name engraved on the newly-designed AMSOIL Cup, which replaces the now retired BorgWarner Trophy.

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