{"id":22303,"date":"2015-12-22T16:21:49","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T00:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=22303"},"modified":"2015-12-22T16:21:49","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T00:21:49","slug":"welds-2016-brand-ambassadors-announced-at-pri-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/welds-2016-brand-ambassadors-announced-at-pri-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"WELD&#8217;s 2016 Brand Ambassadors Announced at PRI 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/WELDBrandAmbassadorsCMYK.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"22305\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/welds-2016-brand-ambassadors-announced-at-pri-2016\/weldbrandambassadorscmyk\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/WELDBrandAmbassadorsCMYK-e1450829926730.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,250\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 6&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1449831635&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.15&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;125&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.033333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"WELDBrandAmbassadorsCMYK\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/WELDBrandAmbassadorsCMYK-300x117.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/WELDBrandAmbassadorsCMYK-1024x400.jpg\" class=\" size-large wp-image-22305 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/WELDBrandAmbassadorsCMYK-1024x400.jpg\" alt=\"WELDBrandAmbassadorsCMYK\" width=\"638\" height=\"249\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Weld announced their 2016 brand ambassadors at a press conference at PRI 2015 in Indianapolis. Weld also introduced the Hiper Racing Dalton Millican Series Wheel in a touching tribute to drag racer Clay Millican&#8217;s son Dalton who was killed in a motorcycle crash this past summer. Millican&#8217;s genuine emotion brought more than a few tears to the assembled press and colleagues.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WELD Racing, Drag Racing<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>John Force Racing (John Force, Courtney Force, Brittany Force, Robert Hight)<\/li>\n<li>Clay Millican, Stringer Performance<\/li>\n<li>Eric Enders-Stevens, Elite Motorsports<\/li>\n<li>Ashley Sanford, Sanford Racing<\/li>\n<li>Discovery Channel\u2019s \u201cStreet Outlaws\u201d (Justin \u201cBig Chief\u201d Shearer, Dave \u201cDaddy Dave\u201d Comstock, Shawn \u201cMurder Nova\u201d Ellington)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>WELD Racing, Oval Track<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jarett Andretti, Andretti Short Track<\/li>\n<li>Brian Brown, ASCS, World of Outlaws<\/li>\n<li>Joe Gaerte Racing<\/li>\n<li>Damion Gardner<\/li>\n<li>KKR (Daryn Pittman, Brad Sweet)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>WELD CCW, Road Racing<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Phoenix Performance (Andrew Aquilante, Joe Aquilante, Kurt Rezzatano, Preston Calvert)<\/li>\n<li>Shea Holbrook, Shea Racing<\/li>\n<li>Fall Line Motorsports (Mark Boden, Andrew Longe, Jack Kachadurian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>WELD Street &amp; Strip<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Justin Pawlak<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>HiPer Technology by WELD<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Colten Moore, Rotation Motorsports<\/li>\n<li>Walker Fowler<\/li>\n<li>Adam McGill<\/li>\n<li>Megan Manschak<\/li>\n<li>Nic Granlund<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Unbelievable announcement this morning by <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/twitter.com\/WeldRacing&quot;\">@WeldRacing<\/a> and Hiper Racing The Dalton Millican Series Wheel <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DMFORGED?src=hash\">#DMFORGED<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DbHcKx0X3l\">;pic.twitter.com\/DbHcKx0X3l<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Clay Millican (@ClayMillican) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClayMillican\/status\/675366659503366144\">December 11, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Weld announced their 2016 brand ambassadors at a press conference at PRI 2015 in Indianapolis.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":22305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1082],"tags":[3877,3735,277,2669],"class_list":["post-22303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release","tag-hiper-racing","tag-press-releases","tag-pri","tag-weld"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/WELDBrandAmbassadorsCMYK-e1450829926730.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-5NJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22303"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22309,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22303\/revisions\/22309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}