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Weekly Winners Score $100 Simpson Gift Cards in RacingJunk.com® 2008 Sponsorship Giveaway

Posted by Laura Ikwild on 11/10/2008 11:37AM
North Adams, MA (November 10, 2008) – Six weekly winners in the RacingJunk.com 2008 Give Back to the Racers Sponsorship Giveaway have been awarded $100 gift cards for safety products from Simpson, the renowned American manufacturer of performance racing safety products. Simpson is an Associate Sponsor of the RacingJunk.com 2008 Sponsorship Giveaway. Ralph Minning of Doylestown, Ohio, Brian Marshall of St. Petersburg, Florida, William Beavers of Latham, Ohio, Benjamin Blades of Pride, Louisiana, Steve Wrinkles of Moscow Mills, Missouri and Ric Kole of Southington, Ohio each won gift certificates from Simpson, manufacturer of performance racing safety products including the new Off-Road D3 Restraint System. Simpson has been the top manufacturer of safety equipment for the motorsports industry since 1959, and remains an industry leader in elevating the standards of racing safety through continuous development, refinement and testing. The 2008 Sponsorship Giveaway is RacingJunk.com’s way of supporting the grassroots racers who are at the heart of its membership. Since the 2008 Giveaway began in early April, one weekly winner has been randomly selected each week. Those 30 weekly winners, including Minning, Marshall, Beavers, Blades, Wrinkles and Kole, are now competing to win one of three major prizes. In this final lap of the 2008 Giveaway, RacingJunk.com members will view the RJ RaceSpace profiles of the weekly winners and then vote for their favorites. The voting page, which lists all the contenders and includes links to their RJ RaceSpace profiles, is located at http://www.racingjunk.com/2008_giveaway/voting. The voting period runs through November 21, 2008. Anyone who is at least a basic member of RacingJunk.com is eligible to vote. The membership sign up page for RacingJunk.com is located at http://www.racingjunk.com/member_signup, and basic membership is free. The three contestants with the most votes will be flown to the Performance Racing Industry (PRI) show in Orlando, Florida where the Grand Prize winner will be announced on December 12, 2008. The Grand Prize, currently valued at over $100,000, is a 34-foot Haulmark race trailer loaded with product from some of the best names in performance racing, including Simpson. The trailer also includes racing equipment and tools from other Giveaway sponsors, including Snap-on, Lincoln Electric, Auto Meter, Goodridge, RH2way, Barry Grant, Champion System, Gemini, Mickey Thompson, Molecule, Safety Solutions, Nitrous Express and Holley. The second place winner will take home over $15,000 worth of tools and racing equipment from Simpson and the other Giveaway sponsors. The third place winner will receive more than $10,000 worth of tools and racing equipment, including safety products from Simpson. ABOUT RACEWAY MEDIA, LLC Raceway Media, LLC, a Boxcar Media, LLC company, is a multimedia publishing firm serving the racing and performance enthusiast industries. It is a free “one-stop shop” for those looking to buy, sell, trade, entertain or interact with people throughout the automotive and motorcycle racing and performance communities. The company’s holdings include RacingJunk.com and MotorcycleAds.com, which together receive more than 70 million page views per month and have more than 300,000 members. Raceway Media also owns BoatingJunk.com, MuscleCarJunk.com, RacingJunkRides.com, RJRaceSpace.com and the recently launched CollectorCarNation.com. Raceway Media has also recently partnered with Snap-on to launch S-TECH (http://education.snapon.com), a social networking site and online community for current and prospective transportation technology students, their instructors and professionals in the field.