With Strong Start To 2013 Season, Lethal Threat Racing Adds Champion Lifts and Williams Performance As Sponsors

MUSTANG, OK – The Lethal Threat Racing team of Pro X-treme standouts Todd Martin and Brandon Pesz are off to a fine start in the 2013 X-treme Drag Racing League (X-DRL) season, as Pesz is first in points through three races while Martin is just three points behind in second.

That success has carried over off the track as well, as the Lethal Threat racing team is pleased to announce new sponsorship deals with Champion Lifts and Williams Performance.

The two-car Pro X-treme team started the 2013 campaign by announcing associate sponsorships with LAT Racing Oils, Kryptonite Kustomz and Trick Titanium, and both Martin and Pesz’s success on the track has yielded more opportunities.

“We are thrilled to add great companies like Champion Lifts and Williams Performance to the Lethal Threat Racing team, and I think it shows our team is getting positive attention from what we’re doing on the track,” said Martin, who drives a supercharged ’68 Mustang from Garrett Race Cars. “It helps to go rounds and it doesn’t hurt that we’re 1-2 in points as well.

“These are relationships that we’ve developed over time, and having sponsors like this is extremely helpful and very rewarding.”

The California-based Williams Performance has been an industry leader in oil pan manufacturing and design since Mickey Williams started the company in 1998.

This exciting sponsorship features a number of levels, as the Lethal Threat Racing team helped develop lightweight valve covers for Hemi Fatheads.

Williams Performance worked with Pesz on a new lightweight design and the results are significant.

“In all, we’re saving 26.2 pounds with the CN Block, along with the valve covers and oil pan 26.2 pounds and that’s a huge difference,” said Pesz, who drives the team’s supercharged ’58 Corvette from Garrett Race Cars. “We’re running their oil pans and valve covers, and working with them we’re saving 19 pounds on the CN block, almost five on valve covers and two on the oil pan from Williams. That’s a significant different and we’re really thrilled to have them on board. These are guys that help you go fast and to be working with them is very rewarding.”

Based out of Springfield, Mo, (Championautolifts.com) is a top company when it comes to auto lifts, wheel balancers and tire machines. Martin, who is also the co-owner of Osage Casino Tulsa Raceway Park, has worked with the company for a number of years, and it has been impressed with Martin and Pesz’s performance at the track.

Champion Lifts has also worked with Martin on marketing efforts at Tulsa Raceway Park, noticing a strong response in that area as well.

“Champion Lifts came on board for both cars for the rest of the 2013 season and we’re thrilled about that,” Martin said. “They saw us doing better and better racing-wise, and they’ve seen the response already of being part of our race team and a part of Osage Casino Tulsa Raceway Park.”

Martin is also thrilled with how the sponsorships with Trick Titanium, Kryptonite Kustomz and LAT Racing Oils have developed.

“Trick Titanium, Kryptonite Kustomz and LAT Racing Oils, all of them are really big for us,” Martin said. “We’ve got LAT and Trick Titanium at the track and we’re really selling a lot to the racers. Kryptonite has picked up a couple of new wraps, so they’re happy and we couldn’t be more pleased with how our season is going thus far.”

On the track, the Lethal Threat Racing team continues to be impressive. After winning the first-ever X-DRL race in Tulsa, Pesz has grabbed the points lead in a loaded Pro X-treme field. In a teammate versus teammate battle at the most recent X-DRL race at No Problem Raceway, Martin knocked off Pesz in the first round, eventually advancing to the semifinals.

But the best news coming out of the event is both cars qualified for the X-DRL’s X-treme Shootout, which will take place Sept. 20-21 at prestigious Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis.

The top eight drivers from the race at No Problem qualified for the special shootout, which will award the winner $10,000 in Indianapolis.

Martin and Pesz return to the track June 14-15 at the X-DRL’s X-treme Gateway Showdown at Gateway Motorsports Park in St. Louis.

“We have a good feeling about that race. We really like that track,” Martin said. “We usually do well on hot and greasy tracks, and we’re looking forward to keeping this strong start going.”