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PHILLIPS CONNECT NAMED COMPETITIONPLUS.COM SOCIAL MEDIA PRESENTING SPONSOR

CPTV TO DELIVER NITRO SPRING TESTING LIVESTREAM

SPARTANBURG, SC – Phillips Connect, a national leader in semi-trailer tracking and sensor technologies, will serve as presenting sponsor for CompetitionPlus.com’s extensive social media properties. Additionally, CompetitionPlus.com’s TV brand will, for the fourth season in a row, provide live streaming for the Professional Racers Organization’s Nitro Spring Training at Wild Horse Motorsports Park, February 10-12.

CompetitionPlus.com founder Bobby Bennett said the involvement of Phillips Connect will be part of a major push to deliver drag racing news to the masses worldwide. The PRO Nitro Spring Training live stream is just one of the aggressive programs planned for 2022.

“The team at Phillips Connect has been great to work with,” said CompetitionPlus.com publisher and editor Bobby Bennett. “We are so blessed to have a marketing partner who shares the same vision we do about getting the word out, extolling the virtues of drag racing, and doing so with news you can trust.”

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WELDON HIGH PERFORMANCE SIGNS AS COMPETITIONPLUSTV PRESENTING SPONSOR

SPARTANBURG, SC – Weldon High Performance has signed as presenting sponsor of CompetitionPlus.com, the video department of iconic internet drag racing magazine CompetitionPlus.com. CompetitionPlusTV presented by Weldon High Performance celebrates its tenth year and the popular YouTube Channel has grown to over 42,000 subscribers largely in part to its original and historical content including its Legends: The Series and Storytellers videos.

“This is an incredible opportunity,” said Bobby Bennett, CompetitionPlus.com founder. “Big thanks to Jim Craig and Lydia Bohm for their faith in our program. For years, CompetitionPlusTV has served as a supporting cast for CompetitionPlus.com, but with this new program, CompetitionPlusTV moves towards our vision of being a stand-alone entity.  We knew from day one, CompetitionPlus.com was going to be like no other publication and because of the new world of the internet, it could have so much more for readers including video.”

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 COMPETITIONPLUS.COM TO PROVIDE FREE LIVESTREAM OF PRO WINTER WARMUP

SPARTANBURG, SC – CompetitionPlus.com in conjunction with Drag Racer TV will be hosting a free livestream of the PRO Winter Warmup scheduled for March 5-7 at Palm Beach International Raceway. In addition to the live stream CompetitionPlus.com, one of the first internet magazines devoted exclusively to drag racing, will be posting daily updates in their Event Notebook section presented by GuardLab.com. For over 21 year CompetitionPlus.com has been the go-to independent voice and broadcaster for drag racing and their coverage of the PRO Winter Warmup continues their longstanding tradition of bringing drag racing coverage to race fans across the country and around the world.

“We are excited to provide live streaming for the third year in a row for the event,” said Bobby Bennett, Competitionplus.com founder and publisher. “It’s important for the sport for its fans to watch their favorite NHRA teams prepare for the upcoming NHRA Gatornationals. This is event is part NFL combine, private test session and behind the scenes racing action. We will have our CompetitionPlusTV team also gathering daily recaps and news stories.”

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COMPETITIONPLUS.COM TO LIVE STREAM PRO WINTER TEST FROM WILD HORSE PASS

Free Viewing For Closed to Public Preseason Test Session

SPARTANBURG, SC – The NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing season is less than a month away and dozens of top tier teams are preparing for the 24 race national tour. In advance of the grueling and exciting professional drag racing season a private preseason test session will be conducted January 30 – February 2, at Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park near Chandler, Arizona just outside of Phoenix. This year CompetitionPlus.com will be live streaming all four days of the private test session offering fans around the world the first look at on-track action. The daily test sessions will not be open to the public so the CompetitionPlus.com live stream will be the only way to see comprehensive live action.

“We heard the track for a variety of reasons was not going to sell spectator tickets and we reached out to see about live streaming the event,” said Bobby Bennett CompetitionPlus.com owner and publisher. “The management team at Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park was receptive to the idea so we got to work on the logistics. Fans will be able to watch testing all day through the CompetitionPlusTV YouTube channel.”

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COMPETITIONPLUS.COM MOBILE APP LAUNCHED TO KICK-OFF PRI

INDIANAPOLIS, IN – In 1999, during the first weeks CompetitionPlus.com was live on the internet, publisher Bobby Bennett was talking with a company president about purchasing ad space in his young magazine. Bennett was rebuffed when the company representative asked the young entrepreneur how he was going to produce a magazine that wasn’t portable for readers to enjoy anywhere they wanted to read.

“He actually said our magazine would never work because he couldn’t read it in the bathroom,” laughed Bennett decades later.

Bennett, always a dreamer, told the prospective advertiser there would be a day when anyone in the world would be able to read CompetitionPlus.com on a device you could hold in the palm of their hand. Twenty years later that prediction has come full circle with the launching of the CompetitionPlus.com app available now for free download in leading app stores such as Apple App Store and Google Play.

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GARY SCELZI LEGENDS: THE SERIES EPISODE TO PREMIERE AT 2018 PRI

SPARTANBURG, SC – For the second year in a row CompetitionPlus.com owner and publisher Bobby Bennett will unveil a new episode of the popular Legends: The Series at the 31st Annual Performance Racing Industry Trade Show in the PRI Media Center inside the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis.  The premiere, which will be sponsored by Aeromotive Fuel Systems, will take place on December 7 at 2:30 p.m. and will feature 4-time NHRA champion Gary Scelzi, one of the most outrageous, outspoken and dominant drivers in the history of drag racing.

“It is always exciting to launch a new Legends episode, but it is extra special to do it in the company with passionate drag racing fans and it an event like the PRI Trade Show,” said Bobby Bennett. “Last season was an emotional launch with the Eric Medlen episode, so this year I felt it was best to go in a different direction. I wholeheartedly feel Gary Scelzi has one of those stories which can trigger every emotion, especially laughter. I am honored to be able to tell his story. He stepped into the toughest situation imaginable and delivered a championship performance. ”

This is the final episode of Season 4 which has included a “Who’s Who” of drivers including the late Eric Medlen, Jeb Allen, John Force, Warren Johnson, Dale Pulde, Jim Dunn, Larry Dixon, and Al Segrini. The Legends: The Series presented by Strange Engineering has exceeded three million YouTube.com views since launching in May 2014.

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JUSTIN ASHLEY RETURNS TO THE SITE OF HIS INSPIRATIONAL FIRST TAD VICTORY

GAINESVILLE, FL – A year later, defending NHRA Gatornationals Top Alcohol Dragster champion Justin Ashley knows exactly what to expect.

Ashley will roll to the starting line at Gainesville Raceway hot off a semi-final finish at last weekend’s Baby Gators event, the NHRA Division 2 Top Alcohol opener, behind the wheel of the Randy Meyer injected-nitro dragster.

“My team gave me an incredible race car to work with,” Ashley said. “We were able to qualify and make it to the semis. This is an excellent way to start off the new season, and we are ready to chase a championship with this Epic Motorsports Marketing/Realty Warehouse dragster.”

Last year’s monumental event for the second-generation drag racer will always hold a special place in his heart not only because of it being his first win but the first victory since losing his grandfather, Kenneth Ashley.

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JUSTIN ASHLEY SETS HIS SIGHTS ON YEAR TWO IN TAD

GAINESVILLE, FL – Second-generation nitro racer Justin Ashley learned a lot in his first season of Top Alcohol Dragster.

Ashley, who pilots the Epic Motorsports Marketing/Realty Warehouse A/Fuel Dragster for Randy Meyer, learned quickly to keep his emotions in check, even when he had plenty to get emotional about.

“What works best for me is keeping the emotions out of it – being mechanical.,” explained Ashley, a two-time winner in 2017. ” And that’s something I learned from my father and Frank Hawley. Get in the car and do the same thing every time. It doesn’t matter if it’s the first round of qualifying or the fourth round of eliminations on Sunday. You just put all your emotions to the side, don’t get too high, don’t get too low. Just get in the car, do your job. There’s plenty of time at the finish line to show your emotions.”

Ashley proved a quick study as he laid down a No. 1 qualifier in his first outing, the NHRA Division 2 opener in Gainesville, Fla. A week later, he drove his way to the winner’s circle at the NHRA Gatornationals. And for good measure, he added a No. 1 qualifier at the prestigious NHRA U.S Nationals and a second win in Brainerd, Minn.

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Fourth Season of Legends: The Series Starts with Emotional Eric Medlen Episode

Competitionplus.com to premiere Medlen episode at PRI in Indianapolis

Spartansburg, SC – Competitionplus.com owner and publisher Bobby Bennett had an idea back in 2013 for an online video series looking at the legends of the NHRA Drag Racing Series. From the outset Legends: The Series told the behind-the-scenes stories of drag racing’s storied subjects who often reveal untold stories in these interviews.

The pilot episode featured 16-time Funny Car champion John Force talking about his early days chasing sponsors as an upstart Funny Car driver, the episode, Chasing Uncorporate America, was viewed almost 50,000 times. The inaugural season featured eleven episodes and highlighted a diverse group that included Bill Doner, Graham Light and Steve Reyes to name a few.

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LEAH PRITCHETT PRESENTED 2016 MIKE AIELLO AWARD

CONCORD, NC – NHRA Top Fuel driver Leah Pritchett, who earned a spot in the Countdown to the Championship leah-pritchett-2016-mike-ailleo-awardthis September for the first time in her career by unexpectedly having to race for three different team owners and a revolving door of sponsors, is the 2016 recipient of CompetitionPlus.com’s Mike Aiello “Spirit of Drag Racing” Award.

CompetitionPlus.com publisher/editor Bobby Bennett presented the trophy Sunday to Pritchett at zMAX Dragway during pre-race ceremonies for the NHRA Carolina Nationals.

The Mike Aiello Award honors the Houston native and standout college athlete at Texas Tech University who was a longtime drag-racing fan and former NHRA Pro Stock crew member. Aiello spent his final years confined to a wheelchair after a workplace injury. Despite physical hardship and severe mobility limitations, he not only attended drag races but made dozens of friends among racers, crew members, and media with his positive outlook and unselfish behavior. Aiello passed away December 29, 2006, at age 39, at Santa Monica, Calif.

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