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Top Teams OPTIMA® Batteries ChumpCar World Series and Fastrucks, Inc. Partner to Form ChumpTruck F JOBS for TEAMS astrucks, Inc. (Santa Clarita, CA), a company that develops specialized big-rig trucks for hill-climb racing and motion picture work, and ChumpCar International LLC, owner of the ChumpCar World Series®, one of the fastest-growing segments in North American motorsports, recently announced the formation of the ChumpTruck World Series, a road racing series for big-rig trucks. Each company is a 50% partner in the new entity. The announcement was made public at the 2013 Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, KY. Modeled as a cross-section between FIA European Truck Racing and the ChumpCar World Series, ChumpTruck draws from both organizations to create a grassroots, low-cost truck racing series that will compete on some of North America's most famous race tracks - Daytona International Speedway, Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, Road Atlanta,Texas Motor Speedway, Portland International Raceway, Road America and others across the United States and Canada. Co-founder and Fastrucks CEO, Mike Ryan, stated,"Trucks competing in the Euro Series are a huge fan favorite; however, each truck can cost upwards of $250,000 to develop. Cars competing in the ChumpCar World Series cost about $2,500 to develop and go endurance racing for up to 36 hours! That low-cost and the tremendous race program they have are part of what has made ChumpCar the fastest growing and hottest ticket in car racing today. It was easy to see that if we could combine the excitement of big-rig road racing with the low-cost, no-hassle approach that ChumpCar uses, we'd have a winning product." OPTIMA Batteries, a division of Johnson Controls Inc. based in Milwaukee, is the series sponsor for the ChumpCar World Series. Fastrucks is sponsored by Freightliner Trucks, Inc., headquartered in Portland, Oregon. "Mike and I have been working on this program for about a year," reports ChumpCar's CEO, John Condren."We are both huge fans of the Euro Truck Series but we also felt that this needed to be opened-up and made available to anyone... not just guys who can spend $250,000. Our target race truck will be 1975-1995 trucks that have seen their | 22 JFT0513_Top Teams.indd 1 www.jobsforteams.com 4/4/13 9:04 AM