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General Tire is Official Tire of 2008 KMC Wheels TROPHYLITE
Championship Series Presented by KC HiLiTES
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CHARLOTTE, NC – (March 7, 2008) – General Tire will be the official tire
for the inaugural season of the 2008 KMC Wheels TROPHYLITE Championship
Series Presented by KC HiLiTES.
Beginning with the Best in the Desert Blue Water Gran Prix May 16-18,
all TROPHYLITE competitors will be equipped with the new General Tire
Grabber competition tires. The 2008 series will feature five races that
will include both desert and short course settings.
“We are excited to form a partnership with TROPHYLITE LLC, and are
looking forward to the feedback that we will be able to gain in our
constant effort to provide the best tire for TROPHYLITE competitors and
off-road enthusiasts alike,” said Tony Talbert, General Tire product
manager.
“We are pleased to have a company of General Tire’s caliber sign on as
the exclusive tire of TROPHYLITE, said Matt Scaroni, TROPHYLITE founder
and CEO. “We believe the TROPHYLITE concept is the perfect match for
General Tire and its quest to develop the best off-road tire on the
market.”
TROPHYLITE is an affordable spec racing concept which provides the
average off-road enthusiast the chance to step from the sidelines into
the driver’s seat. TROPHYLITE offers not only a very affordable high
performance spec race truck, but also the chance to compete in a real
racing series. TROPHYLITE-manufactured trucks are based on a light duty
two-wheel drive production Chevrolet truck, with a TROPHYLITE LLC
chassis, approved drive train, and approved suspension components.
Chassis, drive train, and suspension components also must be spec
TROPHYLITE LLC components.
“We are very pleased to team with Matt Scaroni and TROPHYLITE,” said
Travis Roffler, director of marketing, General Tire. “This is an all-new
class of vehicles and racing series for the off-road community, and
we’re excited to be a part of its beginning.”
General Tire has ‘unleashed the fury’ in off-road competitive
performance with its Grabber competition tires as General Tire powers
into off-road racing in 2008.
Designed with a tough, three-ply Duragen™-reinforced body construction
to stand up to the rigors of off-road conditions, the Grabber also
features a newly-developed competition-specific tread compound. General
Tire offers two distinct tread designs for different types of
competitive conditions. In addition, the Grabber name and General Tire
logo are prominently featured on the sidewall in red and white letters.
The Grabber competition tires are designed in size 37x 12.50R17 for
class 1, 7S, 7 unlimited, 8 and trophy truck.
General Tire (www.generaltire.com
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part of Continental Tire North America, Inc. CTNA, based in Charlotte,
North Carolina, is a company of Germany-based Continental AG. With
targeted annual sales of more than €26.4 billion ($40 billion US) for
2008, the Continental Corporation is one of the top automotive suppliers
worldwide. As a supplier of brake systems, systems and components for
the powertrain and chassis, instrumentation, infotainment solutions,
vehicle electronics, tires and technical elastomers, the corporation
contributes towards enhanced driving safety and protection of the global
climate. Continental is also a competent partner in networked automobile
communication. Today, the corporation employs approximately 150,000
people at nearly 200 locations in 36 countries.
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