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January 13, 2005 BFGoodrich® Tires Motorsports: 2004 Year In Review; Racing Records & Series Championships Mark Successful Year Greenville, SC BFGoodrich® Tires completed a very successful 2004 establishing new records and recording series championships both on- and off-road. BFGoodrich Tires secured 16 series championships on its way to a record 2004 racing season. "Our motto has been to use motorsports as a proving ground for our tires and 2004 proved to be a winning year," said Thom Peebles, BFGoodrich Tires brand director. "In 2004, in the series in which we competed, we won more class and overall championships than our competition. In addition, in certain series, we won more than all of our competitors combined. That is proving something." "2004 was a very memorable year," said Todd Steen, motorsports marketing manager for BFGoodrich Tires. "We not only secured 15 series championships, but we began participation in two new series, broke multiple track records and won our 19th straight SCORE Baja 1000." Off-Road Racing During the competitive 2004 off-road racing year, BFGoodrich Tires competed in SCORE, CORR, UROC and Best In The Desert including providing tires for the JeepSpeed desert racing series. BFGoodrich Tires clinched its 19th straight overall four-wheel vehicle championship at the SCORE Baja 1000 with Troy Herbst and Larry Roeseler claiming the title in their Class 1 "Truggy". Overall, BFGoodrich once again clinched the SCORE series championship winning more races than its competitors combined. At the series' annual awards banquet, BFGoodrich Tires was honored as SCORE Contingency Company of the year and the 2004 SCORE Pit Support Team of the year. In the CORR series, teams using the BFGoodrich Mud-Terrain T/A and All-Terrain T/A won all three Pro-Class Championships (Pro-4, Pro-2 and Pro-Lite) for the fifth year in a row and won three of five Sportsman Class Championships. In addition, members of the BFGoodrich Tires team won more races in 2004 than all other tire companies combined. In the UROC rock crawling series, Tracy Jordan and Dean Bulloch secured the 2004 Super Modified and Modified class championships giving BFGoodrich Tires the championship sweep in both classes of the UROC Eastern and Western Extreme series and the UROC Pro-National series. For the third straight year, BFGoodrich Tires teams "krawled" over the competition at UROC's SuperCrawl III held in Salt Lake City, Utah. Randy Torbett, 2004 Extreme East Series champion, won the Super Modified class with BFGoodrich Tires teams sweeping the top ten spots. Dean Bulloch continued his winning ways by securing the top spot in the Modified class with BFGoodrich Tires teams taking home five of the top six spots. In the Best in the Desert series, BFGoodrich Tires teams won 55 class races claiming 75-percent of all race class wins. Overall, BFGoodrich Tires secured nine out of 14 championships. JeepSpeed is a class that allows racers to enter into off-road racing without significant costs. Today, more than 40 teams race in the stock and stock-modified classes making it the fastest growing spec class in off-road racing. Pavement Racing In 2004, BFGoodrich Tires participated in 11 different sanctioning body races including oval track, drag racing and road racing. Teams using BFGoodrich tires set numerous track records and secured multiple championships in including 10 overall series and/or class championships. BFGoodrich Tires served as the spec tire in the ASA, USAR Hooters ProCup, Trans-Am Road Racing Series and Skip Barber Racing Series and competed in 600 racing, Legends, Import Drag Racing Championship, NOPI Drag Racing Association (NDRA), NHRA Summit Sport Compact, National Street Car Association (NSCA), World Ford Challenge (WFC), Fun Ford Weekend (FFW) and the National Mustang Racing Association (NMRA). In the brand's first year as spec tire in the USAR Hooters ProCup stock car racing series, BFGoodrich Tires introduced radial tire technology with the use of its Traction T/A racing radial tire. With this new addition, the brand helped teams break 10 track lap records. Clay Rogers raced to win the 2004 USAR Hooters ProCup championship. Kevin Cywinski clinched his second consecutive ASA championship with his win in 2004. BFGoodrich Tires claimed multiple drag racing championships including the NDRA, WFC, FFW and NMRA (two classes). Gary White secured a victory in the NDRA and Phil Clemmons and Bob Cosby were victorious in two BFGoodrich Tires-sponsored classes in the NMRA. Dwayne Gutridge continued to build on his winning ways racing his record-setting Ford Mustang to championships in both the World Ford Challenge and the Fun Ford Weekend event. "Congratulations to all of our champions on an outstanding year of racing," said Steen. "We look forward to 2005 as we continue to emphasize our involvement with motorsports as a proving ground for our products." BFGoodrich Tires combine technological expertise with vast motorsports experience, delivering a high-performance tire for every type of vehicle from ultra-high performance tuner vehicles, sports cars and SUVs to the hottest sport trucks, pickups and rock-crawling rigs in the world. For more than 30 years, BFGoodrich Tires has used motorsports as a proving ground. Success on the street begins with winning on the track and BFGoodrich Tires is involved in every type of racing, including oval, sports car, drag, desert and extreme rock-crawling. With 19 consecutive Baja 1000 wins, the most wins in rock-crawling history, and an unmatched record on pavement, BFGoodrich Tires has proven the only records it breaks are its own. |
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