On September 11th 2010 the MitiGator Ford Fusion will be debuting a special paint scheme at Bristol Motor Speedway, honoring the thousands of lives that were lost at the World Trade Center attacks
It’s hard to believe that nine years has passed since the devastating terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center. The anniversary of these attacks is less than two weeks away and it offers us a time to remember and reflect on this tragic time in history.
MitiGatorinc.com is committed to supporting our military troops and currently has outfitted over 50,000 military vehicles with the MitiGator cushioning system.
On September 11, 2010 the MitiGator Ford Fusion will be competing at Bristol Motor Speedway. As a tribute to the thousands of victims and fallen firefighters, police officers, and rescue workers that died in the World Trade Center attacks, the MitiGator Ford Fusion will be carrying a commemorative paint scheme to honor the victims and to also pay tribute to the military personnel actively fighting to protect our freedom.
Make sure you come out to Bristol for the September 11, 2010 USAR Pro Cup Championiship Series Race #2. For those of you who cannot make it to the track, tune in to MitiGatorinc.com for a live webcast from the “World’s Fastest Half-Mile”.
The next live webcast will be from the famed Concord Speedway on August 28th.
During our last broadcast from the Iowa 150 we had over 500 viewers log on to watch the MitiGator Ford Fusion from the pits of Gibson Motorsports. Unfortunately the race didn’t end the way we were hoping it would. So we’ve decided to do another webcast from the pits again at the 1/2 mile Concord Speedway on August 28th. Our hope this time is to break the 1,000 viewer mark!
Just like our last webcast you will be able to listen in during the event to live radio communication between the Gibson Motorsports crew. This was a feature that we added for the first time during the Iowa event. The radio communication is crystal clear over the webcast. If you didn’t tune in for the Iowa broadcast, you don’t know what your missing!
The MitiGator Ford Fusion finished 6th at last years Concord event and looks to get away from this bad luck that has been plaguing the last 3 races. So tune in around 7PM on August 28th to watch and listen to the MitiGator Ford rocket around the extremely fast half-mile speedway.
MitiGatorinc.com will be broadcasting live from the Famous Iowa Speedway on July 30th for the USAR Iowa 150
This coming friday, July 30th, we will be doing a live webcast from the pits of Gibson Motorsports at the famous Iowa Speedway. This is one of the fastest tracks that the USAR Pro Cup Series goes to, where speeds will reach 150-160mph. The broadcast will kick off on Friday around 7pm with the Green flag to drop at the 3/4 mile oval at 8pm.
However we have some exciting news, We’ve added a new feature for this broadcast! For the first time you will be able to listen to live communications from the MitiGator Ford Fusion. You will be able to hear all of the communications between driver, spotter, crew chief, and crew. This should make the webcast experience even more intense.
Make sure you tune in this friday to MitiGatorinc.com to watch the event live from the Gibson Motorsports pits. You can tune into the event by visiting Mitigatorinc.com and scrolling down looking at the right hand side of the page. The broadcast will be underneath where it says MITIGATORLIVE TV STOCK CAR RACING. The broadcast will start playing once you log onto Mitigatorinc.com. You can then click to open it up to a larger window. There will also be live chat where you can talk to other racefans throughout the country.
The MitiGator offshore powerboat will be at St. Claire Michigan on July 23-25th. Come by and check out the MitiGator equipped seats in the Off-shore Powerboat!
I received an email this past weekend from the MitiGator Off Shore Powerboat’s driver Warren Miller this past weekend with some disappointing news. The team is preparing for what is turning out to be one of the biggest events of the year. This coming weekend at St. Claire Michigan the MitiGator Off-shore powerboat will take to the choppy water at its only freshwater event.
Warren had made all of the repairs to the boat since the race at Florida sidelined the team with some damage. The team took the boat out on the water this past week to ensure that everything was fixed. During testing, the engine broke a roller and “trashed the motor” according to warren. Luckily one of the areas that they addressed this off-season was the addition of a spare motor for cases like this. The spare is in the boat and the team is again testing before the race on July 25th. The next 2 weekends will be spent in Michigan, so if your going to be in the area come by and check out the Mitigator equipped off-shore powerboat this sunday. The race will not disappoint!
This race Warren will actually be taking time away from the driver’s seat and will be acting as a throttle-man. The course at St. Claire has right hand turns instead of left, So warren is substituting a new driver and is going to try to take home the checkered flag for the MitiGator Off-shore Powerboat!
Well summer has been here for a few weeks now, and it already looks like it is going to be a scorcher out here in North Carolina. We’ve been really busy at MitiGatorinc.com, we are always looking for ways that we can institute the MitiGator cushioning system into products that desperately need it. July has already proved to be a busy but rather productive month for us as we have opened our new R&D building in Tampa Florida. One of the first things we are going to be doing is outfitting ATV seats with MitiGator, and then we are going to do some testing to document the results. These are the same ATV’s that I wrote on last weeks blog update. This past weekend we shot some video showing how little support the seats on a typical ATV/4 wheelers have. We will be uploading this video to our youtube stream here shortly.
The MitiGator Offshore boat will be in Michigan for two weekends of racing
July is also busy for our two racing teams, The MitiGator off shore power boat team will have back to back weekends of racing in the state of Michigan starting this coming weekend on July 18th when they look to take home the checkered flag at Harrison Township. The following weekend, July 25th they will be battling for the win at St. Claire Michigan. The MitiGator Offshore Power Boat has been the boat to beat at the first two events, so if your going to be in the area come on by and check out the MitiGator equipped seats in the boat. Who knows maybe Driver Warren Miller will let you sit in cockpit and checkout just how comfortable it can be.
The MitiGator Ford Fusion will be on hand at the Iowa Speedway where you'll be able to tune in and watch our webcast from the Gibson Motorsports pits, and listen to On-board radio communications
The MitiGator Ford Fusion will also be invading the midwest on July 30th when the car will be on hand at the extremely fast Iowa Speedway. We currently are sitting 5th in points and are looking forward to the track where speeds will reach close to 160mph. We will be doing a live webcast from the track and you will be able to listen to on-board radio communication between driver, spotter, crew chief and crew at the 3/4 high speed oval. This is a race that we have had circled on our calendar for quite sometime and our plan is to make the trek and win the thing infront of the capacity crowd that will be on hand.
You can see we’ve got a lot going on so make sure you keep checking back as we will be updating this page along with our Twitter and Facebook pages with the latest news and amazing videos from the month of July.
Hunter Richards driving a bandolero like the ones shown here experienced just how safe a seat can be when it is equipped with MitiGator
This past week we received a letter from a Father who’s son Hunter Richards races a bandolero race car weekly at the summer shootout series at Charlotte Motor Speedway, I have attended these races before and they are a great way for a driver to get noticed. They will attract a ton of cars, but this also makes it very dangerous. One of the worst crashes I have ever seen was during the Summer Shootout Series. Hunter was involved in a very nasty accident, to the point where it actually broke one of the spokes in the steering wheel. Luckily the bandolero seat had been outfitted with the shock abosrbant MitiGator material. The MitiGator did its job and Hunter came out of the accident with only a slight bruise on the hand from where the steering wheel broke. This prompted his father to send us a letter thanking us, and I wanted to share this letter with our visitors to this site.
“As a Father I would like to thank you for your MitiGator High Impact Cushioning System my son Hunter’s seat was fitted with at Richardson Racing Products. I see now how that allowed them to build us the best Race seat I have ever seen. I was told of how your MitiGator System works in other race cars and boats, along with the ability to protect our soldiers as they use it in the Military Vehicles of all types. I want to let other parents know that if they have a Son or Daughter racing or they race themselves they need to install this product into their seat. It will make any professional racing seat safer and more comfortable. With the introduction to the MitiGator High Impact Cushioning System as Matt at Richardson’s Racing Products installed it at their facility I became a true believer in the ability of how MitiGator would make our new seat the safest seat we could provide him.
Last Monday night at Charlotte Motor Speedway my son Hunter’s new custom racing seat for his Bandolero Race Car was tested as he had the worst crash of his racing career. As he was practicing he came out of the second turn and another car spun-out right in front of him leaving him nowhere to go but hit him hard. Hunter hit him with his car that weighs in at 765 Lbs. creating a violent impact that caused a lot of damage like the following: we bent the Rack and Pinion steering which is located in the car and inside the drivers compartment, bent the Spindle and A-Frame, destroyed the front support Horns and Bumper, and completely wiped out the Front body of the Car. But to our surprise Hunter limped the car back to the pits with out as much as having the breathe knocked out of him, it was amazing Hunter said he was held so tight in the seat that he absolutely felt NOTHING except the spoke in the steering wheel snapped and bruised his hand. It is my opinion that the MitiGator should be mandatory in all forms of Racing after seeing it work first hand.”
Thanks Again,
Donald Richards
More proof that the MitiGator material not only makes a racing seat more comfortable, but also safer. For more information about outfitting your seat with MitiGator send me an email at John@MitiGatorinc.com
Team Mitigator, the maker of Extreme Sports Protection Systems, had a very eventful weekend, just not what we expected. So the weekend was suppose to be filled with cheers and people having champagne being poured over their heads in victory, but this weekend proved to be, not quite what we had anticipated. It started off with Team Mitigator’s Auto Racing Team having mechanical problems on Lap 12 with smoke billowing out of the rear of the car. It was unclear what the problem was and Team Mitigator Car 13 went into the pits to see if they could resolve the issue. They could not and therefore never made it back out onto the track.
On Sunday, Team Mitigator’s Offshore Racing Team took to the beautiful waters of Miami Beach to continue on with its win out of Maryland. Warren Miller, Team Mitigator’s Driver/Owner of the Mitigator Boat, had the boat configured for rough seas and the initial glance at water conditions were that of calm seas which gave some concern to how well Team Mitigator would place. On Race Day Team Mitigator was heading out to the starting point of the when it was hit by a rough wave which caused water to flow into the exhaust and created what is called a “Hydro Lock”, water flowing into the engine and the engine shutting down. At first look, it was assumed that the battery had taken a hit and cracked but that was not the case as Warren later found out. The boat had to be towed in and Team Mitigator was never able to start the race.
In High Performance racing, these land and sea vehicle’s are highly sophisticated and very sensitive pieces of engineering marvels. The fact that these drivers and their equipment is driven to the edge of their maximum performance, and the constant “tweaking” to get that last bit of horse power out of them, eventually leads to breakdown, it happens with every race team.
So although Team Mitigator had a tough weekend, we would like to thank all the sponsors of the 3rd Annual SIB Offshore Powerboat Challenge. We will see you next year, same place but with a vengeance in our bones!
The MitiGator Ford Fusion will be on hand at the legendary South Boston Speedway on June 12th
This coming weekend of June 12 and 13th will be a busy one as MitiGatorinc.com will be doing two live webcasts from the tracks at South Boston Speedway in South Boston, VA and then from the beach at Sunny Isles Florida.
The racing action will kick off on June 12th at South Boston Speedway for the Strutmasters 250. The MitiGator Ford Fusion will role into the famous short track 3rd in points. The MitiGator ford has failed to finish outside of the top ten this year, and has finished every lap but one this season. The webcast will kick off from the Gibson Motorsports pit area around 6pm. Make sure you tune in to see the MitiGator ford tackle this legendary short track.
The MitiGator offshore powerboat will be doing a live webcast from Sunny Isles florida on June 13th
Then on Sunday June 13th the MitiGator Offshore Powerboat will attempt to make it 2 for 2 this year as they will be racing from Sunny Isles beach, Florida. Driver Warren Miller and new Throttle-man Al Colbertson took home the checkered flag at the first event of the year at the packed beaches of Ocean City Maryland and will look to sweep the first 2 events of the season. Tune in around 11 am to watch these boats attack the beaches from Sunny Isles florida.
Then also don’t forget to check out our youtube page next week for all the amazing videos from these 2 events.
After Battling transmission issues the MitiGator Ford Fusion battled back to record it
This past Memorial Day weekend proved to be a very successful weekend of racing for both the Mitigator Ford Fusion, and Team MitiGator Offshore powerboat team.
The weekend kicked off with the Hampton, VA 250 from Langley Speedway. The MitiGator Ford fusion and the Gibson Motorsports crew entered the event coming off of four straight top ten finishes and was sitting 2nd in points. The weekend started off with transmission troubles, which couldn’t be resolved. We were all pretty disapointed but luckily J.P Morgan’s team had an extra transmission for us to use for the event. The team had to change the transmission during practice and missed about an hour of practice because of it. The MitiGator ford still qualified for the event in 9th place and brought home a hard fought 8th place finish. The next event is in 2 weeks at South Boston Speedway on June 12th.
After Starting the race in 2nd position Team MitiGator took the lead early and never looked back!
On sunday afternoon it was the MitiGator off shore powerboat’s turn at the season opener at Ocean City Maryland. The event was a huge success with the beaches packed with people to see the powerful boats take to the open water. The water was rather choppy, but this fit the MitiGator boat as new throttle man Al Colbertson is known for his ability to drive in the rough water. The team had a good draw, and rolled off the start in 2nd position. At the end of the first lap The MitiGator boat had taken the lead and never looked back. It ended up taking home the checkered flag almost half a lap ahead of 2nd place. The next event for the team is June 11th in Sunny Isle, Florida.
Make sure you check our YouTube page for videos from both events.
The first live webcast will start out on Saturday night May 29th with the Hampton Virginia 250 from Langley Speedway. The Mitigator Ford Fusion sits 2nd in points and will look to build on its early success this season. The track did not have a strong enough wifi signal last year for us to be able to do the broadcast, if that is the case this year we will be updating our twitter page and facebook pages with live updates from the event. the broadcast should be up around 6pm if we have a signal.
MitiGator Equipped seats in the Mitigator Offshore Powerboat
On Sunday afternoon May 30th, we will be doing a live webcast from Ocean City Maryland at the 2010 Season opener for the Offshore Powerboat Association. The MitiGator High Priority Offshore team is ready to kick off the season with a victory. We’ll be doing a live webcast from the beach following the boats as they navigate the choppy waters.
We should get some great videos from both events so make sure your subscribed to our youtube page!
You can tune into the event by visiting Mitigatorinc.com and scrolling down looking at the right hand side of the page. The broadcast will be underneath where it says MITIGATORLIVE TV STOCK CAR RACING. The broadcast will start playing once you log onto Mitigatorinc.com. You can then click to open it up to a larger window. There will also be live chat where you can talk to other racefans throughout the country
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