The Mitigator Ford passing for 2nd at the CARS X-1R Pro Cup Series Season Opener

This past Saturday marked the opening weekend for the 2013 X-1R Pro Cup Series. Excitement built over the offseason as it was announced that the series would be paying a huge $10,000 to the victor of each event. The MitiGator Ford Fusion and the Gibson Motorsports team were on hand after spending the majority of their evenings in the week preparing the car for the upcoming event.

When they arrived on Saturday it wasn’t long before the MitiGator Ford was already up into the top five in practice. The Gibson Motorsports crew and new crew chief Tony Lambert would turn a lap of 17.3 in practice that was good enough for fifth on the sheets.

After picking up almost a half a second in qualifying, the MitiGator Ford would start the event from the fourth position. However, It wouldn’t take long before Gibson made his way into third and was battling for 2nd.

At the mandatory half-way break, the Gibson Motorsports crew made some quick adjustments, and after the new redraw restarted the race from the fifth position. “It was just so extremely tough to pass tonight, that I knew that the redraw was going to hurt us a bit,” said driver John Gibson. The competition in the pro cup series is known for being one of the tightest in the country, and saturday was no different.

The Gibson Motorsports crew working on the MitiGator Ford Fusion

After battling a tight racecar in the 2nd half of the event, the MitiGator Ford Fusion was unable to advance through the field and crossed the finish line in the 6th position. Not a bad way to start out the 2013 season. Up next for the CARS X-1R Pro Cup Series is the 2nd event of the year at the historic Hickory Motor Speedway. The MitiGator Ford will be battling again for the $10,000 winner’s check on April 20th.

The seat within the 600 horsepower MitiGator Ford Fusion has been equipped with the MitiGator Driver Protection Technology. The SFI certified MitiGator absorbs and dissipates energy caused by bumps in the track, crashes, or even engine vibration. This not only protects the driver, but also allows him to focus on the most important thing when at the track – Winning the race. For more information on the MitiGator Cushioning System email MediaRelations@MitiGatorinc.com

You can also learn more about the MitiGator Technology by clicking here

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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.

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Fans will be able to listen to all the radio traffic from the MitiGator Ford Fusion

Yep, you read that correctly… At the next live webcast from the pits of the Gibson Motorsports, we will not only be streaming the race live, but we will also be featuring the radio transmissions from onboard the MitiGator Ford Fusion. Fans will be able to tune in and listen live to the radio traffic between Driver, Spotter, Crew Chief and Crew. This is something that we have wanted to do for the fans for sometime and last weekend we figured out how to pull this off!

Our next broadcast will be either from Motor Mile Speedway on July 17th, or from Iowa Speedway on July 30th. So check back on MitiGatorinc.com in the next week or so for a more definite time to tune in and hear all the excitement!

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The month of may is going to be a busy one for all of us at Mitigatorinc.com. I have posted a list of events at the bottom of this blog, but the hectic month kicked off this past weekend at Hickory Motor speedway with the Wix Filters 250. We had trouble getting the live webcast up and running this past weekend, and for that we do apologize. We were able to do live twitter updates from the event. Make sure your following us on twitter throughout the month of May as we are going to have some awesome things happening throughout the month.

As far as the race goes, the Mitigator Ford Fusion has been on a tear the last two race weekends finishing 3rd and 2nd respectively. But Hickory was another story, We struggled in practice and during the race we just couldn’t get the breaks we needed to bring home a top five finish. It was disappointing but we fought back and brought home a tenth place finish. The Mitigator Ford now sits third in points heading into the race at Rockingham Speedway on May 15th.

Like I said before May is going to be busy, so if you are going to be anywhere near these future events come by and introduce yourself. The goal is to do a live webcast from each of these events.

May 1st Wix Filters 250 Hickory Motor Speedway – Hickory, NC

May 15th Rockingham 200 Rockingham Raceway Park – Rockingham, NC

May 29th Langley 250 Langley Speedway – Langley, Va

May 29th – 30th Off Shore Powerboat Association, Ocean City Maryland

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Mitigatorinc.com will be doing another live webcast from the pits at Hickory Motor Speedway on May 1st

On May 1st, Mitigatorinc.com will be doing another live webcast from the pit area of Gibson Motorsports at the Legendary Hickory Motor Speedway. Our first webcast was such a success with over 1,000 people tuning in during the race!

We are not sure what type of internet connection we are going to have at the legendary speedway, so if we encounter some internet problems we will be doing live updates on our twitter page and on Facebook. So make sure you are following us!

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.

This is the third event of the year for the USAR Pro Cup Series. The Mitigator Ford fusion is second in points and is coming off its best run of the year of a second place finish at New Smyrna Speedway.

So check back on Saturday to catch the event, the webcast should be up and running around 7:30 or so.

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