MitigatorInc.com » Motorsports http://www.mitigatorinc.com High Impact Protection - Whatever your addiction! Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:49:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Mitigator powerboat captures the bookends in 2010 by winning the first and last race of the year! http://www.mitigatorinc.com/2010/10/19/mitigator-powerboat-captures-the-bookends-in-2010-by-winning-the-first-and-last-race-of-the-year/ http://www.mitigatorinc.com/2010/10/19/mitigator-powerboat-captures-the-bookends-in-2010-by-winning-the-first-and-last-race-of-the-year/#comments Wed, 20 Oct 2010 02:50:48 +0000 johngibson13 http://www.mitigatorinc.com/?p=1445

Due to bad luck on Friday's race, The MitiGator team would officially finish 4th in the O.P.A. World Championships, but it would bring home the final checkered flag of 2010 on Sunday!

Its been a roller coaster ride for the MitiGator Powerboat this season, they started out extremely hot by winning in dominating fashion at the season opener in Ocean City Maryland. But since then the team had experienced a bunch of engine troubles and at one race while getting to the race course the boat experienced a huge wave and actually hydro-locked the engine as well as damaged the boat. Throughout all of this thought the team was always very competitive but hadn’t been able to capture another victory before heading to the O.P.A. World championships this past weekend.

The first race was on friday, the way that they determine the world champion is by running 2 races and then the team with the highest averaging finish is declared the winner. However engine problems would again strike the MitiGator Powerboat team as a fuel pump seized up. This would leave the team scrambling on Saturday to try to find a new fuel pump and get it installed before Sunday’s final race.

The MitiGator powerboat would make it back out to the racing action on Sunday, but with little hopes of winning the overall world championship all the team could do was go out and win! And win they would,  again dominating after a first turn that included having to miss a coast guard boat that was out of position. “If we did not back off when we did I’m sure we would have killed the 2 men in the other boat.” Said driver Warren Miller. After the mishap the team would take off and win in dominating fashion. But because of their bad luck on friday the team would rebound to finish 4th in the World Championship standings.  From all of us at MitiGatorinc.com we want to congratulate Driver Warren Miller and Throttle-man Al Colbertson on a successful 2010!

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Tune in this Saturday, August 28th at 7pm to watch and listen live to the MitiGator Ford Fusion at Concord Speedway

On August 28th, the MitiGator Ford Fusion will be competing at the Cabarrus Boys and Girls Club 250 from Concord Speedway. This is the first event for the 2010 USAR Pro Cup Series Championship series. What makes the USAR Pro Cup Series unique is they reset the points after their regular season is over. After the event at Langley Speedway, the MitiGator ford fusion comes into Concord 5th in points and only 30 points behind the point leader.

Can’t be there?? Well we will be broadcasting live from the pits of Gibson Motorsports from our u-stream feed. You will be able to listen live to radio communications between the MitiGator Ford Fusion and the entire Gibson Motorsports crew. Usually for this type of coverage you have to pay a fee. This is a free broadcast you can watch by simply coming to this site on August 28th at 7pm.

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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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!

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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

]]> http://www.mitigatorinc.com/2010/06/28/mitigator-put-to-the-test-during-a-hard-crash-at-charlotte-motor-speedway/feed/ 1 An event filled may kicks off at Hickory Motor Speedway http://www.mitigatorinc.com/2010/05/03/an-event-filled-may-kicks-off-at-hickory-motor-speedway/ http://www.mitigatorinc.com/2010/05/03/an-event-filled-may-kicks-off-at-hickory-motor-speedway/#comments Mon, 03 May 2010 17:16:37 +0000 johngibson13 http://www.mitigatorinc.com/?p=483 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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