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Friday, Aug. 24, 2007
Mooresville, NC (August 25, 2007) - A weekend of racing at Bristol Motor Speedway always guarantees lots of crumpled, torn and flattened sheet metal, which is bad for the race car fabricators but good for leading sheet metal supplier Stock Car Steel & Aluminum. In fact, the metal service center that specializes in the NASCAR market sponsored Jason White's No.08 NASCAR Busch series car at Bristol to recognize the busiest weekend of the year for the company. However, White was involved in a wreck this morning that ended his weekend hopes but will keep the team at SCSA busy rebuilding the car.
"Greg (Fornelli, the owner of SCSA) always jokes that his favorite words in NASCAR are when we yell 'There's trouble in turn two!!!'," says Larry McReynolds, analyst for Fox Sports and Speed and former crew chief.
"Well, we tend to say those words a lot at Bristol. I would say that track is definitely good for his business." Greg Fornelli estimates that between the NASCAR Craftsman Truck, Busch and Nextel Cup series events at Bristol, more than two tons - some 4,600 pounds -- of sheet metal will be ruined and need to be replaced.
The Stock Car Steel & Aluminum Dodge was piloted by driver Jason White, who drives for Pennington Motorsports in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, along with running a partial Busch Series schedule. White and SCSA debuted their car and paint scheme when practice started Thursday for the Food City 250. But the No. 08 Stock Car Steel Dodge was too damaged in Friday's practice to start the race on Friday night.
"We're disappointed that we didn't have a chance to race tonight in the Stock Car Steel Dodge," said Fornelli, President and CEO of Stock Car Steel and Aluminum and SRI - Supplies for Racing & Industry.
"We sponsored the car to leverage our brand in racing and were looking forward to seeing our car on track. But our business is all about providing new sheet metal and supplies for race cars, so at least this is good for our business."
Headquartered in Mooresville, NC, Stock Car Steel and Aluminum supplies every type of raw material a race team might need to build a race car, including carbon steel, aluminum, chrome moly, and stainless steel. Their inventory includes tubing, sheets, bars and plates.
Stock Car Steel's sister company, SRI - Supplies for Racing & Industry, is a distributor of supplies from well-respected names, ranging from 3M, POP brand rivets, and DeWalt tools. SRI specializes in products such as adhesives, abrasives, fasteners, cutting tools, etc. They have recently launched an extensive e-commerce web site; www.sri-supplies.com.