ROD HALL RACING - MID YEAR UPDATE & AUSTRALASIAN SAFARI

AUSTRALASIAN SAFARI UPDATE

SUNDAY, JULY 26th - Josh Hall and his support team will head to Australia to run the Australasian Safari. The event starts in Perth August 1st and ends in Kalgoorlie on the 8th. The race is a 2,200-mile rally raid running through the Western Australia Outback. He will be driving the H2 SUT with navigator Thad Stump.

FOLLOW THE ACTION -
We’ll be posting updates and videos throughout the event – daily as the connection allows. You can access it by checking out the homepage at rodhallracing.com. You can now follow Rod Hall Racing on Twitter – click here.


MID YEAR UPDATE

ROD HALL RACING

It’s been an exciting six months at Rod Hall Racing. The organization has been focused on giving our drivers excellent opportunities to chase their goals on the dirt. This year, Rod Hall Racing will compete in four countries – two overseas events in Africa and Australia, as well as Baja and the US. August is a busy month, ten days after our return from Australia, we will be competing in the three-day, 1000 mile Vegas to Reno race - August 19-22nd.

DRIVER UPDATE-

Rod oversees the Rod Hall organization, working daily on Rod Hall Events, Products and the Racing Program - continuing to help his customers and partners who seek off-road expertise. He will be supporting Josh Hall in Australia in August as well as racing the three-day, 1000 mile Vegas to Reno and the Baja 1000. This year marks his 42nd running of the 1000.

Chad Hall is competing in the Speed Technologies Class 10 car for the Best In the Desert series and will return to the Baja 1000 in his winning Stock Full HUMMER H3 Alpha. He is incredibly busy running Rod Hall Products and focusing on military suspension packages. For more info, click here.

Josh Hall is preparing to race the Australasian Safari in Western Australia, August 1-8th. Thad Stump will be navigating with additional support from members of the 2008 HUMMER team. Josh is spending significant time training the military special forces on extreme off-road driving as well as organizing upcoming race efforts including driving with Chad in the Baja 1000.

On top of heading to Australia with Rod to scout the Australasian Safari for 2010, Emily Miller will be returning to Morocco in March 2010 to compete in her second attempt of the Rallye Aicha des Gazelles. She will also be racing in the 2009 Vegas to Reno and Baja 1000. She has been working as the demo and hot lap driver for the Michelin and BFGoodrich Light Truck Tire Seminars. You can keep up with Emily by clicking here.

ROD HALL PRODUCTS

We are finishing up our Generation 1 suspension contract with the government. Our Generation 2 four-shock and six-shock HMMWV kits are complete. With the engineering help of Thad Stump, we have developed a new front and rear HMMWV sway bar for our kits. Our new HMMWV and Hilux kits use patented internal triple bypass technology. At the time of this update, we are planning on moving into a new larger facility in November in Reno, Nevada.

ROD HALL EVENTS

We have just wrapped up 12 Rod Hall Light Truck Tire Seminars for Michelin & BFGoodrich Tires. The program is a hands-on driving experience where we showcase six different tires on six Ford Explorers and six HUMMER H3s. The goal is to educate top sales people and managers on the capabilities, features and benefits of each tire with the end result of increased sales. We have a short break and will produce two additional seminars in September and October. For more information on the program, click here for our video.