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PRESS RELEASE
Innovator in
Auto Racing Honored by U.S. Space Foundation
X-1R
Performance Lubricants Inducted into Space Technology
Hall of Fame
(April
6, 2000 - Colorado Springs, CO) A
special honor
was bestowed upon a leader in the industrial and automotive
world this week as X-1R Performance Lubricants was
inducted into the US Space Foundation�s Space Technology
Hall of Fame. X-1R becomes the 34th product
and the only lubricant in history to receive the prestigious
induction and recognition. Accepting the honor, as part of
the 16th Annual National Space Symposium was
company President, Buck Parker Sr. The ceremony took
place on Thursday, April 6th, in the International Center of
the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, CO.
Since 1988,
the United States Space Foundation, in cooperation with
NASA, has honored the innovators who have successfully
transferred technology originally developed for the space
program into the consumer/commercial marketplaces.
Daytona
Beach-based Sun Coast Chemicals was honored for its
development of the X-1R Friction Eliminating "Crawler
Track Lubricant". The product was developed in response
to NASA�s desire to find a bio-degradable, non-toxic
lubricant for use in the Space Shuttle Crawler, the mammoth
transporter that moves the Space Shuttle from the Vehicle
Assembly Building to the launch pad at a deliberate
one-mile-per-hour pace. The lubricant must withstand the
extreme pressure of a twelve million-pound payload.
Within its
involvement in the world of auto racing, X-1R has received
widespread endorsement from winning race teams citing
performance enhancing attributes and credit for increased
results. In addition to the X-1R Performance Lubricants
involvement with 3 Daytona 500 winning efforts of the
Morgan-McClure racing efforts with drivers Ernie Irvan and
Sterling Marlin, X-1R has made major impact in the
increasingly popular world of Dirt Late Model racing and
numerous other forms of motorsports. Championships and race
victories from varied arenas of racing competition have
noted the significant impact from use of X-1R products.
During the
1999 racing season, X-1R Performance Lubricants played a primary
sponsoring role in the history-making and worldwide Internet
broadcast of three major Dirt Late Model racing events.
X-1R's sponsoring participation in the "USA National
100", the "World 100" and the "Dirt
Track World Championship" enabled the Dirt
Late Model racing community their first-ever opportunity for
"Live" flag-to-flag coverage of major events.
As a result of X-1R's involvement in the Dirt Late Model
arena numerous teams, drivers, fans and other affiliates
involved in Dirt Late Model racing have become staunch
supporters of the company's diverse product line.
"We
are honored by this special recognition and have appreciated
the ongoing relationship which we have enjoyed with NASA,
the Kennedy Space Center and Lockheed," noted X-1R
Performance Lubricant President Buck Parker, Sr.
"Our success with the specially developed product for
the Kennedy Space Center has opened many avenues in the
corporate and manufacturing industry for our full product
line."
The
widespread acceptance of the X-1R Performance Lubricant
products has led to many commercial applications currently
used by major corporations worldwide from major automotive
manufacturers, to mining and drilling and it is also used
on-board the largest ocean going vessels in the world.
X-1R�s results have even spawned a family of dedicated-use
lubricants for the sporting goods and recreational
enthusiast, including a Gun Lube, Fishing Reel Lube, Bike
Lube and Skate Lube. Its wide variety of high performance
racing lubricants are used by top teams in NASCAR, AMA,
IMSA, HAVATAMPA, Circle Track, Drag Racing and Go Kart
programs. The company�s Engine Treatment Concentrate and
Fuel Treatment are available at Wal-Mart locations
nationwide. X-1R�s Shooter Pack � Gun Lube and Cleaner
was recently named by Guns & Ammo Magazine as one of the
Top 10 Best Buys for the 21st Century. Also, the
company�s X-1R Bio-degradable Hydraulic Fluid was chosen
as one of the Top 10 Lubricants in the world by Lubricants
World Magazine in 1999.
Also...
In addition to the company receiving strong recognition from
the Motorsports community, numerous major corporations
worldwide use the products of X-1R Performance Lubricants in
their daily manufacturing process. Among those companies
currently utilizing and endorsing X-1R Performance
Lubricants are: the Coca-Cola Company, American Motorcycle
Institute, Georgia Pacific, Motion Industries, NASA/Kennedy
Space Center/Lockheed, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company,
Ross Aluminum Foundries, All American Pest Control, Gale
Industries and Multi-Lift International of Sweden.
Previously
inducted technologies into the Space Technology Hall of Fame
include the Miniature Accelerometer, developed by Silicon
Designs, Inc.; Active Pixel Sensors, developed by NASA Jet
Propulsion Laboratory and Photobit Corporation; the DeBakey
Blood Pump, developed by NASA Johnson Space Center, NASA
Ames Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine and
MicroMed Technology, Inc.; and the Heart Defibrillator
Energy Source, developed by Maxwell Technologies, Inc.
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