Tiger Rear Ends Comes Aboard To Sponsor Pro All Stars Series

“Hey, nice rear end.” That phrase is not something you customarily use when talking about the mechanics of a racecar. At least, not until now. Tiger Rear Ends is hoping to change that by getting involved with the Pro All Stars Series North and South Super Late Model Tours.

PASS announced today that Tiger Rear Ends will become a marketing partner with both PASS North and PASS South for the 2007 seasons, with hopes to continue to grow their product into the short track realms.

The program includes a specific year-end prize within the series entitled the “Tiger Race to the Front” award. Throughout the 2007 season, tabs will be kept on who improves the most from their starting spot to their finishing position in each race. The driver, from either the North or South series, that improves the most positions throughout the course of the season will win the “Tiger Race to the Front” award, which includes a Tiger Standard Super Late Model Rear-End with locker mechanism. The total value is nearly $2,000.

In addition, the third-place finisher in each PASS North and PASS South race in 2007 will receive a $50 gift certificate good toward Tiger Rear End products.

“We’re very excited about partnering with the PASS Series this year,” said Gerald Williams, Vice President of Tiger Rear Ends. “We started out with another series to get more involved in the short track racing side, and now we felt the value that PASS offers is a great fit for us this year. We are growing our asphalt short track program while also continuing to advance our dirt program as well.

“We want to get into the PASS Series to further our products in the Super Late Model world. The PASS North and South Series are great avenues to get the word out about Tiger Rear Ends. And supporting both their North and South tours is a great way to expand into new areas. We want to make more people aware of our product throughout the country, and by being affiliated with both PASS tours, we’re able to do that.”

The addition of Tiger Rear Ends adds yet another top-rated motorsports company to the growing list of supporters of both PASS tours, which also includes Northern Tire, Sunoco, Performance Friction Brakes, BSR Products, Racing Electronics, 51 Designs, Unifirst Uniforms and more.

“When companies like Tiger Rear Ends continue to come onboard, it shows everyone how much this series is growing,” said PASS Owner and President Tom Mayberry. “I’ve been really impressed with the rear-end products that Tiger produces and I’m sure a lot of our teams will like their products too.

“I’ve always been a big supporter of telling our teams to use the products that support the series. When a company comes in and decides they want to be a part of the series, they are showing that they support short track racing in general. We’re really happy to have Tiger come on board and we look forward to a very long relationship with them.”

“I’m going to Hickory to win. I’m not shaking down the car for nobody,” laughed Shaw.

If Shaw is going to get the win at Hickory, it will have to come against a crop of veteran racers like himself, as well as a formidable amount of young racers. In the most recent PASS South race at Hickory Motor Speedway last August, a newcomer to the series made an impressive first impression. Brian Scott, under the tutelage of short track great Freddie Query, led a good portion of the 2006 “Over the Mountain 150” at Hickory, eventually finishing fourth. This year, the former dirt racer Scott will be out to wrap up an even stronger run now that he’s got some experience at Hickory under his belt.

“For some reason I just adapted to it a lot faster than any place I’ve been,” said Scott. “It’s a short track, you keep it on the bottom and you’ve got to work the throttle coming off. It’s like you’re constantly in a turn. I don’t know if it’s from my Mini-Sprint experience just always

Tiger Rear Ends is a new company with some fresh ideas about how racing and high-performance rear-end assemblies should be made. Tiger Rear Ends is a division of Mid-State Machine Company, Inc. Their experience in fabricating high-quality machine parts and metal products for a variety of industries began more than 30 years ago. Their craftsmanship and professionalism in this industry is second to none.

Tiger Rear Ends is co-located with Mid-State Machine Company at 2960 Corriher Grange Road in Mount Ulla, NC. Tiger’s newly-expanded plant covers over 100,000 square feet and is equipped with modern, state of the art CNC turning, milling, and grinding as well as other precision machinery.

There are still many contingency programs available for both the PASS North and PASS South Super Late Model Series, as well as PASS Outlaws, PASS Mods and the PASS Sportsman Series. The PASS North Series operates a 14-race schedule that begins in April and runs through September in the Northeast. The PASS South Super Late Models compete in an eight-race schedule that begins in early April and runs through November, where it concludes with the Mason-Dixon Meltdown, this year to be run at Concord Motorsport Park in North Carolina.

For more information on PASS contingency programs, contact Scott Reed at (207) 625-3230. For more information on the PASS South Series, contact Jeremy Troiano at (704) 455-2051, and for news regarding the PASS North Series, contact Mike Twist (207) 590-1786. The official website for PASS South is www.racewithpass.com, and for all the information on PASS North, Outlaws, Mods and Sportsman, please visit www.proallstarsseries.com.