Salem, IN (August 19, 2004) – Sunoco Super Series veteran drivers Scott Hantz and Junior Hanley currently lead the Harris Cutting Torches & Regulators Season Lap Leader Awards after 11 of 18 events on the 2004 series schedule. Harris Cutting Torches & Regulators, a division of Harris Calorific, will award the Sunoco Super Series driver that leads the most laps in the regular 100/150 lap series events on the 2004 schedule with a set of Harris Cutting Torches & Regulators. Hantz currently leads in that category with 292 laps lead to date.

Hantz, the 2003 winner of this part of the Harris Cutting Torches & Regulators Lap Leader Award, has a 103 lap lead over second place Evan Jackson who has lead 189 laps in the shorter distance series races. Jeff Lane is currently third with 178 laps lead and is followed by current Sunoco Super Series point’s leader Chuck Barnes Jr. in fourth with 124 laps lead. Fred Campbell rounds out the top five with 97 laps lead.

In addition, Harris Cutting Torches & Regulators will award the driver who leads the most laps in the special multi lap events on the 2004 Sunoco Super Series schedule with a set of Harris Cutting Torches & Regulators. The NationsRent 400 at Anderson Speedway on July 17^th is the only event held in that category to date. Junior Hanley, winner of the NationsRent 400 lead 298 laps of that event. Scott Hantz has second in that category with 102 laps lead, he was the only other leader of that event. The series events at Rockford Speedway on September 26^th, at I-70 Speedway on October 9^th and the All American 400 Weekend at Music City Motorplex will be the other special multi lap series events in 2004.

In all Hantz has lead 394 total laps with the Sunoco Super Series this season, but just got his first series victory of 2004 last Saturday night in the Sunoco UAW Family Night 100 at Indianapolis Raceway Park. Hantz has had a season filled with bad luck that has left him with the one victory and has placed him currently in 4^th place in series points. The Harris Cutting Torches & Regulators Season Lap Leader Awards will be presented at the 2004 Sunoco Super Series Awards Banquet in January.

The next Sunoco Super Series event will be the Second Annual Federated Auto Parts Buckeye Bash Presented By Country Legends K 95.5 on Sunday, September 12 at Columbus Motor Speedway in Columbus, Ohio. The event will feature NASCAR Nextel Cup star Ken Schrader and former ASA Racing Series Champions Mike Eddy and Gary St.Amant, racing in the Federated Auto Parts 150 Sunoco Super Series event that afternoon. The Second Annual Federated Auto Parts Buckeye Bash will also feature the Sizzle Marine 75 Presented By Germain Chevrolet Outlaw Super Late Model Invitational and the Ohio Street Stock Championship.

Harris Calorific is one of the largest independent manufacturers of gas apparatus equipment in the world. Harris Calorific products are sold and used in over 85 countries throughout the world with manufacturing facilities in Gainesville, GA; Los Angeles, CA; Rathnew, Ireland and Bologna, Italy. Lincoln Electric, the parent company of Sunoco Super Series sponsor Lincoln Welders, purchased Harris Calorific in 1990. Together, the two organizations provide their customers with an expanded portfolio of high quality products. Additional information can be found at www.harriscal.com, or at www.lincolnelectric.com.