Hawk Performance Becomes The Official Brake Pad Of Champion Racing Association

Salem, IN (January 23, 2008) – Champion Racing Association officials have announced that Hawk Performance has stepped up its support to become the Official Brake Pad of Champion Racing Association and its CRA Super Series, Howe CRA Sportsman Series and CRA Street Stock Series for the upcoming 2008 race season.

The 2008 season will be the sixth straight season Hawk Performance has been a sponsor of the CRA Super Series touring asphalt late models. Hawk Performance will award a $75 Product Certificate to the winner of each CRA Super Series event during the 2008 season and $50 Product Certificates to the fifth and tenth place finishers in each event. The Medina, Ohio Company will also award a $200 Product Certificate to the 2008 CRA Super Series Champion and a $100 Product Certificate to the 2008 CRA Super Series Rookie Of the Year.

2008 will be the second season that Hawk Performance has been a sponsor with the Howe CRA Sportsman Series and CRA Street Stocks. Hawk Performance will award the winner of each Howe CRA Sportsman and CRA Street Stock event in 2008 with a $75 Product Certificate and $50 Product Certificates to the fifth and tenth place finishers in each event. Hawk Performance will also award the Howe CRA Sportsman and CRA Street Stocks 2008 Champions with a $200 Product Certificates and will award each series 2008 Rookie Of The Year with $100 Product Certificates.

"We are very excited to have Hawk Performance step up their support of Champion Racing Association and our top three series," remarked Glenn Luckett, Managing Partner of Champion Racing Association. "Its great to have the support of a company like Hawk Performance and for them to recognize the efforts that all our racers put forth to compete with all our series each week. Racing at any level is expensive, we greatly appreciate what Hawk Performance is doing to help our racers with some of that cost."

Hawk Performance, a long time innovator of friction material development for Motorsports, offers a wide variety of Brake compounds with features designed to meet the demands of all forms and classes of circle track racing. Hawk Performance is committed to understanding the specific needs of the circle track-racing driver and is constantly testing, developing and improving their line of brake materials to give circle track racing enthusiast’s unbeatable braking performance including their all-new line of Dynamic Torque Control (DTC) brake pads.

Hawk Performance brand disk brake pads products are owned and manufactured by Wellman Products Group, the world’s leader in severe-duty friction products. For nearly a century Wellman Products Group has engineered and manufactured severe-duty friction products for brakes, clutches, transmissions, and driveline components. Wherever there is acceleration or deceleration, you’ll find Wellman Products Group. Hawk Performance, race proven, street legal!

Additional information can be found at www.hawkperformance.com.