Friday, February 25, 2005

     Houston Engine and Balancing Service (Houston Engine), a premier and long-time NHRA engine builder and NHRA Division 4 Director Craig Hutchison announced that the iCard^® Real-Time Race Information system would be available to Division 4 competitors and fans as a result of Houston Engine’s sponsorship of the iCard^® program for the 2005 season. Tommy Costales, Houston Engine's President said, “Whether it is building championship engines, running a first-class business or setting up racecars to run the number, data is everything.

 

            iCard^® allows fans and competitors real-time wireless access to scoring data, late-breaking announcements as the action unfolds.  ICard delivers this information in two ways:  Nintendo^® handheld GameBoy^® Color, Advance, or Advance SP models and computers or laptops with the new iCard^®USB.  With either model, use allows iCard^® customers to receive the iCard^® broadcast at the track. Users may access a wide range of information with several menu options: event schedule, real time and archived practice and qualifying results, breaking announcements and race standings yielding unprecedented access to up-to-the-minute information on times, speeds and race data at all 2005 Division 4 events.  iCard^®USB receives and archives the same content on a PC while at the track.  All the iCard^® products will be available at trackside from Houston Engine or online at www.houstonengine.com.

 

            The iCard^® System, currently utilized by numerous motorsports sanctioning bodies, is expected to make its official Division 4 debut at Houston Raceway Park March 11.  “There is no doubt that the ability to deliver this kind of information in such a reliable, clean, efficient, and timely manner will make our events even more enjoyable for our members and fans.  We’re just grateful to Tommy Costales and his crew at Houston Engine for the commitment they are making to our events.”

 

            “We are very please to have Houston Engine as the first of our distributors to bring iCard^® to the Division level,” states Richard Purgason, Vice-President, Business Development for SPP Services, LLC of Buford, Ga. “iCard^® is a perfect fit for the sportsman racer and we’re very pleased to make what we hope is the first of many announcements that our customers can use their iCard^® products other than National events.”

 

To get “hooked up”, contact Houston Engine at 713-472-7116 or go to www.houstonengine.com.  Learn more about iCard^® at www.iCardUS.com.

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