Short Track Winners Receive Award

While participating in the Chili Bowl Nationals in Tulsa, OK, Kyle Larson and Bryan Clauson

received their AARWBA All-America Team " Horsepower" trophies for their wins in the Short Track category.

Pictured left to right are Dick Jordan, Kyle Larson, Bryan Clauson and

Jimmy Jordan.

Photo by Phil Rider

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The Official Newsletter Of The American Auto Racing Writers and Broadcasters Association

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“Dedicated To Increasing Media Coverage Of Motor Sports”

Jan 2012 Vol. 45 No. 1

This issue of ImPRESSions is sponsored by

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All-America Dinner!

New books from Members

2012 Racing Calendar

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2012 All America Team Dinner PhotosA small collection provided by Kay Nichols - More to come next month!

Hostess Mary Swift, presents the "Horsepower Trophy", to Chris Dyson who teamed with Guy Smith to capture the American Le Mans Series Driver's Championship.

Andy Villa from The Gorsline Company (center) asked drivers Patrick Long and

Josef Newgarden to accept the Gorsline Scholarship Award for Rickey Stenhouse, Jr.

who could not attend.

Amy Ruman receives the "Rising Star" award from MC Bob Jenkins. Amy won her award for her

breakout year in Trans-Am Series at the wheel of a Corvette.

Andrew Davis and Leh Keen receive the 'Horsepower Trophy' for their success in the

Touring Series category, from Treasurer Rhonda Williams.The Brunos Porsche team captured the Rolex Series GT Championship in fine fashion.

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SPRINT CAR SALVATION

By Dave Argabright

A distinctive new book based on 1970s USAC sprint car racing has been released by longtime author Dave Argabright, offering a glimpse of the glory days of the famed “Thunder and Lightning” era.

“Sprint Car Salvation” is based on the “Best of Times” fictional serial that debuted in Sprint Car & Midg-et Magazine in 2005. Although the entire series to date encompasses far too much material for one book, “Sprint Car Salvation” is based on the inaugural season for protagonist Jimmy Wilson and his eclectic cast of supporting characters.

“This book is very different than any of my previous projects,” said Argabright. “When we began the series in the magazine we stumbled onto a surprising number of readers who enjoy fiction, and over the years have received a great deal of posi-tive feedback. That was my motivation for adapting the origins of the series into a book.”

Over the past 12 years Argabright has collaborated on book projects with many well-known racing personalities, including Brad Doty, Jack Hewitt, Earl Baltes, Chris Economaki, Doug Wolfgang, and “Speedy” Bill Smith.

This project quickly became a learning experience, because it involved not just fictional content but significant adaptation.

“Initially I figured it would be a matter of cut-and-paste from the original magazine series, but in less than five minutes that plan went out the window,” Argabright explained. “A book is a self-contained capsule with a beginning and a definitive end, and you have much more freedom with character and plot develop-ment.

“I’ve always enjoyed collaboration with people, and going solo on this project made things a little more challenging. But at the same time this was an enjoyable experience because it forced me outside my normal range.”

The 240-page hardbound book is published by American Scene Press and retails for $24.95. More information about the book can be found at www.americanscenepress.com.

Several of Argabright’s past books have earned a number of awards including “Book of the Year” honors from the American Auto Racing Writers and Broadcasters Assn. (AARWBA).

For additional information contact:

orders@daveargabright.com

A Life Worth Dreaming About

By Nick Dettimann

AARWBA member Nicholas Dettmann (West Bend Daily News in Wisconsin) has written his first book. "I'm very excited for this project," Dettmann said. "I've wanted to write a book for as long as I've wanted to be a journalist. It was a long project, one that took longer than I originally anticipated to complete, but it was such a re-lief to finally get it completed."

The book will be available in three formats: paperback, hard cover and ebook. You can pick up a copy of the book through major booksellers' websites (such as Barnes & Noble and Amazon.com), bookstores and through his publisher, Author House, and its website.

Here is a synopsis of the book:Carl Robertson, a 32-year-old man, did every-thing he could to move out of his small Midwest-ern town, losing many friends along the way. He dreamt of living the ele-gant lifestyle of New York City. He used his anger and hatred to move out of his hometown, discredit it and never wanted to think about it again.

For a while, it worked. Then, he finds his life on

the ropes and doesn't know why or how to change it. That is until he meets a man who will change his life for-ever and in a way he never could've seen coming. Sud-denly, he finds himself trying to catch up to a new reality, just in time to save his life and find his true love.

Dettmann will be at the AARWBA Indianapolis 500 breakfast in May, so bring a copy of the book for him to sign. Or he can bring copies as well, just let him know by two weeks ahead of time to do so.

Member Discount: Place an order for a book(s) through my website and I'll bring the copies down to Indianapolis and they can hand me the money there. I'll bring them at a discounted rate. Paperback: $10 Hardcover: $20

For those not at the breakfast, they can just order through my website and I'll ship it to them. I'm working on setting up some kind of PayPal account to be able to do that.

But if people buy through the publisher's website, I get a higher royalty in return, about $3/per book more.

You can also learn more at www.nickdettmann.com

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Bill Yoder Honored By EMPA

Bill Yoder received an award from the Eastern Motorsports Press Association (EMPA )

for his 30 years of service to that organization. Yoder is shown accepting the award from EMPA

president Ron Hedger (right) and Lenny Sammons, Pubisher and Editor of

Area Auto Racing News.

The Eastern Motorsports Press Association has been in existence for 41 years.

News & NotesNews & NotesNews & NotesNews & Notes

Did you ever...Did you ever...Did you ever...Did you ever......have a time in your career covering

motorsports as a writer, broadcaster or photographer when you had to stop and say,

“Did that really just happen?”

If you have ever experienced one of those moments when you were there in reality but what you

witnessed was somewhat unreal, we would like to hear about it. Send us a short version of what happened

and we will publish it in a future issue of ImPRESSions.

Hey, we have all had those moments so come on and tell us about yours.

After all, you were there! Really!

Send your stories to the Editor: ashartwell@att.net

AARWBA Annual Indy BreakfastMay 26

The 2012 AARWBA Annual Breakfast will be held on Saturday Morning, May 26th in the

Brickyard Crossing Pavilion at 8 a.m.

R.S.V.P. to Midwest Vice President Ron Lemasters at: rlemasters14@comcast.net

Dick Mittman holds up two of the annual awards to

be presented at this year’s breakfast. The "Jigger" Award” and the Angelo Angelopolous Sportsmanship Award

(be sure to give Dick Mittman your Nominee's for these awards - irlcart@aol.com ).

The Contest Media Awards will also be presented.Contest Media Award information is available at the www.aarwba.org website. Click on Contest on front

page for more details.

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