A Penny for Your Suit? How about 10000 Pennies?

Every racing suit has a story. Every patch, every burn, and every inch of replacement Nomex thread tells a different story. Stories of the hard-won victories - and the countless losses that got you there.

OG Racing wants to hear your suit's story. Not only do we want to hear the story, we want the suit to display in our showroom! We are looking for 100 suits to canvas our showroom walls with. Each worn, well-used suit will have a small placard attached with the original owner's name, short-bio, and that suit's story.

And in typical OG Racing fashion, if you give us something, we're bound to give you something in return! In this case, it'll be a $100 rebate on any new Sparco SFI 3.2a/5 Racing suit.

And just to make things a little more interesting, we'll be awarding an additional $500 Gift Card (good for anything in the OG Racing catalog) for the most colorful suit story.

Here's the official rules:

1. Send us your old racing suit (see detailed instructions below). Racing suit must have been used by YOU personally (we already have Michael Andretti's racing suit and don't need another!) Include your name, a brief bio (condensed racing history), and approximate age of your suit.

2. We'll give you a $100 credit good towards the future purchase of any new Sparco 3.2a/5 SFI Racing suit (Closeouts models and Lico suits included).

Extra: Include a notable story/memory of your suit and you'll be entered in the $500 Gift Card prize. Story must be 500 words or less. Stories will be judged separately from above suit trade-in program.

Instructions: Please e-mail us at info@ogracing.com before shipping us your suit. Attach a recent photo of your suit and include your Name, Address, a brief-bio, Make/Model & age of your suit (if known). We will then e-mail you a pre-paid UPS label to ship your package to us along with any additional instructions. Please DO NOT ship your suit without first contacting us!



*Submitted suits will become the property of OG Racing. By participating in this program, you agree to allow OG Racing to publish and otherwise use your Name, Bio, and story material(s). OG Racing will not publish any confidential information such as address, e-mail, and telephone numbers. Only one entry/suit per person. OG Racing reserves the right to refuse any suit trade-in at our discretion. Please clean/launder all suits before shipment to OG Racing. Discount not transferable and must be used within ONE year. Program ends after 100 suits are received, at a date to be determined by OG Racing, or at the sole discretion of OG Racing. $500 Gift Card Contest: OG Racing reserves the right to terminate this contest for any reason. Entrance in contest is not a requirement of the suit trade-in program.

Stable Imaging RePlay Camera

If you've been following our Facebook page, you'd know that we've been playing with these tiny, micro-sized cameras from Stable Imaging - the RePlay XD. Our customers at the track have so far loved the camera, and we're pretty impressed from the video quality from such a compact body:

Actual Size

Here's a video sample from our Facebook page:



We just received 10 of these into our building that we overnighted directly from Stable Imaging. Another 90 or so are due to arrive sometime next week, but we wanted to make sure our customers had first shot at getting these guys.

Available now for only $189:

Click here to order today!

Sparco Circuit Plus Seat

Our last big seat shipment brought a surprise of sorts - the long overdue Sparco Circuit Plus Seat. We first were told about this seat about 2 years ago...I think most of us had pretty much given up on its existence. But 3 of them suddenly appeared last week!



What's the difference between this and the Sparco Circuit seat that's been around for years? Size. This seat is both taller and wider. Although I haven't taken actual measurements yet, to try and create some perspective, this seat is slightly too big and tall for my 5'10", 160 lb., 32 waist frame. But it fits the famous Brian Hair's 6'3", 205 lb, 36" waist perfectly.

RAM Camera Mounts

We were pointed towards this company by AIM. This is by far the nicest (and best deal) in video camera mounts we've seen - especially for everyone using today's smaller, lightweight digital video cameras. RAM primarily makes car mounts for things like GPS displays, satellite radios, and phones (we're getting a few of those too). Their car camera mounts use the same sturdy design with easy angle adjustments and vibration dampening rubber coated ball-joints.



Did I mention the great deal these are? Starting at well below $40 for the roll-bar style mount, this is the least expensive mount that's not going to send your expensive camera flying across the car! Not much else out there using the same marine-grade aluminum construction.

Check out the different options here

Available in the afore-mentioned roll-bar mount as well as suction-cup mounts and simpler bolt-on styles:

Impact Decertified by SFI Foundation

And the drama continues to unfold:

March 26, 2010 - NOTICE OF DECERTIFICATION; NOTICE TO CEASE AND DESIST AND TERMINATION OF ALL CONTRACTS OF PARTICIPATION ISSUED TO IMPACT RACING

SFI Foundation, Inc., has issued a Notice of Decertification; Notice of Cease and Desist, and a notice terminating all Contracts of Participation to Impact Racing. Effective April 27, 2010, all products manufactured and/or distributed by Impact Racing pursuant to SFI Specification Programs 3.2A, 3.3, 16.1, and 16.5 are decertified. Evidence obtained by SFI shows that over a period of years Impact Racing has engaged in the production and use of counterfeit SFI conformance labels and patches, and affixed them to Impact products for use in motorsports. Under the Contracts of Participation between SFI and Impact, SFI conformance labels and patches may only be obtained from SFI and no other source. Evidence shows that Impact had counterfeit SFI labels and patches made in Asia and then affixed them to Impact products it distributed to members of the racing community. To SFI’s knowledge, Impact never advised its customers that its products contained phony SFI labels and patches. Impact never advised SFI of its systematic and longstanding practice of counterfeiting and distributing SFI patches and labeling.

Impact has been directed to cease and desist from this practice. SFI has directed Impact to immediately notify all affected customers to remove the counterfeit labeling and to offer the affected customers a full refund of the purchase price. SFI is requesting that all counterfeit conformance labels removed from Impact products be sent to SFI.

SFI has elected not to decertify these products immediately in order to minimize the potential hardships to members of the racing community that have been brought about by Impact’s counterfeiting activities.

SFI has also elected to terminate all Contracts of Participation with Impact Racing effective 90 days from March 24, 2010. Under the terms of the Contracts, either party may terminate the agreements without penalty upon 90 days notice. This means that Impact will no longer be able to participate in any SFI programs after this 90 day period.

SFI has taken these actions in the best interests of the safety and integrity of the racing community. This is in keeping with SFI’s mission and purpose.

More info on SFI Foundation's site here.

For a downloadable .pdf of this notice, please click on the following link: Decertification Notice 03-26-10

AIM SmartyCams are here!

Well, at least one still is. I didn't realize we received them sometime in the last couple of weeks - not until we sold them all accept for this last one did I get a chance to see the improved version! Don't worry, more are on the way - hopefully this one doesn't get sold so I get a chance to try out this new gadget.



As you can see, an external GPS antenna option is now shipped standard, including a dedicated connection port (Read our past post for all the improvements). I'm not certain as to the supposed firmware upgrades that were promised, but should get to test this in the next few days. I'll keep everyone updated!

HJC AR10 Helmet - Now in Rubberized Black Finish!

We know that everyone loves the HJC SI-12 Helmet, especially in the Rubberized Black Finish.

Now the same finish is available on the entry level HJC AR-10 Helmet! In production since late last year, we'll be receiving our first shipment later this week. Still priced attractively at $311.99 (White is still only $299.99).



Click here for more info