Barry Meguiar’s family has been in the car-care business for 109 years, and he’s personally headed up the company that carries the family name for more than four decades. As the president of Meguiar’s Inc., he’s seen the economic roller coaster trundle up and down many times before, but he’s never seen anything like the past couple of years. Despite the fact that his company not only weathered the storm but actually prospered, posting a double-digit gain in 2009 alone, he said that the recession has battered the car-care industry like none other in his lifetime. [Read more]
Racing News: Mark Niver, 60, of Scottsdale, Arizona, died during a top-end accident during the semifinal round of eliminations for the Top Alcohol Dragster class during the NHRA Northwest Nationals at Pacific Raceways in Kent, Washington; NASCAR and most of the sport's top teams have come together to form the NASCAR Teams Licensing Trust; Audie Swartz, a pioneer racer who finished second in the first Knoxville Nationals in 1961, died on June 30; Adam Parr was promoted from his role as CEO of the Williams F-1 team to chairman; and more.
Cory McClenathan showed why he’s a world championship contender when he drove his FRAM dragster past teammate Antron Brown to pick up his third win of the season Sunday at the NHRA Northwest Nationals at Pacific Raceways just outside of Seattle, Washington, the first stop of the famed Western Swing. With the win, McClenathan leap-frogged over his other teammate, defending world champion Tony Schumacher, to take the second spot in the Top Fuel point standings. The win also put McClenathan in the running to sweep the Western Swing, a feat he accomplished in 1997 and something that was on his mind Sunday when he pulled up to the line next to Brown.
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