SEMA Import Performance Committee Adopts RASR Program

VEGAS (Nov. 1, 2001) --- The Import Performance Committee, SEMA’s committee 
to promote the compact performance vehicle market, will manage the activities 
of Racers Against Street Racing (RASR).

Import Performance Committee chairman Michael Meyers of NOPI has appointed 
Craig Paisley of Paisley Automotive to lead the RASR program.


“Our goal is to provide a professional 
environment in which today’s youth can participate in automotive-related events throughout the world,” Meyers said at a media conference during the 2001 SEMA Show*ITE in Las Vegas. “We’ll gear our first year activities toward drag racing, and expand to other types of racing in the future.”

Meyers said RASR and the IPC will work with car manufacturers, racing sponsors and sanctioning bodies as well as with the racers to continue 
RASR’s development.


Import Performance Committee members 
met with interested parties during the 
SEMA Show week, Meyers said. “We’re also talking with all the sanctioning bodies, and expect to be able to make a major announcement about our 2002 RASR program about the first of next year.”

Besides Meyers and Paisley, other Import Performance Committee 
members involved with the RASR sub-committee are Shaun Baumgartner, Jeff Donker, Edwin Mangune, Mike Robleto, and Richard Schroeder. Paisley said the subcommittee would welcome volunteer help on the industry effort. 

An open meeting of the Import Performance 
Committee is scheduled for Friday, Nov. 2, 8 a.m. 
at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Room N223.

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