Stand 21 new store gala opening brings celebrated racing stars and

Stand 21 new store gala opening brings
celebrated racing stars and fantastic cars
Costa Mesa, April 24th
The grand opening of the new Stand 21 expanded
facilities in California was celebrated April 24, 2013 in
what turned out to be quite a party, featuring celebrities
of the auto racing world as well as extraordinary
machinery brought by many of the company’s faithful
customers. Great food and wine was served and
enjoyed by all.
Stand 21, based in Dijon, France, has sales rooms in
the USA located in Georgia and California as well as
in many countries all over the world. The celebrated
French manufacturer of top-level personal racing
equipment displayed their new Costa Mesa showrooms
and products, especially its ground-breaking dragracing SFI-20 suits and FIA-2010 certified helmets that
are now worn by many of NHRA Top-Fuel and FunnyCar drivers worldwide. Stand 21 is also the world’s
largest manufacturer of much improved HANS devices,
engineered and built in France under a licensing agreement with the US patent holder.
Celebrity guests included SCORE Technical Director Jake Velasco, EIBACH racing suspension owner Wilfried Eibach,
Porsche Motorsport President Jens Walther, former PMNA President Alwin Springer, Callaway Cars President Reeves
Callaway, Top-Fuel NHRA 2011 champion Del Worsham, Indycar driver Oriol Servia, Dr. John Melvin, SFI Foundation
Mike Hurst, POC President Andrew Weyman, Ebberts off-road Class1 driver Danny Ebberts, AGM off-road Trophy Truck
driver Martin Christensen, Green Army off-road Trophy Truck driver Justin Davis, CXC Simulation CEO Chris Constantine,
Sector 111 CEO Shinoo Mapelton, Truspeed CEO Rob Morgan, Dirt Sports magazine CEO Jim Ryan, SCTA VicePresident Miriam MacMillan, SCTA Motorcycle Committee chair Van Butler, PCA Zone 8 Michael Dolphin, Allen Berg
Racing School’s President Allen Berg and many, many others.
Dr. Anthony Nobles displayed his 2001 Ferrari Formula One, the most advanced F1 car ever built. Jeff Zwart brought his
splendid Porsche 906, and there was a plethora of other beautiful automobiles, from off-road to GT to land-speed recordbreaking machinery.
Stand 21 addresses the needs of all racers, from vintage to top-flight racing, in every auto-racing category, for the ones
willing to seek the best protection there is against not only fire, but the intense heat-stress generated inside hot cockpits.
Stand 21 works in tight collaboration with the most knowledgeable medical doctors and safety experts in the world through
its “Racing Goes Safer” Foundation.
For more information, please contact:
Stand 21 California
3303 Harbor Blvd. Suite F-1
92626 COSTA MESA
Tel.: 714-966-1007
www.stand21.com