The Ed Pink Prepared Toyota Wins Another USAC Midget Race

Dave Steele led every lap of the "Toyota Sprint/Midget Classic" Midget Race at ORP in Indianapolis on the Formula One race weekend at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Steele drove the Steve Lewis owned # 91 '9 Racing' Toyota entry to victory in front of a very large, truly international crowd.

Ed Pink Racing Engines, TRD, and '9 Racing' Continue Toyota Engine Development

'9 Racing' continues racing and testing with the new EPRE prepared Toyota power plant at USAC National championship races. At the 49th Joe James/Pat O'Connor Classic at Salem Speedway on August 12th, Dave Steele was the fastest qualifier and went on to finish 2nd. Meanwhile,      '9 Racing' driver Dave Darland continues his fierce battle with three other drivers for the coveted USAC National Midget Driver's Championship.

Development work at EPRE continues on what has proven to be a very powerful and reliable TRD/Toyota Racing midget engine. Performance objectives for the engine have been surpassed. While very rewarding, this project has been more difficult because the Toyota engine has to overcome the unfair advantage of additional engine displacement that has been gifted by USAC to other engine types. This unfair advantage appears to have been deemed necessary by USAC to allow these other engine types to become more competitive without development work.

Currently, EPRE is working closely with TRD to sell Toyota engines, engine kits, or engine components to Midget racing competitors.

 Ed Pink Racing Engines Power Four Consecutive USAC Silver Crown Champions.

 Dave Steele recently clinched his second consecutive USAC Silver Crown Championship driving an EPRE Ford V-8 powered Champ Car.  On his way to the 2005 championship Steele won 4 of the series 10 races for an impressive 40 percent win ratio.  Steele also secured the 2004 Silver Crown Championship using EPRE Ford V-8 race engines.  JJ Yeley won the 2003 and 2002 Silver Crown Championships with Ed Pink Racing Engines Ford based V-8 engines.

Since entering the USAC Silver Crown Series in 2002, EPRE's Ford V-8 race engines have won 31 percent of the races with 15 wins in 48 events.  Notably, the only Ford V-8 race engines to win in USAC Silver Crown competition have been produced by Ed Pink Racing Engines.

The domination of this engine on the one-mile paved ovals make the EPRE Ford V-8 the natural choice for USAC's new Super Speedway Silver Crown car that debuts in 2006.  "Engine reliability and performance will be at a premium in these new Silver Crown cars at the super speedway events," said Ed Pink.  "We believe that our engine's record speaks for itself, making it the obvious choice for the top teams that want to compete successfully in this more challenging series." 

Winning on a 1/4 mile paved oval in a Midget racecar one night, then winning on a 1 mile dirt oval in a V-8 powered Silver Crown racecar the next night, validates the talent of both the young driver and the Ted Beach owned race team.