**Bart Carter wins Hankook Ultimate Track Car Challenge Presented by Grassroots Motorsports**

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 24, 2008 -- ORMOND BEACH, Fla.
Battling against an eclectic and tough mix of competitors, Bart Carter and his Radical SR8 track car squeaked out a narrow win at the 2008 Hankook Ultimate Track Car Challenge held June 8 at Buttonwillow Raceway in Buttonwillow, CA.

Paul Brown took his LS7-powered Morgan Aero 8 to the second place and his Porsche 997 GT3 Cup to fifth, clinching a 1-2 victory in the Shop Varsity class.

The Ultimate Track Car Challenge is based on a simple concept: On track, lap times are all that matter. For two years now, Grassroots Motorsports has invited a wide variety of cars to square off in a NASA Time Trial format to determine once and for all who's fastest.

And variety really is the key. In addition to the purpose-built track cars and fast cars you'd expect, the UTCC attracts some you wouldn't, like a pair of 1985 IMSA GTO Buick Somersets. Both managed to finish in the top 10 and proved that old-school can still rule. There was even a truck this year, piloted by Troy Lindstrom, which also managed a top-10 finish while only costing about $13,000.

Griggs Racing made sure that Mustangs were well represented. They brought five of the pony cars in various states of trim, and all did well in the competition. Their GR40TT proved a track monster could also be completely streetworthy.

This year provided even more variety as Grassroots Motorsports teamed up with CarDomain.com to create the Green Car Challenge. This branch of the event pairs electric cars, hybrids, grease cars and other green machines against one another to discover which is the fastest alt-fuel car in the country. Top honors among the Green cars were taken by Kevin Boulton in a supercharged, Honda S2000-powered, ethanol-fueled WCM Ultralite S2K locost. 

Because the UTCC is aimed at finding out who's flat-out fastest, classes and complications are few, with only two categories: Shop Class for those who build and prepare cars for a living, and Independent Study for the do-it-yourselfers. Each category is broken into two classes, Varsity and Junior Varsity. Anything with forced induction, racing slicks, a tube frame or an engine with rotors or more than four cylinders runs in Varsity. Everything that's naturally aspirated, has four-cylinders (or fewer), and is a mass production-based car running DOT legal tires falls in the JV class.

For details and results, go to http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/events/utcc/

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