The OPTIMA Faceoff at Road America & The Hot Rod Power Tour

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Now going into its fifth year, the OPTIMA® Ultimate Street Car Invitational, has evolved to become one of the most highly-anticipated and widely covered events in the automotive performance world. Each year, OPTIMA Batteries identifies several events that will serve as qualifiers to compete later this year in the 2012 OUSCI, which takes place annually in Nevada immediately following the SEMA Show.

Two qualifying events have already taken place, the Run to the Alamo and the Run to the Coast. However, there are still several more opportunitites to qualify and we're doing our best to find events in geographically diverse locations, to attract more entrants. The next two events are the OPTIMA® Faceoff at the HOT ROD Power Tour in Arlington, Texas on June 9th and the OPTIMA® Faceoff at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin on June 22-24th.

You can find the entry form for the Faceoff at the HOT ROD Power Tour event here and the entry form for the Faceoff at Road America here.

Qualifying events are open to the public and offer a great way for automotive enthusiasts to preview the top talent that will move on to OPTIMA's Ultimate Street Car Invitational. Each regional qualifying event will follow a format similar to the OPTIMA Ultimate Street Car Invitational with a combination of segments to include autocross; road course; braking and acceleration; style & design competition and road rally; and additional activities, which will vary per event. More than one vehicle will be selected for the OUSCI from each of the Faceoff events and OPTIMA encourages all street-legal vehicle year, makes and models to participate.

For more information on the qualifying events, the OPTIMA Ultimate Street Car Invitational and ways to get involved as a participant volunteer or sponsor, please visit www.optimainvitational.com.

For those of you who cannot attend either of these qualifying events, please consider attending these OUSCI qualifiers-

•Motorstate Challenge (South Haven, MI): July 13-15
•The Sandhills Open Road Challenge (Hastings, NE) August 8-12
•LSFest (Bowling Green, KY): September 7-9
•Silver State Classic Challenge (Ely, NV): September 12-16
•Lingenfelter Performance Engineering Nationals (Norwalk, OH): September 21-23

Jim McIlvaine
eCare Manager, OPTIMA Batteries, Inc.
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