During the course of a years worth of Series racing, club racing and a couple other SPECIAL EVENTS, I spend 100's of hours, maybe even close to 1000 hours a year, and incur several 1,000 dollars worth of expenses.

Thanks to the support of a few great companies, we've been able to KEEP it going for 7 GREAT YEARS so far and counting.

I want to give a SHOUT OUT and say THANK YOU to the companies who have helped the South-West Tour Series this year.

NOVAK ELECTRONICS
TEAM ORION
DBAnderson Machining

Those 3 companies were the BIG SPONSORS for our 2nd ANNUAL **ALLSTAR SHOOTOUT** in which we had over $2500.00 worth of CASH and PRIZE awards and give-a-ways.

JAKE'S PERFORMANCE HOBBIES
McALLISTER RACING BODIES
MAVERICK RACING CHASSIS

These 3 are three of our longest sponsers and we've enjoyed a great long term relationship with Jake Rosen and Gary McAllister

LeftHander R/C
Boca Bearings
Muddslide Motorsports
Brian O (and his gear holders)
Kimbrough Racing Products
ProtoFORM Bodies
Team Associated

ALL gave great prize donations during the year

YUSUKE and TOMOHIRO from RCWorld Magazine - gave us AWESOME International Coverage of our **ALLSTAR SHOOTOUT** race for the 2nd year in a row, plus 5 drivers came from JAPAN to race with us... (Which was really cool)

Hank Hagquist and HobbyTalk - joined us by sponsoring our TQ Pins, which we have enough to last roughly (3) YEARS. These are sought after and much prized in our series. Not too many guys are lucky enough to get one, yet some guys already have several.

Thank you Mike Boylan - and Xtreme R/C for a article on our Series.

Thank you to Raymone McCoy - for a great car build for my son's efforts on Carpet

Thank you to Scot Petitclerc TEAM STRYKER - for providing a car for my son to drive at the FINALE this weekend, in an effort to win HIS first championship... (Good luck John and Buck, who are trying to beat him)

and on a personal note, not SWTour related, but more LOCAL event related...a HUGE HUGE Thank You to Brian Smith (aka INDY_RCRACER) for his incredible donation toward our CANCER BENEFIT "exhibition" RACE. Brian donated 13 PAINTED Vintage Trans Am bodies, and every one of them had fantastic detail and were such a great thrill to show off at this event.

And, lastly... THANK YOU to the RACERS of the South-West Tour Series for making 2008 one of THE most competitive years of racing we've had in a long time, and to TOM, TJ and especially JOSEPH for all your work and help in TECH this year.

ONE race to go, SATURDAY at LINDSAY concludes this great year of racing...

Thank you all

Joe Myers
South-West Tour Series
www.southwesttour.com (http://www.southwesttour.com)