November 2007

The American Road Race of Champions is THE nationwide event of the season for SCCA amateur regional road racers. There were over 350 entrants representing 30 states and Canada competing to see who is the top dog. The repaving of the Road Atlanta circuit and top notch driving resulted in some very quick lap times and numerous new track records.

Many of our loyal Cool Shirt® customers were on the track competing throughout the weekend, including our friend Bob Mayer in his BP Class #38 Chevy Corvette C6R, pictured below.

Congratulations to all the competitors for a great race weekend! We look forward to next years ARRC.

 

October 17, 2007

Introduction of industrial applications for Cool Shirt Personal Cooling Systems was a great success at the NSC Congress and Expo this week in Chicago. Safety Directors and front-line industry managers watched live demonstrations of Cool Shirt products for their employees who work in hot environments. By the second and third days of the expo, word had apparently spread throughout the hall about the Cool Shirt products and lines had formed at the booth to view and discuss the products. Some of the comments from potential clients visiting the booth included:

• "Finally, someone has something portable for cooling my guys that doesn't weigh 20 pounds."
• "The workers in our smelting operations are going to flip over these! We have been looking for cooling products like this for years."
• "These will be perfect for the crews we have blowing foam insulation in attics. They have to be mobile and this will solve their heat stress problem."
• "We've tried ice vests, phase change vests and everything in between. This looks like it is exactly what we needed....."

 

September 2007

Our friends Rafal Listopad Rally Racing Team were putting their Cool Shirt® systems through it’s paces in West Virginia. It was perfect weather conditions at the Randolph County in Elkins, West Virginia, Round 5 of the 2007 United States Rally Championship last weekend (August ’07). Round 7 of the 2007 United States Rally Championship will take place in Ellenville - Monticello Narrowsburg, New York on September 6-7.

 

August 28, 2007

Dale Jarrett Racing Adventure recently purchased Cool Shirt Personal Cooling Systems for their stable of instruction cars at Atlanta Motor Speedway. They were so impressed with how well the systems kept their instructors and customers safe, cool, and more mentally alert that they invited Cool Shirt Founder and President Rich Shafer and Sales Director Kathy Miller to come try out their racing adventure cars on the superspeedway! After logging a few laps at 150+ MPH, Rich and Kathy got to spend some time with their friendly staff and review their operations.

Eddy Cox and Mike Fulmer of Dale Jarrett Racing Adventure told Rich and Kathy that they used to be mentally and physically drained after every day at work in the hot race cars. But now when they come home they feel still have the energy to go out to dinner & a movie or actually have a relaxing evening at home with their families without being exhausted.

To learn more about Dale Jarrett Racing Adventure and schedule YOUR racing adventure or next corporate event, just give them a call at 800-GO-RACE-1 or visit them online at www.racingadventure.com

 

Eden Prairie Minnesota (September 10, 2007): The Banner Racing team will be looking to close out the 2007 Rolex Grand-Am GT season with another win in the Banner Engineering Pontiac GXP.Rs at the Sunchaser 1000k at Miller Motorsports Park in Tooele, Utah.

The Banner Racing team announced that Andy Pilgrim, of Del Ray Beach Florida, will be joining Kelly Collins and Paul Edwards in the #07 Banner Engineering Pontiac GXP.R while Johnny O’Connell, of Flowery Branch Georgia, will reprise his run in the Rolex 24 Hour at Daytona with Leighton Reese and Tim Lewis Jr. in the #06 Banner Engineering Pontiac GXP.R.

“I'm looking forward to driving the Banner Engineering Pontiac GXP.R again with Paul and Kelly,” said Pilgrim.  “I know these guys (Collins and Edwards) need a win to have any chance at the Championship so that's what we have to do if we can.”

Pilgrim, who owns three class wins and an over all win in the Rolex 24 hour, is wrapping up a very busy summer having raced four different GM cars in four different racing series in recent months.  Pilgrim who is presently 2nd in points in the World Challenge GT Series in a Cadillac CTS-V drove a Corvette C6.R with Ron Fellows in the ALMS race at Mosport and the #88 Chevy Monte Carlo for Dale Earnhardt Incorporated in the NASCAR Busch events at Montreal and Watkins Glen in August.

Johnny O’Connell, who is usually found sharing the #3 GT1 ALMS Chevy Corvette C6.R with Jan Magnussen, comes to Utah on a hot roll having won 2 straight GT1 races at Mosport and Detroit on back to back weekends.

Kelly Collins and Paul Edwards go into the series finale at Miller 4th in points for the Drivers’ Championship with 330 each only 15 points behind the leader Dirk Werner who has 345. 

Good luck to the Banner Racing Team from your friends at

August 2007

BRISTOL, TN -– Mark Setzer just missed a visit to victory lane at Bristol Motor Speedway three weeks ago when the UARA Southern Touring Asphalt Racing Series visited the high banks of the World’s fastest Half Mile.

The Hickory, North Carolina driver finished second in that race but when the UARA STARS made a return trip to the high banks Saturday, as they continued to lay down rubber on the new concrete surface in preparation for the Food City 250 and the sold-out Sharpie 500, Setzer would grab the lead on lap 18 of the 150-lap race and never trail again to capture the checkered flag.

To quote Mark: "On a Hot Day Cool-Shirt kept me cool so I could win the UARA 150 at Bristol Motor Speedway"

To read the the entire news release, click here.

 

May 28, 2007

Long-time COOL  SHIRT® customer and friend, Leighton Reese and co-driver Tim Lewis Jr. drove the perfect race in their No. 06 Banner Engineering Pontiac GXP.R to win Monday’s Rolex Sports Car Series Grand-Am GT Classic at Lime Rock Park.  Kelly Collins and Paul Edwards fought back from adversity and being a lap down to finish 4th in the No. 07 Banner Engineering Pontiac GXP.R.

The Banner Racing Team traveled across the country to win their first of the season in the tough GT Class of the Grand-Am Rolex Series.  The Banner Pontiac GXP.Rs took the lead in the early stages of the two and a half hour race on the demanding 1.53 mile Lime Rock track and stayed there for the duration to score their first win of the 2007 season.

Congratulations Banner Racing Team from your friends at COOL SHIRT !!

May 2007

Team Sahlen Racing and COOL SHIRT® continue to work together to promote driver safety in Grand Am Series racing.

Team Sahlen Racing has been a staunch supporter of COOL SHIRT® since discovering its benefits and readily supplies other teams with driver cooling systems at the various track events.COOL SHIRT® has been tested and proven to improve mental performance, decrease reaction times, reduce sweating and decrease the risk of heat exhaustion for drivers.

COOL SHIRT® is proud to be associated with Team Sahlen Racing.

08-02-2006

With temperatures in Iraq reaching over 120 degrees, our troops need personal cooling to protect their health and to maintain their stamina & mental acuity. As a government contractor, the US Military turned to Cool Shirt® to supply hundreds of shirts and cooling systems to various military units overseas. Body armor and armored vehicles can create very hot environments and our military-issue brown and desert tan Cool Shirt® systems are cooling US troops all over Iraq and Afghanistan.

07-01-2006

The Surgeon's Cool Vest Personal Cooling System for surgeons in the operating room recently received accolades from the University of Minnesota Medical Center's bi-weekly newsletter Inside View.

Titled "Keeping Their Cool: New Vests Keep Surgeons Comfortable in Operating Room", the article spoke in depth about the recent changes requiring warmer temperatures in the operating room to improve outcomes for their surgical patients.

Warmer temperatures are believed to help prevent patient hypothermia, reduce infections rates and reduce post-operative cardiac and other adverse events. Unfortunately, these warmer temperatures make for a hot, uncomfortable environment for the surgeons and staff. To quote the Inside View:

"While, in the past, they would break out in a sweat during physically demanding surgeries, now they're comfortably cool."

05-05-2006

Cool Shirt® Driver Cooling Systems together with HANS Performance Products Inc announce the addition of the Cool Shirt® for HANS Users to the "HANS Friendly" Program. This new shirt (available in white or blue cotton, Nomex & FireWear), has been specially designed with no cool water tubing over the shoulders for HANS users. Drivers who wear a HANS Device experience no "pinching off" of the water tubing and no personal discomfort from pressure placed on the tubing by the restraint device. Both Cool Shirt® and HANS Performance Products are dedicated to making racing safer for the drivers and this cooperation between the two companies continues to demonstrate that commitment to safety.

03-01-2006

Exclusive only to Cool Shirt® Personal Cooling Systems, our new patent pending Emergency Safety Pull-Release Connectors are designed for emergency situations where the user needs immediate release from the cooling unit

The user is not tethered to the system and can automatically disconnect without needing to locate and depress the normal release buttons. Just pull on the shirt hose or simply step away from the cooling unit and the fittings auto-release from the cooling unit hose. FIA, the sanctioning body in Europe, now requires these connectors on all driver cooling systems.

This new safety feature is now available on new systems by request. Cool Shirt® customers with existing systems may purchase an upgrade kit to install these fittings easily on their current system or any other cool suit driver cooling system. Call 800-345-3176 for a details.