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| - Matt Vaughn - Matt Vaughn Motorsports Marketing Matt Vaughn ( Click To Image Enlarge ) Matt Vaughn has been in and around racing for over 25 years; he started out in the 80's working around late models at local dirt tracks in his home state of Michigan. In the early 90's Matt moved on to sprints, IMCA and late model modifieds in Texas. Matt has raced IMCA at tracks like Kennedale Speedway Park, in Ft Worth TX, Meadowlands Speedway in North Texas, and the ever popular Devil's Bowl Speedway in Mesquite Texas. In 1997 Matt moved to Florida and spent some time working with teams and local tracks in the South Florida area. Matt Vaughn is currently the owner and driver of the Fastway Motorsports Ford Taurus Pro4 as well as the Fastway Motorsports Super Late Model running at local tracks in Phoenix. In addition to racing Matt is also the spotter for various racing teams each season. When racing his own cars over the years, Matt would show up to the events with substantial sponsors. This success with obtaining sponsorship for his racing led to many teams and drivers picking his brain for advice on how he was able to do this. After obtaining advice from Matt a lot of these teams were then able to use the tools and insight that he had provided to obtain their own success with sponsorship. Through the years the teams and drivers requesting help extended beyond his specific series and into various other series from Southwest Tour in the West to the Pro Cup Series in the East. In 2001 Matt was brought on as Media Marketing and Sponsor Relations for the Mechanix Wear Speed Truck Challenge. In the fall of 2001, Larry Pryor and Larry McReynold's contacted Matt inviting him to be a keynote speaker on the topic of "Sponsor Marketing And The Tools To Do It Right" for the Racer's Workshop II which was scheduled to be a five city tour. Matt accepted their invitation and went on tour with the workshop. In November 2002, Matt teamed up with Xtreme Motorsports Marketing and assisted Jeff Jefferson from the NASCAR Northwest Series with his Sprint Cup debut. With the help of Matt Vaughn, Jeff was given an opportunity to qualify the #37 Xtreme Motorsports Marketing Ford Taurus for the Winston Cup Race in Phoenix. This is just a little bit of Matt's history and experience in the field of motorsports marketing. As you can see Matt has worked in and around race teams at all levels of NASCAR events from the local weekly racing series to the NASCAR K & N west series to NASCAR Sprint Cup. Working with guys like Eddy McKean in the West Tour, Jeff Jefferson in the Northwest Tour to Todd Bodine in Trucks and Cup. From promoting country singers as sponsors on NASCAR Trucks, to promoting national company exposure through motorsports marketing sponsorships, Matt has been in the thick of it all. Matt is currently working with young talent in driver development programs and has a young driver that will sign with a major NASCAR team in 2012. Not only is Matt well seasoned in the working of the motorsports industry he is as well a trained EMT and has worked for many local ambulance services, hospitals and fire departments over the years and also turned a computer animation hobby into a part time career as a computer digital animation expert in the movie industry. Matt has worked on some major big screen project. Such projects as " The Grinch, Charlie's Angeles, Traffic, Perfect Storm, Project Green Light " and many others Matt has also been an Internet website developer for over 400 top sites on the internet to date.
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