Adger Smith Joins Duck Tape/Loctite Team


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Sat, 31 Jan 2004, 09:21 AM

Courtesy of Staging Light, LLC

MADISON, Ohio –-

The Loctie Super Stock.

Staging Light Motorsports has announced that Adger Smith will join the Duck/Loctite products team in 2004. Smith, the owner of Adger Smith Performance Engines, is building an ’82 Camaro for Super Stock, which will be driven by defending Stock World Champion, Michael Beard.

The Super Stocker’s scheme will match the championship-winning ’73 Dart Sport, owned by Terry Knott, with the Loctite and Duck logos applied to the primarily red body. Staging Light Motorsports team manager, Matt Zapp, will again pilot the Duck brand duct tape ’67 Camaro in Hot Rod. Additionally, K&N Filters will be on board each car as an associate sponsor.

“This is a tremendous opportunity for us,” said Beard. “We are very fortunate and grateful to be able to call Adger Smith a member of our team. This will allow us to expand to three cars, to further promote the Duck and Loctite branches of Henkel Consumer Adhesives, our primary marketing partner.

“Adger is a perfect fit for us, not only because of his skills and his tireless dedication to the sport, but also because he knows how to simply go racing and have fun,” continued Beard. “His experience and attention to detail has proven to make a deadly combination of cars that are not only fast, but also find the winner’s circle. We hope to be able to continue that tradition, and bring Adger Smith Performance Engines into the limelight once again.”

Adger Smith set four IHRA World Records from 1971 to 1999, in H/Stock Optional, I/Stock Optional, D/Street Roadster, and E/Altered. He has 2 national event wins in the Stock/Optional class, 1971 and 1972, and an A/ED class win at the 1999 Sports Nationals. Adger was in the top ten of national points in Modified Eliminator when a devastating racing accident in September of 1999 took him out of the running. In 2000, Jim Cornett took the wheel, with Adger as the crew chief. The duo attained two Divisional runner-ups, finishing third in the Division 4 Modified standings.