By Warrior Racing/M.P.H. Promotions

Hamilton, Michigan (01/24/2007): The 2007 season for the Livonia, Michigan based Short Track Trucks.com Challenge Series is fast approaching as the teams prepare for Opening Day 2007. One driver who's looking forward to starting the 2007 campaign is preparing for his fourth season of competition in the Trucks series with high hopes of dethroning Three-Time Defending STT.com Challenge Series Champion, Joey Shuryan.

Hamilton, Michigan veteran, Paul Schaffer is coming back to the STT.com Challenge Series fold once again for the 2007 season with his sights firmly set on becoming the 2007 series champion. During the 2006 season, Schaffer's third in the Short Track Trucks.com Challenge Series, he won One Feature as it came at his home track of the Berlin (MI) Raceway, located West of Grand Rapids in Marne, Michigan on June
17, 2006.

"The biggest change for us during the 2006 season was that we were honestly a threat to win every week. We're looking forward to 2007 after a great 2006. Winning/racing and having fun is really why we do this." Stated Schaffer as his Warrior Racing Team moves forward with the 2007 season. "The friendships made through racing have tuned out to be the best friends I've ever had. The competitors in the truck series are professional people that do there best on and off the track." He added. Overall in 2006, Schaffer recorded his One Feature Win as well as Four Top Five's, and Nine Top 10 finishes out of 10 events held during the season. Schaffer also won One Fast Qualifier Award in the series' first appearance at Berlin on May 6, 2006 and also recorded Two Preliminary Heat Race wins to finish a strong Third Place in the Final Points Standings and won the series' Most Improved Driver Award at the
2006 STT.com Challenge Series Awards Banquet.

The Warrior Racing Team is comprised of his wife Sally and two girls, Whitney and Jennica, Crew Chief-Ken Janes, Team Engineer-Jim Schutzenhofer, Shock/Spring Specialist-Shawn Brown, Spotter-Von Cutshall, and Statistician-Patty Turner. "I'm a very blessed to have a crew that has been working together for eight years and counting." Schaffer remarked.

Schaffer, who works full-time at All-Star Performance, a division of Lane Automotive in Watervliet, Michigan. won't be alone during the 2007 Season as the Warrior Racing Team is working on a second truck to compete later on in the upcoming season with dirt driver, Josh Slade who calls Coopersville, Michigan home is set to drive a team truck to Schaffer's efforts later in 2007. "The future is something that we have been working on. We are working on a second truck, not as a "backup" but to help promote a young driver." Schaffer explained.

"While the work on the truck is far from completed, finding a driver is a done deal.
Josh has really impressed me. He's an excellent pilot on dirt as well as asphalt.
More than that is his work ethic and aptitude for learning that earned him this spot." The 1992 Central Michigan University Graduate continued. "We hope to complete the truck soon. The economic realities are the limiting factor for our operation."

Schaffer began racing on the dirt at the Winston (MI) Motor Speedway in the Bombers division in 1999 and won Four time during his rookie campaign and picked up the Sportsman of the Year Award his freshman season. Just a year later, Schaffer moved on to pavement racing and at one of the toughest race tracks in the country let alone the state of Michigan; The famed Marne, Michigan fairgrounds oval of the Berlin (MI) Raceway in the tracks Sportsman Division and won some heat races his rookie season on pavement.

In 2001. Schaffer won his first career Feature in the Sportsman division at Berlin and would go on to finish a solid 12th in the final points standings while in 2002, he won another Feature and climbed to eighth in the final points tallies despite missing Opening Night! In 2003, Schaffer won the Fast Qualifier Award on Four occasions and despite missing several weeks, he still finished 15th in the final Berlin Sportsman Points Standings.

The 2004 season saw Schaffer make the move to the traveling Short Track Trucks.com Challenge Series where he finished sixth in the final points chase with One Top Five finish, a fourth place showing at the Kalamazoo (MI) Speedway to go with Six Top
10s. Schaffer would also collect both the Sportsman of the Year Award as well as Best Appearing Team in the STT.com Challenge Series.

Schaffer's sophomore season in 2005 saw a much improved driver and team as the Hamilton, Michigan driver won his first career Short Track Trucks.com Challenge Series Feature at the Kalamazoo (MI) Speedway on July 2, 2005. One of the highlights of Schaffer's career is his Fast Qualifier Award at the famed high banks of the Winchester (IN) Speedway also in 2005.

Overall, Schaffer would go on to accumulate Eight Top Five finishes and 10 Top 10s in 15 starts and he also won a Preliminary Heat Race to crack the Top Five in the final points standings and finish a strong Fifth. He also won the Sportsman of the Year Award and the Best Appearing Crew Awards for the second year in a row.

For the 2007 season, Schaffer will carry sponsorship on the side of his Warrior Racing Ford F-150 from; Centennial Coatings as well as Lane Automotive, All-Star Performance, Holland Trailer Sales, Load-All Loading Systems, Warrior Design, Advantage Signs, and Dura-Tech Racing Engines.

To learn more about Paul Schaffer and the Warrior Racing Team and to inquire about additional sponsorship opportunities for the upcoming 2007 with the Warrior Racing Team for a full season in the Short Track Trucks.com Challenge Series , please e-mail the team at; paul_schaffer@hotmail.com


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