{"id":89210,"date":"2023-09-13T19:35:20","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T19:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/red-line-oils-mark-beatty-eager-to-get-the-pdra-experience-at-carolina-nationals\/"},"modified":"2023-09-13T19:35:20","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T19:35:20","slug":"red-line-oils-mark-beatty-eager-to-get-the-pdra-experience-at-carolina-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/red-line-oils-mark-beatty-eager-to-get-the-pdra-experience-at-carolina-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Line Oil\u2019s Mark Beatty Eager to Get The PDRA Experience at Carolina Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a longtime brand executive in the racing world, Mark Beatty has been to all kinds of motorsports events across the country. The brand director for Red Line Oil has yet to experience a PDRA event, but that will change this weekend when he heads to Darlington Dragway for the PDRA Red Line Oil Carolina Nationals<\/a>, Sept. 14-16.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m beyond excited,\u201d Beatty said. \u201cI obviously follow along with all of the racing in Drag Illustrated<\/em>, and I feel like I already know all the major players because I\u2019ve read so much about them. To have the chance to walk the staging lanes and the pit area and actually shake hands and meet some of the folks is awesome. I\u2019m really excited about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beatty, who joined Red Line Oil<\/a> in 2021, has spent the last few years continuing to build the Red Line brand, specifically in the motorsports world. He mainly provides support for Red Line customers and sponsored drivers and organizations from the company\u2019s home base in Texas, but he also makes a point to attend various events throughout the year. The PDRA Carolina Nationals went to the top of his must-attend list early in the season.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s important for us to try to have a presence at all the things Red Line does, but my philosophy has a couple different facets,\u201d Beatty said. \u201cAs a sponsor, I don\u2019t ever want to go to so many races and so many places that I become a burden on the race teams. I want them to know that we support them and we support what\u2019s going on, but I don\u2019t want them to ever feel that they have to babysit me or us.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the other side of the coin, I spend what feels like 24 hours a day, seven days a week in the racing industry, but I\u2019m a one-man band and I am so busy that, to be honest, this is the first race I\u2019ve been to since the World Series of Pro Mod in March. I\u2019m just too busy. I can\u2019t get away. But when we\u2019re forming a new partnership with the PDRA and it\u2019s the Red Line Oil race, it\u2019s like, \u2018Well, if this isn\u2019t the right time and place to invest some of your time and energy, nothing is.\u2019 I\u2019ve gotta go, plain and simple.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beatty sees this weekend as an opportunity to better get to know the PDRA team and the racers who compete within the series, which is celebrating its 10th season this year. It\u2019s a chance to continue building a relationship that began when Beatty met the Franklin family and PDRA marketing director Will Smith at the 2022 PRI Show in Indianapolis.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know what type of people they are \u2013 they\u2019re phenomenal people,\u201d Beatty said. \u201cIt\u2019s going to help me get a feel for the environment of a PDRA race and to confirm what I believe is already a perfect fit. It\u2019s just going to be nice to see it and feel it and experience it for myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beatty isn\u2019t just going for the networking in the pits, though. He\u2019s also looking forward to taking in side-by-side 3.60-second Pro Mod action and the PDRA\u2019s ultra-competitive sportsman racing.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of the day, I\u2019m a diehard race fan. Bottom line, I just can\u2019t wait to watch some killer racing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The post Red Line Oil\u2019s Mark Beatty Eager to Get The PDRA Experience at Carolina Nationals<\/a> first appeared on Drag Illustrated | Drag Racing News, Opinion, Interviews, Photos, Videos and More<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a longtime brand executive in the racing world, Mark Beatty has been to all kinds of motorsports events across the country. The brand director for Red Line Oil has yet to experience a PDRA event, but that will change this weekend when he heads to Darlington Dragway for the PDRA Red Line Oil Carolina […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drag-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}