The drivers and teams listed in this area typically use an EMP Stewart Components Stage 3 or 4 Water Pump in their race cars.

Tracy Gienger

Despite missing one event, Tracy Gienger managed to finish seventh in the final International Motor Contest Association (IMCA) stock car season point standings at Marshalltown, IA in 2005.

Gienger’s 1987 Buick Regal stock car, equipped with an EMP Stewart Components Stage 4 Water Pump, got special treatment during the off-season moving out of the family’s one-car garage in Baxter, IA to a new, 3,000 square foot race shop (pictured above right).

Gienger got behind the wheel of a racecar in 2000 after spending more than 10 years as a crewman on his brother’s car. Competing at Marshalltown on a weekly basis, Gienger finished 13th in division’s point standings in his first full season of competition in 2001.

In 2002, Gienger improved to sixth in the final IMCA points tally winning his first feature event along the way.

Gienger, who will again compete weekly at Marshalltown this season, will also compete in special events at other Iowa dirt raceways in 2006.

The 39-year-old driver works as a computer programmer.

Mike Gardner

Mike Gardner posted another solid Super Late Model season at Wisconsin International Raceway in Kaukauna, WI in 2005.

Gardner’s OilMate/EMP Stewart Components sponsored mount finished fourth in the final Fox River Racing Club final season standings.

Gardner broke into racing dominating the Street Stock division at his ‘home track’- Norway (MI) Speedway - winning class championships in 1992 and 1995 before moving up to the Late Model Stock Car division in 1997.

That led to a Late Model division title at Norway in 1999 and a jump to the Fox River Racing Club (FRRC) ranks a year later.

Gardner quickly established himself at WIR winning the track’s Late Model Rookie of the Year award in 2000. The division’s “Most Improved Driver Award” and a fourth-place finish in the prestigious Wisconsin State Red, White and Blue Series championship standings followed in 2001.

Gardner’s OilMate/EMP Stewart Components sponsored Ford Taurus finished fourth overall in the 2002 FRRC standings and notched 14 Top-10 main event finishes highlighted by a feature win at Kaukauna in 2003.

Gardner is a true ambassador of the sport regularly putting his OilMate/EMP Stewart Components racer on display around the area when not on the racetrack.

In 2006, Gardner will again fly the OilMate/EMP Stewart Components colors returning to weekly Thursday night FRRC action at WIR as well as competing in special events throughout the Midwest.

Gardner, along with his wife, Jennifer, and children, Michelle and Kimberly, reside in Gladstone, MI.