The award builds upon NGK’s decades-long partnership with General Motors, as an OE supplier of both ignition and emissions parts.
Megan Meyer, driver for NGK/Randy Meyer Racing, took the win in Top Alcohol Dragster at zMAX Dragway in Concord, North Carolina.
NGK Spark Plugs also was announced as the series’ title sponsor for the next two years.
NGK Spark Plugs announces a two-year partnership with NHRA Top Alcohol Dragster, Megan Meyer. This continues a decades-long tradition of NGK as the preferred performance spark plug for the Meyer team, as NGK sponsored Meyer’s father and team-owner, Randy Meyer for many years.
The NTK product line expansion is designed to support newer applications and provide coverage for more than 20 million additional domestic and foreign vehicles in operation.
The YANG event included a “TED talk” style presentation by NGK Spark Plugs’ Senior Vice President of Aftermarket Mike Schwab.
As the vice president of marketing at NGK Spark Plugs (U.S.A.), Inc., David is responsible for all marketing and product initiatives for the brand. He earned a BSBA in marketing from Kutztown University, and an MBA from Pennsylvania State University. He has also completed executive leadership development courses at Northwood University.
The SERVICE-EDU Avondale event kicks off from 6-8 p.m. on Friday, April 29, with dinner, orientation, networking and Bogi Lateiner’s keynote presentation, “Not Your Father’s Auto Shop.”
SERVICE-EDU was created as a joint effort so that more value could be provided to technicians by offering training in multiple product categories during a single training event. Each manufacturer’s training courses, focused on their unique category of expertise, include classroom and hands-on instruction on proper system troubleshooting, advanced service techniques and component replacement.
