[FONT=Trebuchet MS]Formula 1000 appoints George Dean as Chief Technical Director[/FONT]
[FONT=Trebuchet MS]The Formula 1000 Championship Series has announced the appointment of George Dean to the Chief Technical Director position for the Series. “We are very proud to have someone of George’s expertise with the F1K Series.” stated F1K Managing Director, Jon Lewis. “George brings a wealth of knowledge in motorcycle powered cars to our program and will be instrumental in assuring that all competitors are competing on an even playing field.”[/FONT]
[FONT=Trebuchet MS]A Seattle native, George Dean began working on motorcycles in 1976. He realized early on that this was his life’s calling. He attended the American Motorcycle Institute in Daytona Beach Florida in 1979 and graduated at the top of his class. This fueled his desire to build racing engines. He spent 1984 on the AMA supercross and motocross series tuning for a local privateer and the experience was priceless. By the late 1980’s he was teaching at the Universal Technical Institute's Motorcycle Mechanics Institute in Phoenix, Arizona but his desire for racing drew him back to Seattle in 1989. After building and tuning a few road race motorcycles, a customer asked him to build an engine to put in a racecar for his daughter[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman]. [/FONT][FONT=Trebuchet MS] That was his first season of Mini-Sprint racing, His team won the first race of the season and was never challenged for the championship. Shortly thereafter another customer asked him to build an engine for a D sports racer, and soon George knew that building engines for racecars was his passion.[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman] [/FONT][FONT=Trebuchet MS]In 1993 George opened his own independent repair shop, Seattle Cycle Service, providing service to motorcyclists in the Puget Sound area. It focused primarily on Japanese motorcycles and he continued to build his race engine business.[/FONT][FONT=Trebuchet MS][/FONT]
[FONT=Trebuchet MS]In 2000 he acquired a SuperFlow dynamometer and began providing a much higher level engine building and tuning service. His customer base rapidly grew from a few local racers to a large group of enthusiasts from all over the United States and Canada. [/FONT]
[FONT=Trebuchet MS]In 2005 he sold Seattle Cycle Service to his long time employee and opened up George Dean’s Racing Engines and now only builds racecar engines. He has also acquired some of the finest shop equipment and tools to enhance his ability to provide the finest race engines possible to his customers. [/FONT]
[FONT=Trebuchet MS]George looks forward to the challenge of the new F1000 series and will do everything in his power to make the series as successful as possible. [/FONT][FONT=Trebuchet MS][/FONT]