It was in a garage in 1896, located a distance of just 30 miles (48 km) away in Detroit, Michigan, that Henry Ford invented the Ford Quadricycle, the forerunner for his famous Model T. Now 112 years later and close to the current world headquarters for Ford, General Motors and Chrysler, the Michigan International Speedway with a seating capacity of over 137,000 fans, hosted the NASCAR (North American Stock Car Automobile Racing). Interush Racing was well represented by Stanton Barrett driving the #30 Interush Race Car. Representing all Interush Affiliates worldwide, was Interush CEO Marty Matthews who was there for the days’ exciting events.

On Saturday morning, after two practice sessions the day before, qualifying laps would be run by a field of 47 cars vying for 43 positions. Qualifying started at 10:40 a.m. and Stanton and Marty watched the first few qualifiers together in the driver’s personal motor-home, on national TV, so that Stanton could see the close-up television coverage of how the first drivers were approaching these important time trials. The qualifying order for each race is randomly selected, and the track conditions at time of qualifying can make a big difference to the starting position. The early drivers benefited from cooler track temperatures, allowing them to post the best times. Stanton’s turn finally came as the 44th car, over an hour after the first qualifiers when track temperature had risen dramatically, costing valuable tenths of a second in lap time. In the end Interush Racing qualified at an impressive 25th position, averaging a speed of over 180 mph (290 km/h) on the 2 mile (3.2 km) s-shaped oval.

After qualifying, all race cars are all quarantined so that the race teams could not make any further adjustments to the car before race time. Stanton and Marty attended the driver’s meeting at 1:30 pm, which outlined all the rules for the teams. At 3:00 pm the driver introductions were made to the crowd in attendance and the television audience, which was estimated to be in the millions in the USA and Canada alone. After both the Canadian and the American national anthems were sung, the divers climbed into their cars and we heard the famous words, “gentlemen – start your engines!” The roar of 43 of some of the world’s fastest automobiles igniting is something that has to be experienced right on the track to be fully appreciated.

With that, the race cars pulled out of pit lane and into qualifying formation, with Team Interush #30 car starting 25th, on the inside of the 13th row, in front to 18 others. The race was exciting as the second lap brought the first crash involving two vehicles, one of which would not return until repaired about 90 minutes later. With Stanton Barrett in control, Team Interush ran as high as 12th position, before a penalty was assessed for the actions of one of the pit crew, who did not handle a wheel change according to the rules.
In the end Stanton finished 21st in the top half of the field.



The Interush brand received excellent television coverage during the qualifying session in which the announcers described the company’s business in Japan and Taiwan and mentioned the company’s new VoIP phone service PHYTTER, which will soon be released in the USA. The Interush brand was also prominently displayed during the race as the car ran extremely well, right up to the final checkered flag!

In the end the race was won by Carl Edwards who just happened to be a native of the Michigan area – the birthplace of the automobile and automobile racing!


Stanton uses PHYTTER to call his father just before the race started.