PRI Trade Show Schedule
Dec. 3-5
Advanced Engineering Technology Conference
Features speakers including VP Racing Fuels’ Steve Burns, Toyota Racing Development’s David Currier and Dr. Dean Hill of New Mexico State University.
Dec. 5
Industry Roundtaple, 1:30-3:30 p.m.
Moderated by Jeff Hammond, panel lineup includes Bill Saunders, Danny Gracia, Brett Flood, Ron Harrop, Paul Zallud, Bill Schlieper, Ken McGuire, Scooter Brothers and Robin Miller.
Dec. 6
Grand Opening Breakfast, 7 a.m.
Featuring NASCAR Busch Series champion Carl Edwards.
PRI Trade Show, 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
PRI Happy Hour, 6 p.m.
All-Star Kart Race
Convention Center parking lot, 7 p.m.
Dec. 7
PRI Trade Show, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Mopar Sprint & Midget Classic
Orlando Speedworld, First Race at 7:15 p.m.
Dec. 7-8
Retail Management Seminars, 8-9 a.m.
Dec. 8
PRI Trade Show, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The 20th annual Performance Racing Industry Trade Show will attract vendors, racers and mechanics from across the world to the Orlando Convention Center this weekend (Dec. 6-8).

The show, which began in Louisville, Ky., and had stays in Columbus and Cincinnati, Ohio, as well as Indianapolis, will be held in Orlando for the third-straight year.

More than 1,400 suppliers will occupy more than one million square feet of exhibit space, with 45,000 expected to tour the show during its three-day run.

Industry members from the United States and 45 countries will have more than 4,200 booths to visit as companies showcase their wares and introduce new items to their product lines.

The show not only features parts suppliers and manufacturers, but tool makers, trailer manufacturers, race sanctioning bodies and more. Even National Speed Sport News (Booth No. 4755, 4757, 4759) will be represented at the show.

NASCAR driver Carl Edwards will be the speaker at the kick-off breakfast Dec. 6, and the show will feature various seminars, including the traditional round table discussion.

As it has been since the first year, the PRI Trade Show is produced by the staff of Performance Racing Industry magazine and its publisher Steve Lewis.

Lewis acknowledges he is amazed at the growth of the show through the past 20 years. “We always had to move from one city to the next because the PRI Trade Show always outgrew the convention center’s ability to house the event,” Lewis said.

The estimated value of the U.S. racing market is $13.5 billion. This figure does not include OEM motorsport engineering investment. The PRI Trade Show is ranked as the 45th largest trade show in the U.S. by Tradeshow Week magazine, which also named the Trade Show one of the 50 Fastest Growing Trade Shows in the country.

The show has also grown to include a race. The third annual Mopar Sprint & Midget Classic will be held Dec. 7 at Orlando Speedworld.