What the news media is saying about Coast Packing
March 1, 2021
Set a new elapsed time record, qualify number one, set low ET in every round of racing, win convincingly in the final round: check, check, check, and check. Jason Lee did it all Feb. 25-28, at South Georgia Motorsports Park, where he defeated Marcus Birt for the much-coveted Lights Out 12 Radials vs. the World title.
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February 25, 2021
In the latest survey, it appears that no news is news: people’s attitudes toward animal fats, as well as their consumption of animal fats, were reported as being unchanged in recent years at a higher incidence rate than in all four of the prior waves. The findings suggest that pandemic restaurant closures may have put a damper on people seeking out a different diet, a trend that holds true for the general adult population as well as for younger respondents.
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February 25, 2021
As in so many walks of life, it’s been an unprecedented year in food. Amid COVID-19 lockdowns and quarantines, dine-in restaurants (that remain in business) embracing take-out and delivery, and sporadic shortages inhibiting an earnest return to the kitchen, the results of the fifth Coast Packing Company/Ipsos Research Animal Fats Study reflected the topsy-turvy time that commenced in March 2020.
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February 25, 2021
Returning to South Georgia Motor Sports Park (SGMP) in Adel on February 25-28 with radial tires and 3,500 horses in tow, Coast Packing Company’s R&E Racing will uncork its ’69 Noonan Hemi ProCharger Pro Mod Camaro at Duck X Productions’ “Lights Out 12” with “takeout or delivery” #FatMap229. For the event, Coast CEO Eric R. “Goose” Gustafson will yield the wheel to veteran driver Jason Lee.
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February 24, 2021
Testing has just begun at Lights Out 12 and the stage is already being set for a record-breaking weekend of racing at South Georgia Motorsports Park (SGMP). Veteran small tire racer and tuner Jason Lee lit the scoreboards up with a 3.507 at 210.41 behind the wheel of Eric Gustafson’s ProCharged Camaro during testing on Tuesday. That pass set the centrifugal record in the 1/8th mile and put Lee within striking distance of a 3.40 pass on radial tires.
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February 24, 2021
Jason Lee knew the timing meant everything. If he wanted to be the first Radial vs. The World racer to run in the 3.40s, there was no time to waste. During the first qualifying session at the Lights Out 12, in the first pair down the highly-prepared South Georgia Motorsports Park, Lee went to the top of the qualifying list and established the quickest mark in small tire racing with a 3.502 elapsed time at 211.46 miles per hour.
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February 23, 2021
As we reported last week, Jason Lee is in the cockpit of Eric Gustafson’s Coast Packing Company Camaro for competition this year. We expected Lee, a multi-time NMCA and NMRA X275 Drag Radial champion, to be successful in Gustafson’s car at some point because he’s as dedicated and determined as Gustafson, the 2020 NMCA VP Racing Lubricants Xtreme Pro Mod champion, and because he doesn’t stop until he accomplishes what he sets out to accomplish, but that point came incredibly soon.
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February 19, 2021
The secret to a great team is a deep bench.
Just ask Eric R. “Goose” Gustafson, #ProMod champ and R&E Racing’s lead driver. Having injured his arm in an off-track accident last fall, Goose asked Jason Lee of PTP Racing if he’d be open to wheeling his Camaro for the 2021 season.
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February 5, 2021
Coast Packing CEO, Eric Gustafson, visited with Brian Wagner at The Dragzine Podcast. Listen in as Eric discusses winning a Pro Mod title in the NMCA, what it’s like to race on radials, and his goals in racing!
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January 8, 2021
Running a corporation not only requires passion, persistence, lightning-fast decisions, but the patience to know when to apply full throttle. Eric Gustafson puts those attributes to work on a daily basis as the CEO of Coast Packing Company. His company is a premier supplier of animal fat shortenings in the Western United States, and one of its marketing efforts utilizes one of the quickest and most powerful mediums in NMCA drag racing—VP Racing Lubricants Xtreme Pro Mod.
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