Just in time for the excitement of Charlotte Race weeks! Performance Instruction & Training (PIT) offers for the first time Team Performance U, an interactive, experiential team building program utilizing pit stops as learning scenarios that challenge your team to communicate and interact like never before.

PIT and training partner NCSU IES off this one day activity on May 19 from 8:00am - 5:00pm. 

For more information and to reserve your place contact  Amanda Fowler or call 704.799.3869 and learn how PIT can help you market to race fans through custmized show cars, demos, and more.

North Carolina State University Industrial Extension Service (NCSU IES) and Performance Instruction & Training (PIT) offer several joint Lean Performance U enrollment dates during 2009. For additional information and registration, please visit the NCSU IES website. Current program dates are June 16-17, August 4-5, and October 13-14.

PIT and NCSU IES have partnered to bring their respective world class industry training programs together in a unique learning opportunity. NCSU IES provides extensive services that utilize lean enterprise and quality initiatives in the office, factory, and healthcare industries. 

Photo by Regan Hill

The news of cutbacks in the motorsports industry doesn't seem to be squashing local students' dreams of being a part of it.  Representatives from NASCAR Technical Institute and Performance Instruction and Training (PIT) said students are still eagerly enrolling — and getting hired.  The students said nothing is going to deter them from working hard to become the best.

Visit the Press Archive to read the story in its entirety as printed in the Statesville Record & Landmark.

The official travel and tourism website of the United States, Discover America , lists Performance Instruction & Training (PIT) as one of six not-to-miss experience sites in the Charlotte area.

Running out in front of a moving car is not the way you want to make a living? Hard to believe. Visit quarterlife, a networking website that lists internship opportunities for NASCAR and others.

Photo by James Nix / Independent Tribune

If you're interested in NASCAR, just call AIM/Adventures in Motor Sports who is taking groups of tourists to PIT during race week and all year round.

"I'll have to watch a race to see the pits now," one woman whispered to another. "I want to see how they do this under pressure."

Watch the VIDEO STORY or read the story in its entirety visit Independent Tribune or the Press Archive.

A recent article in the Detroit Free Press explores the athletic training of pit crew members in the modern motorsports arena.  The article features PIT’s brand of training through partner, Fox sports analyst, and six-time Winston Cup Championship winner Jeff Hammond, as well as Pit Crew U graduate Jake Brzozowski who is currently a rear tire carrier for Red Bull Racing Team’s No. 83 Sprint Cup car driven by Brian Vickers.

To read the story in its entirety visit the Press Archive. 

Some of the enterprise learning industry's thought leaders gathered at Chief Learning Officer magazine's Think Tank event at the Charlotte, N.C., corporate headquarters of Lowe's Companies Inc. to discuss how to measure the impact of learning. While there, attendees got a look at an intensive development program for people who work in one of the most high-pressure performance environments around: the race-car pit crew.

To read the story in its entirety visit the Press Archive or Chief Learning Officer Magazine.

The first episode of  The Works , a new weekly series by The History Channel was filmed at the Performance Instruction & Training (PIT) facilities featuring a segment on the how impact wrenches utilized by motorsport pit crews work to remove and install lug nuts with blazing speed.

The complete episode can be purchased at the The History Channel Online Store. The series airs each Thursday evening.

A crew from Performance Instruction & Training (PIT) were featured on ABC’s new show “Wanna Bet?,” which features celebrity judges betting on the success or failure of contestants’ stunts.  A team of female motorsports fans competed to see if they could complete a pit stop in double the time of less than half of PIT’s professional crew.  To see who won the bet, view the second segment of the series premiere of “Wanna Bet?”

"Brent Ligon left his native West Virginia last August with only one goal in mind.  The 21-year old St. Albans native packed his belongings and moved to Mooresville, N.C., with hopes of eventually landing a job behind the pit wall on NASCAR's biggest stage.  And thanks in part to his participation and recent graduation from the 64th group of participants at Pit Crew U, Ligon already has earned a slight foothold in the racing world."

To view the story, which appeared in the Charleston (W.V.) Daily Mail, visit the Press Archives. 

Ed Robertson, founding member of the Barenaked Ladies, had no idea what he'd gotten himself into when he flew his Cessna pontoon plane from Canada, landed on Lake Norman and visited PIT Instruction & Training.

Ed and his production crew were in Mooresville to film a segment of Ed's UP! adventure reality show. The segment is scheduled to air when the new fall television season begins.

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