{"id":538881,"date":"2021-09-15T16:33:48","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T20:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/garage-gurus-announces-sponsorship-of-the-first-u-s-auto-tech-national-championship\/"},"modified":"2021-09-15T16:33:48","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T20:33:48","slug":"garage-gurus-announces-sponsorship-of-the-first-u-s-auto-tech-national-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/garage-gurus-announces-sponsorship-of-the-first-u-s-auto-tech-national-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Garage Gurus\u00ae Announces Sponsorship of the First U.S. Auto Tech National Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Both Professional and Student Auto Technicians Are Invited to Participate; Competition Tests the Skills Necessary to Become a Top Auto Tech<\/h2>\n

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\n SOUTHFIELD, Mich.<\/span>, Sept. 15, 2021<\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ —\u00a0Garage Gurus\u00ae<\/sup>, an industry-leading training and support platform from Tenneco Inc.’s (NYSE: TEN) DRiV group, announces its latest support for up-and-coming technicians with its sponsorship of the first U.S. Auto Tech National Championship. A part of the larger Elite Trades Series, the U.S. Auto Tech National Championship will set out to find the top technicians in the country and have them face off against one another for a chance to win over $200,000<\/span> in cash and prizes.<\/p>\n

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The Garage Gurus-sponsored U.S. Auto Tech National Championship will include in-person qualifying events across six markets in the United States<\/span>, to be held at Garage Gurus training locations and other partner retail locations, trade schools and high-profile consumer event locations. At these qualifying events, professional and student technicians will compete in a timed, chassis-based challenge to test their repair skills. Each competitor will be scored and judged on overall time, workmanship, and safety by Garage Gurus’ ASE-certified repair professionals and representatives from the University of Northwestern Ohio<\/span>. The top 32 professionals and top 32 students competing in these qualifying events will advance to the National Championship, to be held in Nashville, Tenn.<\/span>, on December 13-14, 2021<\/span>. Cash awards will be given to the top three finishers in both the professional and student technician categories: $40,000<\/span> each for first place winners; $20,000<\/span> each for second place winners; and $10,000<\/span> each for third place winners.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

Qualifying locations for each competition are:<\/p>\n