With approximately 45,000 attendees present for the 20th Annual Performance Racing Industry Trade Show, attendance remained strong for the show’s third year at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida.

In major, late-breaking news, the traditional Thursday, Friday, Saturday dates for the PRI Trade Show have been confirmed for 2008. The dates for the 2008 PRI Trade Show will be December 11-13, 2008.

A number of significant achievements at the world’s largest racing trade show were set this year:

The PRI Trade Show continues to offer companies, racing organizations and even individual racers and race teams the opportunity to make announcements. Highlights include:

Growth on the show floor at the Orange County Convention Center was evident as the PRI Trade Show filled nearly one million square feet of exhibit floor space.

Convention officials estimate that approximately $56 to $60 million in economic impact resulted from the show’s visit to Orlando. The PRI Trade Show continues to be recognized as one of the top 50 trade shows in North America, according to Tradeshow Week magazine.

With more than 45,000 racing industry entrepreneurs in attendance from 47 countries, the three-day PRI Trade Show is timed so that racing retailers, engine and car builders, wholesaler/ distributors, professional race teams and other industry participants can shop the latest new product introductions and have them in inventory for the next racing season.