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Mouser Contest Caps off 2012 IndyCar Season with VIP Experience
Five Lucky Winners will Receive All-Access VIP Passes to the IndyCar Championship Race


September 5, 2012 – Mouser Electronics celebrates the end of an unforgettable 2012 IndyCar season by awarding five lucky winners VIP Access to attend the IndyCar Race weekend in Fontana, California on September 14-15, for the MAVTV 500 IndyCar World Championships.

To win tickets to this once-in-a-lifetime race weekend, simply fill out the entry form at http://www.mouser.com/vipform between now and September 11, and sign up to receive Mouser’s Newest Products and Applications News. The site lists the full contest rules. The VIP tickets will include a tour of the garage and pit, a chance to talk with IndyCar’s top engineers, meet the driver of the Mouser Machine, Tony Kanaan, plus watch the final race of the season where the IndyCar World Champion will be crowned. One lucky winner will also receive a Tony Kanaan-autographed T-shirt.
Kanaan, driver of the No. 11 Mouser Electronics/GEICO/KV Racing Technology Chevrolet/Firestone IndyCar, is sure to bring his A-game as he completes his 11th year of IndyCar racing.

“A ‘Championship Race’ weekend is something everyone should experience at least once in a lifetime,” says Larry Johannes, Mouser Electronics’ Vice President of Strategic Marketing. “You can feel the excitement pulsing through the speedway. We can’t wait to bring our valued customers front and center for this race.”

To view a video interview with Kanaan during his recent visit to Mouser’s corporate headquarters, click on http://mou.sr/GSTKHT. The champion driver has logged seven Top 6 finishes so far this season, including three top 3 showings – a season-high 2nd place at Milwaukee, and two outstanding 3rd place finishes at Iowa and the historic Indianapolis 500. Tony Kanaan is currently 8th in the championship. For the latest race updates and background information on Mouser’s Indy sponsorships, visit http://www.mouser.com/indy.

Joining Mouser as co-sponsors for the 2012 Izod® IndyCar Series are TTI, Inc, Sager, Murata, Molex, TE Connectivity, Phoenix Contact, Littelfuse, Panasonic, KEMET, Ohmite, Hammond, Harwin, ebm-papst, Omron, BIVAR, Fluke, and Amphenol.

Mouser’s comprehensive IndyCar racing program provides a high-tech platform to showcase its valued supplier partnerships and connect with the industry’s leading electronic design engineers and buyers. Engineers are invited to take the
Mouser 500 Challenge, a series of three engineering challenges to help find design solutions to various technical problems relating to the high-speed sport of IndyCar. To learn more about Mouser’s 500 Engineering Challenge, visit www.mouser.com/500challenge/.

With its broad product line and unsurpassed customer service, Mouser caters to design engineers and buyers by delivering What's Next in advanced technologies. Mouser offers customers 19 global support locations and the latest, most technologically advanced components for their newest design projects. Mouser Electronics' website is updated daily and searches more than 8.9 million products to locate over 3 million orderable part numbers available for easy online purchase. Mouser.com also houses an industry-first interactive catalog, data sheets, supplier-specific reference designs, application notes, technical design information, and engineering tools.

For more information on Mouser’s racing program and Tony Kanaan, visit www.mouser.com/indy/.

About Mouser
Mouser Electronics, a subsidiary of TTI, Inc., is part of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway family of companies. Mouser is an award-winning authorized semiconductor and electronic component distributor, focused on the rapid introduction of new products and technologies to electronic design engineers and buyers. Mouser.com features more than 3 million products online from more than 450 manufacturers. Mouser publishes multiple catalogs per year providing designers with up-to-date data on the components now available for the next generation of electronic devices. Mouser ships globally to over 375,000 customers in 170 countries from its 492,000 sq. ft. state-of-the-art facility south of Dallas, Texas. For more information, visit www.mouser.com.

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Further information, contact:
Larry Johannes, Mouser Electronics
Vice President of Strategic Marketing
(817) 804-3534
Larry.Johannes@mouser.com


For press inquiries, contact:
Kelly DeGarmo, Mouser Electronics
Corporate Communications & Media Relations Manager
(817) 804-7764
Kelly.DeGarmo@mouser.com