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HMF Owner Suffers Broken Leg at Loretta Lynn's
Hurricane Mills, TN (April 18, 2009) - HMF
Engineering owner Hans Luenger suffered a broken
leg while racing Saturday at Acerbis
Loretta Lynn's GNCC in the 36C Class. Scheduled
for surgery Sunday afternoon in Cleveland,
Ohio, Hans will need plates and screws to repair
a compound fracture of the tibia as well a
minor break in his fibula.
HMF Sales Manager,
Mike Schoenmeyer who was also racing the
morning class reported that Hans told him that
he was coming down a hill when he hit a kicker
that made him lose his footing which led to the
crash.
About HMF Engineering
HMF Engineering, Inc. was founded in
1997 by Hans Luenger in Cleveland, Ohio. Hans
started
the company by himself in his garage building
private label aftermarket performance Ducati
Motorcycle exhausts for Fast By Ferracci. As the
workload increased, Hans hired three of his
friends and bought a building in Brooklyn, Ohio
in 1999 to help with the manufacturing process
and diversify the product line. In addition to
the Ducati exhausts, HMF began to produce it's
own
line of high performance aftermarket exhausts
for the Honda RC 51 motorcycle and the Honda
400EX ATV. To better understand the market, Hans
started racing motorcycles in 1999 and
expanded the product line of sport and street
motorcycle exhausts to better serve the sport he
was competing in.
After refinancing his house three times
between 1999 and 2002 and selling his Corvette
and
FZR 1000 to keep the business alive, HMF
reinvented itself once again by plunging into
the
ATV exhaust market in late 2002. The early HMF
ATV exhausts were made using the
technology and sophistication used in street
bike exhausts.
With the price starting so low, the
public did not believe that the product was well
built. Also, HMF had no name brand recognition.
To boost rising sales, Hans teamed up with local
Pro GNCC ATV racer John Gallagher in 2003. Hans
finished 3rd in his class and John finished
18th, but the real victory was the fact that
thousands of racers noticed that the owner of an
exhaust manufacturer was one of them.
Sales consistantly increased through the
year and by the 2004 race season Team HMF had
grown from Hans #324 and John #18 to include
five-time national champion Bill Ballance, and
11-time utility champion, Mike Penland. There
was also a long list of devoted racers from
almost every class in the series. After the top
pro's signed on with HMF to begin production of
a signature series exhaust line, national
distribution was the next logical step. That
solidified HMF today as a key player in the
world of aftermarket exhausts.
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