HYUNDAI SECURES NAMING RIGHTS TO MALFUNCTION SURF FESTIVAL
Hyundai Australia today announced its commitment to longboard surfing by announcing that it has secured the naming rights to the 2008 Malfunction Surf Festival as well as expanding its role in supporting many of the smaller longboard surfing events around Australia over the next 12 months.
“The longboard surfing image and its appealing lifestyle fits in with perfectly with Hyundai as they both strive to be an enjoyable part of everyday life” said Tiffanny Junee, (insert title) announcing Hyundai Australia’s increasing support of longboard surfing. “We have chosen the Malfunction Surf Festival as our flagship as we look to involve ourselves more into the surfing scene.”
Welcoming Hyundai as the naming rights sponsor to the Malfunction Surf Festival, event manager Sean McKeown had this to say. “Surfing has always been about style in and out of the water. The range of Hyundai motor vehicles compliments the image that modern longboarding portrays. To have a great partner like Hyundai supporting us means longboard surfing can present itself with style not just to surfers and their families but to all those that identify with the beach scene.”
The Hyundai Malfunction Surf Festival will celebrate all the unique facets of surfing life including the beach, music, food, art and transport at Kingscliff on the New Tweed Coast from April 22 -27.
Now in its 25th year, the 2008 Hyundai Malfunction will attract more than 300 competitors from around the world as well as a large contingent of spectators who can join in a host of events to be held out of the water. These events include the Domain Casuarina Beach Resort Art Exhibition, a Laua dinner, the Von Weirdos Surf Memorabilia Auction and the Salt Bar Surf Vehicle Rally.
In the water surfers will have the chance to compete for a number of open amateur and aged divisions for traditional surfers, a leg of the ASP World Longboard Qualifying Series the Surftech Pro for Men & Women, the Golden Breed Retro day for boards constructed prior to 1981 and the new craze of Stand Up Paddle Surfing.
For entry registration and further event details please visit www.malfunction.com.au