Checkered Flag Productions, or CFP, is a company that is operated by Ed Beckley’s Checkered Flag Productions, Inc., a Texas based and licensed corporation also doing business as a Kansas Corporation.

The President of the Corporation is Ed Beckley. Beckley has been featured on the cover of Fortune Small Business Magazine with a huge 5 page pictorial and story of his endeavors and has worked with some of the most well known promoters in the world.

Ed has been involved in Motorsports for over 30 years. He first became involved in promotion by being a Motorcycle Stuntman and gained National Publicity with him being the WORLD’S LARGEST MOTORCYCLE JUMPER. Ed weighed over 300 pounds and the motorcycles he jumped he outweighed. When Ed decided to improve the show, he added a passenger on the motorcycle which included a Hollywood Stuntwoman and Actress the lovely Vicki Swims. A webpage: www.cyclejumpers.com/biged.html briefly tells about his stunt career.

For nearly 15 years Ed traveled around performing at race tracks and drag strips all over the United States. His exploits put him on National Tv with first REAL PEOPLE, then NBC NATIONAL NEWS, CBS Wide World of Sports, JAY LENO SHOW, and most recently with FOX TV Special on WORLD’S GREATEST STUNTMEN, STUNTS GONE BAD and he has also been featured in many videos on the market.

Ed studied the promotion business and decided that was for him. He got off the road for a time and took over a Sprint Car and Stock Car track in Dodge City, Kansas. While running the track in the summer time he would do motorcycle jumping at indoor tractor pulls. At these indoor tractor pulls he saw the tremendous crowds and decided this was for him.

Ed worked side by side with the originator of indoor motorsports the late, great Bob George the owner of SRO/PACE MOTORSPORTS. Bob and Ed had a special relationship and thru Bob he learned many things about promoting events. When Bob died in 1987 it was time for the next step and that step was to promote indoor events as well as the race track kept Ed busy. Checkered Flag Productions Monster Trucks started with about 17 events nights a year and soon has risen to nearly 90 event nights a year.

Beckley saw the need to get to an Airport of size (as they were flying to about 30 different cities a year). In search for a good airport he ventured to Texas and found the sleepy little town of Bridgeport. Bridgeport is less than 4,000 population but is only about 40 minutes away from the Dallas/Ft. Worth Airport. In 1995 Beckley moved the entire operation to Texas. Soon after he built a new office on his 9 acreage ranch and began what has been a successful business endeavor but of course with challenges.

CFP’s mission is to put on a Safe, Exciting, Enjoyable, Family Show, or a SEEF Show as Ed calls it, only he pronounces it safe.

CFP business day is mostly made up of total production of ticketed Motorsports events and they have also done concerts and rodeo’s.

CFP Advertising is an in-house Advertising Agency that has also done work for several other clients including motorcycle shops.

CFP has its own art department with graphic arts and also writes and produces their own television commercials. No video is for sale as CFP will not license any of its footage to be used by outside sources.

CFP has done business for many top venues and State Fairs in the United States and Canada.

To discuss a CFP promoting or producing an event at your venue or fair or to be involved with sponsorship, either on the local or National level please contact the CFP office at the following: Phone 940-683-4742 or email ed@checkeredflagproductions.com to discuss what we can do for you. 

Since Novmember 2007  Checkered Flag Productions, Inc has two different office locations. The main office is in Texas and is winter quarters for Ed himself.  Ed went back in Dodge City, Kansas where he operates a State of the Art and very well known race track the Dodge City Raceway Park. There is where Ed spends most of his time in the Summer but returns the Main office is still in Texas in his office building he built about 100 feet from his beautiful and spacious home in the Fall and Winter. Beckley said, “ Kansas is my homestate and I have roots there but when the weather turns off cold it is time to move south.”  Ed was awarded the 2009 WORLD OF OUTLAW SPRINT CAR Promtoer of the Year recently where Steve Kinser called him the “magic man” because of his track preperation and his ability to get the show in when weather was at it’s worst.

We are the Motorsports promotion group that can help your Fair, Race Track, and/or organation to make money with any of our events at your facility. We have sent Transforming Fire Shooting Robots to Japan and helped promote Monster Truck Races and other motorsports events all over the United States and Canada. If you would like to find out how we can help you with a money making event contact Zane Rettew zane@checkeredflagproductions.com or Ed Beckley ed@checkeredflagproductions.com.

The crew from CFP has the best reputation in the World for co-promoting events and our credit rating is un-surpassed. We can price a whole event or help co-promote the event. We are an advertising agency and are capeable of laying out a complete advertising and promotion plan to help make your event sucessful and profitiable. Our safety record is un-equaled and we are on the management team of the MTRA (Monster Truck Racing Association).

We are BIGFOOT’s largest account and have our own corporate truck called the BIGFOOT BAD BOY. This beautiful truck was designed and developed for our company thru BIGFOOT something that has never happened before. We can bring BIGFOOT to your event now! In addition, many of the trucks you see on Television are trucks that follow our series.

For references, answers to any of your questions, or when you are ready to make money for your Race Track , County or State Fair please contact Zane or Ed and let’s work together to put a business plan together for a show that you will be proud to have and one that is sure to put some big bucks in your bank account.

These are some of the events that we can bring to your facility: MONSTER TRUCK RACES, MONSTER TRUCK FREESTYLE CAR CRUSHING CONTESTS, HOT ROD TRUCK N’ TRACTOR PULLS, SIDE BY SIDE MUD RACES, DEEP PIT MUD BOG RACES, ARENACROSS RACES, FLAT TRACK MOTORCYCLE RACES, AUTOMOBILE DEMO DESTRUCTION DERBY, THRILL SHOWS, COMBINE HARVESTER DEMO DERBY, MINI VAN DEMO DERBY, FIGURE 8 AUTO RACES, SCHOOL BUS RACES, OUTLAW SPRINT CAR RACES, STOCK CAR RACES, & XTREME FREESTYLE MOTORCYCLE JUMPERS.