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Season-Finale This Weekend at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca for Sloan Urry and SecurityNational

Costa Mesa, Calif. (8 September 2015) – It’s been an incredible season of Pirelli World Challenge competition for Sloan Urry and SecurityNational that has seen the No. 02 Porsche compete on a wide range of road and street courses across North America. This weekend, the 2015 GT Cup presented by MOMO championship comes to a close at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca at what is one of the favorite tracks on the 2015 calendar for both drivers and fans alike.

The event will cap off what has been an impressive year for Urry in which he’s tallied 12 podium results in 18 races. Those results have seen Urry stay in contention for the championship through most of the 2015 season.

He currently sits second in the standings with 1534 points.

With the championship title already wrapped up by Urry’s TruSpeed Autosport / Kelly Moss teammate Colin Thompson, the goal for Urry this weekend will be to take a victory at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca while also locking in second in the 2015 championship.

Urry claimed a podium finish at Laguna Seca last year while driving for JDX Racing in Porsche GT3 Cup competition. The 2.238-mile track is a challenging one and is known for its elevation changes and signature “Corkscrew” corner combination.

“I can’t believe we are already at the last event on the Pirelli World Challenge 2015 calendar but I can’t be happier that it’s at Laguna Seca,” said Urry. “I have quite a bit of experience at Laguna Seca and it is one of my favorite tracks – it’s hard to beat The Corkscrew! The track has a great flow to it and is a blast to drive. We have some good momentum from the last weekend at Sonoma, so I’m eager to get back at it. As always I know TruSpeed will do their side of things and give me a great car. It’s up to me to end the season on a good note for the SecurityNational/Engel & Volkers car.”

The season-finale weekend will begin with testing and practice on Thursday. A second practice session takes place on Friday with qualifying scheduled for 11:25 AM PST on Saturday. The race is set for Sunday with festivities beginning at 1:35 PM PST.

Live coverage of the race can be viewed at www.world-challengetv.com with CBS Sports Network televising the event on Sunday, September 20 at 3:30 PM ET.

EVENT SCHEDULE:
Thursday: Practice → 4:30 PM – 5:00 PM PST
Friday: Practice → 12:00 PM PST – 12:30 PM PST
Saturday: Qualifying → 11:25 AM – 12:10 PM PST
Sunday: Race → 1:35 PM – 2:25 PM PST

Another Double Podium for Sloan Urry and SecurityNational at Sonoma Raceway

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Another Double Podium for Sloan Urry and SecurityNational at Sonoma Raceway

Sonoma, CA. (31 August 2015) – Sloan Urry has continued to shine in Pirelli World Challenge competition this year and added yet two more podium performances to his 2015 list of accomplishments when he scored second and third in Rounds 16 & 17 of the GT Cup presented by MOMO at Sonoma Raceway over the weekend.

The results marked Urry’s 11th and 12th podium results of the season for SecurityNational while driving the No. 02 Porsche supported by TruSpeed Autosport.

Urry opened Race 1 on Saturday from the second row of the grid after qualifying the No. 02 SecurityNational Porsche third. He ran a clean and consistent pace among the 34-car combined class field.

As the race wound down into its final laps, Urry was poised for a sure podium finish as he ran comfortably in third and chased down the second place car of Alec Udell. An off by the racer leader late in the running saw Urry take over second place to claim his seventh runner-up result of the year.

“I’m quite pleased about the car that TruSpeed has put underneath me,” said Urry following Race 1. “The car is handling great and it was super consistent throughout the whole race. It was quite fast in qualifying we just didn’t hit our marks how we would have liked. I just put my head down and was catching the leaders. Just at the end, I ran out of time. Second is a great finish, but when you have the leader in your sights you’d really like to finish it off.”

Urry once again showed strong pace in Race 2 after starting from third on the grid. Running lap times equivalent to those of the leaders, the No. 02 SecurityNational Porsche ran in podium contention through the entire 50-minute race. As Urry closed the gap to the two GT Cup cars ahead of him in the final stages of the race, several GT class cars got together in front of Urry and he was forced to take avoidance which lost him time to the leaders.

Fortunately, Urry had built enough of a gap over fourth place that he still maintained third position at the checkered flag.

“Once again TruSpeed gave me a great car and we had pretty darn good pace,” said Urry. “We were fastest at some portions of the race and I was catching up to the leaders quite quickly toward the end there. I had a big gaggle of GT cars coming through that weren’t too kind and I had quite a few cars spin in front of me which was just kind of bad timing and I couldn’t do anything about it. I’m a little disappointed in the result compared to what we could have achieved today but I’m just happy to once again be on the podium for SecurityNational, TruSpeed, Alder and Tweed, Metro National Title and Engels & Volkers. It was a good weekend.”

Urry will close out the championship in two weeks’ time at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca for the final round of the Pirelli World Challenge championship September 11-13.

“It was great to be back at Sonoma, and Sloan (Urry) was on it once again this weekend in the SecurityNational Mortgage car,” said TruSpeed Autosport Team Owner Tyler Tadevic. “He was fighting for a win late in the first race and just ran out of laps. On Sunday he did a great job to not get taken out by some tough driving from the GT guys there at the end. Sloan showed some real race smarts behind the wheel to be able to bring it home on the podium again for us. Now we’ll all just look to close out the year with a big weekend at Laguna!”

The Sonoma Raceway events will be televised on CBS Sports Network on Sunday, September 6 at 2:00 PM ET.

SecurityNational Enjoys Big Weekend at Miller Motorsports Park

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SecurityNational Enjoys Big Weekend at Miller Motorsports Park

Tooele, Utah (24 August 2015) – Racing at Sloan Urry’s home track, SecurityNational Mortgage had a big weekend at Miller Motorsports Park with a significant marketing activation as well as strength on track. Contending the MOMO GT Cup class of Pirelli World Challenge competition, Urry scored a double podium finish with a run to third on Saturday and then returning to the podium again on Sunday with an encore third place result.

The strong finishes marked Urry’s ninth and 10th podium results of the year in his first season of Pirelli World Challenge MOMO GT Cup competition after showing himself as a race winner in IMSA last year.

The Pirelli World Challenge staged a double header at Miller over the weekend and after qualifying third on the grid for Race 1, Urry converted that into a run to third place with a quickest lap time of 1:55.596-seconds.

“It’s hard to be unhappy with a podium finish, and I think we put on a good show for the hometown crowd and all of our sponsors,” said Urry following Race 1. “The support I’ve had this weekend is unbeatable. SecurityNational Mortgage, Alder and Tweed, Metro National Title and so many others have really stepped up to come and bring a large contingent of guests and make it quite the event so hats off to them. I really appreciate everything they do for me and the team and hopefully tomorrow I can give them a little bit more of what we’re expecting.”

Once again racing in front of a packed house of SecurityNational Mortgage guests, Urry took to the challenging road course for Race 2 on Sunday. The race saw a standing start and though Urry didn’t get the best start off of the line, he made up for it with his experienced driving at the track to once again drive to a podium finish.

“The car was good – it was pretty similar to yesterday,” said Urry. “The TruSpeed guys put a good car under me. I didn’t get the start I wanted, I just bogged down the motor off the line. I had traffic I had to work through after that and it separated me a bit from the leaders. I was really hoping for a yellow to give me a shot to step a little higher on the podium but considering the start I got, I’m pleased to have finished on the podium. Hats off once again to SecurityNational Mortgage, Alder and Tweed, and Metro National Title for just showing me a great amount of support this weekend. I think everyone was very pleased this weekend.”

Urry and SecurityNational will be back in action when the Pirelli World Challenge stages the penultimate rounds of the 2015 championship at Sonoma Raceway next weekend.

Sloan Urry Delivers Another Podium Performance for SecurityNational at Mid-Ohio

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Sloan Urry Delivers Another Podium Performance for SecurityNational at Mid-Ohio

Lexington, Ohio (2 August 2015) – Sloan Urry earned his eighth podium result of the year at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course over the weekend as the Pirelli World Challenge staged Rounds 12 and 13 of the 2015 championship. Driving the No. 02 SecurityNational Porsche, Urry delivered a third place finish in Race 1 and followed that effort up with a fourth place result in Race 2 on Sunday.

The standing start for Race 1 was waved off and so the race went green with a single-file restart. Urry took advantage of some shuffling at the drop of the green and moved up from his third place starting spot. As the race settled into a rhythm, he ceded the second place position to his TruSpeed/Kelly Moss teammate Colin Thompson and ran third in line until the finish.

“It was a crazy start – Colin (Thompson) had an issue on the start and everybody spread out so I got a little caught off guard by that,” said Urry. “Brett (Sandberg, TruSpeed teammate) and I were just running nose to tail trying to catch the leaders. After the last restart, our tires were covered in a lot of debris / pick up and all of us were just fighting to stay on the track. We wanted to be pushing up further to the front, but you have to take the podium when you get it.”

Sunday’s race was more of an uphill battle for Urry, as he struggled a bit in the early running with the handling of his SecurityNational Porsche. He ran fifth for the majority of the race as he stayed right on the bumper of Lorenzo Trefethen who ran in fourth.

After a full course caution late in the race, the field was reordered and the first and second place GT Cup cars were put on the lead lap while the remaining GT Cup field was scored a lap down. At that point, the highest position Urry could finish was third and after fighting for fourth lap after lap, he finally got by Trefethen to take the position in the race’s final moments.

“The race didn’t go as planned,” said Urry. “At the start I had a little bit of front end issues with pushing outside the last two corners. Brett (Sandberg) got by me in Turn 1 and Lorenzo (Trefethen) in Turn 2. The rest of the race I was all over Lorenzo and he was chopping me all over. I was much quicker than he was, so I was a little frustrated with that. I ended up getting by him and finishing fourth which is a respectable finish, but not where I wanted to be today.”

Urry will next be in Pirelli World Challenge action at his home track of Miller Motorsports Park in Salt Lake City, Utah on August 21-23.

“All in all it was a good weekend and we’ll look forward to getting to the next event,” said TruSpeed Autosport Team Owner Tyler Tadevic. “We’ll take our fourth place points and go on home and get ready for Miller. I’m a little disappointed in the officiating with the race. After the restart they reordered the field and gave first and second an additional lap. So the best we could go for at that point was third. A big shout out to all of our guests at SecurityNational Mortgage who came out to Mid-Ohio this weekend. I really appreciate everyone coming out and supporting the team. We look forward to some more support from them at our next event in Salt Lake City.”

The Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course rounds will be televised on CBS Sports Network on Sunday, August 9 at 4:00 PM ET.

SecurityNational Mortgage Wins Best of State in Utah

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SecurityNational Mortgage Company Wins Best of State as the Top Mortgage Banker in Utah

SALT LAKE CITY, UT – SecurityNational Mortgage Company, a leading provider of home mortgages, announced that they received the Utah Best of State Award for 2015.

The Best of State program acknowledges excellence in a variety of industries including entertainment, education, retail, hospitality, technology and business services. The program recognizes outstanding individuals, businesses and organizations throughout the State of Utah. SecurityNational Mortgage Company received the award as the top Mortgage Banker in the business services category. http://www.bestofstate.org/winner2015_business.html

“This is great accomplishment by our loan officers, managers and staff,” said Paul Christensen, Senior Vice-President of SecurityNational Mortgage Company. “We are honored for the recognition, and this speaks to our commitment to provide exceptional service and loan products that homebuyers need. Thank you to all that were involved with the Utah Best of State program.”

The main areas of focus for judges of the Best of State program are: Quality of services, ability to differentiate themselves from the competition, and how they improve the surrounding community. SecurityNational Mortgage Company was recognized for its achievements in the mortgage industry and contribution to charitable organizations.

SecurityNational Mortgage Company had sales volume greater than $2 billion last year in an overall mortgage market that saw almost a 35% decrease from previous year sales. Overall, the company funded over 10,800 mortgages in 2014.

SecurityNational Mortgage Company focuses on improving the quality of life its employees and the communities that they serve. Employees and their families benefit from ongoing programs to help them become physically fit and financially secure. For the community, the company has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to local charities such as the Road Home, Utah Association for Intellectual Disabilities, Make-a-Wish Foundation, Choice Humanitarian, and other non-profit, school and sport programs.

About SecurityNational Mortgage Company:

Founded in 1993, SecurityNational Mortgage Company (SNMC) is one of the largest retail mortgage lenders in the United States and a subsidiary of the Security National Financial Corporation, (SNFCA – NASDAQ). With more than 120 offices and 800 loan officers, SNMC helps thousands of consumers achieve homeownership. The company is known for providing clients with the highest level of service, competitive rates and a full array of mortgage loan options. The company had sales volume greater than $2 billion in 2014, in an overall mortgage market that experienced almost a 35% decrease from previous year sales. The company funded over 10,800 mortgages in 2014.

SecurityNational Mortgage Company is ranked as a ‘Top 50 Mortgage Lender’ by Scotsman Guide and Mortgage Executive Magazine, their parent company, SNFC, boasts the ‘CEO of the Year’ for 2014, Scott Quist, and has earned ‘Best of State’ in Utah for Mortgage Banking. SNMC and its employees donate time and efforts to many charitable organizations across the country. For more information, visit www.SNMC.com or call 801.590.2277.