Lux Ready to Make SCCA History

  

ALOHA, Ore., September 8, 2004 - Aloha, Oregon's Cindi Lux has made
history several times in her racing career. She was the inaugural
champion of the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) Women's Global GT Series
in 1999 and competed as part of the first all-female ALMS driver squad
at Petit Le Mans the same year. On her way to becoming one of the most
dominate women in sports car racing history, Lux has earned ten
championships, 70 victories, 138 podium finishes and has captured 41
career pole positions. 

 

Now, the 2003 Oregon SCCA National Driver of the Year will again have a
shot at history as the first woman to win the Sports Car Club of
America's prestigious Triple Crown. The Triple Crown awards a driver who
wins the three major SCCA events of the season: the June Sprints at Road
America, a Divisional Championship and the SCCA National Championship
Runoffs. With two of the three titles sewn-up, Lux will roll her red
Corvette Z06 into Lexington's Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course for the 2004
Runoffs to try and make history with a win in one of the world's most
difficult motorsports challenges. Besides her driving duties, Lux will
write daily updates that will be available at
<http://www.cindilux.com/> www.cindilux.com to give readers an inside
view at this grueling and historic event.

 

Lux, whose car is prepared by her husband Fred, checked off the June
Sprints title at Road America becoming only the second woman in the 49
year history of the event to win a class. In total, she drove the No. 78
KUMHO Tire/ Suburban Chevrolet/ Redline Oil/ Kodiak Racing Wheels/ CORSA
Exhaust Corvette Z06 to four wins, six second places and three track
records in 11 races. In the process she checked-off another jewel of the
Triple Crown by winning her second-straight SCCA NorPac Divisional T1
class title. 

 

The T1 class is for modified high performance street machines and is
stacked with some of the biggest names in SCCA racing including Lux's
teammate Scotty B. White. With the best T1 class drivers in the country
coming to the Runoffs, Lux will face the biggest challenge of the year
if she is to make history. Adding to the race's difficultly is its
individual importance. A win would make Lux not only the Triple Crown
victor but T1 Class National Champion. The Runoffs, a no-holds barred
battle from green flag to checker, is the sole factor in determining the
2004 SCCA T1 National Champion, past performances have no impact. The T1
race is scheduled to be held on Mid-Ohio's 2.258-mile, 13-turn road
course at 3:20 pm, Friday, September 24. 

 

Cindi Lux: "I don't think a lot about the magnitude of the races I'm in
or the importance they might have in the record book. I'll worry about
that when I'm old and Fred and I are looking at the scrapbook trying to
figure out who those people are. I attack each race the same. get to
that waving checkered flag first. I try to keep things simple. I don't
do it for my gender; I just do it for because of the incredible
challenge it gives me behind the wheel. If that can inspire another
woman, then great. But, that isn't why I do it. This is an important
race for us, for KUMHO, for Suburban Chevrolet, CORSA and NayKid Racing.
We are all out to win. When the dust settles, if I've won, I'll sit down
with a glass of wine and celebrate. After that it'll be back to work
because '05 is right around the corner."

 

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