Local Cindi Lux Overcomes All Obstacles to Earn 11th Motorsports Title

ALOHA, Ore., September 6, 2005 � Considered one of the finest drivers to ever come out of the Northwest, Aloha, Oregon's Cindi Lux captured the 11th road racing championship of her career this month. To say that the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) Northern Pacific (NorPac) Division T1 class title, her third consecutive, was hard-earned would be an understatement. Overcoming the development required for a new car and a nearly devastating accident at one of the major races of the season, Lux showcased why she is a champion. Now, on the threshold of the National Championship event, Lux is poised to enter the record book one more time before turning the page from 2005, to 2006.Many considered the �05 season a “lame duck” year for Lux. She switched from the tried-and-true Chevrolet Corvette she has used to dominate west coast T1 competition, to an untested Dodge Viper SRT10. Most, including Lux, considered this a development season with an eye set on 2006 as the time for the V10-powered machines to come to life. Despite early season teething issues, Lux, in close cooperation with Dodge Motorsports, Dodge's SRT Division, Mopar Performance Parts and longtime technical partner KUMHO Tires, worked to bring her Viper to the front of the grid. It would pay off as each race the combination of Lux and the American Supercar meshed better than the one before it.“I had to dig pretty darn deep to pull this off,” remarked Lux from her Aloha home. “There have been so many factors this year our team had to face. Most of them I have never experienced! Just when you think you have this game figured out, �wham', something new comes up. This championship is pretty cool since Dodge has not won a title with this particular Viper SRT.”Lux's season would face its second major challenge at one of the premier events of the season, the 51st Annual June Sprints at Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin's Road America on June 26th. As defending champion, and on a track that favored the Viper, Lux looked ready to move her year into high gear. However, the opening lap would change all of that. Moments after taking the green flag, a competitor would lose control of his car, leave the track and re-enter the racing surface at the precise moment Lux's silver and red machine passed by. Lux then slammed into a concrete retaining wall followed by a head-on strike into a tire wall. The incident would leave her with some of the worst injuries of her career including several cracked ribs. It would also force her to sit out several scheduled events. For nearly any other driver, their season would have come to an abrupt end, for Lux, it was just another hurdle to overcome.Despite the setback in Wisconsin, the easygoing but extremely focused, Lux rallied. She would earned two victories, five second-place finishes, two pole positions and one track record in the No. 78 Viper SRT10's debut season in T1. Currently on an upswing in momentum after capturing her title, Lux heads to the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course for the winner-take-all SCCA National Championship Runoffs Presented by Kohler� on September 23rd. “Switching over from Corvettes was a huge undertaking for our program,” reflected Lux on the major car change. “Dodge has been an incredible manufacturer to work with this year. It wouldn't surprise me if Fred [Lux, crew chief and Cindi's husband] started building a lot of customer race cars over the winter at our shop. For me, and for the team, I think we have stepped-up to the plate exceptionally well. Our momentum has finally started to come on strong at the end of the year so 2006 will hopefully be much less painful in all areas! Getting banged-up this year was pretty challenging as well.” The 2005 NorPac trophy will sit beside several other impressive accolades taken by this native of the Northwest. Included are eight championships ranging from SCCA titles to one of the most prestigious and unique championships available in motorsports at the time� the American Le Mans Series-sanctioned Women's Global GT Series title. That 1999 award was a first for motorsports when Lux bettered over 100 other female drivers that set out for the championship that inaugural season. For more on Lux Performance Group, LLC please see www.CindiLux.com. To learn more about NayKid Racing, please visit www.NayKidRacing.com. ###