NayKid Racing In for the Fight Despite Dodge Viper SRT10 Late Season Weight Penalty - Lux and White to Topeka for Pre-Runoffs Prep Race

TOPEKA, Kan., August 28, 2006 � NayKid Racing comes to Heartland Park Topeka (HPT) on September 1-3 for the final event warm-up for the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) National Championship Runoffs. The Runoffs, scheduled for October 5-15, will be held here at Heartland Park for the first time in SCCA history following several seasons at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Oh. The KVRG SCCA National will provide Cindi Lux (Aloha, Ore.) and Scotty B. White (Puyallup, Wash.) the opportunity to learn and fine-tune their Dodge Motorsports/SRT Dodge Viper SRT10s for the 2.5-mile Grand Prix layout of HPT. The event will hold particular importance for the team as they fight to overcome the SCCA's latest “performance adjustment” to the Dodge Viper SRT10. The multi-time Divisional Champions in the SCCA's top touring class, Touring One (T1), learned on August 21, less than 40 days before the Runoffs, that the SCCA released a rules change directive adding additional weight to America's premier Supercar. The late-season surprise places NayKid Racing in a very difficult position to compete with the Chevrolet Corvettes. The long-time rival enjoys a larger number of entries, including several with strong factory ties, and no competitive penalties on the National level.Effective September 1, T1 class Viper SRT10s must increase their weight by 140 pounds, the only car in the class required to do so. NayKid is required to locate the additional weight in the coupe's passenger-side footwell. That brings the total poundage for the few DaimlerChrysler products up significantly from their 2005 Runoffs fighting weight. NayKid took second (White) and fourth (Lux) at the Runoffs last year with White also earning the pole position with a new track record. The most recent penalty comes in addition to a previous weight addition and an intake restrictor. The penalties have been a constant challenge for NayKid Racing and Dodge Motorsports engineers. However, as they have done throughout the season, the group is committed to give it their all against the overwhelming legislative obstacles. Thus far in 2006, NayKid Racing has won 11 of 13 races, earned 12 pole positions and eight track records. Lux also captured her fourth-straight Northern Pacific (NorPac) Division T1 Class Championship and second June Sprints � title.This will be the second time the NayKid Racing Viper SRT10s have come to Topeka this season. However, it is the first time they will compete here. Previously, Lux and White brought their black and orange Viper Coupes to HPT for the SRT Nationals. While they made laps for the throng of SRT fans providing rides in the race-ready Viper SRT10s and instruction to other SRT owners, those laps were not enough, or at full speed, to come to terms with the Midwestern facility. Therefore, laps this weekend are at a premium for the Northwest-based team as they fight to earn the first T1 class Runoff's title for NayKid Racing and Dodge.Cindi Lux: “Getting a race under our belts at this track will be important. It will give us a chance to run the Vipers in the new trim and then evaluate the data for future improvements. I'm not going to kid anybody; these late penalties will be a challenge. But, like everything else this team does, we will attack it and go for broke. There is another domestic manufacturer in this class who really doesn't want their plastic hotrod to be beat by the Viper and they are pulling out all the stops this year. This [penalty] gets us even more fired up than ever! Having the support from the Dodge Motorsports Engineering department and the SRT group has been the backbone of our success. These guys have worked so incredibly hard with our team to fine-tune our cars. The results have shown their dedication. We just want to bring home the gold more than ever.”Scotty B. White: “Boy, oh boy. We have a daunting task ahead of us next month. This short, transition-intensive track really favored a lighter, more stiffly sprung car like the Ferrari 360C and the Corvette over our SRT10 Viper even when we were at 3560 pounds. But, somehow, the sanctioning body became convinced our SRTs needed an additional 140 pounds! I just don't know. At 3700 pounds it will be very difficult to keep pace with the Ferrari and Corvette; who both enjoy an 875 pound and a 420 pound advantage over us respectively. I know from our testing we will have a few tricks up our sleeve and we'll just have to see how it pans out. But honestly, I am less optimistic than I was last year at this time due to this late season 140 pound bombshell dropped on us!”For more on NayKid Racing please see www.NayKidRacing.comInformation on Cindi Lux is at www.CindiLux.com