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10-22-2000

Horstman Manufacturing For Sale

San Diego, California - Horstman Manufacturing Company, a leading U.S. manufacturer and developer of high performance components for the professional kart racing industry is for sale according to Dwight Jones of VR Business Brokers, San Diego, California. The company, which was established over 37 years ago by Californian Gilbert (Gil) Horstman, was sold in 1985 to the current, but absentee owner. Horstman Manufacturing is currently located in Vista, California and is situated in a 14,800 square foot building which is available, but not part of the business sale. Horstman Manufacturing produces and markets clutches, 4-cycle parts, wheel components and is the exclusive distributor of an Italian-built engine and apparel line. For more information contact Mr. Jones @ VR Business Brokers at 858-558-6700 or e-mail to: broker246@aol.com. Horstman Manufacturing can be reached at 760-589-2100 or by e-mail: info@horstmanclutches.com.

Justus Wins Test With Lynx Racing

Southern California - Former kart racer Aaron Justus, the 27-year old phenom from Crestline, California who dominated this years fiercely competitive US F2000 championship with 8 pole positions and five victories will claim his prize of a test with Lynx Racing’s championship-winning CART Toyota Atlantic team on Wednesday, October 28th at Buttonwillow Raceway near Bakersfield, California.

Justus will test the same Swift 008.a raced this season by Lynx driver David Rutledge to three podium finishes and a win from the pole at Montreal. Rutledge will baseline the car on Tuesday, October 24th, after which the team will do a seat fitting for Justus. The test will consist of 150 miles around the “East Loop” of Buttonwillow, which includes slow, medium and high speed corners.

“Some of Lynx Racing’s most successful graduates including (kart racing greats) Memo Gidley, Alex Barron and Buddy Rice, have come up through the F2000 ranks so we’re excited to have Aaron in our Atlantic car and get a true feel for his abilities”, says Lynx Racing team manager Steve Cameron. “The testing protocol we’ll put him through is the same one David Rutledge went through to become the most recent Lynx driver. We’ll give him time to get used to the car, then start having him interact with our engineering personnel to evaluate his feedback. Once he’s comfortable, we’ll work with him on tuning the car to get more speed out of it. The final run will be a longer one to evaluate both his consistency and speed. When it’s all over, we hope to reaffirm exactly how good he really is, and he’ll know exactly what it takes to drive an Atlantic car at the championship level.”

Justus won the US F2000 championships driving for Florida-based Cape Motorsports. During his exceptional season, Justus won both the series championship and the “Road To Indy Oval Crown Championship” comprised of the season’s three oval track events - where his record was nearly perfect. He captured all three poles with new lap records, set new fastest race laps at two races, led all but two of the 150 race laps and won all three races. In doing so, Justus became only the second driver to sweep a United States Auto Club (USAC) sanctioned series, the other being Jeff Andretti, son of legendary Mario Andretti.

In the National Championship, Justus was the man to beat at each round and during the thirteen-race season, Justus never relinquished the points lead, led the most laps, captured a series-high eight poles and won five races. The eight poles tied the single-season record and gave Justus twelve for his career, tying the all-time record and making him the first American-born driver to win the US F2000 National Championship since 1996.

“To have the kind of season I had with Cape Motorsports and then follow it up with a test for Lynx Racing is a driver’s dream come true,” says Justus. “I had a lot of struggles and paid a lot of dues on the way up the ladder, but I seem to have built up some career momentum now and with the help of a lot of people, I’m working to take the next step up in 2001.” Justus continued, “ My goal since day one was to be a driver in the CART FedEx series, and it seems to be moving within reach. I’d like to thank all the people at Cape Racing, the US F2000 series, the CART Toyota Atlantic Series, Lynx Racing and especially Jerry Forsythe."

Justus has a multi-year contract with CART FedEx team owner Jerry Forsythe and Forsythe Racing, and has his sights set on becoming a driver in the CART series. Their relationship began in 1999, when Forsythe supported Justus in 9 of the 14 events on the US F2000 schedule. Justus responded with two wins and 4 poles.

Justus began his racing career in karts in 1981 at the age of 7 in Houston, Texas. After winning National titles in 1985, 1986, 1988 and 1992, he began the transition to cars in 1995 by entering the Russell Racing Championship at the Leguna Seca Raceway in Northern California where he set the track record, won 8 of 16 races, and finished on the podium 14 times on his way to winning the championship.

In 1996, Aaron was selected by the Team Kool/Green Academy as one of the top 25 most promising young drivers in the sport. In 1999, his contract with Forsythe enabled him to race in 9 of 14 US F2000 events, winning at Lowe’s Motors Speedway and Road Atlanta, finishing on the podium at Mosport, Canada and qualifying on the pole four times. His 1999 season also included becoming a finalist in the Valvoline Team USA runoffs.

2000 marks the 10th anniversary of Lynx Racing, one of the most unique organizations in auto racing today. Created and owned by two women, Peggy Haas and Jackie Doty, Lynx is both a championship racing team and a uniquely successful driver development program that focuses on a driver’s spiritual and psychological growth in addition to their on-track skills.

For more information on Lynx Racing call the Lynx Racing P/R manager Peter Frey at 818-906-6997 or on the web at: www.lynxracing.com.

California Air Resource Board To Meet

Sacramento, California - George Lew, Chief of the Engineering and Certification Branch of The California Air Resource Board (CARB) has scheduled a workshop for November 9, 2000 to discuss developing a control measure to reduce evaporative and permeation emission from off-road equipment fuel tanks. CARB is limiting the control measure to fuel tanks of small off-road equipment subject to the requirement of Section 2400 et. Seq. Title 13, California Code of Regulations. Specifically, this applies to gasoline-powered engines that are less than 25 HP. The workshop will be held on November 9, 2000 from 9 AM to 12 PM at the Air Resources Board, Lower Level Conference Room, 2020 L Street, Sacramento, California USA. For more information contact Elizabeth Mongar at 916-327-0900.

Kart Racer Magazine Discontinued

Canoga Park, California - “Kart Racer” magazine, the BI-monthly newsstand karting publication has suspended publication according to Associate Publisher Flint Burkkart in a telephone interview. Burkkart said that Challenge Publications, the owner of “Kart Racer” magazine decided to discontinue publication following the March/April edition. He personally did not feel that they would resume publication as Challenge management felt the compatibility with their other publications was lacking. “Kart Racer” had been published since 1997.

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