MagnaFlow Vintage 2.5 Challenge

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June 19, 2001

Classic Datsun Motorsports Joins Growing List of Co-Sponsors for

MagnaFlow Vintage 2.5 Challenge Series

The Vintage Sedan Racers Group (VSRG) announced today that Classic Datsun Motorsports (classicdatsun.com ), of Vista, CA., have signed on as co-sponsors and agreed to provide gift certificates to be awarded to the top finishing Datsun at each of the remaining 2001 Vintage 2.5 Challenge races. Classic Datsun Motorsports was one of the original two restoration facilities for Nissan USA’s “Z Store” 240Z restoration project. CDM has restored dozens of classic Datsuns, including two school car replicas for Bob Bondurant. One, based on the former Ontario Motor Speedway 240Z pace car which Bob bought from OMS in ’74 and converted for school use, and the other built to the specification of one of Bob’s ’68 Datsun 2000 Roadsters. Both of these cars are part of Bondurant’s personal collection and are currently on display at Bondurant’s school in Phoenix, AZ. In addition to their financial support for the series, CDM has also made their vast library of Datsun historical documents available to the VSRG Board.

Jim McAdory, a spokesman for VSRG (www.bsedan.com) said, "we are quite pleased to have a company with this sort of experience, background, and contacts on board as a co-sponsor for our new series. Up to now we have not had a prize to offer the top placing Datsun, we are very happy CDM is helping to rectify that. We are also very pleased to have access to their library, including many of the private files of Pete Brock and Bob Sharp." Les Cannaday of Classic Datsun Motorsports stated, "CDM is honored to be able to help out with this exciting new vintage race series, and we look forward to many successful seasons of great racing."

Classic Datsun Motorsports joins the other California based co-sponsors of Magnaflow Performance Exhaust, Dave Bean Engineering; Alfa Parts of Berkeley, Brecht BMW of Escondido, JAE Parts of Goleta, Sparco USA, HSR-West and BSedan.Com, in support of the MagnaFlow Vintage 2.5 Challenge

Freelance Writer Marc Sayer Joins the VSRG Team

VSRG is pleased to announce that freelance writer Marc Sayer has joined VSRG and has offered his services to the organization as Public Relations Liaison. Marc’s duties will include writing the race reports and press releases, as well as handling public relations. Marc has written for such publications as MG Magazine, where he had a very popular regular column called Performance Tech, as well as Grassroots Motorsports, Ragtops & Roadsters, and Z Car Magazine.

Marc’s writing has focused primarily on technical issues, especially those related to high performance and racing. With a background in the performance parts business and experience designing performance parts, Marc has a solid technical background and has been involved in motorsports for over 20 years. Having gotten his start with Volkswagens, Marc then moved on to British sports cars, and finally Datsuns. This has given Marc a broad perspective and an affinity for motorsports in general. Marc reports he is in the process of building his own 2.5 Challenge car, a 1971 Datsun 510, which he hopes to have ready for next season. But until then, he says he wants to “help develop the 2.5 Challenge series anyway I can.”

Marc had this to say about the 2.5 Challenge, “I think this is going to become one of the best racing series in the US. I don’t mean just Vintage, I mean one of the best, period. I think VSRG has rediscovered the formula for great racing, both for the spectators and the drivers. It has all the things going for it that drew us to racing back in the heydays of the ‘60s and ‘70s. I see great things in the future for VSRG and the 2.5 Challenge. The sponsor support VSRG has been able to get in just the first year, has to tell you that people are seeing this as a serious racing series. It incorporates all the best of modern club racing and classic Vintage racing, how can it loose?”