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Cindi Lux Becomes
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Lux Debuting at Long
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Cindi Races to Top
Five Finish at Runoffs
Cindi Lux takes podium
finish in Rose Cup Race
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Profile
Residence: Aloha, Ore.
Helmet: White, Orange, and Blue
Husband: Fred
Profession: Race Team Owner / Driver
Highlights
Has won twelve road racing championships
Has earned more than 75 victories
Has over 150 podium finishes
Has nearly 50 pole positions
Mopar factory driver supported driver (2008)
Dodge Motorsports factory supported team driver
(2005-2007)
Four-Time SCCA NorPac T1 Class Champion
(2003-2006)
Presented with the Pro-Driver SCCA
Driver-of-the-Year Award in 1999, 2008
1999 American Le Mans Series Women’s Global GT
Series Champion
SCCA World Challenge GT Driver (2007, 2008)
2-time Piloti Rookie of the Race Winner
2003 Oregon SCCA National Driver of the Year
Only the Second woman in history to win the June
Sprints (2004, 2005)
Northwest Pat Piggot Memorial Award in 1992 for the
most outstanding driver
Debut driver of the Dodge Viper Competition Coupe
in the ALMS GT2 class
Lead Instructor at the Miller Motorsports Park
Driving School.
Toyota Long Beach Pro/Celebrity Race Driving
Instructor
BMW Performance Center & South American
Programs
Dodge Viper Development Driver (Street and
Motorsports)
Results
1999
ALMS- Inaugural Women’s Global GT Series
Champion; 2 pole positions;
ALMS - Drove for G&W Motorsports 911 RSR at
Petit Le Mans
2000
ALMS - Top-five finish at Petit Le Mans in a
Porsche GT3 RS, G&W Motorsports
ALMS - 3 podium finishes in the Women’s Global
GT Series - 1 pole, fastest lap (Infineon
Raceway)
2001
Drove a Ferrari 348 in Tribute to Le Mans
2002
SCCA - Four pole positions, six wins and one track
record driving a BMW
2nd place in GTS at the Portland Champ Car support
race, Portland, Ore.
2003
SCCA T1 - NorPac Divisional Champion (3 wins, 6
Second-place finishes; 2 race records, 1 pole)
SCCA T1 - Top 5 finish at SCCA Valvoline Runoffs in
T1
SCCA - Oregon SCCA National Driver of the Year
Award
2004
SCCA T1 - NorPac Divisional Champion (4 wins, 6
second place finishes; 3 track records, 1 pole)
SCCA T1 - Winner June Sprints at Road America
2005
SCCA T1 - NorPac Divisional Champion (2 wins, 5
second place finishes; 1 track record, 3 poles)
SCCA T1 - Top-Five at SCCA National Runoffs
2006
SCCA T1 - NorPac Divisional Champion (6 wins, 4
second place finishes; 4 track record, 7 poles)
SCCA T1 – Winner June Sprints at Road
America,
Second-place at SCCA National Runoffs
2007
SCCA World Challenge GT - 2 Piloti Rookie of
the Race: Miller Motorsports Park, Laguna Seca
SCCA World Challenge GT – Best Finish: 11th
(Mosport, Laguna Seca),
Best Start: 10th, Road Atl.
ALMS- First Driver to compete with a Dodge Viper
Competition Coupe in GT2
2008
SCCA World Challenge GT – 8 Races, 5 Top
10 finishes, 14th in season points
SCCA World Challenge GT – Career-High Start:
3rd and Finish: 5th (Miller Motorsports Park)
SCCA World Challenge GT - Racing Electronics
Holeshot Award,
Sunoco Hard Charger Award (Detroit)
Team Mopar Driver
2009
Dodge Viper Factory Development Driver
Miller Motorsports Park Lead Driving Instructor
Lux Debuting at Long
Beach
Lux will be making her debut in the SPEED World
Challenge GT class this year. While other female
drivers have competed in the Series, none enters it
with the background of Lux. She has won eleven road
racing championships, earned more than 75
victories, over 150 podium finishes and nearly 50
pole positions. Among her highlights is the 1999
American Le Mans Series Women’s Global GT
Championship, two SCCA June Sprints
(’04,’06) titles in T1, four Northern
Pacific Divisional T1 class championships in four
attempts and the 2003 Oregon SCCA National Driver
of the Year Award. She will pilot the No. 2 Mintex
Brakes/Red Line Oil Dodge Viper Comp Coupe
News
Cindi Lux Becomes a Slacker in
2012
In the world of auto racing, Cindi Lux has always
been known as aggressive and cutting-edge on and
off the race track. In 2012, she will become a
"Slacker". The Aloha, Ore.-resident will team with
Slacker, Incorporated and the lifestyle branding
and services provider just might give her a run for
her money when it comes to innovation. The 12-time
road racing champion has signed a two-year personal
services agreement with the Akron, Ohio-based
Slacker, Inc. (www.SlackerInc.com) that will see
one of the world's leading female race car drivers
promote a full line of Slacker, Inc. products and
services in auto racing.
Slacker's core business of motorsports products
and services for teams and corporate partners
offers not only a unique line of retail motorsport
items but business-to-business opportunities as
well.
Slacker Incorporated will work with Lux to
develop original and social media concepts the
Inaugural ALMS Women's Global GT Series Champion
has created but not had the tools to implement
until now. In kind, Slacker, Inc. will use the
partnership to further develop its internal assets
in these creative areas.
Lux, the Oregon Motorsports Museum Association's
2011 Lifetime Achievement Award-winner, will
utilize and promote Slacker products and services
for the 2012 and 2013 race seasons. All team
clothing and accessories will come from Slacker's
extensive product line while the company will also
provide additional marketing and branding services
to the winner of 75-career races. Lux is currently
finalizing her plans for the 2012 race season as a
driver in addition to the plans for Lux Performance
Group, LLC. - a full-service race and development
team she owns with husband Fred Lux.
Cindi Lux takes podium
finish in Rose Cup Race
Aloha's Cindi Lux added yet another accolade to her
already stellar motorsports resume on Sunday. The
12-time, road racing champion earned her first
career podium with a third-place finish in the 51st
Annual Rose Cup Race at Portland International
Raceway (PIR). In the process of setting her
personal-best in the Rose Cup, Lux, driving the No.
4 Black Rock Coffee Bar-Lux Performance Dodge Viper
Competition Coupe, also made event history. The
daughter of the inaugural winner of the race, Dick
Hahn, became the first woman in the 51-year history
of the Rose Cup to finish on the podium.
Lux, who had previously won her class at Rose
Cup support races but never finished better than
fourth in the main event, drove a spectacular race
to overcome a substantial horsepower disadvantage.
Starting fifth against the unrestricted, high-power
competition, the 2003 Oregon SCCA National Driver
of the Year never placed a wheel wrong during the
45-minute race. She fought her way into third-place
before lap 20 when the first, full-course caution
bunched the field. With such a massive power
disparity, the Viper fell to fourth nearing the
restart. However, the pass came while still under
caution and race officials swapped the order. With
the precise setup placed under her by husband/crew
chief Fred Lux, the former Dodge and Mopar factory
driver was able to hold-off the subsequent,
unassisted assault. Lux kept third until the
checkered flag fell.
Cindi Lux became the first woman in Rose Cup
history to earn a podium.
Despite always downplaying her place in the
progress and success of women in motorsports, the
75-time race winner is credited with several major
milestones for females race drivers. Lux bettered
over 150 other drivers to win the inaugural
American Le Mans Series' Women's Global GT Series
championship in 1999. She was named the 1999
Pro-Driver SCCA Driver-of-the-Year and was
presented the Northwest Pat Piggot Memorial Award
for the most outstanding driver in 1992. She also
became only the second woman in history to win the
prestigious SCCA June Sprints in 2004 and repeated
the feat in 2006.
The Rose Cup weekend at PIR, which supports the
annual Rose Festival, was the debut of Black Rock
Coffee Bar into the world of motorsports marketing.
By all accounts, the relationship with Lux
Performance Group was a resounding success for all
concerned. Black Rock Coffee Bar, a Portland-area
franchise which features premium-blend coffees sold
via an easy drive-thru format, embraced the event
using its social media platform, eight-area
locations and a concentrated on-site program to
maximize its partnership with Lux. The tie-in
helped bring guests to Black Rock locations across
Oregon, Washington and California as well as
introduced the product to hundreds of track workers
and spectators at PIR.
In addition to the Dodge Viper entered for Cindi
Lux, Lux Performance Group also prepared and
managed the Pirelli Cup entry for driver Steve
Streimer. Streimer scored his personal career best
in the one-make Porsche 911 GT3 Cup series race
finishing second. The success of the weekend was
not only a testimony to the driver's efforts, but
to Lux Performance Group's preparation of the
German car and the coaching ability of Cindi Lux
who has been instructing Streimer for four
years.
"I don't think I could have driven my Black Rock
Coffee Bar Viper Comp. Coupe any harder in this
race! I asked 110% of out of the race car for 45
minutes and she held up like a champ. I cannot
speak enough about the quality prep that comes from
our guys on the Lux Performance team. They gave me
the best race car I have driven in a long time; it
was on rails. Finishing third is respectable but
only gets me fired-up to climb the final two steps
in future years. I am never satisfied and always
pushing myself to do better. That is especially
true here, in front of my hometown crowd! Having
Black Rock Coffee Bar on board this weekend was
pretty cool. It kept me personally 'fueled' up and
ready to attack. Overall a great weekend."
About racing her home track: "Racing in my
hometown is always significant to me and I really
try to juggle my crazy schedule to allow me a few
days off to race the Rose Cup each year. I'm really
looking forward to seeing all the Portland fans at
the track. I have gotten to know so many of the
fans over the years of coming here it's like coming
to a family reunion. This race carries so much
personal importance to me. I want to go out there
and do my best for my family, for Black Rock and
for the city! This is going to be like a giant shot
of Black Rock espresso!"
Cindi Races to Top Five
Finish at Runoffs
Lexington, Ohio, September 24, 2005 - In one of the
most exciting Sports Car Club of America (SCCA)
Touring One (T1) class events in recent memory,
NayKid Racing placed its two KUMHO Tires /
Woodhouse Auto Family Dodge Viper SRT10s in the
top-five at the SCCA National Championship Runoffs
Presented by Kohler (c).
Snippets
Local Cindi Lux becomes the first woman to podium
at Rose Festival Main Race
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Cindi placed 10th of 26 cars on the grid for
SCCA Pro Racing SPEED World Challenge GT Round Nine
race, part of the 10th Anniversary Petit Le Mans
Atlanta at Road Atlanta. She finished 13th.
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Cindi will be driving her Dodge Viper at the
Grand Prix of Mosport August 25 in the
SCCA Speed GT Championship race. She is
grided 19th of 23 cars and finished 11th.
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Cindi drove her Dodge Viper to 16th of 21 cars
at the Grand Prix of Toronto July 8th for round 6
of the SCCA Speed GT Championship race.
SCCA SPEED GT cars next head to Mid-Ohio Sports Car
Course in Lexington, Ohio for the Acura Sports Car
Challenge, July 21-22.
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Portland International: 6/7/07 - In 1961 the
first Rose Cup was won by Jerry Grant, driving a
Ferrari Testa Rossa owned by Dick Hahn. This year,
Hahn’s daughter Cindi Lux brought her SCCA
SPEED World Challenge GT Dodge Viper to try for the
win.
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The Dodge Vipers of NayKid Racing make the jump
from SCCA Club Racing to SPEED GT at Long Beach
this weekend (April 15) with newcomer Cindi Lux of
Aloha, OR. She was gridded 22nd of 32 cars and
worked her way up to finish17th.
The next weekend she finished 16th at Long Beach.
And she took 13th at Tooele, Utah.
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Cindi joins the SPEED World Challenge
series for 2007. The team won't be ready for
Sebring but to debut their Dodge Vipers in the
internationally renowned Grand Prix of Long Beach
on April 15.
* * *
Luz appears in 18 month Women in the Winner's
Circle 2007 calendar along with 17 other women
throughout the motorsports field.
Racing Summary
Eleven Road Racing Championships: 72 first place
finishes, 44 second place finishes, 29 third place
finishes, 43 pole positions
2004 - Winner of the SCCA June Sprints
2002 - 2nd place finish in GT in the Sports Car
Invitational Race during the CART weekend in
Portland
2001 - Drove a Ferrari in the Tribute to Le Mans
at Willow Springs, California
2000 - 5th place finish in Petit Le Mans Race in
a Porsche GT3R for G&W Motorsports
2000 - 3 podium finishes in the Women’s
Global GT Series in American Le Mans Series.
Including pole position, fastest lap and race win
at Sears Point
1999 - Women's Global GT Driver's Champion in
the American Le Mans Series 5 out of 6 podium
finishes
Driver of G&W Motorsports 911 RSR in the
1999 Petit Le Mans Race resulting in a top 5
finish
Oval Track: 3 poles, 1 track record in a Legend
Car. NASCAR Late Model Stockcars
Track Records: Las Vegas, Laguna Seca,
Buttonwillow Raceway, Portland, Thunderhill, Road
Atlanta and Arizona Motorsports Park
Factory Driver for Team Mitsubishi
1990 to 1993 - 2 time winner of Nelson Ledges
24-hour Endurance Race
Instructor
Chief Instructor Campbell Productions
Autosports: Corporate Motorsports Training Programs
and Endurance Go-Kart Racing
Porsche Driving Experience: Barber Motorsports
Park, Alabama
Panoz Racing School: Texas Motor Speedway and Road
Atlanta
Fast Lane Racing School: Willow Springs
Racetrack
BMW Performance Center: Spartanburg, South
Carolina
BMW South American Programs
Toyota Long Beach Pro/Celebrity Race
ProDrive Racing School: Portland International
Raceway
SCCA and ICSCC drivers schools
High Performance / Precision Driver
Precision driving, industry training films
Guest expert appearance on television and radio
shows; "Pep Talk", "Northwest Car Care Show", "The
Auto Doctor" and "AM Los Angeles"
Member of National Women's Car Care Council;
conduct lectures to various groups on Automotive
safety and vehicle maintenance
Source: 18705 SW Alderwood
Drive, Aloha, Oregon 97006
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