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Hill and Shelby to Receive Eagle One-Shav Glick Award

                  Phil Hill And Carroll Shelby Selected Co-Recipients 
                          Of The Eagle One-Shav Glick Award
    Los Angeles, CA, January 3, 2006 -- Motor racing icons 
    Phil Hill and Carroll Shelby have been selected co-recipients
    of the seventh annual Eagle One-Shav Glick Award, based
    on voting by a panel of national and California motorsports
    writers.

    Presented by car-care products company Eagle One in honor
    of the long-time motorsports writer for the Los Angeles Times,
    the award will be presented to Hill and Shelby during pre-race
    ceremonies at the NASCAR Auto Club 500, February 26, at
    California Speedway.

    Hill, in 1961, became the first American to win a Formula One
    world championship.  He also won the 24 Hours of LeMans three
    times, the 12 Hours of Sebring three times and numerous other
    national and international racing events.

    Shelby, who was inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame in
    1992, has gained fame as a driver, designer/builder and team manager.  
    In 1959 he won the24 Hours of LeMans and also set land speed 
    records at the Bonneville Salt Flats.  After health problems caused
    his retirement as a driver in 1960, the Cobra sports car he designed
    and built became the first American-conceived car to win the World
    Manufacturers Grand Touring Championship in 1965. As a team 
    manager he helped Ford GT win the World Grand Touring title.

    Said Glick of both icons, "Hill and Shelby are both products of that
    era in the 1950s and 60s that has become known as the glory years
    of sports car racing, a time when ingenuity and industry were rewarded
    in the racing fraternity.  Both were winners and both carried the 
    California trademark with great success on the world racing scene."

    Previous winners were Dan Gurney, Wally Parks, Parnelli Jones, 
    Rick Mears, Les Richter and J.C. Agajanian.