WITH WIN AT JERSEY, HUBINETTE RETAKES POINTS LEAD ENTERING FINAL EVENT

NEWS RELEASE
September 11, 2006

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

TEAM MOPAR CONTACT:
Darren Jacobs
J.R. Thompson Company
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CENTER LINE, Mich. — After leading the Formula D Drift points race for the entire year, Team Mopar’s Samuel Hubinette fell to second following the Round 5 event at Seattle. The heat was on and it was crunch time entering Round 6 at New Jersey’s Wall Township Speedway. Hubinette knew it was do or die. The “Crazy Swede” had to deliver.

And deliver he did, piloting his NuFormz Racing Mopar Dodge Viper SRT10 to his third win of the season on Saturday, taking a 36-point lead over Rhys Millen entering the last event, scheduled for October 14 at Irwindale Speedway in California. If Hubinette, the inaugural 2004 Formula D champ, emerges on top after Irwindale, he will have earned his second championship in the first three years of the series.

Hubinette had his best qualifying effort of the year, taking the second spot and knocking out Seigo Yamamoto in the Top 16, followed by Kenji Yamanaka in the Great Eight round and Hiro Sumida in the Final Four, setting up a final round match-up against Tanner Foust. With his win over Foust, Hubinette now has notched eight career Formula D event victories.

“Coming out of Seattle and dropping down from the points lead was hard to deal with,” Hubinette said. “I had a rough time at this track last year, and I was so hungry when we got to New Jersey to climb up as high as possible in the points race heading into Irwindale. It’s still a battle and anything can happen, but our performance here definitely gives us room to breathe.”

“This was a great team effort,” said Shaun Carlson, owner of NuFormz Racing. “Sam was on his game the entire weekend, and Kenny [Nevins] and the entire NuFormz Racing crew really earned their keep at New Jersey. If we want to win the championship, we can’t have any let up at Irwindale. The competition is just too tough to let our game slip.”

“If we can win the championship, it would be very important to me,” Hubinette added. “If we put the Mopar Dodge Viper SRT10 at top of the standings for the second time in three years, it would definitely be a great feeling for myself and Mopar.”

For information on the Round 7 season-ending event at Irwindale Speedway, log on to www.irwindalespeedway.com. For more info on Hubinette, Formula D or Mopar, log on to www.samuelhubinette.com, www.formulad.com, www.moparspeed.com, or www.mopar.com.

Mopar is based in Center Line, Mich., and is the exclusive original equipment supplier of parts and accessories for Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep® vehicles.

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