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CART: Portland event receives new co-title sponsor

24 February 2000

Posted By Terry Callahan
Motorsports Editor, The Auto Channel

Freightliner, a Portland-based commercial truck manufacturer, has signed a multi-year agreement to serve as co-title sponsor of the FedEx Championship Series event contested annually at Portland International Raceway, now known as the Freightliner/G.I. Joe's 200.

This year's event, Round 8 of 20 in the FedEx Championship Series, is scheduled for June 23-25.

"To have a title sponsor with the international stature and local roots of Freightliner is an honor for us," said Mack Lai, president of the Portland Rose Festival Association, promoter for the event.

"They have a reputation here and around the world as 'the company that does things right,' and we know they will bring their spirit of excellence to an already great event."

Freightliner, a DaimlerChrysler company, is North America's leading heavy- and medium- duty commercial truck manufacturer. The company manufacturers and sells a full line of trucks, fire engines, buses, RV chassis and specialty vehicles under the Freightliner, Sterling, American LaFrance and Thomas Built Buses nameplates. The company produced 194,000 vehicles in 1999.

The FedEx Championship Series event contested annually in Portland is the largest annual sporting event in the Northwest, attracting more than 160,000 people over its three days of racing.

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