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MISC: Motorsports family member Larry Nuber found dead at home

9 June 2000

Wynn Oil Company received very sad and tragic news on Thursday, June 8.  Larry 
Nuber was found deceased in his home in Indianapolis by the local police department, 
who had been called in by relatives concerned because they had not heard from 
him in several days.  His body will be taken to his parents' home in Toledo, 
Ohio, where services will be arranged.

Larry was one the most esteemed and dearest members of the Wynn's family.  He 
had managed every aspect of the Wynn's Racing Program throughout the past several 
years.  In that capacity, he had become extremely familiar to all members of 
the Wynn's distribution channel and business network.  His knowledge of the Motorsports 
industry was uniquely comprehensive, and his ability to perform the multitude 
of various details that comprise the sponsorship of racing teams, circuits, events, 
and the promotional merchandising that is an essential component of the implementation 
of any of those efforts, was recognized to be absolutely unparalleled in the 
sport.
  
More than any other single person or development, Larry Nuber was responsible 
for making the Wynn's Racing Program one of the most consistently successful 
and highly regarded ones in the entire racing business.  The success of the Wynn's 
Racing Program stimulated business achievement and prosperity for the Wynn's 
marketing efforts that have been felt by every member of the Wynn's network, 
regardless of their level of direct involvement or participation in the program
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Larry formally occupied the role of a special consultant and vendor to our racing 
activities.  He is irreplaceable in that regard.  Much more significantly than 
that, Larry possessed a personal energy, positive outlook, and human compassion 
that made working with him not only an extreme pleasure, but actually personally 
uplifting.  He genuinely cared about the people he dealt with, the relevance 
of every task he undertook, and the goal of making each day produce meaningful 
results.  Those qualities were evident in everything he did every day we have 
known him.  No individual in our organization excelled at their work functions 
at a level of professionalism that was any higher than Larry Nuber's.  And, as 
we all know, no one loved the sport of racing more passionately than Larry did.