MICHELIN TAKES WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP DOUBLE Sunday September 25, 2005 will go down in history as the day Michelin scored a unique double-World Championship, winning the Formula One* and MotoGP* titles on different parts of the planet. Yamaha-Michelin’s Valentino Rossi captured his fifth consecutive premier-class title in Malaysia, with four races still remaining. Some 12 hours later, Fernando Alonso (Renault- Michelin) made history as the youngest winner of the FIA Formula One Drivers’World Championship in the Brazilian Grand Prix. Michelin has dominated both series this year, winning 16 out of 17 times so far in F1 and taking 11 wins from 13 races in the MotoGP World Championship. The company is also assured of the F1 Constructors’ crown, as only Michelin-partners McLaren and Renault are still fighting for the coveted title. Michelin also leads the battle in the World Rally Championship, which this weekend may well see Sébastien Loeb (Citroën) claim his second consecutive Drivers’ title in the Rally of Japan. Should Loeb be crowned in Japan, it would give Michelin its 37th WRC title by far a record. The World’s leading tyre manufacturer also completed an amazing eighth successive win on the famous Le Mans 24 Hours race in June. In Formula One, Alonso finished third behind McLaren-Michelin duo Juan-Pablo Montoya and Kimi Räikkönen Michelin’s tenth clean-sweep of the podium this year to beat previous youngest record-holder Emerson Fittipaldi by more than a year. Alonso became the fourth driver to clinch the F1 title on Michelin tyres, but the first to have done so since the company returned to grand prix racing in 2001. Commenting on Michelin’s contribution to his protégé’s World title, Patrick Faure, president of Renault F1 Team said: “This title is a victory for Fernando Alonso and Renault, but it is just as much so for all of our technical partners and Michelin is naturally foremost among them. The company has supported us every inch of the way and we have worked extremely well together. It has been a perfect season for Michelin and I’d like to extend my compliments to its whole team.” On two wheels, the phenomenon called Rossi proved once again how brilliant he is: having scored an amazing nine wins from the first eleven races of the season, he wrapped up the title in Malaysia with his 77th podium finish from 93 top-class starts all scored on Michelin tyres. His title was Michelin’s 25th in 30 years in the premier class of motorcycling (500cc and MotoGP combined), a glorious era that began with the success of the late, great Barry Sheene (Suzuki -Michelin) in 1976. This is also the company’s 14th consecutive title win, a run of domination that began with Wayne Rainey (Yamaha-Michelin) in 1992. Michelin has won a record total of 334 500cc/MotoGP races. More, from a press release issued by Patriot Promotions: Patriot Promotions is proud to announce that clients Adopt a Kid Racer, and Alex Welsh post top tier showings at Virginia International Raceway. In the race at Virginia International Raceway on Sept. 25th, Alex Welsh, Sponsored by Adopt A Kid Racer and riding for the Infinity GP Race team showed his stellar talent by posting a both a 2nd place finish and the fastest lap time in the Infinity 250 GP Motorcycle race which due to lower than expected entries was held in tandem with the “super-twins” (a class of high powered V-twin motorcycles). Welsh remained within 2-3 bike lengths of the eventual winner until faced with his first experience with lapped traffic after lap 8. Alex Welsh, showing his poise pulled out a 2nd place finish while posting the fastest lap with a time of 1:32.16. Blake Dircks, of client Adopt a Kid Racer, finished 4th in the regional 125 GP class and took 5th in the Infinity 125 GP class. The Coolskunk Kydz racers P.J. Jacobsen and James Rispoli both finished very well with Jacobsen taking 2nd in regional and 3rd in Infinity 125 GP class. Rispoli finished 4th in Infinity 125 GP and 1st in Motard with an overallclass finish of 9 th in the lightweight class. Clear Channel Sports representatives told Frank Pate of Infinity GP Racing that they were very impressed with the showing of all of the young racers competing in their first GP races thanks to the assistance of Adopt a Kid Racer. Congratulations to Alex Welsh and the other Adopt a Kid Racer riders for their excellent showings this weekend!