NASPORT EXPLODES AT THUNDERHILL'S FIRECRACKER RACES! 


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


       WILLOWS, Calif. --  More than 20 NASPORT GT-3 and GT-4 sport sedans will
take the green flag Sunday July 2nd at for Round Three of their 1995 season, 
at Thunderhill Park in Willows, CA at the Second Annual Firecracker Road Races,
as part of the San Francisco Region-Sports Car Club of America Holiday
Jamboree.

Among those coming back for NASPORT's second race at the challenging 1.814-mile
road course in Northern California are Duane Ablamis of Los Gatos, who won last
year's inaugural Holiday Jamboree in his A&M Motorsports/Johnson Engineering
Mazda RX7; John Goddard of Oakland who last year set the NASPORT fastest lap
record with a time of 1:15.661 in his Vallejo Nissan 240SX; Steve Zlotkin of
San Juan Bautista CA, 1994 NASPORT GT-4 winner, racing his first race this
season in the Eurospec Racing Scirroco; Jeff Scoville of Corvallis OR who is
currently leading the GT-3 points in the Jack Scoville Ltd Nissan 240SX;  and
Don Nimi, the current GT-4 class leader all the way from North Vancouver in
British Columbia, Canada driving his Great West Paper Box Nissan PL510.    

Larry Hansen from nearby Eureka CA will be returning with his Six Rivers
Bank/Eureka High School Auto Club Nissan 240SX.  Hansen. a Eureka High School
teacher, is second in the 1995 GT-3 points chase, with his race car built,
prepared and maintained by his students who comprise his pit crew.   Last
year's GT-3 runner-up at Thunderhill, Frank Honsowetz of El Segundo is trying
for his first win in the Creative Endeavors Nissan 240SX.

Actress Marsha Mason, the only female NASPORT driver, is wrapping up her latest
Paramount film with Johnny Depp and Christopher Walken, and will be competing
with her teammate, Mike Lewis of San Diego CA in their Red Line Oil/Cyclo
Products GT-3 Mazda RX-7's.  Lewis is also competing in selected SCCA Pro
Racing Trans-Am races, and is the only NASPORT driver to ever have led a
Trans-Am race, which Lewis did two weeks ago in Portland at the Rose Cup Races.

NASPORT  draws from the Western United States, with drivers coming from as far
away as Canada, and the Pacific Northwest as well as  New Mexico and Arizona.
NASPORT crowns both Driver and Manufacturer Champions in two categories,  GT-3
and GT-4.  Currently, Nissan is leading all categories in this, the ninth
season of NASPORT competition for highly-modified, specially-built sport sedans
in SCCA-sanctioned races.  

The schedule calls for three NASPORT practice sessions on Saturday, qualifying
Sunday morning, followed by the half-hour NASPORT race at 1:55 p.m.  Afterwards
are all welcome to come share in the NASPORT victory ceremonies at the NASPORT
hospitality trailer in the paddock.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, Contact:
Lynne Huntting, NASPORT Media Coordinator 
510/562-1821; Fax 510/568-2456N