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Aaron Slight - Press Release:
The reigning NZ V8 Touring Car Championship-winning team has signed Aaron Slight for the 2002/2003 NZ V8 Touring Car Championship season. His co-driver for the Yellow Pages 500 endurance race on October 20 in Christchurch will be Andy Priaulx. Caltex Havoline has spotted a winning combination, and come on board as the principal sponsor - the team will be known as the Caltex Havoline Racing Team.
Slight, best known as the New Zealander who has come closest to the World Superbike crown, is currently racing in the 2002 British Touring Car Championship (BTCC). He's already shown class, and is leading the Independent Drivers Championship in his first full season at the hotly contested and ultra competitive BTCC.
The 28-year-old Priaulx is also a seasoned racer. He held the British Hillclimb championship in 1995, took every pole and won every race in 1999's British Renault Spider champs, had three podium finishes in his rookie F3 season, and this year joined Slight in the BTCC, where he's taken a win, two podiums and two poles in his first year out.
With Caltex Havoline's backing, and Slight and Priaulx at the wheel, the Tracer Motorsport team will be a winning combination in this year's Yellow Pages 500. Slight and Priaulx will also bring a touch of international flavour to the Yellow Pages 500, and they'll be joining a team that's sure to make as strong a challenge in New Zealand's Premier Touring Car race - Tracer Motorsport hopes to be the number one team in contention for the Ford's newly introduced Racing Fund.
