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ngine with Reynolds <strong>Tobacco</strong> Co . and its Camel brand are in their 12th year as the<br />
I-drive four spe V. 8 major R- °0t-?orate ~ sponsor of IMSA Camel GT racing . And the future has never<br />
looked brighter .<br />
erson strut The 1984 season opened with record prototype fields for the prestigious<br />
ne integral 5unBank 24 Hours of Daytona and the Budweiser Miami Grand Prix . A<br />
record number of chassis and engine manufacturers are involved in th e<br />
11 length of series' And it will be harder than ever to earn a share of the $250,000 point<br />
by 10 .7 in . fund posted by Camel for the year ,<br />
and overall In 1983<br />
. Camel GT drivers competed in 17 events with purse . point fund<br />
contingency awards of nearly 52 .5 million . The 1984 schedule is again<br />
'ood Sedan an d<br />
this<br />
a overall 17 events and includes new events at the revived Watkins Glen in Ne w<br />
mes within York and here at Michigan International Speedway .<br />
ce: interior M15' revised 1 .9-mile road course should provide tremendous challenges<br />
e de Ville . to drivers and excellent viewing opportunities for the fans attending the inics<br />
of these augural Camel GT Weekend on Sept . 15-16 .<br />
dling ; more Defending Camel GT champion Al Holbert says of the new MIS layout .<br />
and greater It's going to be tough, and it's going to be very fast . Setting a car up to<br />
,is engine is handle both the high-speed banking and the infield sections will be a key<br />
I automatic compromise . You pick up a little here, and you give a little away there . I<br />
improves always like to show up at a track ready to race . Race weekends are no time<br />
nd virtually for experimentation . But that's harder to accomplish at first-time events, so<br />
erred to as good planning and preparation will be crucial at MIS . "<br />
Since Camel became involved in IMSA racing in 1972, R .J. Reynolds has<br />
nounted 43 paid over SI 1 million in point fund awards . and Holbert is the only driver to<br />
mission and have exceeded the S 100,000 mark . In 1984, he s aiming for a second-straigh t<br />
$60,000 Camel bonus for winning the championship in the featured pro .<br />
solid strut totype division .<br />
on, Cadillac ' "I'd sure like to win it again ." Holbert said . The competition will be<br />
d passenger stronger than ever, though, so it won't be easy .<br />
Joining Holbert as 1983 Camel GT champions were Wayne Baker in the<br />
etwoods are GTO division and Roger Mandeville in GTU . Baker has moved up to the proerformance,<br />
totype division and Mandeville to GTO for 1984, creating wide-open races in<br />
trt in a high their old divisions .<br />
IMSA's Camel GT is widely accepted as the premier sports car ra i ng c<br />
series in North America, and perhaps the world . Whereas Porsche 956
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