BYP Honda Civic: Officially announces Sponsorship

[Benson]

Special Projects Motor Sports USA is pleased to announce that it will be a major sponsor
and supporter of Jimmy and Benny Tran’s B20 Powered Civic which will be competing in the Australian
Honda Challenge
The Tran Brothers Team will receive product support, and the full backing and expertise our race shop
facilities for the 2009/10 season.
The GEAR-X Precision Driveline Components logo will be predominant on the car as Special Projects is
the world wide distributor of the new and very popular line of Honda Final Drives and Custom Gear sets.
As the sales of the new GEAR-X products have been so encouraging in the USA since 2000 we want to
introduce these great products to the Australian Road Race Market.

HARDRACE is another of our imported brands that Special Projects promote and distribute with great
success in the USA. These well known performance products will also be part of the Sponsorship package.
With the recent introduction of our range of P1 Spec Aero and suspension parts and as the demand for
Special Projects expertise and Race proven parts has been increasing every month from successful racing
teams in the UK and Europe, we are carrying on our tradition of putting something back into the sport by
assisting new young drivers.

For 2009 we have chosen to give our backing to these enthusiastic brothers based on their very professional
approach to their racing career; Their car has been constructed with very careful attention to detail, and their
approach to our company and others with regard to obtaining sponsorship has been of the highest level. The
brother’s proposal to our company quickly demonstrated that they were not just another race team looking
for free stuff!

This team is already proving itself with subsequent Class wins and high placings over much more experienced teams.
“After studying Benson the Driver’s on the track, and in car video’s, I have no doubt that with some competitive
seat time behind him Benson will be a driving force to be reckoned with.”
“I believe I am a good judge of talent evidenced by some of the drivers our company has assisted in the past”.
Said Jeff (Kiwi) Owen -Gear-X Director, expatriate Kiwi and well known US Honda Touring Car Driver.
“Every year I keep an eye on who’s who, and which drivers are worthy of whatever assistance we can offer based
on their driving ability and more importantly their personality, how they conduct themselves on and off the track,
and of course how well they promote their existing sponsors.”

GEAR-X is quickly becoming “the Name” in performance transmission components in Honda Touring Car Racing
in almost every outstanding Honda in the United States Honda Challenge, to the Irish Tarmac Rally scene, to
the short sprint circuits of Guatemala in Central America. And now we are pleased to be entering the Australian
Honda performance arena.
GEAR-X is also a major sponsor of Al Stewart (Big Al) who is competing very successfully in the New Zealand
version of Honda Challenge (SS2000).

On behalf of Special Projects Motor Sports/GEAR-X and all the other sponsors on these projects We would like
to wish all of our sponsored teams, and all the competitors Good Luck, and have a great 2009 racing season.


Sincerely,
Janie G. Henke


MERIDIAN HOLDINGS/GEAR-X
Export Sales & Marketing