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AURORA, Ill. PACE Motors Sports
announced today the addition of Vans to its list of sponsors for the 1999
PACE
Freestyle Motocross Series. The
California-based company, which also sponsors the PACE Supercross Vans
Triple Crown of
Supercross, will add freestyle
motocross (FMX) to its long list of Vans Triple Crown events.
Vans, a footwear, clothing, retail
and entertainment company, is well-known throughout the extreme sports
industry with its
"Triple Crown Series" events. In
addition to the Vans Triple Crown of Supercross and Freestyle Motocross,
other Vans Triple
Crown events include: The Triple
Crown of Surfing, Wakeboarding, Snowboarding and Skateboarding. Vans’ involvement
with
the PACE FMX Series over three
events (Anaheim, Calif., San Diego and San Francisco) will provide the
richest purses in the
sport’s young history, offering
more than $175,000 in cash to the riders."
"The Vans Triple Crown Series is
well established with our world-wide audience and we’re totally pumped
with their addition
of the Triple Crown of Freestyle
Motocross Series," said PACE Vice President T.D. Lovett.
According to Vans’ Vice President
of Marketing, Jay Wilson, the relationship between the PACE Freestyle Motocross
Series
and the Vans Triple Crown Series
is certainly a natural. "We look at PACE and Vans as a great marriage,"
said Wilson. "It will
be insane when we get it all locked
in."
Wilson went on: "We found it a natural
evolution of the Vans Triple Crown to move into freestyle motocross," he
said. "Our
sponsors that we bring with us
to the Triple Crown events have supported these type of sports in a big
way over the last five
years.
"And when you throw in PACE and
Vans’ combined relationship with espn2 and International ESPN, PACE Freestyle
Motocross will be an exciting edition
to our Triple Crown Series and fans of freestyle motocross around the world
will be
stoked."
PACE Motor Sports presents the PACE
Freestyle Motocross Series and Vans Triple Crown of Freestyle Motocross.
For
more information on the PACE Freestyle
Motocross Series, contact Pat Schutte at (630) 566-6100. Also, keep an
eye out for
our freestyle motocross web site.
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