Lux Performance Travels to Minnesota Looking For “Lady Luck” - Speedway Digest

Lady Luck can be a fickle mistress. She often forces you to chase her to new locations in pursuit of reward. That is the case for the Lux Performance Group as the two-car Trans Am effort travels to Brainerd, Minnesota for the Sunday, July 5th 100-mile “Ryan Companies Independence Day Classic” race. The Aloha, Oregon-based race prep shop opened its short, “getting re-acquainted” season with a victory at Homestead-Miami Speedway in March. However, since that time, the team’s “Return to the Road Tour”, starring Cindi Lux (Aloha, Oregon) in the No. 45 Lux Performance Group Dodge Viper ACR-X and Steve Streimer (Sherwood, Oregon) behind the wheel of the No. 42 Viper, has fallen on some hard times. They are looking for the July 4-5, Trans Am Championship stop at Brainerd International Raceway (BIR) to return to good favor with “Miss Luck”.

Surprisingly, team leader Cindi Lux will be visiting the track for the first time. It is strange for the 12-time road racing champion to have not competed at a track before. Learning the new track is the first, and quickly tamed, issue. Finding the final tenths of a second to play with the “big boys” in the championship who are familiar with the venue is harder feat.

The ultra-prepared and professional team headed by Fred Lux (Aloha, Oregon) does not usually suffer from a bout of bad luck. However, upon returning to national competition with an eye towards a full Trans Am championship run in 2016, the team’s Vipers seem to be snake-bit. Since that HMS victory neither Lux nor Streimer – who scored the debut TA3i class race victory in the No. 42 – has seen the podium. The trial has been even harder on Lux herself who missed the team’s Florida season-opener with a torn meniscus in her left knee. Rehab returned her for race two at Lime Rock but a rare engine problem kept her out of the feature. In the team’s SCCA “June Sprints” weekend at Road America two weeks ago, Streimer took a top-five but Lux had the same dark cloud floated above her.

Coming to the 2.5-mile, 12-turn BIR facility is a shot at redemption. Trans Am has a long history at Brainerd and, despite the fact that the Northwest-based team is new to the series and seeing the track for the first time, Lux Performance hopes to draw from that tradition on America’s Independence Day weekend. If it can, it will be doing so in front of a nationwide audience. The race will be broadcast on the CBS Sports Network, Saturday, July 25, Noon Eastern Standard Time.

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