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Home >> Greater Phoenix
Arizona News

Formula 2000 Championship Win Sponsored by
Scottsdale Company

December 06 , 2007 by Editor

Scottsdale, AZ - Local real estate development
company Winfield Lee Investments & Development of
Scottsdale, a long-term supporter of race car driver
Pete Olson and his Racing for Children program, provided
the means for Olson’s recent overall win in the 2007
Bridgestone Formula 2000 Championship in Ontario,
Canada. Olson won the Championship thanks to
consistently strong results: four wins, two 2nds, one
3rd, and five pole positions in the seven-race
series.

Due to the season win Olson has received
a fully-funded ‘ride’ in F2000 for 2008, thanks to
Bridgestone Racing, and will be acting as a part-time
instructor next year at the Bridgestone Racing Academy
near Toronto, Canada.

“The season win is a dream
come true for me” said Olson. “Thanks to the generosity
of Winfield Lee Investments I was able to run up front
all year with plenty of track time, and to continue
publicizing the Racing for Children program.”

For
the past several years Olson has promoted his Racing for
Children program to the benefit of the Christian
Children’s Fund. The purpose of the program is to use
the unique venue and excitement of auto racing to
promote the organization and find more sponsors for
children, by advertising the CCF logo on the racecar and
using race events to generate media interest in
CCF.

Through the program, CCF has received more
than $20 thousand in free media publicity distributed to
more than 320,000 readers in various publications. Olson
currently sponsors two children with CCF, a girl Araya
from Thailand and a boy Shivnarine from the Dominican
Republic. “If it gets one more person to sponsor a child
and change a life, it will be worth it” said
Olson.

Olson has his sights set on the Indy 500,
what he calls his “childhood dream”. Though he has had a
long and interesting climb up the racing ‘ladder’, Olson
found success in the highly competitive 170mph China
Formula Renault series and has proven himself a
frontrunner in Canadian Formula 2000. He has used auto
racing to promote the Racing for Children program for
the past several years in his competitive endeavors in
the United States and Asia.

About the Christian
Children’s Fund:
CCF International, one of the
largest and most well-respected charities in the world,
is an international organization whose members provide
assistance to more than 8 million impoverished children
and families in more than 54 countries, including the
United States. As a private nonsectarian organization,
the Christian Children's Fund provides help to needy
children regardless of race, gender or religion.
Christian Children's Fund sponsored children are
provided with such basics as education, food, clothing,
shelter and health care by CCF workers in their area (http://www.christianchildrensfund.org/).

For more information contact:
Peter Nelson,
President
Winfield Lee Investments &
Development
5519 E Bloomfield Rd
Scottsdale,
Arizona
Tel: 602 404 6580

Pete Olson
Olson Motorsports, LLC
Tel:
1-301-654-1209
Website: http://www.peteolson.com/

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