Dunlop Drivers Cup Driving Decathlon Goes Hollywood

Dunlop Drivers Cup Driving Decathlon Goes Hollywood

Dunlop Drivers Cup - 'Driving Decathlon' - Goes HollywoodDunlop Drivers Cup goes Hollywood on Hollywood Boulevard. Onlookers gathered at the gala finale in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre as the international drivers challenge wrapped up a 1,800-mile, seven-day excursion through southern California. Dunlop USA is now looking for automotive enthusiasts who want to compete in September 2006 for the ninth edition of Drivers Cup. Do you have the right stuff? Get the details at www.dunloptires.com/driverscup. (PRNewsFoto/Dunlop Tires)AKRON, Ohio, April 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Completing 1,800 grueling miles and 10 nerve-wracking competitive stages in seven days, 36 international competitors drove 18 Dunlop-stickered Nissan 350Z sports cars down Hollywood Boulevard with a police escort, leaving no question that Dunlop Drivers Cup "had arrived in America."The amateur driving competition - a household name in Europe - finished its U.S. expedition on a high note. Drivers Cup, in its eighth year, likely will return to its roots in next year's finals, and Dunlop USA said it will participate.At the finish line, two Germans led the celebration of driving in a come- from-behind win over a Netherlands team. Two U.S. teams, competing for the first time, placed a respectable eighth and 14th.Janice Consolacion, brand planning manager for Dunlop in North America, said the European amateur drivers challenge has been called an Ironman, a Survivor of sorts, except "we never vote anyone off the island. Maybe it's more accurate to look at it as a decathlon of driving. It was fun, but challenging."Starting in San Diego, the convoy of Nissan 350Z sports cars headed to Borrego Springs for a race on all-terrain vehicles, and then across Death Valley. While most stages tested driver skills, blindfolded Albert Andrade, a tire dealer branch manager from Rialto, Calif., won the sixth event - a unique "blind" off-road course that stressed teamwork - with help from teammate Wallace Hattenhauer, a telecommunications engineer from Little Rock, Ark.

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