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ATLANTIC: Cameron Moves Up for ‘08
Written by: News Wire   
10/17/2007 - 07:00 PM
Monterey, Calif.
 
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Dane Cameron, winner of the 2007 Star Mazda Championship presented by Goodyear and a former Team USA Scholarship winner, has signed to race for the championship-winning Sierra Sierra/ProWorks team in the 2008 Cooper Tires Presents the Champ Car Atlantic Championship Powered by Mazda.

Cameron, who turns 19 on Oct. 18, had already secured a Mazda-sponsored full-season drive in Champ Car Atlantic as part of his prize fund for winning the Star Mazda crown.

Cameron has already undergone a seat fitting at the Sierra Sierra race shop in Minden, Nev., and will begin testing with his new team next week, following this weekend's Round 12 season finale of the 2007 Star Mazda Championship at the American Le Mans Series' Monterey Sports Car Championships at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca on October 20.

"Nothing I've ever done in racing has felt as fast as what's happened in the last two weeks since I won the Star Mazda championship," says the native of Sonoma, California. "I'm honored, and relieved, to be the next graduate of the Mazda Motorsports Ladder and delighted to be racing for a championship-caliber team like Sierra Sierra next year. I'd like to thank
my Star Mazda team, JDC Motorsports for taking a chance on me and delivering a championship season. Also Rob Finlay, Peggy Haas and Jackie Doty, and, of course, my father, Rick Cameron, who also engineers my cars. There may be only one person in the car, but racing is a team sport and a lot of people helped me get where I am today."

Cameron is the latest graduate of the unique Mazda Motorsports Ladder program, the only manufacturer-supported driver development program reaching all the way from karting to Champ Car. Raphael Matos, the 2005 Star Mazda champion also chose Sierra Sierra/ProWorks as his next step up the ladder and won the 2007 Champ Car Atlantic championship. Matos will graduate to the ranks of the Champ Car World Series in 2008. 2006 Star Mazda champion Adrian Carrio just completed his first season in the Atlantic series with Genoa Racing.

Cameron's Star Mazda Championship season has, so far, included three race wins, five pole positions, four podium and two top-4 finishes. He only finished out of the top-4 twice during the first eleven races, and clinched the championship on October 5 during the ALMS Petit Le Mans weekend at Road Atlanta.