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Cool Cures to Beat the Heat
3M™ Nextel™ Thermal Barriers Featured in National Racing Magazine

ST. PAUL, Minn. (June 8, 2000) Nextel™ Thermal Barriers from 3M are featured prominently in an article in Stock Car Racing magazine, a nationally recognized publication for racing teams, drivers and fans. The article details how NASCAR race teams are finding high tech solutions to a problem that has plagued them for years: heat transfer from engines, exhaust systems and hot track surfaces that wears down driver's stamina. The problem, which frequently results in fatigue, burns and even hospitalization for heat exhaustion, has received increasing attention as race cars run faster and hotter and as the teams attempt to minimize the risk of injury from burning materials in their cars.

Through a special arrangement with the publishers and as a service to race teams and fans, 3M is making the article available on the internet at http://www.pcreprints.com/eprint/57259_3m/