BorgWarner to Present Indy 500 Driver's and Team Owner's Trophies at 2009 SAE World...

BorgWarner to Present Indy 500 Driver's and Team Owner's Trophies at 2009 SAE
World Congress

Driver Scott Dixon and Team Owner Chip Ganassi to be Honored for 2008 Victory

AUBURN HILLS, Mich., April 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Following his victory
at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway last May, Scott Dixon posed with the
coveted BorgWarner Indianapolis 500 Trophy(TM) in Victory Lane and earned a
permanent position on the base of the world-famous award. On Wednesday,
BorgWarner (NYSE: BWA) Chairman and CEO Tim Manganello will recognize Dixon's
victory with the BorgWarner Championship Driver's Trophy(TM). Chip Ganassi
will also receive the BorgWarner Championship Team Owner's Trophy(TM). "We
congratulate Scott Dixon and the Target Chip Ganassi Racing Team for their
2008 victory, and look forward to presenting these symbols of their
exceptional achievement," Manganello said.

(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090420/DE01394)

The awards will be presented during the 2009 Society of Automotive Engineers
(SAE) World Congress on April 22 held at the Cobo Conference & Exhibition
Center in Detroit, Michigan. A one-of-a-kind replica of the BorgWarner
Indianapolis 500 Trophy, the BorgWarner Championship Driver's Trophy is
awarded each year to the winner of the Indianapolis 500. Known as the "Baby
Borg" in the automotive racing world, the sterling silver trophy is 14 inches
high, weighs 5 pounds and rests on a 4-inch by 8-inch beveled black marble
base. The base is inscribed with the winner's name and year of victory and
includes a hand-crafted, 2-inch, 3-dimensional sterling silver image of the
winning driver's face, which is a duplicate of the image affixed to the
full-sized trophy. BorgWarner established the driver's trophy in 1988 to
provide each Indianapolis 500 winner with a lasting keepsake of their Speedway
victory.

In 1998 the company established the BorgWarner Team Owner's Trophy as a
companion to the Championship Driver's Trophy. The Team Owner's Trophy is
presented to the owner of the winning Indianapolis 500 racing team and
recognizes the significance of the team owner's role in the Indy Racing
League. Like the Championship Driver's Trophy, the Team Owner's Trophy is a
replica of the Indianapolis 500 trophy, but has a band of art-deco racing cars
accentuated in gold to symbolize the importance of teamwork in auto racing and
the automotive business.

On display in the BorgWarner exhibit area (booth 1543) will be the original,
full-sized BorgWarner Indianapolis 500 Trophy. The art-deco trophy is one of
the most recognized symbols in spectator sports. Also on display will be the
Wheeler-Schebler trophy, a Tiffany-designed sterling silver urn commissioned
by Frank Wheeler and George Schebler, founders of the Wheeler-Schebler
Carburetor Company. This trophy was the precursor to the present BorgWarner
Trophy.

Auburn Hills, Michigan-based BorgWarner Inc. (NYSE: BWA) is a product leader
in highly engineered components and systems for vehicle powertrain
applications worldwide. The FORTUNE 500 company operates manufacturing and
technical facilities in 60 locations in 18 countries. Customers include
VW/Audi, Ford, Toyota, Renault/Nissan, General Motors, Hyundai/Kia, Daimler,
Chrysler, Fiat, BMW, Honda, John Deere, PSA, and MAN. The Internet address for
BorgWarner is: http://www.borgwarner.com.

SOURCE BorgWarner Inc.

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