Dorricott Looks for "Three-Peat" at Portland

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Contact:        James Hyneman   
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            DORRICOTT RACING LOOKING FOR "THREE-PEAT" AT PORTLAND
              PORTLAND TARGETED FOR FOURTH CONSECUTIVE WIN IN 2001

        SUNNYVALE, Calif. (June 20, 2001) - The one thing Dorricott Racing
loves to do is race at Portland and this weekend's fifth round of the
12-race Dayton Indy Lights Championship won't be an exception. In fact,
Dorricott Racing has been the dominant Indy Lights team at Portland the
past two years and will be seeking its third consecutive pole and race
victory at Portland International Raceway, Sunday, June 24.

        The 38 lap/74.822 mile Spirit Mountain Casino Challenge is
scheduled to begin at 10:45 a.m. (PT) and is the featured support race to
the Freightliner/G.I. Joe's 200 for the CART FedEx Championship Series race
later that day.

        Dorricott Racing's dominance of Portland began in 1999 when current
CART star Oriol Servia won the pole. His Dorricott Racing teammate, Philipp
Peter, won the race. Last year's Indy Lights race mirrored 1999. Dorricott
Racing prevailed with Townsend Bell, of San Luis Obispo, Calif., winning
his first career Indy Lights pole and teammate Jason Bright, of Australia,
claiming the race victory after starting on the outside pole.

        Bell returns to Portland hot from a record setting fourth round at
the Milwaukee Mile on June 3. He stands on top of the Indy Lights leader
board with 62 points - a 10-point advantage over Derek Higgins, of Ireland.
Bell won at Long Beach in round two and earned second place in the season
opener at Monterrey,

        Bell's victory at Milwaukee was more than just his second win of
the year. It was a  one-car, one-driver devastation of an entire race
field. After starting from the pole and leading every lap, Bell then
managed to run the fastest lap of the race (0:24.222 = 153.381 mph) in the
No. 30 DirecPC Lola and became the first driver in Indy Lights history to
lap an entire field in a race. In fact, he lapped all but race runner-up
Mario Dominguez, of Mexico, twice. Bell also set a race record average
speed of 142.481 mph, breaking Mike Groff's 1989 Milwaukee track race
record of 124.883 mph.

        All totaled, Bell's Milwaukee earnings totaled $37,500 - a new
record for Dayton Indy Lights purse payouts. Bell's victory was the third
consecutive win for Dorricott Racing in 2001 and 11th career victory in 201
starts.

        Damien Faulkner, of Moville, Ireland, and Jon Fogarty, of Portola
Valley, Calif., are each suffering Indy Lights freshman woes but still
could contend with good results in Portland. Faulkner is in sixth place
with 34 points after finishing seventh at Milwaukee. Fogarty is ninth place
with 22 points. 

        Faulkner made his Indy Lights debut at Monterrey, Mexico, and
scored a deceivingly impressive seventh place finish. Long Beach proved
disappointing, however, when he crashed on the opening lap with teammate
Fogarty. It was not either Dorricott driver's fault. Fogarty was rear-ended
by Danish driver Kristian Kolby in the first corner at Long Beach on the
race start. Kolby plowed his nosecone into Fogarty's gearbox and diffuser
and, in turn, pushed him into Faulkner. Faulkner, who started fourth at
Long Beach, never saw the contact coming as he spun and stopped in the
middle of the turn. Both Dorricott Racing drivers were unhurt but their
cars were unable to continue. 

        Faulkner stunned Indy Lights "experts" at Texas Motor Speedway in
round three when he extended Dorricott Racing's podium finishes in 2001 to
three-straight by winning the pole and race. What distinguished his victory
was he had never previously raced on an oval let alone a superspeedway. 

        Faulkner became the Republic of Ireland's first European motor
racing champion in 19 years by capturing the 2000 European Formula Palmer
Audi Championship. The 25-year-old Dublin resident dominated the EFPA's
20-race season behind six wins, seven poles, and 12 podium finishes.
Faulkner was also named Ireland's 2000 International Motorsports Competitor
of the Year. This prestigious award is the same that had previously been
won by Formula One star Eddie Irvine on two occasions.

        Fogarty's season has been one agitation after another. Besides his
Long Beach mugging, Fogarty slammed against the outside wall at Texas Motor
Speedway late in the race  while running in second place when Englishman
Dan Wheldon nosed his car into Fogarty's. 

        Milwaukee's race started optimistically for Fogarty. He started on
the outside pole and was completing the third pace lap when Higgins
inadvertently accelerated into the rear of the  Thomas Fogarty Winery &
Vineyards Lola. Both cars were seeking to warm their tires with Fogarty
swerving left and right. Fogarty was able to continue to pit lane where his
crew repaired the car. He missed the first 20 laps of the race, however. 

        ESPN2 will provide same day coverage of the Portland Indy Lights
race on ESPN2 at 10:30 p.m. ET (7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. PT).

        Dorricott Racing is a year-round professional motorsports
organization with its race shop located in Bakersfield, Calif., and its
corporate office based in Sunnyvale, Calif. Race results, team, and sponsor
information are available on Dorricott Racing's official web site,
http://www.dorricottracing.com.

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