Townsend Bell @ Dorricott Prep for Mid-Ohio

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Contact:        James Hyneman   
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                TOWNSEND BELL and DAMIEN FAULKNER LOOK TO MID-OHIO
                   TO INCREASE INDY LIGHTS LEAD FOR DORRICOTT RACING 

        LEXINGTON, Ohio (Aug. 10, 2000) - Dorricott Racing and the Dayton
Indy Lights Championship return to the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course with
Dorricott drivers Townsend Bell and Damien Faulkner in the thick of a
championship battle. The only certainty for any is that the 2001 Dayton
Indy Lights Championship is far from decided, making this weekend's eighth
round of the 12-race series all the more important.

        The 34 lap/76.772 mile Indy Lights race around Mid-Ohio's
2.258-mile, 13-turn road course is scheduled to begin at 2:45 p.m. ET,
Sunday, August 12. This will be the 11th overall Dayton Indy Lights
appearance at Mid-Ohio and it is the featured support event for the CART
FedEx Championship Series Miller Lite 200 earlier that day.

        Bell and Faulkner are in first and second place, respectively, in
the Dayton Indy Lights Championship with Bell leading Faulkner by 19
points, 104 to 85.

        Bell, of San Luis Obispo, Calif., is arguably the hottest driver in
Indy Lights with three wins including round seven through the streets of
Toronto three weeks ago. Bell also won at Long Beach in April and the
Milwaukee Mile in June. The first of Bell's five career Dayton Indy Lights
wins came at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course last year. His second career win
was at Gateway International Raceway near St. Louis. Bell has also posted
"fastest race lap" on four occasions this season.

        Bell's Milwaukee win, his fourth career Indy Lights victory, was an
impressive show of skill as he devastated the field by winning the poll,
leading every lap, running the fastest lap of the race, setting a new track
record for average race speed, and then becoming the first driver in Indy
Lights history to lap an entire field during a race. 

        Faulkner, of Moville, Ireland, made his Indy Lights debut at
Monterrey and earned a deceivingly impressive seventh place finish. He has
since matured into a front-runner. Faulkner excelled at Toronto where he
started fourth and finished third place for his third consecutive and
fourth podium finish of the year. Faulkner's first year Indy Lights resume
also highlights convincing wins at Texas Motor Speedway and Portland. 

        Faulkner's first career oval track win in April at Texas Motor
Speedway was distinguishing because he had never previously raced on an
oval let alone a superspeedway. 

        His Portland triumph started from third on the grid. After leading
22 of 38 laps, Faulkner crossed the finish line an unchallenged
16.134-seconds ahead of runner-up Rudy Junco, of Mexico. A Faulkner win at
Mid-Ohio would etch his name among an elite list of drivers who have won
three or more races in their first year in Indy Lights. 

        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 Moville 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. 

        Jon Fogarty's season remains frustrating as he was not given a
medical release to participate in this weekend's event. Fogarty, of Portola
Valley, Calif., has missed the last three races at Portland, Kansas, and
Toronto due to a herniated disk located between his C-3 and C-4 vertebrae. 

        As a result of Fogarty's withdrawal, Dorricott Racing announced
upon arriving in Mid-Ohio that it is again welcoming veteran Indy Lights
driver Geoff Boss, of Narragansett, R.I., to drive in place of Fogarty at
Mid-Ohio. Boss will continue to work with Fogarty's engineer and Boss's
former engineer at Lucas Motorsports, Canadian native Burke Harrison.

        Boss, who returned to Indy Lights competition as a replacement
driver for Fogarty at Toronto, recorded an impressive sixth place finish in
the No. 32 Thomas Fogarty Winery & Vineyards Lola. 

        This will be the fourth Indy Lights related visit for Dorricott
Racing at Mid-Ohio. Dorricott Racing fielded Indy Lights entries in 1991
and 1994 with driver Bob Dorricott Jr. Mid-Ohio, however, is far from
foreign for team owner Bob Dorricott. Dorricott also personally raced at
Mid-Ohio in Sports 2000.

        ESPN2 will provide a same day telecast of the Mid-Ohio Indy Lights
race Sunday, August 12, from 10:30 p.m. to 11:30 a.m. PT (Monday, Aug. 13,
from 1:30 a.m. to 2:30 a.m. ET). 

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