Bell Goes "Title" Hunting at Laguna Seca

        TOWNSEND BELL LOOKS TO WIN INDY LIGHTS TITLE AT LAGUNA SECA DAMIEN 
                                FAULKNER REMAINS IN HOT PURSUIT! 

        MONTEREY, Calif. (Oct. 11, 2001) - - It's not too soon to suggest
that a season's worth of effort is riding on one race, but this weekend's
Dayton Indy Lights Championship race at the Honda Grand Prix of Monterey is
certainly the pivotal, if not deciding round, for Dorricott Racing's
Townsend Bell and Damien Faulkner. 
 
        This year's annual return to the picturesque central California
coastline will celebrate the 16th overall and consecutive visit of the
Dayton Indy Lights Championship to Monterey. The green flag is scheduled to
drop Sunday, Oct. 14, at 10:30 a.m. (PT) for the 34-lap, 76.092-mile sprint
around Laguna Seca's picturesque 11-turn, 2.238-mile road course. This will
be the 11th round of the 12-race Indy Lights season, and will precede the
CART FedEx Championship Series Honda Grand Prix later that day.

        The situation is fairly simple. Bell leads the Indy Lights
championship by 26 points over both Faulkner and Dan Wheldon, of England,
149-123. Mario Dominguez, of Mexico, is fourth with 107 points and the only
remaining Indy Lights driver with a mathematical chance of winning the
championship. Any combination of finishes that provide Bell a 23-point
advantage over all other Indy Lights drivers by Sunday afternoon will hand
the 2001 Dayton Indy Lights Championship to Bell.

        Bell has been a dominating force in Indy Lights this year. Bell has
been in a figurative "class of his own" in three races by winning the pole,
leading the most laps, and winning the race in his series leading four
wins. Besides  flag-to-flag victories at Milwaukee, Toronto, and Mid-Ohio,
Bell also won at Long Beach in April. Bell has posted "fastest race lap" on
five occasions this season.

        Apart from his Indy Lights tour of duty, Bell, of San Luis Obispo,
Calif., recently competed in two FedEx Champ car events for Patrick Racing
in Germany and England. Driving the Visteon Toyota Reynard, Bell finished
both races and scored his first CART championship point with a 12th place
finish in his second start at England.

        Faulkner, of Moville, Ireland, has modeled podium consistency
throughout 2001 and has collected two victories along the way. He started
third and finished third place last weekend at Road Atlanta but his  tone
for success actually surfaced in his Indy Lights debut at Monterrey,
Mexico, where he earned a deceivingly impressive seventh place finish.
Faulkner excelled at Toronto and Mid-Ohio where he started fourth and
third, respectively, and finished third place in each race. His six podium
finishes also include 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. 

        The return of Portola Valley, Calif.'s, Jon Fogarty at Road Atlanta
last week has added spice to the Dorricott Racing formula. Fogarty
qualified on the outside pole and finished fifth. He is currently in 12th
place with 30 points.

        The 26-year-old driver of the No. 32 Thomas Fogarty Winery &
Vineyards Lola announced at Mid-Ohio during round eight that he did not
foresee completing the 2001 race season due to a herniated disk in his
cervical vertebrae. In fact, he had missed the three preceding consecutive
races at Portland, Kansas, and Toronto, and subsequently did not race at
Mid-Ohio and St. Louis. His recent medical clearance led to a flawless
two-day, pre-Atlanta test session at Buttonwillow Raceway Park near
Bakersfield, Calif. 

        Fogarty is a force to be reckoned. He caught the attention of many
during his Indy Lights debut at Monterrey, Mexico, when he finished in
third place finish. However, his next three races were frustrating. Fogarty
suffered a race-ending accident on the opening lap at Long Beach when
Faulkner was rear ended by Kristian Kolby, of Denmark, and pushed into
Fogarty. Fogarty's disappointment continued at Texas Motor Speedway when he
was pushed against the outside wall late in the race by Wheldon while
running in second place. 

        Milwaukee's race started optimistically for Fogarty. He started on
the outside pole and was completing the third pace lap when Derek Higgins,
of Ireland, inadvertently accelerated into the rear of Fogarty's Lola. Both
cars were seeking to warm their tires with Fogarty swerving left and right.
Fogarty was able to continue to pit lane for repairs but he missed the
first 20 laps of the race. 

        ESPN2 will provide a delayed telecast of the Laguna Seca Indy
Lights race Monday, Oct. 15, from 2:30 a.m. to 3:30 a.m. ET (Sunday, Oct.
14, from 11:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. PT). All times are subject to change.