Dorricott Racing - Milwaukee Preview

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Contact:        James Hyneman   
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                THE MILWAUKEE MILE IS NEXT FOR DORRICOTT RACING 

        LOS ALTOS HILLS, Calif. (May 28, 2002) - After nearly six weeks off
from racing but busy with road track and oval testing, Dorricott Racing's
driver trio of Jon Fogarty, Luis Diaz, and Alex Gurney are looking forward
to getting back into the competitive setting presented by round three of
the 12-race Toyota Atlantic Championship at the famed Milwaukee Mile.

        The 70 lap/72.24 mile Toyota Atlantic sprint around the 1.032-mile
oval is scheduled to begin at 3:00 p.m. (CT), Sunday, June 2. It is the
featured support race to the CART FedEx Championship Series Miller Lite 250
later that day.
        
        Fogarty, of Portola Valley, Calif., returns to Milwaukee seeking to
vindicate his horrid ill fortune last year during the Dayton Indy Lights
Championship. Fogarty, who started on the outside pole, was completing the
third pace lap exiting turn four when Derek Higgins, of Ireland,
accelerated into the rear of Fogarty's Thomas Fogarty Winery & Vineyards
Lola. Both cars were warming their tires with Fogarty swerving left and
right. Higgins inadvertently accelerated  into the rear of Fogarty's car.
Fogarty was able to continue to pit lane where his crew repaired the car
during a long pit stop. Higgins spun into the inside wall at pit entry and
was unable to continue. Fogarty resumed the race on lap 20.

        This season's start has been much better for Fogarty particularly
due to his season opening victory at Monterrey, Mexico. He then scored his
second consecutive podium with a third place finish at Long Beach in round
two. Fogarty comes to Milwaukee leading the Toyota Atlantic Championship by
three points over Michael Valiante, 35-32.

        Diaz, who hails from Mexico City, is looking to improve on his
fourth place standing of 19 points with his first visit to an Atlantic
podium. Diaz impressively started this season by winning the pole at
Monterrey in a blistering track record time of 1:27.089 (86.973 mph) around
the 12-turn, 2.104-mile Fundidora Park. It was his first career pole
position in a major international racing series.

        Long Beach proved tougher for Diaz when he was caught in the middle
of another's opening lap crash in turn one. Diaz, who started sixth, did
all he could to avoid contact in driving a cautious line into turn one.
Unfortunately, he was struck from the side, spun, and then was literally
struck on his helmet by the tires of Scottish driver Ryan Danziel's car
when it went airborne after being struck by Jonathon Macri. Diaz was
uninjured but required two separate pit stops during the caution period to
replace a severely damaged rear wing.

        Diaz fell to 23rd by lap nine but then put on a "driving clinic"
seldom seen in modern open-wheel racing. Over the proceeding 20 laps, Diaz
powered his Telmex Swift 014.a past 13 cars to finish 10th place.

        Gurney, of Newport Beach, Calif., is looking to Milwaukee as his
next step in regaining a stake in the championship hunt. His second place
finish at Long Beach in the Behr-Castrol Swift 014.a moved him into fifth
place with 17 points, including 16 points for second place and one bonus
point for leading the most laps.

        However, Gurney's good fortune at Long Beach to avoid the crash
scene that cost Diaz was harrowing. As the top-12 cars careened down the
long front straight-away toward Long Beach's notoriously narrow first
corner, the remainder of the 27-car field closed. The formula for disaster
was complete as nearly 16 cars entered the turn-one braking zone within
hundredths of a second of each other. Multiple contacts ensued. 

        Gurney took an inside line down the front straight-away and beat
most of the field into the corner. A perfectly executed right-to-left turn
as the carnage began permitted him to squirt into the lead. Gurney led the
race for the first 20 laps albeit 13 laps were completed under yellow flag
conditions

        Milwaukee will mark the first time Dorricott Racing will compete
without its beloved team owner, Bob Dorricott. Mr. Dorricott, one of most
respected names in North American formula-style, open-wheel racing and
two-time Dayton Indy Lights Championship team owner, passed away Friday,
April 26, at his family home in Los Altos Hills, Calif., of cancer. He was
65.

        "'Milwaukee will be our first race knowing that Bob is no longer
with us so we'll all be there with heavy hearts," said Gurney. "We
struggled a little at the recent Milwaukee test but we learned a lot and it
should be sorted out come race time. We'll do everything we can to earn a
top finish and continue our fight for the championship."

        Speed Channel will provide a LIVE telecast of the Toyota Atlantic
Championship from The Milwaukee Mile beginning at 4:00 p.m. ET (1:00 p.m.
PT), Sunday, June 2. 

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

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