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DORRICOTT RACING RETURNS TO ITS HOME TRACK AT THE MAZDA RACEWAY LAGUNA SECA



        MONTEREY, Calif. (June 6, 2002) - Dorricott Racing's championship
momentum is growing but with each race comes new challenges and round four
of 12-race Toyota Atlantic Championship at the Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca,
Saturday, June 8, won't likely be an exception.

        The 30 lap/67.140 mile Atlantic sprint around the 11-turn,
2.238-mile road course will be the 26th running of an Atlantic race at
Laguna Seca since 1976. The green flag is scheduled to drop at 3:30 p.m.
(PT), and is the featured support race in the CART FedEx Championship Grand
Prix of Monterey, featuring the Shell 300, to be run on Sunday.
        
        Dorricott Racing's preface for Laguna Seca is simple. Its driver
trio of Jon Fogarty, Alex Gurney, and Luis Diaz are first, fourth, and
sixth place, respectively, in the Toyota Atlantic Championship. The
weekend's objectives are to continue a championship direction as a team,
and leave the famed Monterey circuit leading the series while improving in
all positions.

        Fogarty, of Portola Valley, Calif., personally calls the Mazda
Raceway Laguna Seca his home track. Years of countless hours of testing and
training at Laguna Seca paid handsome dividends last season when he
finished second place in the Dayton Indy Lights Championship race. 

        Fogarty opened 2002 with a victory at Monterrey, Mexico. He then
piloted the Thomas Fogarty Winery & Vineyards Swift 014.a Atlantic car to
its second consecutive podium with third place at Long Beach in round two.
Fogarty's solid fifth place showing at Milwaukee last weekend improved his
lead in the Toyota Atlantic Championship to five points over Canadian
Michael Valiante, 46-41.

        Gurney, of Newport Beach, Calif., made up ground at Milwaukee with
a fourth place finish last weekend. Combined with his second round
runner-up finish at Long Beach in the Behr-Castrol Swift 014.a., Gurney is
tied with Roger Yasukawa for fourth place in the Atlantic championship with
29 points. His last Atlantic race at Laguna Seca was in 2000 and produced a
sixth place finish.

        Diaz, of Mexico City, had a tough weekend at Milwaukee where he
finished ninth place but is looking forward to returning to a track where
he finished third place last year in Indy Lights. Diaz impressively started
2002 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 when he was caught in an opening lap
crash in turn one. Diaz, who started sixth, attempted to avoid contact by
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. He fell to 23rd by
lap nine before powering past 13 cars in his Telmex Swift 014.a to finish
10th place. Despite ill-fortune, Diaz is in the thick of the Atlantic title
bout with 26 points and sixth place.

        Laguna Seca was also the home race track for beloved team owner,
Bob Dorricott. Dorricott passed away Friday, April 26, at his family home
in Los Altos Hills, Calif., of cancer. He was 65. Besides being one of most
respected names in North American formula-style, open-wheel racing,
Dorricott was directly responsible for his team winning two Dayton Indy
Lights Championships in 1999 and 2001, and Indy Lights runner-up honors in
2000.

        pee Channel will provide a same day delayed telecast of the
Toyota Atlantic Championship from the Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca at 10:00
p.m. ET (7:00 p.m. PT), Saturday, June 8. 

        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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