Luis Diaz Wins at Road America

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DORRICOTT RACING DOMINATES ROAD AMERICA WITH 1-2-3 FINISH ! ! !
                LUIS DIAZ WINS HIS SECOND TOYOTA ATLANTIC RACE
                        Jon Fogarty and Alex Gurney Complete the Podium 

        ELKHART LAKE, Wis. (Aug. 19, 2002) - Dorricott Racing put on a show
that was second to none at Road America, Sunday, Aug. 18, when it clearly
dominated round 10 of the 12-race Toyota Atlantic Championship in scoring
its second career first, second, and third place race finish on a track it
hadn't raced prior to this event. 

        It was also a banner day for Atlantic rookie Luis Diaz, of Mexico
City, as he led the Dorricott charge to capture his second career Atlantic
victory. Diaz corralled his first career Toyota Atlantic victory in June at
Portland International Raceway. .Meanwhile, teammates Jon Fogarty, of
Portola Valley, Calif., and Alex Gurney, of Newport Beach, Calif., finished
second and third place, respectively.

        Diaz's decisive play was a late race spectacular on lap 14
re-start. After the fourth caution flag of the 17-lap race, Diaz pulled to
the inside of Rocky Moran Jr. heading into the sweeping right hand corner
of Turn 1 at the 4.048-mile Road America road course. As the two entered
the corner, their wheels touched sending Moran Jr. spinning into a gravel
trap. Moran Jr. was uninjured in the incident, but his chances to win
evaporated in gravel dust. Diaz was able to continue and power to a
1.910-second margin of victory over Fogarty.

        "It was a tight, tough race," said a thrilled Diaz who was
competing at Road America for the first time this weekend. "I had an inside
line on Rocky (Moran Jr.) and we entered Turn 1 close. Unfortunately, our
tires made contact and Rocky ended up off the track, but my car somehow
wasn't damaged.  I thought I may have had a problem with my front
suspension during the next couple of laps, but then my engineer, Gerald
Tyler, told me I had run the fastest lap of the race. That was a huge
relief. I couldn't be happier for my team, my teammates, and all of my
sponsors under the Telmex umbrella."

        Diaz's fastest lap of 2:02.881 (118.593 mph), which he turned on
lap 12, held up through the final laps of the event earning him the $1,000
WorldCom "Fast Pace" Award.  Dorricott took the other big cash bonus award
of the weekend as well by Fogarty winning the $1,000 Toyota "Pole Award"
with a new track record.

        "It was a stop-and-go race," said Fogarty who has eight top-five
finishes this year. "There were a lot of drivers tossing their cars off the
track. That's really irritating when you're leading within a good car. It's
happened a couple of times to me this year."

        With Fogarty finishing second and Gurney rounding out the podium in
third place, Dorricott Racing established yet another CART record. It is
the only CART-sanctioned team that has twice placed three drivers on the
podium in a CART-sanctioned event. 

        Dorricott Racing's first podium sweep was at St. Louis in the 2000
Dayton Indy Lights Championship. No three-car team in the 16-year history
of Indy Lights had ever swept the top three spots in a single race.

        Furthermore, Dorricott Racing is the only team in recorded
motorsports history to finish a race in first, second, and third place with
each respective car number in the sequential order of one, two, and three.
At St. Louis, current CART FedEx driver Townsend Bell won the Indy Lights
race in the No. 1 DirecPC Lola. Current Busch star Casey Mears piloted the
No. 2 Dorricott Racing/Sooner Trailer Lola, while Australian and present
V-8 Supercar sensation Jason Bright drove No. 3 car for Dorricott Racing.

        The Dorricott trio along with Moran Jr. battled with current points
leader, Michael Valiante, of Canada, at the front of the pack throughout
the race. Valiante placed fourth behind the Dorricott cars to hold onto the
Championship lead with two races remaining. Valiante entered the weekend
with a 19 point lead on Fogarty, but left with only a 14-point margin
heading into next weekend's Molson Indy Montreal. Gurney and Diaz are 30
and 32 points behind, respectively.

        "It was pretty eventful," said Gurney. "First of all, it was an
awesome weekend for Dorricott Racing.  I got a little dodgy. I may have
touched Michael (Valiante) once and Luis (Diaz) a little later. The
re-starts were tough and they usually went to whoever came out the
cleanest. I guess we managed to get the better of it so it worked out to be
a good weekend."

        Fogarty continues to lead all newcomers for Rookie-of-the-Year
honors with an 18-point cushion of teammate Diaz, 122-104. However,
Fogarty' closest rookie challenger coming into Road America was Ryan
Hunter-Reay. That dramatically changed on lap 5 when Hunter-Reay became
embroiled in the race's biggest incident.

        Hunter-Reay and Waldemar Coronas were battling side-by-side when
contact occurred  in Turn 5 sending both cars off course. Coronas was able
to continue, but Hunter-Reay was eliminated from the race and perhaps the
2002 Atlantic Championship and Rookie-of-the-Year. Hunter-Reay entered the
weekend 21 points behind Valiante, but now is 34 points back with 102
points.

        Dorricott Racing's drivers compose the majority of the top-five
prize money winners this season (excluding mid-season bonus winnings).
After Road America, Fogarty is third on the earnings board with $102,500.
Diaz is fourth with $89,600 while Gurney is in fifth place with $71,500.

        Round 11 of the 2002 Toyota Atlantic Championship will be next
Saturday, Aug. 24, at the world renowned road course of Circuit
Gilles-Villeneuve in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. One week after that, the
2002 season concludes with the running of the Shell Grand Prix of Denver.

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