Dorricott Racing: Mid-Ohio Preview

        LEXINGTON, Ohio (Aug. 6, 2003) - The last time Dorricott Racing
visited Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course was in 2001 with the Dayton Indy Lights
Championship. Simply stated, Dorricott Racing won. This weekend, Dorricott
Racing and driver Luis Diaz, of Mexico City, are looking to re-create the
same magic in round nine of the 12-race Toyota Atlantic Championship at the
driver-favorite Mid-Ohio Sports Car course.

        The 30-lap (67.740 mile) Atlantic sprint around Mid-Ohio's
2.258-mile, 13-turn road course is scheduled to begin at 11:30 a.m. ET,
Sunday, August 10. This will be the 18th overall Toyota Atlantic
Championship appearance at Mid-Ohio since 1976, and it is the featured
support event for the Champ Car Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio later that day.

        Diaz, who is currently ninth place in the Atlantic championship
with 59 points, collected 10 points at Trois-Rivieres in round eight last
Sunday and is well positioned to move up. Diaz only trails sixth-place Joey
Hand by nine points, 68-59, and is only 24 points behind fifth-place Aaron
Justus who has 83 points.

        Dorricott Racing's history at Mid-Ohio is four-fold and dates back
to 1991 and 1994 with driver Bob Dorricott Jr. Current Formula 3000 driver
Townsend Bell, of San Luis Obispo, Calif.,  made it look easy in 2000 and
2001 in winning consecutive Dayton Indy Lights races. In fact, Bell
completed the 34-lap race in 2001 with a track record time of 50:19.940
minutes (90.365 mph) despite three yellow flags that totaled nine laps.
Bell, who started from the pole, not only led every lap but was also the
fastest driver each lap. Ironically, Bell broke his own track record of
88.072 mph set last year when he won his first career Indy Lights race at
Mid-Ohio  in 2000.

        This year's schedule is full for Atlantic drivers. It begins with a
Promoter Test Day on Thursday, August 7. The two sessions will be held from
9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. and again from 2:00 - 6:00 p.m. The remainder of the
race track schedule (all times eastern) for Dorricott Racing is:

Fri., Aug. 8 -  Practice: 12:15 - 12:45 p.m.
                Provisional Qualifying: 3:45 - 4:15 p.m.

Sat., Aug. 9 -  Practice: 9:15 - 9:45 a.m.
                Final qualifying: 3:00 - 3:30 p.m.

Sun., Aug. 10 - Warm-up: 8:00 - 8:15 a.m.
                RACE:   11:30 a.m.

        Dorricott Racing alumni have succeeded worldwide in open-wheel
racing and other highly regarded motorsports series. Former drivers include
current CART Champ Car star Oriol Servia (Patrick Racing), Casey Mears (the
leading candidate for 2003 NASCAR Winston Cup Rookie-of-the-Year honors/),
Townsend Bell (F3000), Jason Bright (Australian V8 Supercar), Robbie Buhl
(IRL), 2002 Toyota Atlantic Champion Jon Fogarty, Luiz Garcia Jr., Shigeaki
Hattori, Sports Car standout Philipp Peter, Damien Faulkner, Alex Gurney,
Bob Dorricott Jr., and IRL driver and former Motocross champion Jeff Ward.

        Speed Channel will provide a one-hour tape delayed telecast of the
Toyota Atlantic Championship race from Mid-Ohio at 12:30 p.m. ET (9:30 a.m.
PT), Sunday, Aug. 10. Encore telecasts are scheduled with rebroadcasts at
3:00 p.m. ET on Monday, August 11, and again at 5:00 p.m. ET on Friday,
August 15. Live Timing & Scoring information is also available for every
session on the official web site of the CART Toyota Atlantic Championship,
www.toyotaatlantic.com.

        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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