Petersen Motorsports/White Lightning Racing Finishes Fourth in Miami Street Fight

Petersen Motorsports/ White Lightning Racing Finishes Fourth in Miami
Street Fight

MIAMI, September 27, 2003 - Petersen Motorsports/ White Lightning Racing
started third and fought through the streets of downtown Miami to finish
fourth in GT class, 13th overall, in today's Grand Prix Americas. Craig
Stanton, of Long Beach, Calif., drove the first portion of the two hour
and 45-minute American Le Mans Series (ALMS) event before turning
driving duties over to Warfield England's Johnny Mowlem. With mayhem
happening all around, Stanton and Mowlem had only one on track incident,
with a GT class Ferrari, but that ended the team's opportunity for
victory. The No. 31 Westward Ho Casino/ MMPIE/ PAWS/ XtraJet/ Justice
Brothers Porsche 911 GT3 RS suffered a flat tire in the tangle forcing
Mowlem to pit for a new Michelin Pilot racing slick in the final portion
of the race. The stop, while performed with Petersen Motorsports/ White
Lightning Racing's usual quickness, cost the Road America 500-winning
team two laps and a chance at a podium finish. The fourth-place
continues the team's streak of top-five finishes dating back to the end
of 2002.

"At a track like this, the odds are you are going to be involved in
something," said team manager Dale White. "The fact that we only had the
one incident and we were able to load the car on the trailer is pretty
good. Obviously, we are disappointed because we feel like we had a car
with winning potential here. We'll take the fourth and move on to Petit
in a few weeks."

"On a track like this contact is almost inevitable," said Mowlem after
stepping from the red, white and yellow Porsche. "Unfortunately, our
contact cost us a podium. But it still leaves us in the hunt at Petit Le
Mans for a top-three finish in points for GT privateers." 

Petersen Motorsports/ White Lightning Racing began operation in the late
1980s competing in off-road endurance events. The duo of Petersen and
White joined to win over 50 off-road truck victories including
three-consecutive overall wins at the Baja 1000 and Baja 500 and four
SCORE, SNORE and SODA championships. Since introducing the team to
sports car racing, the effort has scored victories in the ALMS, the
Trans-Am Series, Speed Challenge Series and endurance sports car wins at
the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Watkins Glen and at the Rolex 24 of Daytona.