Grand American Champions Weekend from Doran Racing

           DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., Nov. 1 -        Although Doran-Lista Racing team owner
     Kevin Doran admitted he would h3ve liked the order to be reversed, he was delight-
     ed when the DORAN JE4s he designed and built finished first and second Saturday
     in the Grand American Champions Weekend at Daytona I nternatbnal Speedway.
           With  their  overall  victory  the  Bell  Motorsports  DORAN JE4  Chew  #54  of
     Forest Barber and Terry Borcheller won the two-hour-and-45-minute race by a mar-
     gin of  13.998 seconds over the Doran-Lista Racing DORAN JE4 Toyota #27 of Didier
    Theys  and  Bill  Auberlen.  The  victory  was  just  icing  on  Bell  Matorsports' cake,
    because  they   also  sealed  up  the   Daytona  Prototype  team  championship  and
     Borcheller won the Daytona Prototype driver championship.
           The Doran-Lista team, which was making only its fourth start with its DORAN
    JE4 Toyota, was the star of the show for the first two-thirds of the race.  Auberlen was
    able to pull away from the field easily and looked uncatchable.
           Fuel mileage came into play as the race progressed, however.   Although the
     Doran-Lista Earn made all three d its pit stops under full-course yellows, the team wait-
    ed until there was just one lap to go until the green waved on  its third stop in order to
     have enough fuel to go the rest of the distance.  That shuffled Thsys back to seventh,
    but somehow the Scottsdale, Ark-based driver was able to record one of  his famous
    charges at the end to nail down second with just one lap to go when Stu Hayner ran
    out of fuel in his Mustang.
           David Donohue provided the most trouble for Theys in the  last stage of  the
    race, providing for some thrilling videotape.   "I caught David and he tired to hit me,
    50  I paid him  back," Theys  said  afterwards.   "If  you want  to start something,  then
    O K , 1'11  continue it," he warned firmly.
           Auberlen  had an incident with JC France in the morning warm-up that caused
    right-side suspension damage to the car, but he had a much easier r3w than Theys did.
           "When I w3s in the car, it was better than it had been all weekend," Auberlen,
    of Hermosa Beach, Calif., said.  "I could just walk away from everybody.  The balance
    was good, the power was good and the Goodyear tires were good."
           "It was a fantastic season for the Bell  Motorsports team, and I want to  con-
    gratulate everybody on that team and especially Jim  Bell,  Forest Barber and Terty
     Borcheller," Doran said.  "They won six  races and the championship and they all did
    a great job, and they certainly made me proud.
           "As for our team, we were good early but we just weren't quick enough today
    to beat Terry and Forest," Doran added.
           "Our Goodyear tires were fantastic like they  always are.   We  have the best
    tires, the best car, a fantastic engine partner in Toyota and look at that driver line-up.
     I expect we'll  get back to victory lane here pretty quick,"  he added.