Document from Doran Racing

                DorawLista Racing Battles Back to Finish Second
                     In.Top c~ass       Sunday In Relex 24 at Daytona
                 DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., Feb. 1  -       First the Doran-Lista Racing team had to
          start 31 5t in this weekend's Rolex 24 at Daytona International Speedway.
                 Lead driver Didier Theys carefully but swiftly picked his way through the field
          3t the stat? on Saturday, and by the end of hour two of the 24-hour enduro he was in
          third overall.
                 Co-driver Marc Goossens had tussles with two different Porsches during his
          first: stint, one ofwhich caused quite a bit of  damage to the DORAN JE4 Lexus #27.
          By the end of hour four the team was almost as far back as it had starbxi, as it was
          in 29th place, nine laps down.
                 From that point  on Theys,  Goossans  and fellow drivers Jan  Larnmers and
          F r a y  Lienhard Sr. did their best to keep the car running and to work their way back
          up  through the field,  Although they consistently had the fastest car on the track many
          times, it was clear that their game of catch-up w3s just that.   After b u r s  and hours
          stuck  12-14 laps back, it became evident that the team needed their main rivals to
          experience some of    the same problems they'd had if  they were ever going to catch
          up to them.
                 A5  luck  would  have  it, they  did.  The  most  notable  was  the  Howard-Boss
          Motorsports team  of  Andy  Wallace, Tony  Stewart  and  Dale  Earnharddt Jr., which
          appeared to  have the  event firmly  in control until just  20 minutes from the end on
          Sunday  afternoon  when  their  CrawFord3  left-rear  Goodyear  came cdf   its  rim  and
          turned sideways, causing Stewart to spin out.
                 In the last hour the Doran-Lista team went from sixth overall and fourth in the
          Daytona Prototype class,  nin0 laps down, to finish fourth overall and second in the
          Daytona Prototype class only to the overall  winners,  the  Bell  Motorsports DORAN
          JE4  Pontiec team  of  Terry  Borcheller,  Forest  Barber,  Andy  Pilgrim and  Christian
          Fittipaldi.
                 A third DORAN JE4 in the field, making its first start ever, was seventh cwerall
          at the finish.   All three of these cars were built by Doran Designs, Lebanon, Ohio,
     
                 Most of the race was held under steady to driving rain which kept the drivers'
          visibility to a minimum and caused a three-hour full-course yellow and another three-
          hour red. In addition the car lost its windshield wipers and had radio problems almost
          from the start, as the drivers could hear the pit crew but the pit crew couldn't hear the
          driver or vice-versa.
                 But the team's perseverance paid off  when two of its main rivals had problems
          late in the race, allowing the Dbraan-Lista squad to  move up dramatically in the final
          standings.
                 Although  his  three  m-drivers  have  all  won  this  race  before,  some  twice,
          Goossens was making his first start both at the RdeK 24 and at DagFtona.
                 "It was a new challenge to me and a big challenge to go on the banking," he
          said. "The poor visibility in the car due to the weather was our biggest obstacle.   My
          contact with that  Porsche did a lot of  damage.   I simply didn't see the guy,  but that
          basically destroyed our chances for the overall victory.  We tried our best to catch up,
          and for my first time here 3nd to be on the podium, I'm pretty happy."
                 "It was  a tough race," agreed Theys.   "We  lost some laps on Saturday.   We
          caught up some but not enough.  That happens with Daytana many times, but it's not
          over until it's over."
                 "Given the  circumstances  and starting from  31st,  I think  we  did well,"  said
          Lammers. "When you're an ambitious driver with an ambitious team and you came
          ciose to winning it again it's easy to be disappointed with second in class instead of
          the victory, but you have to block away that thought and be satisfied."
                 "Kevin and everyone  on our team did a great job during very difficult mndi-
          tions," said Lienhard.  "Our team never stopped trying.  You must never stop trying if
          you want to succeed in anything-"
                 "It was the hardest 24 hours in my 20th anniversary year of this race," acknowl-
          edged team owner Kevin Doran.  "The weather conditions and the competition made
          it incredibly difficult.   It was a fantastic race, and juSe  a taste of things to come in the
          Grand American Rolex Series this year."
                 As  another  acknowledgement of  its amrnplishment, the team  received the
          SunTrust Hard Charger Award for being the team which improved its starting position
          the most during the race.
                 For more information see www.Iista-corn, www.listaintl.com,  and w w w . d o ~ ~ - 
          racing.com.  Lammers' Web  site  is  at  www.janlammers.com  and  Goossens' is  at
          www.marcgoossens.com.