Sahlen's Six Hours of the Glen at Watkins Glen International

           WATKINS  GLEN,  N*Y., June  20  - Jan  Magnussen  led  a  dozen  laps  in
    Sunday's Sahlen's Six Hours of the Glen at Watkins Glen International in the Doran-
     Lista DORAN JE4 Lexus 827 before he, codriver Didier Theys and the rest of the
    Lebanon, Ohio-based team finished a solid fifth.
           Magnussen, of  Raskilde, Denmark, started seventh but quickly moved up to
    fourth in the caution-filled race, which was slowed 10 times for 32 of the 164 laps run
    in the six-hour time period.
           The team battled an understeering condition for most of   the race but used the
    numerous full-course cautions to make adjustments.
           Magnussen  had  a  good  battle with  Oswaldo  Negri  in the  Michael  Shank
    Racing DORAM JE4 Lexus during the early portion of  the race, and at hour two the
    Shank DORAN was fifth and the Doran-Lista DORAN was sixth,
           When several of  the leaders pitted for fuel around laps 48-51 , Magnussen was
    able to ease into second. Seconds later there was a full-course caution when The
    Racers Group Porsche #65 hit the wall in turn 11. Magnussen was able to make his
    stop for fuel and fresh Goodyears under that full-course yellow on lap 53. Five laps
    later, on lap 58, three hours and 24 minutes into the race, he passed the CompUSA
    Riley Lexus in turn one for the lead.
           At that point Magnussen said the car's balance was good, and he was able to
    stretch his advantage to some 11 564 seconds just a few laps later.
           Magnussen was still leading on lap 70  when he pitted for four tires, fuel and to
    be relieved by Theys.  Driver changes take longer than regular stops of  course, and
    at the three-hour mark there were  three  DORAN JE4s running seventh, eighth and
    ninth, with Theys in eighth place.
           Theys was able to battle back up to third before Magnussen got back in the
    car for the finish on lap 139 with a k u t  40 minutes remaining.
           The team's third driver, Fredy Lienhard of Niederteufen, Switzerland, ended up
    not taking a turn behind the wheel during the race in order for the team's two profes-
    sional race car drivers to try to move the  effort up the scareboard.
           The  team  dropped  back  to  seventh  after  its  second  driver  change,  but
    Magnussen moved back into sixth pretty quickly and then got fifth just three laps from
    the  end from the Red Bull Fabcar  Porsche #58,  which  was  battling a fuel pickup
    problem.

           The  race was  won  by the  CompUSA  Riley Lexus of  Max Papis  and  Scott
     Pruett.
           The  Doran-Lista entry was the topfinishing DORAN JE4 in the field but two
     others were also in the top 10.  The Michael Shank Racing DORAN JE4 LEXUS       was
     eighth and the Bell Motorsports DORAN JE4 Pontiac was ninth. The fourth one, the
     Rx.comIG&W Motorsports  DORAN JE4 EMW, was 24th.
           Quotes follow:
           JAN MAGNUSSEN (after his first stint);  "At the  beginning the car was under-
     steering, which is the same problem we had here in practice and qualifying.  With so
     many yellows the Doran-Usta mew was able to make some changes to the car and
     we did make some headway.  Right now the car is not great, but it's OK.  I was happy
     to get in the lead and I was able to pull away.
           "Right before I came in I was lapping a Porsche in the turn after the Bus Stop,
     and I saw that he w3s wiggling.   I was on the outside of him and 1 thought he was
     going to hit me.   I got in the grass to avoid him, and 1  got grass in the radiator and
    the water temperature went up high.  The team cleaned that all out during the pit stop
    though and now the water temperatum is fine.
           "Other than that the  only real  problem I  had  was just normal traffic.   It was a
     long session though; three hours for me."
           JAN MAGNUSSEN (after the race): "We made a step in the wrong direction at
    the end and made the car loose.   But I had no problems in that stint. When we were
     leading the car was gmd at that point, but from then until the end it [the difference in
    the car] was 2 seconds."
           DlDlER  THEYS:  "I  didn't haw any problems during my stint.  WE?  got back up
    to third before 1  had to pit for fuel and to put Jan back in for the finish.  We had some
    understeer at the  beginning of   my stint but we made a tire pressure change and it
    was good the rest of the way for me."
           KEVIN DORAN: ''We just weren't fast enough here.  We'll take fifth and go on
    to the next race."