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                     Theys and Lcuenbcrger Finish Tenth
                        In bomn~ll~ta        DORAN JE4 ~   X   U   S   
                         At Paul Revere 250 at  b3ytonr

            DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., July 2 -      Beniarnin Leuenberger and Didier They3 fin-
     ished tenth overall and in thr Daytona, Prototype class in the wee hours of the morning
     Friday in  the Paul Rawre 250 Rokx series race 3t Daytam Intematianal Speedway in
     thr Daran-tlsta DORAN JE4 Lexus #27.
            kurnkrger drove the first stint and passed Hurley flaywood for tenth OR lap
     seven. With some pit stbps by the leaders and same passing d other car3 he was sev-
     enth by lap 27, and he moved into sixth one lap later.
            Unfortunately that1$ as high up the scoring pylon as the team got, as the car ran
     aut 07   fuel on 4ap  29  and  Leuenberger, d Bellach, Bcdothum,  Switzerland,  couldn't
     quite make it k c k  into the pits, The car r3n completely dry and stalled just a few  pit
     stalls short, 80  the Doran-Lista pit crew had b push the car the rest of the way to its plt,
     A11 this happened abaut an hour into the two=houf-and-&-minute race.
            ''It wa3  unexpected," t a m  owner Kevin Doran said,  "We knew we'd be close,
     but he just couldn't make it back to the pits when thr fuel light came crn  when he was
     on the backstretch."
            AWr  mfueling, putting four fresh Goodyear tires on and changing drivers, they3
     was in j2th place. The tarn went another lap down when the Saattsdale, Ark.-based
     driver had to come In about three laps later when the bottom belt of his safety harness
     came undone.
            "I  don't know why that happened; maybe there was dirt or sand in the=," he said
     later.
            A flat-spbW tire and some issues with the brakes cropped up lam, but TRws



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     was 11 th an lap 58 when a yellow forced an 11-lap shootout.  The team pitted for fresh
     rubbrr then t6 tty to gain an advantage over tha two other cars that were an the same
     lap at that point, and despite another yellow far debris before the checkered on lap 70,
     They3 was able to nail dawn tenth at thr line.
           Wayne Taylor and Max Angalalli won the race in the SunTrust Riley Pontiac over
     Scott  Prue%t and  Max  Papie in the  CompUSA Riley Lexus and the CITGO GraWord
     Pontiac of Tony Stewart and Andy Wallace.
           The Michael Shank Racing DORAN JE4 k x u s  ran ELS high as seeand bdore fin-
     lshing iighth. The other two DORAN JE&   In the field didn't finish when they crashed
     tag~therwhile racing for eighth place.
           The r3ce will be broadcast on Sunday at noon Eastern on SPEED.
            For  mare  information  981  www.doranracing.com, www.lista.com,  www.lis-
     taintI.com, www.benleuanbrrger.ch and www.gfanclamerican.com.
           The next m e   an the schsdule is Aug. 8-8 at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course
     in Lexington, Ohio.
            Driver quotes follow:
            Benjamin buenbsrger: "For about threequarters of my stint the car was good,
     but then the  tira started to go and  it was  understeering in the  slow turns.   Then  it
     changed and we had an ovarsker.
           "We may h3w a small problem with the fuel pump or the engine. 1 was quicker
     In the  infield portion of  the track but slower than the cars I WM    running with on the
     straights.''
            Didiw Thays: 'The balance was OK.  We lost at least 8 lap when we ran  out of
     fuel, and after that my belts came loose. There was a problem with the brakes too. We
     probably would Rave had a sixth-place car without those problems."


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