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If the following text-only file is not easily readable, particularly any tables of numbers, try enlarging this window since every line has a forced end and there is no word-wrap. Otherwise, this report will look and print better from the following PDF file: http://www.sportssystems.com/applib/PDFload.cfm?file=/email/filehost/FW482.pdf&id=BC482FW1VC706 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information: Linda Mansfield Restart Comrnunimtims Cell: 317-201-0729 MAKING WORKSPACE WORK. E-mail: LindaKMansfield Qcs.com Doran-Lista Finishes Seventh Saturday In Grand American Race at Mid-Ohio LEXINGTON, Ohio, Aug. 7 - The Doran-Lista team finished seventh both overall and in the Daybolna Prototype class in the EMCOGears Mid-Ohio Road Racing Classic Grand American Rolex series race at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course Saturday night. Drivers Didier Theys of Scottsdale, Ark. and Benjamin Leuenberger of Bellach, Solothum, Switzerland were challenged by a car that w3s did not handle as well as usual, but the Doran-Lista DORAN JE4 Lexus still ran very competitive laps throughout the race. The team had an excellent overall race strategy, and both of it5 pits stops were made under full-course yellows and went like clockwork. Several other Daytona Prototypes were involved in accidents during the two-hour-and-45-rninute race, SO just being able to leave Mid-Ohio relatively unscathed prior to next Friday's race at Watkins Glen, N.Y. was an accomplishment. Theys qualified eighth and drove the first stint. He was eighth when he pitted under a full-course yellow on lap 37 at almost the one-hour mark when Terry Borcheller ended up in the gravel in turn 11 with a broken steering rack. kuenberger got in at that point and drove the rest of the way. With some attri- tion he moved slowly forward, and an lap 56 with about one hour to go he cracked the top five. Leuenberger said the Crawford Pontiac of Stephan Gregoire and Doug Goad passed both him and anather competitor under a yellow flag, and he also was ham- pered by so much rubber building up on his left-front tire that it 4roke the levers orl m-a-r-e l%3RAN ENTERPRISES. INC. 2050 McKinley Elvd., Lebanon, P H 45036 (513) 336-0819 www,doxanracing.com MAKING WORKSPACE WORK. Doran-LlstalMid-O hlo results Page 2 of 2 the car's bodywork in that area. He was sixth when he pitted on lap 78 under a full-course yellow for an acci- dent involving 3 Porschs and 3 Maserati in turn nine. Having fresh Goodyears helped a lot, and 3t the end he was able to run laps comparable to the cars which fin- ished third, fourth and fifth. Lapped traffic thwarted any run on them at the end, how- ever, and he took the checkered in seventh. The race was broadcast on a tape-delayed basis Saturday night OR SPEED. Max Papis and Scott Pruett won in the CompUSA Hiley Lexus. For more information see www.lista.com, www.listaintl.com, www.doranrac- ing.com, www.grandamerican.com and www.benleuenberger.ch. Driver quotes follow: Didier Theys; "When I was in the car we had an understeer first, and then we had an oversteer, I was sliding around on all four wheals. Our set-up was just not good: it was just a bad weekend for us. We'll go to Watkins Glen and hopefully we'll do better there." Ben Leuenberger:" The Lexus engine was good. The balance of the car 3t the beginning of my stint w3s good at first, but then after a couple of laps it was under- steering. We had a soft brake pedal too. ''The 09 passed me and another car under yellow once, but the off Ccials didn't do anything about it. "The left front levers on the bodywork broke out because of all the tire build- up on that tire. So much rubber got built up that it broke the bodywork. "After I came in for fresh tires the car was fast again, and at the end we were running as fast as the cars that finished third, fourth and fifth. The Kodak car was several laps down but it got between me and the cars I was trying to pass, 50 we were still sev~nthat the end." D O W T N T E R P R I S E S . INC. 2050 McKinley Elvd., Lebanon, OH 45036 (513) 336-0319 .. www.daranracing.com I