Doran-Lista WINS Sahlen's 200 at the Glen

                WATKINS GLEN, N.Y.,  Aug.  13 -     Team owner  Kevin Doran's slick move to
         have Jan Magnussen duck into the pits for slick Goodyears late in the race coupled
         with some slick driving by both Magnussen and Didier Theys earned the Doran-Lista
         team the victory in  Friday night's Sahlen's 200  Rolex series  race at Watkins Glen
          International.
                The Doran-Lista DORAN JE4 Lexus E 7  was in fifth or sixth place for most of
         the race, which was televised on SPEED Friday night. Magnussen had just passed
         Cort Wagner far fourth when a full-course yellow waved for an errant Porsche in the
         B S S ~ S with 23 minutes left in the two-hour race.
                Magnussen had been dasbing through as many puddles as he could find on
         the course to mol his rain tires at the time, and Doran used that opportunity to bring
         his car into the pits for slicks.
                It proved to be the winning move. The timing of  the pit stop  was  such that
         Magnussm didn't  lose much track position, as he restarted in sixth place when the
         green flag waved again with just  12 minutes remaining.   He took fifth from the  Red
         Bull FABCAR  Porsche #58 at the top of    the hill on lap 64. Everyone on the team's
         hearts skipped a beat when another yellow came out an instant later.   It didn't last
         long, however,  and Magnussen passed the  Rx.com/G&W  DORAN JE4  BMW #81,
         the CornpUSA Riley Lexus #Ol   and the Kodak Easehare DORAN JE4 Pontiac #54
         all on the same lap to vault into second place. He took the lead from Max Angelelli in
         the SunTrust Riley Pontiac #I0 in turn 1 i  on lap 67with just six minutes left, much to
         the delight of everyone associated with the Lebanon, Ohio-based team.

                      Two other teams opted to also pit faor  slicks late in the race.  One of those cars,
         another DORAN JE4 Lexus fiejded by Michael Shank Racing, went on to finish see
         ond. The SunTrusf team rounded out the podium finishers. The  Kodak Easyshare
         DORAN JE4 Pontiac was fourth. The CompUSA Riley Lexus of Max  Papis and Scott
         Pruett finished fifth followed by the fourth DORAN JE4 in the field, the Rx.corn/G&W
         Motorsports entry, in sixth.
                Theys drove the first stint of   the race, making the team's first pit $top for rain
         tires, fuel and Magnussen to get in on  lap 34 under a full-course caution for a multi-
         car  accident in turn 11 ~    The track conditions were like ice at the  time. Theys did a
         180-spin at the pit entrance but didn't hit anything, successfully dodging a bullet far
         the eventual winning effort.
                Didier Theys: "We learned the hard way last year when we stayed a little too
         long on the rain tires. We discussed it before the  race; we know that this track gets
         dry very fast,  even with the humidity  That's how we decided on the last yellow to go
         with slicks, evm if it w3s hard for Jan on the first few laps, because the line was still
         kind of wett. But I think it was the best strategy of the day.
                "Our car had a little bit of  understeer when 1  was driving.  It  was raining hard
         everywhere when  I came in.  I did a  180 spin at the entrance to  the pits.   1  put the
         clutch in  but I couldn't hold it.  The track was like ice.
        "Watkins Glen has a place in my heart.  When  I  came here in 1985, I  won my
        first race here in the United States in Super Vees.   I won the six-hour ram twice.
                "Everybody did a perfect job today-"
                Jan Magnussen; "I wanted slicks, but we knew there was a chanm for a yel-
         low. We talked about it for three seconds, and decided it was probably a good idea.
         I won't say it was great driving at the end because it's easier to beat avemrsdy when
         you have slicks and they're on wets.  But we won the race on the right decision at the
         right time.
               "We have a good car and a good team.   I was confident that we'd be fast in
         the rain or the dry.   I used up the rain tires pretty bad.
               "It was understeering in the wet a little, but the car was gmd,  I  played with the
         traction control to see if I could make it  better."
               Kevin Doran: "We out-foxed them on tire strategy   When the yellow w3v&,   I
        said 'Jan, pit, pit pit!' We just barely got in on that lap, but that gave us good track
        position on the restart.
               'last year we didn't get on slicks quick enough, 50 we  knew we wanted to get
        on them quickly today.  We figured that as long as it stayed dry, we had it in the bag.
         If it wou1d have rained again, our gamble wouldn't have paid off.
               "We needed  this  win.   It  couldn't came at  a better time.  DORAN JE4s  were
        first,  second,fourth and sixth.''