Document from Doran Racing
Brix and Bamhaller FMsh ISth Sunday at 6a-r Motomports Park In FTNlDamn Racing DORAN JE4 Ford
LEEDS, Ala,, July 30 - Contact on lap 12 forced the F~sds the NerdKkiran Racing DORAN JE4 Ford ta play catch-up for tha bulk of Sunday's Porsche 250 pre- sented by Bradley Arant Rolex Series race at Barber Motorsports Park. Drlvers Harrison Brix San Jose, Calif. and Terry Borchrllrr of Vera Beach, Fla., along with the rest of the Lebanon, Ohio-bas~d team, preserved to bring the No, 77 home in 15th place in the 42-car field and prwide more exposure for the Kodak Easyshare Syatem, Amp'd Mobile and SIRIUS with the live PEE TV coverage,
Brix qualified 20th but he actually started 19th when one car withdrew before the ram. Me moved up another spot right away when Randy Ruhlman want off murse on lap one in front of him, sanding a large clump of mud anto the No. 77'8 windshield before it fell off. That put Brix between NASCAR star Bobby Labonte and Craig Stantan try thhe end of lap one, and when the r 3 c ~ finally got going he settled into a good rhflhm as ha tried to 8tay out of trouble and record Past and conslskent lap&
The contact occurred 24 minutes into the race when appanntly Labonte did- n't see Brix In Turn Nine of the 2.3-mile, 16-turn road course. Brix spun but W ~ I able to restart the ear and make it back to the pits for frwh Hoasiers and fuel, but the c3r'3 dutch had been damaged and the entry was now back in 36th place, two laps dawn. A yellow flag on lap 18 when two ears slopped on the course. Many of the other cornspatiton pitted and Brix wa3 able to regain one lap by lap 20 and move up to 30th spot. He pitted himself on lap 21 for fuel only, but he remained only one lap down thanks to team owner Kevin Daran's smart pit strategy, When the green flew again on lap 22 Brix was in 19th spot, one lap down, with
JC France fn 18th pPsiticn Bath Inched ahead In the shndinga, and by lap 31 France was in 17th and Brix was in 18th and they wera the only drlvera one lap dawn, Brix said the car was very good in traffic at that point, but then the wind start- ed to pick up and the skias grew dark. The bmn had a stratagy in mind if a thunder- storm should occur, but It never lalned, Brix stayed in tha car and was in 17th place, sandwiched between Oswaldo Negri and France in the standinga, about an hour and a half into the ~0..h0ur-andd5-minuSe race.
With two hours gone he had moved into 15th place, running between Damn Law and Boris 3aid. He was getling tired by that point but he W$ stilt recording vary eonolatent lap3 that were a@ fast as many gf the car8 in the top 10 at that point, By lap 77 his fastest lap of She race so far wag the 1 :24.978 he pooted on lap 67, The fuel light than demanded athmtion 853 the team brought Brix in an lap 80 under gram while he was in 15th place, Since there was still no rain despite Mother Nature's thraats, the car took on four frash Hoosier Qlicks and fuel and Borcheller took over at that paint.
Tho entv slipped to 17th after the $tap and wa8 hnro laps down at that point, but then Boris Said crashed betwren Turns Fiver and Six on lap 82, and with 15 min- utes remaining in the race Borchaller was up fa 16th spot. Haywood and B,J. Zaoharius tangled on lap 88 to move Boraheller up to 15th and that's where he finished, the only driver on that lap. Borchellrr set the car's fastest lap dthe race on lap 94 of the 37-lap race with a time of 4 24,257 (79.22 MPH)
Harrison Brix; "It was a long time to be in the car. "I think that Bobby [Labante] didn't see me. He shoved me over the curb and sent u8 both into the grass, It was Turn Nine I think. That broke our cluQh, 80 I had to 3tart in fourth gear every time we pitted. "Our car wae better In the ram then it had been in practice. "The contact with Bobby was the only contact I had, but there were too many
"It's another ISth=plaee finish that should have brrn an eighth; that's how I loak at it."
Terry Borcheller: W@II, I 3aw a great race. My 18 minutes or 80 in it wgro great. "We had aome contaut at the beginning that put us behind, but Harrisorr did a good job keeping us in front of the leaders so we didn't go down anothrr lap, We had a strategy plannrd for rain. We burned Harrison to the ground but it never rained, SQ he's a tired puppy,"