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Doran-Lista
Heads to Mont-Tremblant
LEBANON,
Ohio, May 15 - Next weekend Doran-Lista Racing will return
to the
track where it set the largest margin of victory in Grand
American Road Racing
Association history two years ago: Le Circuit Mont-Tremblant
in picturesque
Mont-Tremblant, Quebec, Canada.
Joining
Didier Theys of Scottsdale, Ariz. behind the wheel of
the Doran-Lista
DORAN JE4 Lexus No. 27 will be Jan Magnussen, who will
be making his second
start ever with the Lebanon, Ohio-based team. They will
compete in the Six
Hours of Mont-Tremblant, which is slated to be aired live
on SPEED next Sunday,
May 23, in two segments: one at 11 a.m. Eastern and the
second at 2 p.m.
Eastern.
Magnussen
and Max Papis had the racing world buzzing after they
crashed
together numerous times while battling for the lead at
Homestead-Miami Speedway in
Florida in February. Everyone on the Doran-Lista team
hopes for a cleaner race
and better results in Canada.
Magnussen
was competing in an European Touring Car Championship
race in
Hockenheim, Germany at press time.
Lead
driver Theys expects this six-hour race to be unlike others
he's
competed in for several reasons.
"It's
a long race, but on that track it'll be kind of like a
sprint," he
said. "I think we'll be flat out from lap one until
the last lap because it's so
competitive this year in the Rolex series. The cars are
very closely matched,
so even though it's an enduro, the pace of the race will
be faster this year."
Theys
said the weather is likely to also play a factor. "At
Mont-Tremblant
in May they tell me it could be cold or warm," he
explained. "It may be 55 or
it may be 85; who knows?"
Kevin
Doran and the rest of the team will do their best to arrive
at a good
set-up during practice, which begins at 10 a.m. Friday,
May 21. An additional
practice session will be held Saturday, May 22 at 9:55
a.m. before the Daytona
Prototype class qualifies at 1:30 p.m. The six-hour race
will begin at 11
a.m. local time on Sunday, May 23.
Prior
to that the car will be on display at a press conference
in Montreal on
Wednesday, May 19. Theys will be on hand for that event,
and is also
scheduled to appear on the morning TV show "Cafeine"
that day.
For
more information see www.lista.com, www.listaintl.com,
www.doranracing.com, www.janmagnussen.com and www.grandamerican.com.
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