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Brix's Story Goes from Joy Sticks to Gear Shifts;
The Pursuit of a Lost Love to
The Pursuit of His Love of Racing


From left to right, Harrison Brix, Terry Borcheller and team owner Kevin
Doran discuss the set-up on the Kodak EasyShare DORAN JE4 Ford during the recent
Rolex test days at Daytona.  (Linda Mansfield photo)

LEBANON, Ohio, Jan. 16 - Harrison Brix is a race car driver, not an actor,
but the story of how the young man from San Jose, Calif. came to be racing in
this year's Rolex 24 at Daytona International Speedway smacks of a movie script.

Brix may want to pinch himself when he climbs into Doran Racing's Kodak
EasyShare DORAN JE4 Ford No. 77 for his first stint in the car he'll share with
2003 Daytona Prototype champion Terry Borcheller, multi-time boat racing champion
Forest Barber, and Champ Car and NASCAR's Michel Jourdain Jr.

"I think I have one of the strangest starts of almost anyone, but if it
works, it works," said Brix, 25, who carries the colors of SIRIUS Satellite Radio
in addition to Kodak.

Like all good movie scripts, there's a girl involved.  In Brix's case, this
time it was one that got away.

"I chased an ex-girlfriend to Europe, but it didn't work out," he related. 
"While I was killing some time at Heathrow Airport in London, waiting for my
flight home, I saw a video contest.

"There were 1,850 tickets being sold, and each ticket cost 75 British
pounds," he explained. "There was a soccer player on the screen heading balls, and
you had to predict where the center of the ball was going to end up based on the
player's eyes."

The prize was a CL500 Mercedes.

Brix took a shot at it, and several weeks later he learned he'd won.

Not wanting to pay to import the car to California, he arranged to have it
sold in Europe, and he used the proceeds to pursue his dream of racing cars, not
just go-karts. He is a graduate (with honors) in economics from Loyola
Marymount University and he had a job working for his father's company, The Brix
Group, in the information technology department, but he still wanted to try to
race full-time.  The trip to Europe to pursue the girl, coupled with his talents
playing video games and some old-fashioned good luck, provided that
opportunity.

"After flaming out with my ex and then winning the contest, it seemed like
something was driving me back to racing," he said.  "Even though everyone around
me told me to abandon my dream, fate has something else in store.  I think
I'm just meant to be here."

Brix was the Skip Barber Western Series champion and Rookie of the Year for
2003-2004. He ran a few Skip Barber national championship races early in 2004
before dropping that series to run five Rolex Series races in the SGS class
with Sigal Sport that year.  He was in the top five each time, with one victory.

Brix also ran a limited Rolex series schedule in 2005, competing in the Essex
Racing Crawford Ford No. 5 Daytona Prototype in last year's Rolex 24 and then
doing five more races for Howard Boss/Dyson Racing in the Crawford Pontiac
No. 06.

With help from SIRIUS, he'll now drive the Kodak EasyShare car in all 14
races on the 2006 schedule.

"It's been a wild ride so far, but I'm really happy to be part of the Doran
Racing team for the 2006 Rolex Series and the Rolex 24," he said.

"Now I'll just have to wait and see where fate takes me this year."

He hopes for a true Hollywood ending and victory lane.

"I don't want to jinx us, but it could happen and if it did it would be
great," he said.  "I know everyone on our team will be trying their best.  The
Doran JE4 won the Rolex 24 two years ago, and Kevin Doran's team is always one to
be reckoned with at the Rolex 24. They always run up front.

"I'm really looking forward to having Terry [Borcheller] as my mentor in my
first full season of the Rolex Series too," he added.

Fans can see the next scene by either attending the Rolex 24 in person Jan.
28-29 in Daytona Beach, Fla. or watching SPEED's live coverage of it.  The
network plans to show the race in three parts this year: from noon until 6 p.m.
and from 8 p.m until 11 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 28, and from 8 a.m. until 12:30
p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 29.  All times are Eastern.

Practice starts at 10 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 26, with qualifying for the
Daytona Prototypes at 3:45 p.m. that afternoon.  More practice and qualifying will
be held on Friday, Jan. 27 prior to the race starting at noon on Saturday,
Jan. 28 and concluding 24 hours later.

Further "acts" in Brix's story will be posted on the team's Web site at
doranracing.com; the series' Web site at grandamerican.com; and at
Kodak.com/US/en/consumer/garr/ and restartcommunications.com.



 
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