Bad Luck Spoils FTN/Doran Racing's Chances
In Rolex Series Race at PIR Saturday Night

PHOENIX, May 13 - Both of the Feeds the Need/Doran Racing drivers were
involved in accidents in Rolex Series action Saturday night at Phoenix International
Raceway, and the team was forced to retire its Kodak EasyShare/Amp'd
Mobile/SIRIUS DORAN JE4 Ford with 101 laps completed out of what turned out to be a
149-lap race after two hours and 45 minutes of competition.

It was the team's only DNF so far this year.

The entry's official order of finish was 21st in the Daytona Prototype class
and 32nd overall.

Harrison Brix started ninth but trouble erupted on lap one when Brix was
sandwiched by two other drivers in Turn Nine and the car suffered front-end damage.

After quick pit work by the Lebanon, Ohio-based crew the entry was able to
continue, although it was down a couple of laps.

Team owner Kevin Doran encouraged the San Jose, Calif.-based driver to
concentrate on driving smooth, consistent laps. Brix complied, and the car started
to make its way back up the standings. Brix passed a GT car to move into 20th
place on lap 53, and by lap 83, the scheduled half-way point, he was 18th.

Doran also used smart pit strategy to make up one complete lap shortly after
a full-course yellow waved on lap 93 because the Banner Racing Corvette had
hit the wall in Turn Nine.  The Kodak car's Hoosier tires were changed and it
got fuel when Brix pitted on lap 96 under that yellow for Borcheller to take
over. The car was in 17th place at the time, and the crew performed its typical
fast pit stop.

On the restart on lap 100 Borcheller immediately got to work too. He passed
the Howard-Boss No. 4 right way to move into 16th on lap 101, but on lap 103
his drive was thwarted prematurely when the car received right-front damage as
he was trying to pass the Brumos Porsche No. 59 on the inside.

A few seconds after the accident Borcheller, a long-time Phoenix resident who
now lives in Vero Beach, Fla., said over the radio that he didn't know if the
other driver had seen him or not.

The team brought the car behind the pit wall and began to make repairs but
called it a night shortly thereafter.

The CompUSA car of Scott Pruett and Luis Diaz won, while the car that Brix
had the earlier problem with finished second in the race, the featured event of
the GAINSCO Grand Prix weekend.

"I had passed the 5 car cleanly and when I got alongside the 89 car he
dive-bombed us and shoved me into the Finlay car and took the nose off," Brix said
afterwards. "It happened in Turn Nine.  It was one of the stupidest things I've
ever seen."

Saturday night's race will be broadcast on SPEED tomorrow (Sunday) at 3 p.m.
Eastern time.

Doran Racing was 11th in team points going into this event and unofficially
it's now 13th.

The team's next race is coming right up on June 2-3 and it's a big one: the
Six Hours of the Glen at Watkins Glen International in Watkins Glen, N.Y. 
Borcheller, Brix and Forest Barber of Fort Worth will share the driving duties in
that event, part of the Indy Racing League weekend. 

Two other events are planned for June: the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in
Lexington, Ohio June 23-24 and Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach,
Fla. June 29.

Earlier in the day the sanctioning body president announced that there would
be no more qualifying races this year, pulling the schedule back to 17 point
races.  Three qualifying races had been held: one at VIRginia International
Raceway on April 22; one at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey, Calif. on May
6; and one last night at PIR.  (Borcheller finished ninth in that event.) Two
others for the Daytona Prototype class had been planned for Mid-Ohio and
Miller Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Ala., but now those tracks will host single
point races.

For more information see doranracing.com, grandamerican.com, fordracing.com,
tborcheller.com, harrisonbrix.com and feedstheneedracing.com.