Doran Racing Looks Forward to
Saturday Night Action at Home Track
LEBANON,
Ohio, June 20 - Saturday's EMCO Gears Classic
Rolex Series race at
the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington,
Ohio will be a homecoming of sorts
for most of the members of Doran Racing,
which is based in the Cincinnati
suburb of Lebanon, Ohio, approximately 130
miles away.
Doran
Enterprises companies built (Doran Designs)
and field (Doran Racing)
one of the most popular cars on the circuit,
the Feeds the Need/Doran Racing
DORAN JE4 Ford No. 77 Daytona Prototype.
The yellow and black car, which carries
the colors of the Kodak EasyShare System,
Amp'd Mobile and SIRIUS, is driven
by Terry Borcheller of Vero Beach, Fla.
and Harrison Brix of San Jose, Calif.
Besides
the facts that the car was built in Ohio;
the team owner, Kevin
Doran, is an Ohio native and still lives
here; the car is located at the team
headquarters in Ohio when it isn't on the
road or at another event; and the
majority of the pit crew members live in
Ohio, there are other close ties between
the
entry and the 2.258-mile, 15-turn road course
too.
Borcheller,
the 2003 Daytona Prototype driver champion,
and Feeds the Need's
Forest Barber won this race in 2003 in a
DORAN JE4 built by Doran Designs and
fielded by Bell Motorsports. (Borcheller
will be coming to Mid-Ohio after
finishing 11th overall and sixth in the
GT1 class in the 24 Hours of Le Mans last
weekend while driving a Saleen for ACEMCO
Motorsports.)
Although
Brix is in his first full season of Rolex
Series competition,
Mid-Ohio was the site of his first Rolex
Series race ever, which was the 2004 EMCO
Gears Classic. He finished fifth in the
SGS class in the Grease Monkey Racing
Porsche GT3 Cup car that year.
Brix
says it was unnerving when four Daytona
Prototypes bore down on his
Porsche for the first time that day.
"After
I got over my initial terror, I thought,
'I have to drive one of
those,'" Brix recalls, and now, two
years later, he'll be doing that at Mid-Ohio
this weekend.
The
team goes into the event 12th in the Daytona
Prototype team standings.
It finished eighth in the last race, the
Sahlen's Six Hours of the Glen in
Watkins Glen, N.Y. on June 3.
The
Mid-Ohio action starts with a test day on
Thursday from 8 a.m. until 6
p.m., which is when most of the Rolex Series
drivers will get their first chance
to try out the track since it's been repaved.
The Kodak car's first official
practice session during the race weekend
starts at 10 a.m. on Friday, with
the 15-minute qualifying session at 4:55
p.m. that afternoon.
On
race day, which is Saturday for the Rolex
Series this time, there is a
practice session at 10:10 a.m. and an autograph
session at noon before the race
starts at 5:30 p.m. The distance is 250
miles/111 laps or two hours and 45
minutes.
The
race will be televised on a tape-delayed
basis at 3 p.m. Eastern time the
following day, Sunday, June 25, on SPEED.
For
more information see doranracing.com, grandamerican.com,
midohio.com,
tborcheller.com and harrisonbrix.com. The
series' Web site will have live timing
and scoring.
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