Hour-Six Report from MMP

    TOOELE, Utah, Sept. 2 - With three hours left in the nine-hour Discount
Tire SunChaser Rolex Series season finale at Miller Motorsports Park, Oriol
Servia has just gotten out of the Feeds the Need/Doran Racing DORAN JE4 Ford
after a double stint and Harrison Brix has taken over the controls of the No. 77.

    After the pit stop the No. 77 is 11th overall, alone on its lap at two
laps down. (We took a video of that particular pit stop with our Kodak EasyShare
camera, and will try to post it on doranracing.com shortly.) Craig Stanton in
the No. 3 is in tenth place, one lap down, and Ralf Kelleners in the No. 23
is in 12th, four laps down. 

    Oriol Servia: “Everything went fine.  No contact with anyone, which is
what I wanted. The only problem I had was the hose became disconnected on my
water bottle during the second half of my stint.

    “The car is good; it’s actually the best it’s been all weekend. So far,
so good!”

    The Doran Racing DORAN JE4 Pontiac No. 78 did a driver change a couple of
minutes before the No. 77 did.  Tony Ave got out and James Gue is now in the
car.

    That stop was longer than usual because the crew bled the car’s rear
brakes.

    Tony Ave: “I was passing the 21 BMW in the kink over there and he got
into my left rear.  I think it bent the toe-in a bit, and I had to get a new tire.

    “The problem we’re having is no brakes.  I didn’t have any at the
beginning of that stint and they got worse.  I’d do one relatively fast lap and then
I had to slow down and try to get the brakes back.”

    The No. 78 is currently 18th, the only car 10 laps down.  B.J. Zacharias
is 17th in the No. 47, 9 laps down, and Marc-Antoine Camirand is 19th in the
No. 09, 11 laps down.