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Doran Goes for Another Victory
In Sahlen's Six Hours of the Glen June 12

LEBANON, Ohio, June 2 - With five victories in Watkins Glen International's
premier endurance sports car race, Kevin Doran already has an amazing success
rate at the historic upstate New York road course.

He would like nothing better than to make it six in the Sahlen's Six Hours of
the Glen on Sunday, June 12 with a DORAN JE4 Daytona Prototype built by Doran
Designs and fielded by Doran Racing of Lebanon, Ohio.

Race times, distances and courses (long and short) have changed through the
years with various sanctioning bodies, but actually a case could be made that
Doran already has six victories in the Glen's premier endurance sports car
race. The race was only three hours long in June 1994, but Doran was victorious
that year as a team owner and manager with the Moretti (Doran) Racing Ferrari
333SP and drivers Gianpiero Moretti and Eliseo Salazar.

Before that he was the crew chief for two victories at the Glen recorded by
Holbert Racing's famous Porsches in 1985 and 1986. That team also won the race
in 1984 prior to Doran signing on.

Doran also has three victories at the Glen for Ferrari.  He was the
mastermind behind one of the most thrilling races ever held there when Max Papis and
Moretti were victorious in the Ferrari in 1996.

Two years later Doran completed the hat trick of victories at the 24 Hours of
Daytona, the 12 Hours of Sebring and the Watkins Glen six-hour race when the
Moretti (Doran) Racing Ferrari 333SP won again with Didier Theys, Moretti and
Mauro Baldi driving.  No other team has ever won American endurance sports car
racing's Triple Crown in a single year, and since Sebring is sanctioned by a
different organization than Daytona and the Glen now, that record is likely to
remain unchallenged for years to come.

Doran's victory in 2001 was another one for the record books. A few weeks
before the race he decided to forgo running the Crawford chassis he had
campaigned and sent for the Ferrari 333 that had already been placed in Fredy
Lienhard's race car museum. Doran and his crew took the car's Ferrari engine out and
replaced it with the Crawford's Judd V10.  The result was another victory, this
time with Theys, Baldi and Lienhard driving.

With a record like that, any car that Kevin Doran enters at Watkins Glen has
to be considered a favorite.  And since the Glen is hosting more Rolex series
events this year than any other track on the circuit, success there will be
critical in the 2005 championship.

With so much on the line Doran Racing is looking forward to the Sahlen's Six
Hours of the Glen June 10-12, run on the same track where it won the shorter
Sahlen's 200 at the Glen last August.

The team will field the Crown Royal Special Reserve DORAN JE4 Lexus No. 77
for Fabrizio Gollin and Matteo Bobbi in the Glen's six-hour race this year.

Didier Theys and Jan Magnussen finished fifth in the team's entry in this
event last June before winning a shorter race on the track's 3.4-mile long course
last August.

In addition to the six-hour race at the Glen on June 12, the series will
visit the Glen Aug. 11-12 for a race in conjunction with a NASCAR NEXTEL Cup show
and on Sept. 22-24 for an event in conjunction with the Indy Racing League
IndyCar series' first visit to the Glen ever. With the exception of two dates at
Daytona International Raceway in Daytona Beach, Fla., no other track has
multiple dates in the Rolex series this year.

Doran Labonte Racing is also scheduled to field a DORAN JE4 for NASCAR stars
Bobby and Terry Labonte in the Aug. 11-12 race at the Glen just as it did in
the Rolex 24 at Daytona in February.  The No. 44 DORAN JE4 Pontiac will also be
entered in the Paul Revere 250 at Daytona on Thursday, June 30 and the
Porsche 250 at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Ala. July 29-31.

Gollin and Bobbi have qualified as high as second in the five races held so
far this year and Bobbi led the last race, the Six Hours of Mont-Tremblant. The
series rookies have been plagued by incidents during the actual racing
competition, however, and to date they haven't been able to seal up what looked like
sure podium finishes. Although they'll be making their first starts at the
Glen as drivers, they hope that with Doran Racing behind them they'll be on the
podium after the checkered falls at 4 p.m. on Sunday, June 12.

Following a track test day on Thursday, June 9, the official practice
sessions that the Daytona Prototype class can participate in are scheduled to be held
from 10 a.m. until 11:30 a.m. on Friday, June 10.   One more hour of practice
at 2:15 p.m. that day is also on the schedule.

On Saturday, June 11 there is practice from 10 a.m. until 11 a.m.; an
autograph session at 11:30 a.m., and a 15-minute qualifying session at 1:25 p.m. 
Since Gollin qualified at Mont-Tremblant it will be Bobbi's turn to qualify at
the Glen.

The six-hour race starts at 10 a.m. on Sunday, June 12.

SPEED will cover the race live in two segments.  Part 1 is scheduled to air
from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m., while Part 2 runs from 12:30 p.m. until 4:30 p.m. All
times are Eastern.

For more information, please see doranracing.com and crownroyal.com. Bobbi's
Web site is at matteobobbi.com and Gollin's is at fabriziogollin.com.

Other interesting information can be found at grandamerican.com, theglen.com,
speedtv.com and restartcommunications.com.