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Feeds the Need/Doran Racing Loves VIR

LEBANON, Ohio, April 18 - The Virginia Tourism Corp. advertises "Virginia is
for Lovers." The Feeds the Need Racing/Doran Racing team and its drivers,
Terry Borcheller and Harrison Brix, will take that agency's word on that, but they
do know they love to race at VIRginia International Raceway (VIR) in Alton.

They'll get their annual chance to do that this weekend when their beautiful
yellow-and-black Kodak EasyShare/Amp'd Mobile/SIRIUS DORAN JE4 Ford No. 77
Daytona Prototype goes down pit road and onto VIR's 3.27-mile road course.

Doran Racing is one of the top teams worldwide in endurance sports car
racing, and it has an excellent record at VIR. The Lebanon, Ohio-based team has been
on the pole and on the podium 50 percent of the time it has competed here.

In the four previous Rolex Series races held here the team qualified on the
pole twice (2002 and 2003) in the extremely competitive series. Its best finish
here so far is second in 2002, and it also finished on the podium here last
year with drivers Fabrizio Gollin and Matteo Bobbi. A stellar record like that
proves that the team is one to watch here this weekend.

Borcheller and Brix are big fans of VIR.  "It's a great track," said
Borcheller, the 2003 Daytona Prototype champion from Vero Beach, Fla.  "I like it
because it has a lot of different elements.  I like the high-speed esses and the
elevation changes.  The track has a good flow; it has a good rhythm to it.
There are some turns that require hard braking, and you need downforce there.
Traffic is always fun there with the GT cars too."

Brix agrees.  "I absolutely love the track," the Rolex Series rookie from San
Jose, Calif. said.  "It rewards the driver with both high-speed and low-speed
turns.  It's like the perfect golf course is to a golfer.  It's technical and
it's challenging. It's a fantastic facility; they've done a lot of work there
and it's a fantastic place.

"I'd like to do the VIR Enduro Rally someday too," Brix added.  "It's the
only track I've been to that has an enduro rally course."

As much as Borcheller loves VIR, his experiences there have been as up and
down as some of the state's famous roller coasters at Busch Gardens Williamsburg
and Paramount's Kings Dominion.

"It's been a kind of hot-and-cold race for me in regards to finishes,"
Borcheller agreed.  "Our race at VIR used to be at the end of the year so it was
important in the points battle.  I lost a championship when I ran out of gas
there once.  Another time I gained in the championship battle when we won there in
2003. I think I clinched the SRPII championship there one year too [2002].

"So it's really good or really disappointing for me," Borcheller concluded.

Borcheller and Andy Pilgrim won this race in 2003 while driving the Feeds the
Need Racing/Bell Motorsports car, which was also a DORAN JE4 designed and
built by Doran Designs.  Borcheller and Christian Fittipaldi were seventh at VIR
in 2004 for that team, but it didn't compete in the VIR race last year.

Since this is his first full season of Rolex Series competition, Brix is just
happy that he's raced at this track in the past and doesn't have to learn it
from scratch this weekend.

"I've had some success there," he said. "I raced there in Skip Barber, in the
GT class, and also in a Daytona Prototype last year with Dyson.  I got
seventh there last year, which was my first top-10 in a Daytona Prototype, so that
was good."

This year's edition of the race will be broadcast live at 1 p.m. Eastern time
on Sunday on the SPEED Channel.

Practice for the Daytona Prototype class starts at 9:30 a.m. on Friday.  An
autograph session is slated for 10:45 a.m. on Saturday followed by 30-minute
qualifying races for both the GT and the Daytona Prototype classes at 12:30 p.m.
and 1:15 p.m., respectively.  The Rolex Series race is scheduled to start at
1 p.m. on Sunday. The distance is 250 miles/77 laps or two hours and 45
minutes, whichever comes first.

Both Borcheller and Feeds the Need's Forest Barber plan to compete in the
Grand-Am Cup race at VIR on Saturday in the Blackforest Racing Ford Mustang GT
No. 2.  It's in the GS class, which has 53 entries in a whopping 96-car field.

At press time there are 26 Daytona Prototypes and 19 GT cars entered for a
field of 45 for Sunday's Rolex Series race.

Live timing and scoring of the Rolex Series race is slated for the Internet
at grandamerican.com.  Doran Racing's Web site is at doranracing.com.  Other
interesting information can be found at fordracing.com, tborcheller.com,
harrisonbrix.com, feedstheneedracing.com and restartcommunications.com.


 
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