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FTN/Doran Racing Starts Important May-June Swing
With Races at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca This Weekend


LEBANON, Ohio, May 1 - Two races at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey,
Calif. this weekend begin the two most important months of the 2006 Rolex Series
for the Daytona Prototype class and the Feeds the Need/Doran Racing team, as
eight of 19 Daytona Prototypes races for 2006 are scheduled to be held in May
and June.

The team's drivers, Terry Borcheller of Vero Beach, Fla. and Harrison Brix of
San Jose, Calif., would like nothing better than to earn a lot of points in
the next two months for the Lebanon, Ohio-based team, which is currently tied
for 11th place in the overall Daytona Prototype team standings.

Their No. 77 DORAN JE4 Ford, which carries the colors of the Kodak EasyShare
System, Amp'd Mobile and SIRIUS, will appear in Laguna Seca's U.S. Sports Car
Invitational this weekend before heading for another doubleheader at Phoenix
International Raceway May 12-13.  The annual six-hour race at Watkins Glen,
N.Y. June 2-3, a doubleheader at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington,
Ohio June 23-24 and a Thursday night show at Daytona Beach, Fla. on June 29 make
the schedule very hectic - and important, since so many points are up for
grabs.

The team will compete in both a 30-minute Daytona Prototype race on Saturday
at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca and a 250-mile/112 laps/two-hour-and-45-minute
race called the Road & Track 250 on the same 2.238-mile road course on Sunday. 
The finish of Saturday's race will set the top half of the field for Sunday's
race, when both the DP and GT cars race together. Both events offer a full
points payout, so the Feeds the Need Racing/Doran Racing squad hopes to do
especially well.

The team will have a lot of support at Laguna Seca.

"My whole family is coming," said Borcheller.  "They love the track, the race
and the whole event.  We'll stay after the race and go to the aquarium, have
dinner at Cannery Row, and just combine the race with some family time.

"The track itself is awesome," he added.  "I've always driven well there and
enjoyed racing there.  I like the Corkscrew, and I like Turn 4, Turn 6, Turn 9
and Turn 10...I like the fast corners."

Borcheller noted that he finished third at Laguna Seca last year driving the
Feeds the Need/Bell Motorsports DORAN JE4.  "I'm hoping that we can repeat or
better that this year," he said.

Borcheller will never forget his first race at Laguna Seca, either.

"I was in a Mustang GTO, and I was passing a Prototype in the rain, and I
wrote the car off going into the Corkscrew.  I think it was '98 or '99," he said.

When Borcheller was asked if he ever thinks of that accident when he's going
through the Corkscrew now, he said it never enters his mind.

"It's like a quarterback that throws an interception; you have to have
short-term memory," he explained.

"Hopefully you learn from your mistakes," he added.

"I've raced professionally since 1997, and one of the reasons I've stayed
employed is that I haven't had many big crashes where it was my fault," he
pointed out.  "That means a lot to me and it means a lot to team owners if you can
be fast and not have a lot of crashes.

"I've raced in probably 250 professional races in my career so far, and to my
knowledge you can count the number of big crashes that I've had that were my
fault on one hand," he noted, but then added with a smile, "Of course I
already admitted that I only have short-term memory."

Like Borcheller, Brix will have a lot of people cheering him on at Laguna. 
He lives in San Jose, Calif., which is only about 50 miles away.  He's also
been working behind the scenes with associate sponsors Amp'd Mobile and SIRIUS,
and both will have guests attending the race.

"We're going to have about 200 guests at the race, and we really want them to
have a good time," Brix noted.

The longer Laguna Seca race will be broadcast live at 3 p.m. Eastern time on
Sunday on the SPEED Channel. It will also be rebroadcast the next day at noon
Eastern on the same network.

After a promoter test day on Thursday, the first official practice session
that Daytona Prototypes can participate in is slated for 10:30 a.m. local time
on Friday. Saturday's DP race is slated for 1 p.m. local time, while Sunday's
Road & Track 250 is scheduled to start at noon, again local time.

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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