Doran Racing Looks Forward to
Rolex Series' Version of
Thursday Night Thunder
This Week at Daytona
LEBANON,
Ohio, June 27 - Doran Racing heads back
to Daytona International
Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla. this week
in order to participate in the Brumos
Porsche 250 Rolex Series race on Daytona's
3.56-mile road course Thursday night.
Practice,
qualifying and the 250-mile race are all
rolled into one day for
this event, which is sandwiched between
NASCAR NEXTEL Cup practice and an IROC
race.
Two
Rolex Series practice sessions will be held
at 9 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. that
morning followed by quals at 12:40 p.m.,
an autograph session at 4 p.m. and
the two-hour-and-45-minute/70-lap race at
7 p.m.
The
latter will be broadcast live at 7 p.m.
Eastern time on SPEED.
Terry
Borcheller of Vero Beach, Fla. and Harrison
Brix of San Jose, Calif.,
the drivers of the Feeds the Need/Doran
Racing DORAN JE4 Ford No. 77, hope to
do well at Daytona for the companies they
represent: the Kodak EasyShare
System, Amp'd Mobile and SIRIUS. Their yellow
and black Daytona Prototype is one of
29 DP cars and 22 GT cars entered for a
field of 51.
"I'm
really looking forward to the race because
it's only two hours from my
house, so I don't have to fly," noted
Borcheller, who has had even more time in
the air than usual since he competed in
the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France a
couple of weeks ago. "The team has
been working really hard and we hope to
be
able to pay them back with a good result."
"Daytona
will go well," said Brix with conviction.
"Hopefully it will help
our series build up our fan base too, since
it's between NASCAR practice and the
IROC race."
A
typical Rolex Series event encompasses four
days, not one, which adds to
the challenge of this event. The usual schedule
has a test day on Thursday, a
practice day on Friday, qualifying on Saturday
and the race on Sunday. Having
no test day and consolidating all the other
sessions into one day will not only
make for a long day for the participants,
but it will also add to the
challenge of arriving at a good set-up for
the race very quickly.
Finding
a good race set-up quickly that day is just
one part of the equation.
A good set-up for the practice sessions
held during the heat of the day won't
be the best set-up for the evening's race,
when the track temperature will be
cooler, which adds to the team's challenges
for one very busy Thursday.
For
the race itself, the goals will be the same
as usual: stay out of trouble
and head for the front.
For
more information see doranracing.com, grandamerican.com,
tborcheller.com
and harrisonbrix.com. The series' Web site
will have live timing and scoring.
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