Doran Racing to Start 21st
Saturday Night at Mid-Ohio
LEXINGTON,
Ohio, June 23 - Doran Racing's Harrison
Brix of San Jose, Calif.
qualified 21st Friday afternoon at the Mid-Ohio
Sports Car Course for
Saturday's EMCO Gears Classic presented
by KeyBank.
Brix's
Feeds the Need/Doran Racing DORAN JE4 Ford
No. 77 will start on the
inside of Row 11 beside Milka Duno's CITGO
No. 11 in the race, which will be
broadcast Sunday at 3 p.m. on SPEED.
Brix,
who will start the 250-mile race and then
hand the car off to lead
driver Terry Borcheller of Vero Beach, Fla.,
recorded his fastest lap on the fifth
of nine laps he turned in the 15-minute
qualifying session. His car, which
carries the colors of the Kodak EasyShare
System, Amp'd Mobile and SIRIUS,
qualified with a time of 1:24.698 and an
average speed of 95.974 miles per hour
for the 2.258-mile, 15-turn road course.
At
first it looked like Colin Braun had become
the youngest polesitter in
Rolex Series history, but his car and two
others that qualified right behind it
(the CompuUSA No. 01 of Luis Diaz and the
Lowe's No. 12 of Mario Haberfeld)
failed to pass the post-qualifying technical
inspection. Those three cars were
sent to the rear, giving the pole to the
Ruby Tuesday No. 23 of Patrick Long
with a 1:20.625 (100.822 mph).
The
Feeds the Need/Doran Racing team was third-fastest
in the first practice
session Friday morning on a wet track and
17th in the second practice session
Friday afternoon, held on a bit drier but
still wet track that has been
repaved since the series' last visit here.
The track was dry but very green for
quals due to all the rain.
At
least the weather was much better than it
was for the test day on
Thursday, when violent thunderstorms damaged
several tents at the facility.
"I'm
glad there were no serious injuries to the
Grand Am contingent yesterday
during the storm," Brix noted for everyone
on the team.
"The
repaving of the track has eliminated one
big variable: the concrete
patches," he pointed out.
"We
didn't qualify as well as we hoped, but
hopefully things will go better
in the race tomorrow," he concluded.
There
is a practice session at 10:10 a.m. and
an autograph session at noon
tomorrow before the race starts at 5:30
p.m. The distance is 250 miles/111 laps
or two hours and 45 minutes.
For
more information see doranracing.com, grandamerican.com,
midohio.com,
tborcheller.com and harrisonbrix.com. The
series' Web site will have live timing
and scoring.
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