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England's Baker Joins Andersen Racing for 2007 Star Mazda Campaign


FAIRFIELD, N.J., Feb. 12 - Andersen Racing announced today that British hot
shoe Jonny Baker has joined its team to contend for the 2007 Star Mazda
Championship presented by Mazda.

Baker, of Farnham Common, Buckinghamshire, England, joins Ricardo Vassmer and
one driver who has not yet been named as the Fairfield, N.J.-based team's
primary drivers for the 12-race Star Mazda season. Phil Saville and Michael
Fitzgerald will also drive in selected Star Mazda events this year with the team,
including the season opener Friday, March 16 at Sebring, Fla.

All the events are broadcast on SPEED in one-hour, tape-delayed telecasts.

Baker, 22, has been running with Team JLR in England for the last two years.
He had two podium finishes last year in the UK Formula Ford Championship and
finished ninth in that series' final point standings for the season. He
finished second in the 2005 UK Formula Ford Scholarship Cup with four victories,
and fifth in the national class that year. In 2004 he finished second in Class B
of the British Race Drivers' Club single-seater championship with four
victories.

Baker earned a degree in business administration from the University of the
West of England in Bristol last year. He started racing in 2003 at the
Silverstone Racing School.

"I'm extremely grateful to Andersen Racing for this opportunity, and I cannot
wait to get out there and get down to business," Baker said.

Baker has never raced in the United States before, but he impressed Dominic
and Nicholas Cape last November when he drove at their test track in Florida.
The Cape brothers are engineers for Andersen Racing's Indy Pro Series program.

Baker has been doing as much research as possible on the challenges he'll
face at Sebring next month. "I have seen an on-board lap on the Internet," he
said. "It looks like a bit of a bruiser with the bumps, especially under
braking," he noted. "Joe D'Agostino, who was my teammate in 2005, told me some
stories about Sebring that were useful too. However, it will all look different
from the cockpit, so I will have to get my head down in practice and learn the
place. I'm looking forward to the challenge."

Baker plans to test his new Star Mazda car at Road Atlanta in Braselton, Ga.,
in early March prior to traveling to Florida for the season opener at Sebring.

Baker and his four Star Mazda teammates will be participating in the middle
level of a program Andersen Racing has developed to give drivers the best
training possible for careers as professional open-wheel race car drivers. The
team uses the Hankook Tires Formula Ford 2000 series for drivers at the F2000
level or those coming out of racing schools or karting, and the Indy Pro Series
for drivers who are almost ready to make the final step into IndyCar or the
Champ Car World Series. The team fields multiple entries in each of the three
series.

For more information on the team, see andersenracingteam.com or call team
manager Michelle Kish at (973) 287-5600. In addition to her overall team manager
duties for all three series in which Andersen Racing competes, Kish is also
its Star Mazda team manager.