For more information:
Linda Mansfield, Racing Laps for Best Friends
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E-mail: LindaKMansfield@cs.com
 
 
 
 
Prendeville Finishes All 20 Laps
Sunday at Mid-Ohio for
Best Friends Animal Society
 
LEXINGTON, Ohio, July 20 - Andrew Prendeville finished all the laps possible 
in Sunday's Firestone Indy Lights race at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, but 
that was only 20 laps instead of the scheduled 40 due to a severe thunderstorm 
that delayed the start of the race for one hour and caused it to become a 
timed event.
 
All the scheduled laps were completed in Saturday's race and Prendeville 
finished it too, so fans that made per-lap donations to the not-for-profit Best 
Friends Animal Society through racinglapsforbestfriends.com need to multiple 
their donation amount by 60.
 
Prendeville followed up his ninth-place finish Saturday in the Best Friends 
Animal Society No. 5 with an eighth-place finish on Sunday in what turned out 
to be the most bizarre race of the year to date.
 
Prendeville started ninth on Sunday.  He spun on the first lap, along with 
Saturday's winner, Raphael Matos; Cyndie Allemann and Wade Cunningham.  That 
occurred in Turn 4, although Prendeville said the spray kicked up by the cars on 
the wet track was so bad he couldn't even see where he was when he spun. 
 
Prendeville started over from 19th position on lap two.  He was 17th by lap 
four, and he was scored in 16th or 15th for the next few laps.  He had a great 
restart on lap eight, vaulting to 12th, and he cracked the top 10 again on lap 
10 when Franck Perera and Arie Luyendyk Jr. had problems.
 
Prendeville stayed in tenth through lap 13, dropped to 11th on lap 14, and 
regained tenth on lap 15. He dropped to 12th again on lap 17, but he benefited 
from some of his rivals' problems to move into ninth with 19 laps down. He got 
eighth on the last lap when the leader, Jonny Reid, pitted prematurely.
 
James Davison ended up being the surprise winner, with Wade Cunningham second 
and Pablo Donoso third. 
 
ESPN2 will show both Saturday and Sunday's races at 2 p.m. Eastern on 
Thursday, July 24.
 
Prendeville is now in tenth place in the points championship with four races 
remaining. 
 
The circuit now travels to Kentucky Speedway in Sparta, Ky., for a night race 
on Aug. 9. A doubleheader at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, Calif. Aug. 23-24 
and the season finale at Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, Ill., on Sept. 7 follow.
 
Time is running out to purchase raffle tickets that benefit Best Friends, 
which are also available on the racinglapsforbestfriends.com Web site. Prizes are 
sessions at the famous Bertil Roos Racing School.
 
In addition to racinglapsforbestfriends.com, bestfriends.org and 
indycar.com/indylights, more information is available at    </HTML>