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Prendeville Finishes All 100 Laps at Milwaukee,
Placing Fourth Sunday
With Best Friends Animal Society No. 5
 
MILWAUKEE, June 1 - Andrew Prendeville, the Las Vegas-based driver of the 
Best Friends Animal Society No. 5, not only finished all 100 laps of Sunday's 
Firestone Indy Lights race at the Milwaukee Mile, he also recorded his best 
finish of the year when he placed fourth in the 21-car field.
 
The great showing was a marked contrast to Prendeville's fate here one year 
ago, when he got caught up in an unavoidable crash on the first lap and didn't 
finish a single lap.
 
Finishing laps is important both for Prendeville's hopes in the championship 
and for his Racing Laps for Best Friends program.  Through a Web site at 
racinglapsforbestfriends.com, fans make donations to the not-for-profit Best 
Friends Animal Society based on the number of laps Prendeville completes in each of 
his races. By finishing all the laps of Sunday's race, Prendeville ensured the 
largest donations possible for Best Friends.
 
The great finish also vaulted Prendeville to tenth in the championship point 
standings with 10 of 16 races remaining.
 
Prendeville started his weekend by qualifying sixth on Saturday.  Passing is 
difficult on the Milwaukee Mile, and patience is as important here as it is 
when working with the homeless animals that Prendeville's racing program aids.
 
Raphael Matos got around Prendeville on the first lap right before a 
full-course yellow waved for an incident in Turn 4 involving the two women in the 
race, Ana Beatriz and Cyndie Allemann. 
 
The race restarted on lap eight but was immediately slowed again when Marc 
Williams brushed the Turn 2 wall with his car's right rear.   He continued on to 
pit lane, so that yellow only lasted one lap.
 
Prendeville was still in seventh when the third and final yellow waved from 
laps 20 to 29 when Mark Olson hit the inside wall in Turn 4 and slid to a stop 
on the frontstretch. 
 
The race went green the rest of the way.  Prendeville got sixth on the 
restart by passing Arie Luyendyk Jr. He got fifth when polesitter Pablo Donoso 
dropped from fourth to sixth on lap 52.  He passed James Davison for fourth with 97 
laps complete, and then took the checkered behind only race winner Bobby 
Wilson, runner-up Jeff Simmons and Matos, who placed third.
 
"The Best Friends Animal Society car was real good today; I have to thank 
everyone at RLR/Andersen Racing for that," Prendeville said after the race.  "I 
was much faster than a lot of the cars in front of me.  I was quicker than one 
particular driver in front of me most of the race, but he was extremely 
difficult to pass.
 
"There at the end, traffic helped me and it hurt everybody else.  You learn a 
lot about how to get through traffic when you're raised in New Jersey," he 
added with a smile.
 
"We had a good race car all weekend," he noted.  "The car was perfect the 
whole race. And we finished all 100 laps for the people who made donations to 
Best Friends on racinglapsforbestfriends.com, so that's good. I definitely want 
to thank my team and everyone who made donations to Best Friends."
 
Sunday's race will be broadcast on ESPN2 on June 5 at 1 p.m. Eastern time.
 
The next race is June 21 at Iowa Speedway in Newton, Iowa.  At 115 laps that 
race has the largest lap count of any race on the 2008 Firestone Indy Lights 
schedule. Donations for the Iowa race and the nine subsequent races remaining 
in the 16-race season can be made at any time on racinglapsforbestfriends.com. 
Per-lap donations can be made in any amount starting at 25 cents.
 
Tickets for a raffle featuring prizes of sessions at the Bertil Roos Racing 
School may also be obtained through the racinglapsforbestfriends.com Web site. 
Additional information is available at andrewprendeville.com, bestfriends.org, 
indycar.com/indylights and  andersenracingteam.com.