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Linda Mansfield, Restart Communications
E-mail: LindaKMansfield@cs.com
Cell: 317-201-0729
 
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Homeless Animals Win Through Prendeville's
Racing Laps for Best Friends Program
 
INDIANAPOLIS, May 18 - Last year the mayor of Indianapolis was so impressed 
with race car driver Andrew Prendeville's Racing Laps for Best Friends program, 
he made him an honorary citizen of the city.
 
Now Prendeville is back in town to drive the Best Friends Animal Society No. 
5 in Friday's Firestone Indy Lights race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
 
Like last year, he's tied animal welfare in with his racing.  This year those 
efforts include:
 
* the opportunity for fans to make tax-deductible per-lap donations to 
benefit Best Friends at racinglapsforbestfriends.com;
* a raffle to benefit Best Friends at the same Web site, with prizes of 
sessions at the Bertil Roos Racing School;
* a free "PetStop" appearance on Tuesday from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at 
Indianapolis Animal Care & Control, 2600 S. Harding St.; and
* a "booth" at the track via the Racing Laps for Best Friends trailer in the 
parking lot near IMS's Hall of Fame Museum beginning Wednesday.
 
All of these efforts were designed to encourage animal adoptions and 
volunteerism at local shelters like Indianapolis Animal Care & Control; to help people 
become more aware of the work of their local shelters and the Best Friends 
Animal Society; to provide exposure to the Racing Laps for Best Friends program 
centered on the racinglapsforbestfriends.com Web site; and to promote the 
Firestone Freedom 100 Firestone Indy Lights race at IMS on Friday and the Indy 500 
there on Sunday, May 25. 
 
What is Best Friends?
 
The Best Friend Animal Society is a not-for-profit animal welfare 
organization that strives for a day when there will be no more homeless pets.  Best 
Friends assists animal shelters around the world with their individual programs, as 
well as operates its own animal shelter in Kanab, Utah. 
 
On any given day Best Friends cares for approximately 1,500 animals at its 
sanctuary. Many of the animals there have special needs and couldn't be placed 
by other groups.  Best Friends assisted many animals displaced by Hurricane 
Katrina, including Ballsy, a dog that Prendeville sponsors. It is also caring for 
22 of the pit bulls formerly owned by ex-NFL player Michael Vick.
 
Tuesday's PetStop
 
At the PetStop, fans can get Prendeville's autograph, see the Racing Laps for 
Best Friends show car, have their photos taken with the car and Prendeville, 
receive information about animal welfare topics, tour the shelter, purchase 
Best Friends merchandise and raffle tickets, and make per-lap donations to Best 
Friends for the Firestone Freedom 100 and subsequent Firestone Indy Lights 
races. Pet adoptions can also be made at the shelter during the PetStop; standard 
adoption requirements and fees apply. 
 
The Firestone Freedom 100
 
If a fan would donate $1 per lap for Friday's Firestone Freedom 100 and 
Prendeville completes all 40 laps of the race, the fan would make a $40 donation to 
Best Friends.  Per-lap donations can be made in any amount starting at 25 
cents.
 
Fans can see how Prendeville does in Friday's race in person, on 
indycar.com/indylights, or on TV.
 
There are two 45-minute practice sessions for the Firestone Indy Lights 
series at 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. Thursday.  Qualifying will be held at 1:15 p.m. that 
day.  
 
The 40-lap race will get the green flag at 12:30 p.m. on Friday, Miller Lite 
Carb Day.  It will be broadcast on ESPN2 at 4 p.m. later that day. 
 
All times are Eastern.