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RLR/Andersen Racing
Finishes Fourth and Fifth
At Milwaukee Sunday
 
MILWAUKEE, June 1 - RLR/Andersen Racing's Andrew Prendeville and J.R. 
Hildebrand drove smart races Sunday at the Milwaukee Mile.  Prendeville was rewarded 
with a fourth-place finish in the Firestone Indy Lights 100-lapper with his 
Best Friends Animal Society No. 5, and Hildebrand was right behind him in fifth 
place with his Allied Interior Products No. 25.
 
The strong finishes helped both drivers in the point standings.  Prendeville, 
of Chatham Township, N.J. and Las Vegas, is now in tenth place in the 
championship with 125 points, just five less than the driver in ninth, Sean Guthrie.  
Hildebrand, of Sausalito, Calif., and Indianapolis, is now third with 178 
points, 14 less than second-place Dillon Battistini and 15 less than the current 
point leader, Richard Antinucci, with 10 of 16 races remaining.
 
Prendeville started sixth, but Raphael Matos got around him 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 on lap 
20 when Mark Olson hit the inside wall in Turn 4 and slid to a stop on the 
frontstretch. Liquid was spilled in that one, but members of the conscientious 
Milwaukee Mile track crew got down on all fours to wipe it up so the race could 
restart again on lap 30.
 
It 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.
 
Hildebrand had to be patient too, especially since he started 14th after a 
crash in practice forced the RLR/Andersen crew to play catch-up while they 
repaired his Dallara prior to qualifying.  
 
Hildebrand passed two of his rivals on the first lap to move into 12th.  He 
stayed in that spot until lap 18, when he passed Brent Sherman right before the 
yellow for Olson. He lost two spots on the restart on lap 30 to push him back 
to 13th, but he regained 12th on lap 33 by passing Battistini and 11th on lap 
39 when he repassed Sherman.  He got by Logan Gomez for tenth with a move to 
the inside caught by the ESPN2 cameras, and then zeroed in on Guthrie, who had 
other ideas.  It wasn't until lap 66 that Hildebrand was able to put Guthrie 
behind him and move into ninth place.
 
Hildebrand used lapped traffic and his rivals' battles to his advantage on 
lap 70, passing both Luyendyk Jr. and Wade Cunningham to nail down seventh. 
 
Donoso was penalized for blocking Hildebrand for sixth on lap 74, and was 
instructed to allow Hildebrand by.  He did so with 76 laps down, allowing 
Hildebrand to settle into sixth, about 4 seconds behind Prendeville.
 
Prendeville passed Davison for fourth with three laps to go and Hildebrand 
got around Davison on the last lap to nail down the twin top-five finishes for 
the Palmetto, Fla.-based team. 
 
The race will be broadcast at 1 p.m. Eastern time June 5 on ESPN2. 
 
The next Firestone Indy Lights race is June 21 at Iowa Speedway. 
 
Andersen Racing is sponsored by Allied Building Products Corp. It is the 
development team of IndyCar's Rahal Letterman Racing. Its Web sites are at 
andersenracingteam.com and andersenracepark.com.
 
Post-race quotes follow:
 
Andrew Prendeville:  "The Best Friends Animal Society car was real good 
today; I have to thank everyone at RLR/Andersen Racing for that.  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.
 
"We had a good race car all weekend. 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."
 
J.R. Hildebrand: "I wasn't looking forward to starting mid-pack here because 
it's easy to get caught up in something, but the RLR/Andersen team gave me a 
great car.  I screwed up in practice and crashed, but they fixed the Allied 
Interior Products car and it was great for the race.  To be able to put it into 
the top 10, let alone the top five, shows that the guys really earned their pay 
here this weekend.
 
"It had to help us in the points.  I even lapped Antinucci, so we made up 
some points today that will help. 
 
"I didn't really pass people with straight-line speed; instead, I looked for 
opportunities in traffic and when people were battling each other; that's how 
I was able to pass a couple people simultaneously. I usually got by on the 
inside when they were battling somebody else.  I was trying to be opportunistic, 
and it paid off. 
 
"It feels good to complete all 100 laps, especially after last weekend. I 
thought my car was good all the way through the race."
 
 
About Allied Building Products Corp.:
 
Allied Building Products Corp., headquartered in East Rutherford, N.J., is 
one of the largest roofing and siding distributors in the United States. Founded 
in 1950 with five employees and two trucks, today it is a $1.8 billion 
building material distribution company with over 3,500 employees, more than 200 
branches in 30 states, well over one million square feet of office and warehouse 
space, and an inventory of approximately 85,000 products, from residential 
roofing and siding to doors, windows, waterproofing, manufactured stone, interior 
products and commercial roofing systems. For more information see 
alliedbuilding.com.
 
About Andersen Racing:
 
Andersen Racing strives to provide the best and most comprehensive training 
possible for future open-wheel superstars while giving its marketing partners 
media exposure and hospitality opportunities at some of the most prestigious 
events in North America. It provides a unique, three-step program utilizing 
multiple entries in three different series: the F2000 Championship (webcast), Star 
Mazda (televised on SPEED) and Firestone Indy Lights (televised on ESPN2). In 
2008 it will field multiple entries in 42 races in 19 states and provinces at 
some of the best facilities on the continent, including the famed 
Indianapolis Motor Speedway. 
 
Andersen Racing's principals, brother Dan and John Andersen, have extensive 
experience in series administration as well as team management. They've worked 
with many of today's top open-wheel stars, including several Indy 500 winners. 
 
Andersen Racing is sponsored by Allied Building Products Corp. It is the 
official development team of Rahal Letterman Racing, which competes in the IndyCar 
Series.  In addition, its F2000 team is also the official factory team of Van 
Diemen. The team is headquartered at Andersen RacePark, an 18-acre facility 
in Palmetto, Fla. that includes a 1-mile test track. For more information see 
andersenracingteam.com and andersenracepark.com