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Prendeville Finishes Ninth 
Sunday at Kansas Speedway
 
KANSAS CITY, Kan., April 26 - In a Firestone Indy Lights race that left 
several cars badly damaged after four multi-car accidents, Andrew Prendeville 
brought Team Moore Racing's Xtreme Coil Drilling No. 2 home not only in one 
piece, but also in ninth place Sunday morning at Kansas Speedway.
 
The solid top-10 finish came in a race when the 24 drivers entered not only 
battled each other but also Mother Nature.  A stiff 20-miles-per-hour wind 
that increased even more in Turns 3 and 4 of the 1.52-mile trioval, plus a 
green race track due to a thunderstorm Saturday night, added to the usual 
challenges of close competition that are intrinsic to oval-track racing.
 
Although no rain fell during the race, the series officials pushed the 
starting time up two hours due to a weather forecast that predicted heavy rain. 
 
Prendeville, of Henderson, Nev., took it all in stride and stayed patient 
even though there were five cautions for 33 laps of the 67-lap/100-mile race.
 
The New Jersey native started tenth in the event, called the Kansas Lottery 
100, but dropped back two spots on a restart on lap 10. Pablo Donoso passed 
him on lap 11 to push him to 13th, but he got Donoso back on lap 13 to 
regain 12th right before Ali Jackson, Rodrigo Barbosa and Sergey Mokshantsev 
crashed in Turn 4 on lap 14. 
 
Donoso repassed him on the restart on lap 24 to push him back to 13th, and 
then Dillon Battistini got by too on the following lap during the fierce 
competition.  Gustavo Yacaman spun in Turn 4 on lap 29 to advance Prendeville 
back to 13th.  He was quickly back to 12th though after Charlie Kimball ran 
into problems after setting the fastest lap of the race.
 
During that portion of the race Prendeville had a nice battle with the 
driver who now leads the point standings, Jonathan Summerton. 
 
Donoso crashed on lap 33 to advance Prendeville to 11th.   Prendeville and 
Summerton both passed Pippa Mann on the restart following Donoso's crash, 
which moved Prendeville back into the top 10.  Summerton got around 
Prendeville on lap 43 to push him back to 11th. J.R. Hildebrand then dropped back due 
to a cut tire and Prendeville passed Battistini  on lap 45 to move up to 
ninth. Battistini and Mann crashed in Turn 4 13 laps later to bring out the 
fifth and final caution, and the event ended under that yellow.
 
"The Xtreme Coil Drilling car was very good and the track was fine," 
Prendeville said afterwards.  "We were getting 30-plus mile per hour crosswinds in 
Turns 3 and 4, which pushed the cars up the track.  It was just like 
Homestead in '07.  I anticipated that would be the case, so I refused to go on the 
outside of anybody in 3 and 4.  My car was good enough to handle it, but 
some other people's cars weren't.  I was very selective about where to pass 
people because of the wind.
 
"Our car was very good in long runs, but unfortunately we didn't have many 
long runs today," he added.
 
"We had some small gremlins in qualifying,  but it's a good finish," he 
summarized.  "We picked up some positions in the points. We have a good oval 
car and a good road-course car.  Like [team owner] Mark Moore said, we need to 
have an issue-free weekend, and then we'll be right there."
 
VERSUS's coverage of the race is slated for 4 p.m. Eastern on Monday.
 
Prendeville will now prepare for the series' biggest race of the year, the 
Freedom 100 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Friday, May 22, by testing 
at IMS on Tuesday, May 5. 
 
More information on the series is available on the Internet at 
indycar.com/pro.  Addition information is offered at andrewprendeville.com and 
teammooreracing.com.