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Andersen Racing's
Kasemets Finishes Sixth, Jorda 15th
In Toronto Firestone Indy Lights Race Sunday

TORONTO, Ontario, July 18 - Andersen Racing's Tonis Kasemets of Mundelein,
Ill. clawed his way from ninth to a sixth-place finish in the Toronto 100
Firestone Indy Lights race Sunday morning on the Toronto street circuit. His
teammate, Carmen Jorda of Miami, got as high as 12th before retiring after a
spin to finish in the same position that she started, 15th.

Kasemets (whose name is pronounced Toe-NEES KAHZ-uh-mets), had his hands
full throughout the 50-lap race on the 1.755-mile, 11-turn street course that
is very tight and therefore generates single-file racing. The drivers who
finished right in front and right behind him set the fastest laps of the race.

Stefan Wilson, who finished fifth, set the fastest lap of the race on lap
17 with a 1:05.8173 (95.993 miles per hour). The driver who finished
seventh, Martin Plowman, had the second-fastest lap of the race with a 1:05.9094
(95.859 mph) on lap 43. The fastest lap Kasemets turned in the Andersen Racing
No. 5, which is sponsored by Flexovit, Allied Building Products,
Northcentral Construction and the Novotel Toronto North York hotel, was a 1:06.3252
(95.258 mph) on lap 42.

Kasemet's fastest race lap was faster than his qualifying speed and even
faster than the 1:06.7397 he ran in Sunday's warm-up session, where the native
of Parnu, Estonia posted the third-fastest time.

Kasemets started the race in ninth place, beside Wilson. Wilson passed him
at the start, but Kasemets got him back before the lap was completed to
move back into ninth. He advanced into eighth place in the next few laps, and
then there was a scuffle behind him after which Plowman had to pit for a new
front wing. With eight laps down Wilson flew off into a runoff area off Tur
n 3, and a couple of laps later Philip Major brought out a local yellow in
Turn 8 when he went into a tire wall. At that point Jorda, a native of
Alcoy, Spain, passed the driver she'd been battling with since the start of the
race, Rodrigo Barbosa.

On lap 14 Kasemets moved into seventh place with a dramatic move to the
inside and a big display of brake smoke. The top six cars had a big cushion at
that point, however, so he was forced to try to play catch-up in order to
reach the sixth-place driver, Charlie Kimball, and move up any higher. The
interval between sixth and seventh was 5 seconds with 21 laps down.

Jorda was in 12th place by then, running between Wilson and Plowman after
their early difficulties. Unfortunately she did a 180-degree spin in Turn 8
with 24 laps down. She didn't have any contact with a tire wall or another
competitor, but she brought out a full-course caution and was forced to
retire at that point. Without the spin she very well may have finished at least
eighth, as she had passed Barbosa and he was ninth at the checkered.

Although disappointed that she wasn't able to duplicate the top-10 finish
she got at Long Beach, Jorda was happy to receive a $1,000 bonus from
Firestone for her efforts in addition to her regular prize money. Jorda is a native
of Alcoy, Spain, and her No. 4 featured decals lauding Spain's recent
Soccer World Cup Championship as well as her regular supporters: ASAP Sports,
NTGS.es, iHOLA!, Air Europa and pepetravel.com.

The only drivers who weren't glad to see the full-course caution were Jorda
and the leader from the on-set and eventual winner, J.K. Vernay, as it
allowed the drivers to take a break and to pack up the field.

Kimball passed Sebastian Saavedra for fifth place on the restart with 28
laps down. Kasemets was still in seventh, but now he was chasing Saavedra
instead of Kimball. He got around Saavedra for sixth place with 30 laps down,
right before the event's second full-course caution waved on lap 31 when
Adrian Campos Jr. and James Winslow plowed into the tires off Turn 8.

The green flew again with 33 laps down, with Kasemets still in sixth.
Saavedra pitted with a problem with his car's gearbox on lap 34, so after that
Kasemets was about 1.6 seconds behind Kimball and working hard to hold off
Wilson.

Kimball stretched his interval to over 2 seconds in the next few laps, and
Wilson finally got around Kasemets with 44 laps down to push him to seventh
place. Campos spun in Turn 8 with 48 laps down, but no full-course caution
was required that time.

Kasemets advanced one more spot when the second-place driver, James
Hinchcliffe, got into a tire wall off Turn 5 on the last lap. He was 2.5553
seconds behind the fifth-place driver, Wilson, and 1.3402 seconds behind the
seventh-place driver, Plowman, at the checkered.

The top-five finishers were Vernay, Dan Clarke, Gustavo Yacaman, Kimball
and Wilson. Vernay led every lap.

The next race is coming right up next Sunday at City Centre Raceway in
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Another 50-lapper, it will also be carried via live
video streaming at indycar.com beginning at 1 p.m. local time.

For more information on Andersen Racing, which is sponsored by Allied
Building Products Corp., see andersenracingteam.com.


Sunday's stats:

Warm-up (8 a.m.):
1. J.K. Vernay, 1:06.4456, 95.085 mph, lap 17 of 18
3. Tonis Kasemets, 1:06.7397, 94.666 mph, lap 13 of 14
14. Carmen Jorda, 1:10.8079, 89.227 mph, lap 13 of 14

Race (10:10 a.m.):
1. J.K. Vernay
6. Tonis Kasemets
15. Carmen Jorda



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 program utilizing multiple
entries in three different platforms: karting, Star Mazda and Firestone
Indy Lights.

A sister company, Andersen Promotions, administers the USF2000 National
Championship presented by Cooper Tires and powered by Mazda. It is part of
both the Indy Racing League's Road to Indy program and the MAZDASPEED
Motorsports driver development system.

Andersen Racing is sponsored by Allied Building Products Corp. The team is
headquartered at Andersen RacePark, an 18-acre facility in Palmetto, Fla.
that includes a 1-mile road course test track. For more information see
andersenracingteam.com, andersenkarting.com, andersenracepark.com and usf2000.com.