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Los Gatos, Calif.'s Tom Sutherland
Is Excited to Be Racing at Laguna Seca
In Saturday's American Le Mans Series Headliner

LOS GATOS, Calif., May 18 - He's young.

He's talented.

And he's local.

Tom Sutherland of Los Gatos, Calif., who turned 21 on April 3, will be one
of the youngest drivers competing in the six-hour "American Le Mans Series
Monterey presented by Patron" race at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey,
Calif. on Saturday. But being young and going wheel to wheel against many
veterans of international road racing doesn't intimidate Sutherland. He's
been winning races since the age of 8, when he posted his first go-kart victory
at the Salinas Airport Raceway. He also set the record for being the
youngest driver to compete at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway when he competed in
a Formula BMW USA race at the Brickyard in 2004.

The American Le Mans Series presents races from Florida to California and
as far north as Canada, so Sutherland is especially excited about racing at a
facility that is just an hour's drive from his home in Los Gatos. It's
also the place where he first drove a true race car, as he successfully
completed the Skip Barber school there at the age of 15. He's competed at the
2.238-mile, 11-turn road course with its famous Corkscrew about 10 times since
then in a wide variety of cars, including Atlantic, Star Mazda and GT race
cars. He even set a new track record there in 2006 enroute to winning a SCCA
Formula Ford race.

"Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca is one of my favorite tracks; it's smooth,
technical and fun. I remember going there to watch my dad in World Sports Car
races," said the second-generation driver who will be teamed up with Tom
Weickardt of Whitefish Bay, Wis. and Kyle Marcelli of Barrie, Ontario at Mazda
Raceway Laguna Seca.

Tom Sutherland is the son of Rick Sutherland, a veteran road racer who has
even competed at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Rick Sutherland is also the chief
executive officer of ClickAway, a computer, networking and IT company with
stores in Almaden, Campbell, Los Altos, Santa Cruz and Sunnyvale as well as
Internet sales on-line at ClickAway.com. ClickAway will be represented by
decals on the car Tom Sutherland will drive at Laguna, the bright-red Genoa
Racing No. 36 LMPC car. It's currently second in the class point standings,
and the Zionsville, Ind.-based team will be going for its third podium finish
in as many races at Laguna.

Tom Sutherland likes to visit with the fans at the autograph sessions like
the one that will be held in the American Le Mans Series paddock at Laguna
Seca from 11:15 a.m. to noon on Saturday before the six-hour race begins at
2:30 p.m. that afternoon. One of his favorite racing memories was meeting
one of his heroes, Alex Zanardi, who was competing in a CART champ car race
there when Sutherland was about 9.

"I got his autograph and my picture taken with him at a party at a hotel in
the area before a CART race at Laguna," Sutherland recalled. "I still have
it; it's hanging on a wall at my parents' house in Los Gatos."

Like most road racing fans Sutherland enjoys walking around the course to
see the cars go through the different turns, although now he does that during
practice sessions in search of techniques that could improve his own lap
times. "At Laguna we always started out with the people from Firestone in
Turn 1, and then we walked around from there the rest of the day," he recalled.
"We would always make the hike to the Corkscrew; that's always fun."

But he says driving Genoa Racing's car in the headlining race will be even
more fun.

"I think it will be a blast!" he said. "The track is so smooth now that I
really love it. I know of about 10 to 15 family members and friends who are
coming, and there will probably be more who show up on race day," he said.
"A few people from ClickAway are coming too. We always go to the Wharf for
dinner the night before the race.

In addition to racing, Sutherland is also taking summer classes at Texas
Christian University in Fort Worth, where he is studying psychology and
business. "It's going to be a busy summer," he admitted.

But this weekend his entire focus will be on another strong finish for the
Genoa Racing team.

"We want another podium for sure," he said. "And what would be even better
would be a win."

CBS will air a documentary-type program on the event at 1:30 p.m. Eastern
time the following Saturday, May 29. The weekend schedule and live timing and
scoring can be found on imsaracing.net. Live, on-line video streaming of
the entire six-hour race by TodoCast.tv is planned for the series' Web site
at americanlemans.com. More information on Sutherland can be found at
tomsutherlandracing.com.