KEVIN DORAN
Doran Racing founder
Team owner and manager, Doran-Lista Racing
Designer/constructor of DORAN JE4 Daytona Prototypes

No matter what form of motorsports he's involved in, Kevin Doran's car is always one of the ones to beat.

Doran has built Doran Racing into one of the top race car construction, preparation and management organizations in the United States. Although he has been and continues to be successful in many different forms of motorsports, he is truly legendary in endurance sports car racing.

In February 2003 he introduced a new Daytona Prototype car for Grand American Rolex series competition called the DORAN JE4. Designed and builtthrough Doran Designs at Doran Enterprises' headquarters in Lebanon, Ohio, it has received rave reviews. It quickly earned the reputation as the top car in the series, and at the end of the 2003 season it was a DORAN JE4 which took Terry Borcheller and the Bell Motorsports team to the inaugural driver and team championships in the Daytona Prototype class.

Just one year after the car's introduction, Kevin Doran was the winning car manufacturer at the 2004 Rolex 24 at Daytona with the Bell Motorsports DORAN JE4. His own Doran-Lista team finished second in the Daytona Prototype class.

Kevin Doran enjoys a stellar reputation both in the states and overseas. It is not an exaggeration to say that heads turn whenever he walks into a garage area. That's because racers know that Kevin Doran prepares an immaculate car both above and below the sheet metal; assembles top-flight personnel and gives them proper support and direction; and in short orchestrates the entire running of a successful racing team in the top, professional levels of motorsports.

In February 2002 Doran won his fourth Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona. This event is the most prestigious sports car race in North America. He has also been victorious at the 12 Hours of Sebring and the Watkins Glen six-hour race.

In 2002 the Doran-Lista team finished second for the third year in a row in the premier Sports Racing Prototype (SRP) class in Grand American, campaigning a Dallara.

That year Doran's team won four of the Grand American's 10 events; earned seven pole positions and propelled Didier Theys to the SRP driver championship. Besides the Rolex 24, other victories were posted atHomestead-Miami Speedway, California Speedway and Mont-Tremblant, Quebec. It set the largestmargin of victory in series history at Mont-Tremblant. The team also had three seconds and three fourths, and was never out of the top five.

Theys led the driver point standings all season enroute to the driver championship, while the team led the team standings up until the checkered at the season finale at Daytona. At the end the one-car Doran-Lista team finished second to the two-car Dyson team in the team standings for 2002 by only two
points, 324 to 322.

This is a remarkable accomplishment by any standards, but it's especially impressive when one considers that the team was only running its second race with its Dallara chassis when it won the 2002 Rolex 24, and the team also debuted its brand-new five-liter Judd engine at the first Watkins Glen race in
June.

After 11 events in 2001 the team was only 27 points behind the Dyson Racing team in the overall point standings, scoring 341 points to Dyson's 368. Along the way the Doran-Lista Racing team won two Grand American races in 2001 - Watkins Glen and Road America.

The victory at Road America in 2001 backed up a similar victory there in 2000. The team also finished first at Miami in 2000 and ended up only nine points out of the championship that year, earning 360 points in nine events to the Dyson team's 369.

The team campaigned a brand-new Crawford chassis for the first three races of 2001 and then switched to a Ferrari. (Both victories came in theFerrari, although the Crawford had one podium finish). The team received its new Dallara chassis right before the 2001 Grand American season finale at Daytona.

In addition to Grand American, Kevin Doran has had great success as a team manager in both the Professional Sports Car Racing series (formerly IMSA) and the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA).

His season-long efforts and strong team management skills garnered him IMSA's prestigious "Technician of the Year" award in both 1993 and 1994.

In 1998 Doran Racing mechanics were awarded the honored "Le Prix Escra" prize for best technical assistance to a race car at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Doran also has built and prepared NASCAR Craftsman Trucks. He competed as a team owner in numerous truck races in the nineties, running as high as second and finishing as high as tenth.

Doran Racing's Indy car involvement includes assisting Lyn St. James in her attempt to qualify for the 1998 Indy 500 and working side-by-side with the late Al Holbert, a legend in both Porsche and Indy car racing.

Doran Racing also spearheaded the ASA stock car racing effort of the #77 Pontiac driven by Dave Doran, Kevin's brother. Dave Doran was the 1995 Sports 2000 national champion, also winning the Kimberly Cup for the most improved driver in SCCA Club Racing. He made a collective four ASA starts in 1996, '97 and '98. Dave Doran competed in the full 20-event schedule in 1999, finishing 15th in points while recording three top-10 finishes. He drove the Doran Racing Enterprises Pontiac full-time in 2000. He has been racing for 10 years, starting in go-karts and racing dirt and asphalt stock cars as well as sportscars.

The Doran family's association with motorsports dates back to the 1960s when Kevin and Dave's father, Jim, designed and built short-track late models. Jim Doran then took on managerial control of Queen City Speedway, a half-mile dirt oval in West Chester, Ohio that suspended activity in 1972 and then was reopened as a paved track, only to close again in 1987. (Now it's used as a truck-driving school.)

The young Doran boys grew up helping their father at the track and in the shop. Doran Racing is still a family business, as Kevin employs both his uncle and his brother as support staff at Doran Racing, and his wife, Suzanne, is an integral member of the team as well.

Under Kevin's leadership, Doran Racing has a proven record on and off the track which is nothing short of legendary.