For more information: 
Linda Mansfield, Racing Laps for Best Friends
Cell: (317) 201-0729
E-mail: LindaKMansfield@cs.com
 
Note: High-res photos are available at bottom of "Media" section
of racinglapsforbestfriends.com.
 
 
 
 
Fans Can Donate to Best Friends Animal Society
Through Two Races in One Day
Saturday at Watkins Glen
 
LAS VEGAS, July 1 - Fans can get involved in the excitement of two Firestone 
Indy Lights races in a single day and simultaneously help a great cause 
Saturday through Andrew Prendeville's Racing Laps for Best Friends program as 
highlighted on the racinglapsforbestfriends.com Web site.
 
For the first time ever the series will stage two races on one day when the 
Corning Duels are held Saturday at 11:15 a.m. and 3:20 p.m. at Watkins Glen 
International in Watkins Glen, N.Y. Both events are slated to be 29 laps long.  
That's important, because fans make pledges to the not-for-profit Best Friends 
Animal Society based on the number of laps Prendeville completes in all of the 
Firestone Indy Lights races in his Best Friends Animal Society No. 5.
 
Per-lap donations are accepted in any amount starting at 25 cents. Payments 
are made safely on-line through credit cards.  All of the proceeds go directly 
to Best Friends.
 
Should a fan pledge $1 per lap for both races and Prendeville finishes all 
the laps possible on Saturday, the fan will make a $58 donation to Best Friends 
at the end of the day.
 
Prendeville finished all the laps in the doubleheader at the Glen last year, 
although those races were held on separate days. The Las Vegas-based driver, a 
New Jersey native, finished in the top 10 in both events.
 
Fans can also purchase raffle tickets to benefit Best Friends on the 
racinglapsforbestfriends.com Web site.  The prizes are sessions at the famous Bertil 
Roos Racing School. 
 
Practice sessions will be held at 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Friday before SWE 
Qualifying at 5 p.m. that day sets the starting line-up for the first race.  
 
Then the pressure mounts even higher.  It will be very important for 
Prendeville to avoid being involved in a crash in the first race on Saturday morning. 
Although his RLR/Andersen Racing pit crew is excellent, if Prendeville is 
involved in an accident they might not have enough time to repair his car before 
the second race gets the green flag at 3:20 p.m.
 
The starting line-up for the second race will be determined by the finishing 
order of the first race, although several positions at the top of the field 
may be inverted.
 
Live timing and scoring and Webcast coverage will be available on 
indycar.com.  ESPN2 will tape both races for broadcast at 2 p.m. Eastern time on 
Thursday, July 10.
 
Saturday's doubleheader begins a particularly busy span for the series, as 
there are five races scheduled within 15 days in three different states.  After 
the Glen the circuit moves to Nashville Superspeedway on July 12, followed by 
another doubleheader at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course July 19-20.
 
Best Friends is one of the most respected animal welfare groups in the world. 
 It cares for some 1,500 animals on any given day at its sanctuary in Kanab, 
Utah.
 
Those animals include 22 of the dogs formerly owned by NFL player Michael 
Vick, and a dog named Ballsy that was rescued following Hurricane Katrina.  
Prendeville sponsors the latter animal via Best Friends' Web site at 
bestfriends.org. Details of Ballsy's rehabilitation can be obtained through a blog 
Prendeville writes on racinglapsforbestfriends.com. Ballsy was also the inspiration for 
the Racing Laps for Best Friends logo found on Prendeville's race car.
 
In addition to racinglapsforbestfriends.com and bestfriends.org, fans can 
find more information at andrewprendeville.com, andersenracingteam.com and 
indycar.com/indylights.