DALY DOES A HAT TRICK WITH THIRD STAR MAZDA VICTORY
IN A ROW IN 'NIGHT BEFORE THE 500' AT O'REILLY RACEWAY PARK

O'Reilly Raceway Park / Saturday, May 29 – Starting from the outside of the front row on the .626-mile O'Reilly Raceway Park oval, Conor Daly jumped into the lead on Lap 1 and led the entire race by a substantial margin to score his third Star Mazda Championship presented by Goodyear victory in a row driving the #22 Juncos Racing / INDECK / The College Network / Merchant Services Ltd. / Tom Lange Co. Mazda. His race was a picture perfect demonstration of a rising
open-wheel star hitting his stride, never putting a wheel wrong, and bringing the crowd charging into Victory Lane as he completed his final lap. Finishing second was pole-sitter Mikael Grenier of Quebec City in the #17 Andersen Racing / Slow Cow / April Super Flow / NAPA Auto Parts / HS Telecom / Desharnais Mazda, followed by Brazilian racer Joao Victor Horto in his #18 Team Apex / Wabash Capital Investments Mazda. Texan Rusty Mitchell, driving the #66 Mitchell Motorsports / Motorola / Petro Comm Mazda, qualified 5th and finished 4th after a mistake-free race.

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QUEBEC RACER MIKAEL GRENIER WINS STAR MAZDA CHAMPIONSHIP
POLE FOR THE 'NIGHT BEFORE THE 500' AT O'REILLY RACEWAY PARK

O'Reilly Raceway Park / Saturday, May 29 – Quebec racer Mikael Grenier qualified on the pole for tonight's Round 4 of the 2010 Star Mazda Championship presented by Goodyear – the 'Night Before the 500 - with a lap of 20.665 sec. (119.356 mph) around the .626-mile O'Reilly Raceway Park oval. It's an achievement made all the more remarkable by the fact that the entire 13-car field qualified within half a second of each other.

The 125-lap, 45-minute race is scheduled to take the green flag at 8:10 pm ET and the event will be live on streaming video available at IndyCar.com, StarMazda.com and USF2000.com. This race is particularly significant as a major element of the new Indy Racing League 'Road to Indy' program; top series officials from the Speedway will be in attendance, and the winner will be interviewed in Victory Lane at the Speedway between 11- and 12 Noon Sunday, prior to the start of the Indy 500.

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VENEZUELAN ROOKIE CARLOS LINARES OUTRUNS THE BIG GUNS AND
TOPS DAY 1 STAR MAZDA TESTING AT O'REILLY RACEWAY PARK

O'Reilly Raceway Park / Friday, May 28 – Venezuelan rookie Carlos Linares outgunned the big guns of the Star Mazda Championship and turned the fastest time of the first day of pre-race testing. Driving the #20 Linares Racing / IND Mazda in the final session of the day, on the final lap of the session, he turned a lap of 20.2555 sec. (121.925 mph)… and then backed the car into the wall on his 'pit in' lap.

"It was my mistake, but the car is not badly damaged and we will have it ready for practice and qualifying and the race tomorrow," said Linares, 2009 Venezuelan national FF1600 champion who races with backing from IND, Venezuela's National Institute of Sport. "The good thing is that the Linares team and my engineer Rob Ridgely have given me a car that makes it very easy to go fast. I was not pushing hard to do the quick time, just driving smooth and focusing on doing a perfect lap. The team is not so happy about having to work late to repair the car, but they are very happy to be the fastest."

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