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Prendeville Finishes Seventh Saturday In First Half of Infineon Indy Pro Series
Doubleheader With Best Friends Animal Society No. 5

08/25/2007

By Linda Mansfield, Restart Communications

SONOMA, Calif., Aug. 25 - Fans who pledged $1 a lap via the racinglapsforbestfriends.com Website (this website) or via the Best Friends Animal Society Donation Center in the infield at Infineon Raceway this weekend donated $30 to the largest no-kill animal shelter in the United States on Saturday. That's because Andrew Prendeville completed all 30 laps and finished seventh in the Indy Pro Series race at Infineon Saturday with his Best Friends Animal Society No. 5.

Prendeville will start second in a similar 30-lap race at Infineon tomorrow morning at 10:20 a.m. local time. Donations for Best Friends based on that race are currently being taken on the Web site and at the Best Friends tent in the infield. Fans on-site can reach it by walking through the tunnel at the end of the main grandstand towards the vendor area. It's next to the U.S. Army display.

Prendeville started 13th in Saturday's race on the
2.26-mile, 12-turn road course. He passed two
drivers on the first lap to advance to 11th, and he
was in the top 10 by lap five.

He remained in tenth, running between Jonathan Klein
and Ryan Justice, until lap 17. At that point he moved
up to eighth when there was contact between Jaime
Camara and Hideki Mutoh in Turn 11 which left Mutoh
stranded and brought out the second and final full-
course caution.

Right before the restart on lap 20 the fifth-place car driven by
Phil Giebler had a problem and stalled, which moved Prendeville
up to seventh two-thirds of the way through the event. He stayed
there, running between Logan Gomez and Justice, the rest of
the way.

"The car was fine. We moved by a couple people at the start.
Most of the rest was attrition," Prendeville said afterwards.
"But we started 13th and moved up six spots, and finished all
the laps for the Racing Laps for Best Friends program."

"I was never really in a position to strike and make a
move today," he added. "I benefited from other
people's mistakes."

"Now I get to start second tomorrow," Prendeville noted.
"I'll just try to do the best I can. It's a fun track; it's just
hard to pass here."

Highlights from both of this weekend's races will be
shown on ESPN2 at 5:30 p.m. Eastern time on Friday,
Aug. 31. Live timing and scoring is offered at
indycar.com/pro.

Other information is available at
racinglapsforbestfriends.com, bestfriends.org and
andersenracingteam.com.

Donations may also be made by telephone at (435) 644-2001, extension 4801, or by mailing checks payable to

"Racing Laps for Best Friends" to:

Best Friends Animal Society
5001 Angel Canyon Road
Kanab, Utah 84741-5000

Donations to the Racing Laps for Best Friends program may be made using MasterCard, Visa, American Express or Discover credit cards.

Fans donate a set amount of money for each lap that Prendeville completes in each race. At $1 per lap for the 18-lap races such as the two Indy Pro Series races at IMS this weekend, the donation would be $18 per race or $36. If the car would only complete 10 laps in one race and five laps in the other race, then the donation would be $15.

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