ANGLO-AMERICAN DRIVING DUO BRING ROB DYSON HIS SECOND GLEN CONTINENTAL WIN 

Butch Leitzinger and James Weaver, driving a Ford Riley & Scott MK-3, held off
a 37-car field to win a thrilling IMSA Glen Continental XII.  In a slugfest on
the track and a battle of the pit crew, the Dyson entry beat the pole winning
pair of Mauro Baldi and Fermin Velez, in a Ferrari 333SP, by a mere seven
seconds after three hours of racing.  Moving up to third in the final moments
was the Oldsmobile Spice BDG 02 of Frederik Ekblom and Price Cobb, after the
Ferrari of Wayne Taylor and Gianpiero Moretti ran out of fuel in the final
laps.  Rounding out the top five was the other Dyson entry piloted by Andy
Wallace and team owner Rob Dyson, one lap down.

"Our car was so much better under braking than the Ferraris. Once I'd get
close enough, it was really a simple matter to get by them," said Weaver, amid
the post-race celebrations.  "My car's so good it's easy to pass, the only
thing that would do me in was traffic in the Inner Loop and the next
right-hander.  All I needed was a clean run to beat the Ferraris there.

Weaver grabbed the lead for good on the final restart with less than ten
minutes to go in the 89 lap race.  The lead Dyson car swapped the lead with two
Ferraris and the Oldsmobile Spice for the entire event, often running in
nose-to-tail formation.  The battle on the track would break off as the pit
crews would take up the challenge when the WSC racers dove into the pits for
service.

The final yellow insured the American chassis and engine combination, as it
allowed Weaver to stretch the fuel mileage.  But Taylor fell from third when
his car ran dry, denying Gianpiero Moretti his second straight IMSA win at the
historic upstate New York road course.  It was announced that it would the Momo
wheel magnate's last run at Watkins Glen International.

Weaver/Leitzinger averaged 100.03 mph for Weaver's second Exxon World Sports
Car race week this season.  It was for Leitzinger, who will also drive in
Sunday's NASCAR Lysol 200 race, his first WSC win, after a heralded career in
the lower IMSA classes. Dyson's first win at the Glen came in 1987.

"I bit all my fingernails down to the edge there.  We were right on (fuel)
reserve on the last lap.  We just barely made it over the finish line on fumes
at the end," 26-year-old Leitzinger.

Irv Hoerr, in an Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme, controlled the GTS-1 class all
afternoon, as he cruised to a two lap victory over the father-son team of
Charles and Rob Morgan, also in an Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme. Hoerr only
surrendered the GTS-1 lead when he ducked into the pits for fuel and tires.

The team of Andy Pilgrim and Larry Schumacher emerged from a three-way brawl
for GTS-2 division honors.  The Pilgrim/Schumacher Porsche 911 swapped the lead
all race long with pole sitter Bill Auberlen/Henry Taleb's Mazda RX-7 and the
Porsche 911 of Dennis Aase and Jorge Trejos.  Like the headlining Exxon World
Sports Car class, it was both a battle on the track and in the pits.  Pilgrim
took the lead for good with less than five minutes remaining in the $139,000
enduro.

"Man, it was close.  We we're running out of fuel," explained Pilgrim, who
will also drive in Sunday morning's IMSA Street Stock Endurance Championship
event.  "I just had to get through the stumbles in the corners and the exits. 
Those guys said there was enough fuel and they were biting there teeth, too."

TV series "Coach" actor Craig T. Nelson suffered through three engine failures
in his Lexus Spice, as his entry was the third car to retire when co-driver Dan
Clark parked it after only 13 laps.

The Bugatti EB110, in its North American debut, finished fifth in the GTS-1
class.  Former Formula One driver Patrick Tambay and Gildo Pastor-Pallanca
wheeled the car to the checkered flag five laps behind class winner Hoerr.

J.J. O'Malley,
Director of Communications
Watkins Glen International
73771,531@compuserve.com