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Khatir Soltani
Fellows Joins KHI

Canadian road racing ace Ron Fellows has joined Kevin Harvick Inc. for the 2006 season. Fellows will drive the two road
Canadian road racing ace Ron Fellows has joined Kevin Harvick Inc. for two road course events during the 2006 season. (Photo: Ed Gatner, RussBondAgency.com)
course Busch series events for KHI in the #33 Outdoor Channel Monte Carlo.

"The additions of Kevin (Harvick) and Ron Fellows to the race team lineup will boast one of the best championship combinations in racing today," said Wade Sherman of the Outdoor Channel.

In addition, Fellows has signed with Derhaag Motorsports which recently announced its full time entry into the Daytona Prototype category of the Grand American Rolex Sports Car Series Association. The team has signed top drivers Chris Bingham and Randy Ruhlman to drive the #40 Preformed Line Products Pontiac Riley. The team has added racecar engineer Buddy Fey and has added Fellows to complete the driver lineup for the longer races.

"We are excited to have such a great driver lineup for this year, with Randy and Chris as our full time drivers for 2006, and Ron coming in for the longer races.  We are very excited about our future here!" Derhaag said.

Fellows is no stranger to 24-hour endurance racing.  He was an overall winner in the Rolex 24 at Daytona in 2001 with the factory Corvette team, as well as winning at Le Mans in GTS in 2001 and 2002.
Khatir Soltani
Khatir Soltani
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