CITGO-SAMAX RACING GOES TO PHOENIX!

May 9, 2006, Los Angeles, CA – Fresh from a 7th place finish at Laguna Seca
in Monterey, CA last weekend, Milka Duno and the CITGO Racing team travel to
Phoenix with high hopes for another strong finish at the Gainsco Grand Prix
at Phoenix International Raceway this week - May 11-13, 2006.

Duno and the CITGO Racing crew scored their 2nd top-ten finish of the season
on Laguna Seca’s 2.238-mile road course and will now work hard to set up
their new #11 CITGO Pontiac Riley for the 1.51-mile course at PIR – which
uses part of the track’s one-mile oval.

Corvette Racing driver and four-time 24 Hours of Le Mans class winner
Olivier Beretta will join Milka and CITGO Racing at PIR for the first of
their races together. It will be Beretta’s first race in the Daytona
Prototype.

"We bring with us to Phoenix a lot of positive momentum from our result at
Laguna Seca and I’m really looking forward to my first race with Olivier,"
said Milka. "We’ve all done a lot of work since debuting the new chassis at
Virginia and we’re hoping to continue to improve with each outing. Olivier
will bring with him a lot of experience to the CITGO Racing effort and we’re
all anxious to work with him and welcome him to the team."

A strong believer in the value of education, Milka, a qualified Naval
Engineer with four master’s degrees, feels a responsibility to help promote
the importance of a strong educational background and will get that chance
this week in Phoenix. Milka, together with GAINSCO/Blackhawk Racing driver
Jon Fogarty, will visit the Metro Tech High School in Phoenix on Wednesday,
May 10 to speak to and interact with the students as part of the APS Power
Players Program.