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Flying Lizard No. 45 to Start on GT2 Pole in Saturday’s Sebring 12-Hour

March 19, 2010 – Sebring, Florida – The No. 45 Flying Lizard Porsche 911 GT3 RSR will start on the pole for Saturday’s Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring.

 

In today’s combined GT2/GTC qualifying session, Joerg Bergmeister qualified second in GT2 with a time of 2:01.150 on the 3.7 mile circuit. The No. 90 Rahal Letterman BMW, which set the fastest time of 2:00.782, failed post-qualification technical inspection and will start from the back of the grid, moving the No. 45 up to the pole.

Bergmeister commented on qualifying, “We had made an aggressive tire choice and P2 was all that we had today. I was a little surprised that some of the other cars weren’t as fast as they’d been earlier in the week. However, based on what we saw during the test days on Monday and Tuesday, clearly the competition has upped the game again. Starting from the front of the grid will help but it’s certainly going to be a very tough twelve hours for all of us.”

In the No. 44 Flying Lizard Porsche, Seth Neiman qualified 13th. “In the No. 44, we also made a radical tire choice that didn’t work out for us in qualifying, but we’re confident that we’ll have it dialed in for the race on Saturday,” added Flying Lizard Chief Engineer Craig Watkins.

For Sebring, in the No. 45 Lizard Porsche, defending ALMS GT2 champions Joerg Bergmeister and Patrick Long are joined by Marc Lieb (Germany). In the No. 44 Porsche, Seth Neiman and Darren Law are teaming with Richard Lietz (Austria).

The 58th Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring will get the green flag on Saturday, March 20, at 10:30 a.m. ET with live coverage on SPEED TV. Flying Lizard will broadcast its team radio live during the race and update a race blog throughout the twelve hours. For race schedule and details see http://www.lizardms.com/.

About Flying Lizard Motorsports
Flying Lizard Motorsports competes in the American Le Mans Series GT class. The team has finished in the top three in the ALMS GT2 drivers’ and team championships every year since 2004, their first year of professional competition. In 2009, the team swept all ALMS GT2 titles: Joerg Bergmeister and Patrick Long won the drivers’ championship in the No. 45; Flying Lizard won the team championship; Porsche won the manufacturer championship; and the Flying Lizard No. 44 Porsche won the Michelin Green X Challenge championship (new for 2009). It is the team’s second consecutive triple championship: in 2008 Joerg Bergmeister and Wolf Henzler won the ALMS GT2 drivers’ title in the No. 45; Flying Lizard won the team championship; and Porsche won the manufacturers’ title.

Flying Lizard has also competed in the 24 Heures du Mans from 2005 through 2009, finishing third in 2005, fourth in 2006, and sixth in 2008. The privateer team is based in Sonoma, California.

Flying Lizard is sponsored by ShoreTel, a leading provider of enterprise IP telephony solutions; Openwave Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: OPWV), a global software innovator delivering context-aware mediation and messaging solutions that enable communication service providers to create and deliver smarter services; eSilicon, a semiconductor company; and RedlineCoffee.com, a premium coffee company dedicated to motorsport enthusiasts. Team partners include Porsche and Michelin.

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