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In the Flying Lizard No. 45 Porsche, Joerg Bergmeister qualified third, Patrick Pilet in the No. 46 was fifth and Seth Neiman in the No. 44 was eleventh in qualifying for tomorrow’s 2008 Generac 500 at Road America. The No. 71 Tafel Racing Ferrari is on the GT2 pole and will start at the front of the 14-car GT2 field. Continue reading ‘ALMS: Flying Lizard Qualifies Third, Fifth and Eleventh for Road America’
Great news! Although Tafel Racing snuck their Ferrari into first, it was a strong race for the Flying Lizards!
Fourth Double Podium of the Year
The Flying Lizard No. 46 and No. 45 Porsches were nose to tail when they took the checkered to finish second and third, respectively, in GT2 at today’s Acura Sports Car Challenge at Mid-Ohio. The No. 44 Porsche had a mechanical failure halfway through the race and was retired. Continue reading ‘ALMS: Flying Lizard takes second and third in GT2 at Mid-Ohio’
Coming off the win at Lime Rock, the Lizards are looking good. They were not on pole there and could easily take this one from Melo, Risi and the Ferrari fanboys!
Keep up with the Lizards on race day via their blog
Gotta love it, two Porshe 911 GT3 RSR’s leading two Ferrari F430’sThe Flying Lizard No. 45, 46 and 44 Porsches qualified third, fifth and seventh, respectively, in GT2 for tomorrow’s Acura Sports Car Challenge at Mid-Ohio, the sixth of eleven races in the 2008 ALMS season.
All three Lizard Porsches headed out at the start of the 20-minute qualifying session, with Wolf Henzler behind the wheel of the No. 45, Patrick Pilet in the No. 46 and Lonnie Pechnik in the No. 44. Scorching temperatures in the 90’s made for a very hot qualifying session on the 2.25-mile circuit, with track temperatures nearing 115 degrees.
In the No. 45, Wolf’s fastest time of 1:20.226 was just two-hundreths of a second off of the pole sitter, Jaime Melo in the No. 62 Risi Competizione Ferrari.
Crew chief and co-technical director Tommy Sadler commented on the session, “We still have the morning warmup tomorrow to make some changes and finalize the setups, but in general today’s results are a solid starting point for the team. It’s great to see Risi back at the front of the grid and we look forward to giving them a good race tomorrow.”
Round Five of ALMS Season
The Flying Lizard squad returns to U.S.-based racing this week, after a five-week break from the ALMS season. During the break, the Flying Lizard No. 80 Porsche completed the grueling 24 Heures du Mans in Le Mans, France, finishing sixth in GT2. Back to their ALMS three-car effort, Flying Lizard heads to the East Coast today for the Northeast Grand Prix at the newly-repaved 1.51-mile Lime Rock Park. Flying Lizard is currently leading in both the ALMS team and drivers’ GT2 championships, having won two races so far this season (Sebring and the Utah Grand Prix), and secured seven of twelve possible podium spots. Continue reading ‘ALMS: Flying Lizard Back in U.S. for Lime Rock’
Even though the coverage hardly focused on the GT2 class, it was one of the best as well. We almost died in our seats when the crash between Patrick Long and Seth Neiman happened. Two hours into the race! We won’t point fingers here, its just a shame that these two Porsches more than likely would have won this race. Period.
The teams in the near-standard GT2 class also took off into the race with their Porsche 911 GT3 RSR showing great promise. In qualifying, the Porsche works driver Patrick Long (USA) had undercut the magical four-minute mark with a lap time of 3:58.152 minutes in the sports car category for the first time and with his German works driver team mate Wolf Henzler, claimed a double pole position result. Continue reading ‘24 Hours of Le Mans: Porsche GT2 report’
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6:12 - Joerg has left pit lane, but radios in that the steering wheel is off to the right. He will continue and let us know if there are any other issues. 1 hour and 20 minutes since Seth went into the gravel. The crew replaced nearly every bodywork component, two radiators, and rear suspension parts.
6:09 pm - The car has been restarted in the garage. The crew is working on the setup right now and confirming that the repairs have all been done correctly. Joerg Bergmeister is in the car. They will push him out into the pit stall and they will do some more checks, then send him on his way. Continue reading ‘24 Hour of Le Mans: Flying Lizard crash’
If you are fans of the Flying Lizard Motorsport team, you know about this… If you’re one of those Ferrari fans, have a listen and you’ll switch!
Radio
The Lizards will broadcast their team radio on race day, starting with morning warmup. Click here to listen
Blog
We will update the Flying Lizard blog during track sessions this week and during the race. To read the blog, see www.lizardms.com
Merchandise
New Flying Lizard merchandise — including the new 2008 Le Mans poster and t-shirt, vinyl decals and more — is now available at the online store.
Flying Lizard gear is available on site at Le Mans during race week at vendor village.
The qualifying sessions were a blast to listen to yesterday and today. If you fortunate enough to listen in and hear the moment when Patrick Long went 3:58, you probably got the same chills we did! Joerg Bergmeister and the #80 Flying Lizard Motorsport 911 GT3 RSR had pole until those moments. He was very anxious to break the 4:00 mark but team orders thought differently.
Porsche sets the tone in Le Mans: At the qualifying for the Le Mans 24 hour race, both the RS Spyder and the 911 GT3 RSR were clearly the fastest vehicles in their respective classes. Continue reading ‘24 Hours of Le Mans: Porsche customer teams dominate qualifying’
