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Flying Lizard ready for Laguna Seca this weekend

Flying Lizard ready for Laguna Seca this weekend, dPerceptions Laguna Seca ALMS

The Lizards are ready for the six-hour American Le Mans Series Monterey race at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, the third event on the ALMS 2012 schedule. The driver lineup will be Joerg Bergmeister, Patrick Long and Richard Lietz in the No. 45 Flying Lizard Porsche and Seth Neiman and Marco Holzer in the No. 44. Continue reading ‘Flying Lizard ready for Laguna Seca this weekend’

Flying Lizard to start sixth and tenth at ALMS Long Beach

#45 Flying Lizard Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 RSR: Joerg Bergmeister, Patrick Long, Long Beach © 2012 Darren Pierson / DPerceptions

It was a wet and wild Friday here at Long Beach in advance of the American Le Mans Series at Long Beach race. Torrential rain started at seven am–just in time for the only ALMS practice session of the race weekend-and continued periodically throughout the day. The scheduled two hour and 15 minute morning session was reduced to less than an hour with the cars parked in pit lane under tarps and teams huddled under pit awnings in the heavy rain. Continue reading ‘Flying Lizard to start sixth and tenth at ALMS Long Beach’

Flying Lizard qualify 8th and 15th for 2012 12 Hours of Sebring

Flying Lizard no45 qualifying for the 12 Hours of Sebring, Joerg Bergmeister, Patrick Long, Marco Holzer © 2012 Corey Beaman | oneighturbo.com

In today’s qualifying session for the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring, Joerg Bergmeister qualified the No. 45 8th in GT with a time of 2:00.119. There are 15 cars comprising the combined WEC and ALMS GT class. Gianmaria Bruni was on the combined GT pole in the No. 51 AF Corse Ferrari with a time of 1:58.427 and Jan Magnusssen had the lead spot in ALMS-only GT in the No. 03 Corvette with a time of 1:58.996. In the No. 44 Flying Lizard Porsche, Seth Neiman was 15th in the combined class. In ALMS GT only, Bergmeister was 5th in the No. 45 and Neiman 10th in the No. 44. Continue reading ‘Flying Lizard qualify 8th and 15th for 2012 12 Hours of Sebring’

Andy Lally joins Flying Lizard for 60th 12 Hours of Sebring

Sebring 12 Hours, ALMS © 2011 DPerceptions, Patrick Long, Joerg Bergmeister, Marc Lieb

Photo: © 2010 Darren Pierson | oneighturbo.com

Flying Lizard Motorsports announced today its driver lineup for the 2012 Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring. The team will field two new racecars in the GT class for the ALMS season: the No. 45 and No. 44 2012 Porsche 911 GT3 RSRs. Joerg Bergmeister and Patrick Long, both Porsche factory drivers, will return for their fourth consecutive season driving together in the No. 45; this will be Bergmeister’s fifth year with the team. Bergmeister is a five- time ALMS GT drivers’ champion (2005-2006 and 2008-2010). Continue reading ‘Andy Lally joins Flying Lizard for 60th 12 Hours of Sebring’

Two cars for Flying Lizard Motorsports for the 2012 24 Hours of Le Mans

2011 Le Mans Flying Lizard no81

Flying Lizard announced today that the team has received two entries for the 2012 24 Heures du Mans in Le Mans, France, on June 16-17, 2012. The full entry list was unveiled today by the Automobile Club de l’Ouest (ACO) in a press conference in Paris. Continue reading ‘Two cars for Flying Lizard Motorsports for the 2012 24 Hours of Le Mans’




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