Flying Lizard's Patrick Pilet on the Pole at Long Beach, Bergmeister Second in GT2, Pechnik Eighth

April 18, 2008 -- Long Beach, California -- Flying Lizard's Patrick Pilet clocked the fastest GT2 lap time in today's qualifying session for Saturday's American Le Mans Series at Long Beach, putting the Lizard No. 46 Porsche on the pole. Teammate Joerg Bergmeister had the second fastest time of the session in the No. 45 Porsche and Lonnie Pechnik was eighth in the No. 44. This is the second pole in a row for the Lizard squad, following Wolf Henzler's fast lap in the No. 45 at St. Petersburg 2 weeks ago.

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Pilet commented on his first ALMS career pole, "The car was very fast, and the team did a really good job preparing the car: we were able to make improvements in every session. I went out on light fuel, so I really only had one shot to get it right, and everything went OK for me. Tomorrow, the race is just 1 hour and 40 minutes, it's better to start in pole position, and important not to make any mistakes in the race. We have to have a good start and good strategy and be very fast during our driver change."

The Lizard driver line up for the race is: No 44, Seth Neiman and Lonnie Pechnik; No. 45, Wolf Henzler and Joerg Bergmeister; No. 46, Johannes van Overbeek and Patrick Pilet.

Following the Race
The race begins at 4:10 pm PT, Saturday April 19. Lizards will broadcast team radio live during the race. To listen, visit www.lizardms.com.

ABC will broadcast the race tape-delayed, with broadcast starting at 9:30 am PT, Sunday April 20. MotorsTV broadcast begins Sun. April 20 at 8:30 PM CET.

About Flying Lizard Motorsports
2008 is the fifth consecutive ALMS season for the Sonoma, California-based GT2 team. Since its first year of competition in 2004, the team has finished in the top three in the ALMS GT2 team and drivers' championships, but has not yet won the GT2 title. In 2007, the team was second in the ALMS GT2 team championship and drivers Johannes van Overbeek and Joerg Bergmeister finished second in the ALMS GT2 drivers' championship.

Flying Lizard is sponsored by ShoreTel, a leading provider of enterprise IP telephony solutions, and eSilicon, a semiconductor company, both based in Sunnyvale, California. Team partners include Porsche and Michelin.

Visit the Flying Lizard website and online store at www.lizardms.com.

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