Flying Lizard Qualifies 4th, 5th and 8th in GT2 for Lime Rock

July 11, 2008--Lakeville, CT-- In this afternoon's qualifying session, Joerg Bergmeister qualified the No. 45 fourth in GT2, Patrick Pilet in the No. 46 was fifth and Darren Law in the No. 44 was eighth.

Today is the only day of practice before the race tomorrow. Unfortunately, the combination of a new track configuration and a short and narrow circuit created a chaotic environment for today's sessions. The two one-hour practice sessions were shortened significantly as numerous cars ran into problems, resulting in red flag after red flag. The three Lizard Porsches avoided any major problems throughout the day, although the drivers didn't get the seat time they had hoped for and the cars are not yet at race setup.

Bergmeister commented on the session, "Our qualifying results were a little disappointing. In the No. 45 Porsche, we made some changes since this morning, but we are still fighting a big understeer. If we can fix that then we should be in good shape, but we definitely have some work to do for tomorrow. Overall, I think we are all still coming to grips with the new layout. The curbing and rumblestrips are coming up in places, which isn't helping much. Hopefully they'll have things sorted out on the track by the race tomorrow."

The driver lineup for Saturday's race is: Darren Law and Seth Neiman in the No. 44 Porsche, Joerg Bergmeister and Wolf Henzler in the No. 45 Porsche, and Johannes van Overbeek and Patrick Pilet in the No. 46 Porsche.

Follow the Race
The 2 hour and 45 minute race begins at 2:05 p.m. (ET), Saturday, July 12, 2008. TV broadcast is on SPEED Channel, tape delayed starting at 12 pm ET, Sunday, July 13. MotorsTV will air the race live throughout Europe on Saturday, July 12. The race will be broadcast live on XM Satellite Radio Channel 144 starting at 2:00 ET, and live on American Le Mans Series Radio at www.americanlemans.com.

Flying Lizard will broadcast the team radio during the event and provide real-time race info on their race blog. For details see www.lizards.com.

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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