Flying Lizard No. 45 Fifth and No. 44 13th in Qualifying for Laguna Seca

October 9, 2009 - Salinas, California - Joerg Bergmeister qualified the Flying Lizard No. 45 Porsche fifth in GT2 today and in the No. 44 Seth Neiman qualified 13th for the Monterey Sports Car Championships on Saturday at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. Jan Magnussen in the No. 3 Corvette is on the GT2 pole. The top ten GT2 cars were within nine-tenths of a second of one another in the session; Joerg was four one-hundreths of a second behind the fourth place qualifier, Wolf Henzler of the No. 87 Farnbacher Loles Racing Porsche.

Joerg commented, "Qualifying was close today. Unfortunately on my quick lap I hit some traffic and fifth place is all we had. I think we should have a pretty good racecar tomorrow; it was very consistent this morning on used tires. Thirty-three cars on this track means a great deal of traffic, so we expect a lot of yellows and that might mix things up a bit."

Flying Lizard is seeking to clinch the GT2 driver and team championships this weekend. In the No. 45 Porsche, Joerg Bergmeister and Patrick Long are 19 points ahead of Jaime Melo and Pierre Kaffer of the No. 62 Risi Competizione Ferrari. Laguna Seca is worth 25 points for first place, so if the No. 45 finishes tenth or better (and completes 70 percent of the overall leader's race length, which is required to score points), Bergmeister and Long will win the GT2 drivers' championship and Flying Lizard will win the team championship-no matter where the No. 62 finishes. With third place worth 18 points, if the No. 62 finishes third or worse, the No. 45 will win the championship, even if they do not finish the race. In the No. 44 Flying Lizard Porsche, Johannes van Overbeek will team with Seth Neiman, who is in seventh place in the drivers' championships.

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The four-hour race gets the green flag at 2:45 pm PT on Saturday, October 10. In the USA, it will be televised tape delayed on SpeedTV, starting on Sun. Oct. 11 at 11:30 am PT. In Europe, it will be tape delayed on MotorsTV, starting on Sun. Oct. 18 at 17.00h UK/18.00h CET.

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About Flying Lizard Motorsports
2009 is the sixth consecutive ALMS season for the Sonoma, California-based GT2 team. Since its first year of competition in 2004, the team has finished every year in the top three in the ALMS GT2 team and drivers' championships. Notably, in 2008, the team won both the ALMS GT2 drivers' (No. 45 Porsche of Joerg Bergmeister and Wolf Henzler) and team championships. In 2007, Flying Lizard was second in the ALMS GT2 team championship and No. 45 drivers Johannes van Overbeek and Joerg Bergmeister finished second in the ALMS GT2 drivers' championship.

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.

Flying Lizard is sponsored in the American Le Mans Series by ShoreTel, a leading provider of enterprise IP telephony solutions and eSilicon, a semiconductor company, both based in Sunnyvale, California; and RedlineCoffee.com, a premium coffee company dedicated to motorsport enthusiasts, based in Boulder, Colorado. Team partners include Porsche and Michelin.

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