Patrick Long Qualifies No. 45 Flying Lizard Porsche 8th in GT, No. 44 13th for Mid-Ohio

August 6, 2010 – Lexington, Ohio – The GT field showed its depth today with the top nine GT cars within a one second spread on the 2.258-mile road course. In the No. 45 Flying Lizard Porsche, Patrick Long qualified eighth in class and in the No. 44 Seth Neiman was thirteenth.

After sweltering heat at Lime Rock two weeks ago, the weather gods are cooperating this weekend with mild temperatures in the low eighties for today's two practice sessions and qualifying. Patrick commented on the qual session, "Overall, we're happy with qualifying; we had no issues with traffic or handling and improved quite a bit from final practice to qualifying -- all progressive, linear improvement. Our strategist Thomas Blam found me a nice gap and the changes that engineer Stefan Pfeiffer made meant that I had two clear laps in the same tenth. Unfortunately, we aren't at the front of the grid, but it only makes us more focused to battle back in the race tomorrow."

For full qualifying results see www.americanlemans.com.

Following their win at Lime Rock last weekend, Long and teammate Joerg Bergmeister are currently in the lead of the GT drivers' championship and Flying Lizard leads in the team points. For Mid-Ohio, guest driver Patrick Pilet will join Neiman in sister Porsche No. 44 to fill in for Darren Law who has a scheduling conflict.

Follow the Race
The race will get the green flag on Saturday, August 7 at 3 pm ET. It will be broadcast live on the Internet on todocast.tv and tape-delayed on CBS, Sunday August 15 from 12:30 pm- 2:00 pm ET and on MotorsTV in Europe on Sunday, August 15 at 16.30h UK and 17.30h CET. Flying Lizard will broadcast their team radio live during the race: for more information, go to www.lizardms.com. Team gear will be available in the paddock at the race and online at www.lizardms.com/store.

About Flying Lizard Motorsports
Flying Lizard Motorsports competes in the American Le Mans Series GT class. The team has finished in the top three in the ALMS GT2 drivers' and team championships every year since 2004, their first year of professional competition. In 2009, the team swept all ALMS GT2 titles: Joerg Bergmeister and Patrick Long won the drivers' championship in the No. 45; Flying Lizard won the team championship; Porsche won the manufacturer championship; and the Flying Lizard No. 44 Porsche won the Michelin Green X Challenge championship (new for 2009). It is the team's second consecutive triple championship: in 2008 Joerg Bergmeister and Wolf Henzler won the ALMS GT2 drivers' title in the No. 45; Flying Lizard won the team championship; and Porsche won the manufacturers' title.

Flying Lizard has also competed in the 24 Heures du Mans from 2005 through 2010, finishing third in 2005, fourth in 2006, and sixth in 2008. The privateer team is based in Sonoma, California.

Flying Lizard is sponsored by ShoreTel, a leading provider of enterprise IP telephony solutions; Openwave Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: OPWV), a global software innovator delivering context-aware mediation and messaging solutions that enable communication service providers to create and deliver smarter services; eSilicon, a semiconductor company; and RedlineCoffee.com, a premium coffee company dedicated to motorsport enthusiasts. Team partners include Porsche and Michelin.

Visit the team website at www.lizardms.com.

# # #