April 15, 2011 – Patrick Long qualified the No. 45 Flying Lizard Porsche fourth on the GT grid with a time of 1:19.463 in today’s qualifying session for the ALMS at Long Beach race on Saturday April 16. Teammate Seth Neiman qualified the No. 44 Flying Lizard Porsche 13th in class. The No. 56 BMW is on the GT pole.

Long commented on the session: “Qualifying today went right to plan: the car was hooked up from the start and really consistent. Being in the top five in this field is a great result. The team has done an excellent job leading up to the race in delivering a solid racecar.”

Long Beach is the first of two street circuits on the ALMS schedule this year (the second is Baltimore, in September). The race will run two hours on the 1.968, 11-turn temporary course along on the shores of Long Beach.

Flying Lizard is currently third in the GT team championship. Long and Joerg Bergmeister are fifth in the GT driver championship in the No. 45 and Neiman and Darren Law are sixth in the No. 44.

Follow the Race
The race gets the green flag Saturday, April 16 at 4:30 pm PT. Follow Flying Lizard live through the race blog and team radio (www.lizardms.com), on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/FlyingLizardMotorsports), and Twitter (FlyingLizard_MS). The race is broadcast live on ESPN3.com and tape delayed on Sunday, April 17 on ESPN2, starting at 2 pm PT (5 pm ET). Viewers outside of the U.S. may also view the race live at www.americanlemans.com.

About Flying Lizard Motorsports
Flying Lizard Motorsports has competed in the American Le Mans Series GT class since 2004. The team has finished in the top three in the ALMS GT drivers’ and team championships every year since 2004. In 2010, Flying Lizard No. 45 drivers Joerg Bergmeister and Patrick Long won a hard-fought battle for the GT drivers’ championship. In 2009 and 2008, the team swept all ALMS GT titles: drivers’ championship (Bergmeister and Long in 2009, Bergmeister and Wolf Henzler in 2008); Flying Lizard won the team championship; and Porsche won the manufacturer championship. In 2009, the Flying Lizard No. 44 Porsche also won the Michelin Green X Challenge championship.

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 team is sponsored in the ALMS by Openwave Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: OPWV), a global software innovator delivering context-aware mediation and messaging solutions for communication service providers and eSilicon, a semiconductor company.

Visit the team website at www.lizardms.com. For the latest team racing apparel and Porsche gear visit the Flying Lizard stores online and in the paddock.

The privateer team is based in Sonoma, California.

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