September 16, 2011 – Salinas, Calif. – Patrick Long qualified the No. 45 fifth in GT for tomorrow’s ALMS Monterey Race at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. In the No. 44, Seth Neiman was 12th. Joey Hand of the No. 56 BMW is on the pole.

Long commented, “We are happy with the qualifying result. We struggled in the afternoon practice session but made some changes at the eleventh hour and the car was as good in qual as it’s been all weekend. There was nothing left on the table in the session: I had a clean lap and fifth is what we have today. All season, we’ve raced better than we’ve qualified, so we hope to be fighting for a podium tomorrow. There’s a really tight gap between the top group of GT qualifiers so it is definitely going to be an exciting race.”

The Lizard driver lineup for the six-hour race on Saturday Sept. 17 is Joerg Bergmeister and Patrick Long in the No. 45 and Seth Neiman and Marco Holzer in the No. 44. Bergmeister and Long are sixth in the ALMS GT drivers championship with 51 points, Neiman is ninth and Holzer is tenth. Dirk Mueller and Joey Hand of the No. 56 BMW lead with 124 points. Flying Lizard is fifth in the team championship. There are 55 points remaining: 25 at Laguna Seca and 30 at Petit Le Mans.

Follow the Race
The six-hour ALMS Monterey Race gets the green flag Saturday Sept 17 at 1:30 pm PT. Broadcast on ESPN2 begins at 10:00 am PT on Sunday September 18. ESPN3.com will carry live coverage of the race. American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patrón races are also broadcast live in Canada on Rogers SportsNet, in Europe on MotorsTV, and in the Middle East and Latin America on Fox. Check local TV listings for details. Outside of the U.S., the race will be available live at americanlemans.com/live.

Flying Lizard will broadcast the team radio live throughout the race; read the team race blog for frequent team updates at www.lizardms.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 2011, finishing third in 2005, fourth in 2006, sixth in 2008, and sixth in 2011.

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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