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Porsches at Sebring and transmissions. The pop-up canopy allows the team to work on the cars in rain and shine and protects a compete set of spare wheels, doors, fenders, fairings, wings anything else that can break off or get damaged during 12 hours of hard racing on the bumpiest track on the ALMS circuit. (The 3.7 mile Sebring track was once a WWII bomber base.) continued from pg 20 which was closing in on the class leader before spending four frustrating laps in the pits. Don’t count them out for another Championship, however. For more on Kenny Shreves go to www.WERKSTATTCVILLE.com. For information on the team, go to www.lizardms.com The one area off limits was a large air-conditioned shipping container with no windows. “The ‘Germans’ are in there,” Shreves said. (The Flying Lizards are Porsche’s “unofficial factory team” in ALMS GT. One suspects the visiting talent from Stuttgart kept busy in their lab gathering and analyzing data all weekend.) Long and Bergmeister are Porsche contract drivers, and have numerous race wins and championships to their credit. They were teamed with German Marc Lieb for the race. Shreves also showed us around the Number 44 Porsche, which would be driven the next day by Neiman, Darren Law and Austrian Richard Lietz. Shreves said that in addition to prepping their own cars, the well-equipped Lizards were able to lend a helping hand to the Peugeot P-1 (prototype) team, (which would win overall) and to Greg Pickett’s P-2 Porsche Spyder (which would take the P-2 class win and finish fourth overall). Kenny Shreves' Trailer After the tour, we returned to the other side of the pit straight when Long, Bergmeister and Flying Lizard officials, Team Manager Eric Ingraham and Chief Strategist Thomas Blam, talked and answered questions at the PCA’s Porscheplatz. They explained that Sebring was particularly important to them because it was the first and longest race on the ALMS schedule and paid more points. The team has finished in the top three in the ALMS GT team and drivers’ championship every year since 2004 and swept both titles in 2008 and 2009. The Porscheplatz was situated outside the final corner and was a great place from which to view the race the next day. The cold drinks and big screen TV made it the most comfortable Sebring race in my four visits. The Flying Lizards finished fourth and fifth in GT. A freak incident not of their doing prevented a higher placing for the No. 45 car, liz 44 45 in race Kenny Shreves HEAT EXCHANGER 4.2010 22
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