From 2007 by 2012, the silver and crimson livery of Flying Lizard Motorsports was synonymous with Porsche manufacturing unit racing in America. The workforce’s days within the former American Le Mans Series are lengthy gone, however the data converse for themselves: six class championships, eleven class wins, and an total podium in a GT automobile on the 24 Hours of Daytona. The workforce has since been bought and spent the previous decade operating varied GT automobiles for purchasers across the nation. Next weekend, that business brings them again to the place it began.
Flying Lizard Motorsports has introduced plans for a return to IMSA, the championship that succeeded the American Le Mans Series, for the primary time since shutting down its short-lived Audi R8 LMS program in 2015. Drivers Elias Sabo and Andy Lee will make a begin in an Aston Martin Vantage GT3, the automobile that the workforce at the moment fields in SRO GT World Challenge Americas. It is a one-off begin for now, nevertheless it is step one towards a return for a workforce with a wealthy historical past within the championship. The entry will put on an orange and blue model of the workforce’s well-known livery to mirror the colours of the automobile’s sponsor, not the silver and crimson model that turned so well-known within the late ALMS period.
In its previous life as a manufacturing unit Porsche workforce, a 997-generation 911 GT3 RSR pushed by long-time manufacturing unit drivers Jorg Bergmeister and Patrick Long received its class at Long Beach in 2010. Sabo and Lee will be a part of a critical legacy after they run at Long Beach on April 20.
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