Flying Lizard Motorsports are set to make their comeback to the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship with a single look on the Grand Prix of Long Beach on 20 April.
Drivers Elias Sabo and Andy Lee will drive the #28 Aston Martin Vantage GTD entrant on the road circuit dash race, that includes two classes for the multi-class affair.
Sponsored by 5.11 Tactical, the No. 28 Aston Martin livery will likely be sporting an orange and black livery alike their SRO Fanatec GT World Challenge America entries.
A predicted grid of ten GTPs and 17 GTD automobiles will compete collectively for the third spherical of 2024, being the shortest at 1-hour and 40-minutes lengthy.
Sabo, a resident of Newport Beach, mentioned: “I couldn’t be more excited to be driving in the Long Beach Grand Prix this year.
“This race is at my home track. It’s so exciting to be able to compete in front of a number of my friends and family who will be in attendance.
“Andy and I had originally entered the race in 2020 but it was canceled due to Covid.
“Now four years later we get a chance to compete in a bucket list race for me.”
The crew primarily based in Sonoma, California, hint their beginnings to the American Le Mans Series throughout the 2000s by which they fielded Porsche GT equipment as a manufacturing unit crew, growing the primary two generations of the 997 GT3 RSR.
During which, Flying Lizard contested 9 Le Mans begins (with two automobiles in 2011 and 2012), and 6 on the 24 Hours of Daytona with their iconic purple and silver look.
They switched to Audi R8 LMS equipment and have become a GTD buyer crew within the 2014 and 2015 United SportsCar Championship seasons, the previous title to the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.
Since 2015, they participated within the Pirelli World Challenge and into its present figuring out as SRO America.
“From the moment I started working with Elias, Long Beach was always a huge goal for us,” added Lee.
“It’s basically Elias’ hometown race since it’s so close to his business and family.
“We came close to competing in 2020 in the GT4 division before the event was cancelled during the pandemic.
“I can’t tell you how excited we are for the opportunity to compete this year and to do so in the IMSA WeatherTech GTD class is extra special.”
