Multiple GT champions Flying Lizards Motorsports announced their return to the American Le Mans Series for 2012 on the team website Friday. The team will campaign two brand-new Porsche 911 GT3 RSRs in the GT class. Porsche factory drivers Joerg Bergmeister, Patrick Long, and Marco Holzer will return as drivers along with Seth Neiman.
Flying Lizard motorsports, the de facto ALMS Porsche factory team, has a long list of triumphs in a relatively short racing history.
Joerg Bergmeister and Patrick Long finished fourth in the ALMS GT Drivers’ Championship in 2011, a disappointment after winning back-to-back in 2010 and 2009. Bergmeister also won in 2007 and 2008, driving with Johannes van Overbeek (2007) and Wolf Henzler (2008).
The Lizards won the ALMS GT class team title in 2008 and 2009, finishing second in 2004 (their first year,) 2007, and 2010, and third in 2005, and 2011.
The Lizards have also raced in Grand Am’s Rolex 24, finishing second in class and third overall in 2004 and taking the overall pole with a new track record in the team’s first outing in a Daytona Prototype in 2011.
2011 was not a good year for the Lizards but it was a test of mettle which the team passed. Back in 2012 with new cars, the team also has renewed hope.
