American Le Mans Series

Voices of Utah: Taking on a Whole New Challenge
By Kate Shaw
BRASELTON, Georgia (May 14, 2008) — The American Le Mans Series opened its season in mid-March on an airport (Sebring)and then crossed the continent for street races in St. Petersburg (Florida) and Long Beach (California). This weekend the American Le Mans Series turns this weekend to yet another configuration: a natural road course in Toole, Utah outside Salt Lake City. Talk about a change of scenery. The Larry H. Miller Dealerships Utah Grand Prix presented by the Grand and Little America Hotels could not be more of a contrast to the previous two rounds of the American Le Mans Series. Instead of tight, twisty street circuits, Miller Motorsports Park is a wide-open, extremely fast test of the abilities of both man and machine.   -->MORE

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Tafel Racing to Use Salt Lake City to Keep Momentum from Season's Start into Second Half
No. 71 Tafel/Bell Micro Ferrari Looks for ALMS Hat Trick, No. 73 Returns to Tafel Racing
News from Tafel Racing
Photos courtesy Rick Dole
TOOELE, Utah (May 12, 2008) — After two GT2 class victories in the three American Le Mans Series races held thus far in 2008, Tafel Racing is enjoying a surge of momentum entering the Utah Grand Prix at Miller Motorsports Park (MMP). The May 18, two hour and 45-minute feature comes after two straight wins in the Series for the No. 71 Tafel/Bell Micro Racing Ferrari F430 GTC driven by Dominik Farnbacher (Ansbach, Germany) and Dirk Müller (a native of Germany living in Monaco) and precedes a seven week break on the schedule. A successful run at MMP can help carry early season momentum into the heart of the schedule for the Jim Tafel (Alpharetta, Ga.) owned effort. The Tooele, Utah-area track also marks the fulltime return of the No. 73 Tafel Racing Ferrari F430 GTC to the Series.  -->MORE

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B-K Motorsports Rockets into Salt Lake City for Utah Grand Prix
News from Creative Communications
Photo courtesy John Thawley
TOOELE, Utah (May 12, 2008) — After claiming two consecutive top-10 overall finishes, B-K Motorsports heads to Salt Lake City this weekend for the Larry H. Miller Dealerships Utah Grand Prix presented by The Grand and Little America Hotels. The fourth round of the American Le Mans Series season will see the No. 8 BP Lola B07/46 Mazda compete on the 15-turn, 3.048-mile outer course layout at Miller Motorsports Park.

Drivers Ben Devlin and Gerardo Bonilla are looking forward to getting back to a natural terrain road course after soldiering through the streets of St. Petersburg and Long Beach in their Yokohama-shod LMP2 race car.

"Our first natural terrain course of the year will be as much fun as any track we race," Bonilla said. "If anything, the variety is a fresh experience for our minds, but it’s still the same great challenge as any track configuration. The Mazda MZR-R engine is well suited to this kind of track as well."  -->MORE

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Audi TDI Power helps overtaking

News from Audi Motorsports

INGOLSTADT (May 9, 2008) – Three races, two wins: The results of the Audi R10 TDI in the 2008 American Le Mans Series 2008 are impressive. Boosted by two overall victories on the street circuits in St Petersburg and Long Beach, the Audi Sport North America team comes as championship leaders to Salt Lake City, Utah, where Audi’s diesel sportscar has already played a leading role twice. -->MORE

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Flying Lizard Heads to Utah for ALMS Round Four
News from Flying Lizard Motorsport
Photos courtesy Lisa Salazar
SONOMA, California (May 9, 2008) — Flying Lizard heads to Utah next week for round four of the American Le Mans Series season: the Larry H. Miller Utah Grand Prix on May 18. With five podium finishes so far this season, including the GT2 win at Sebring, the three-Porsche Lizard squad leads in the ALMS GT2 team championship. In the ALMS drivers' championship, No. 45 Lizard Porsche drivers Jörg Bergmeister and Wolf Henzler are in second place, just six points behind the No. 71 Tafel Racing Ferrari of Dominik Farnbacher and Dirk Mueller. Johannes van Overbeek and Patrick Pilet in the No. 46 Lizard Porsche are in third, and in the No. 44 Porsche Seth Neiman is fourth and Darren Law fifth.   -->MORE

American Le Mans Series

Will Utah Be The Fastest?
BRASELTON, Georgia (May 9, 2008) — That's the $64,000 question as American Le Mans Series teams ready themselves for the Larry H. Miller Dealerships Utah Grand Prix presented by the Grand and Little America Hotels. For the first time, the field will compete on the 3.048-mile, 15-turn perimeter circuit at Miller Motorsports Park for the fourth round of the 2008 season. And indeed, some in the paddock believe this will be the fastest venue in Series history.  -->MORE

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De Ferran Taking to the Air on XM 144
BRASELTON, Georgia (May 6, 2008)— In anticipation of his American Le Mans Series debut next week, driver and team owner Gil de Ferran will be a guest on XM Satellite Radio's Powershift at approximately 9:25 p.m. ET on Thursday. De Ferran, one of motorsports' most well-known and respected names, is joining the Series with his De Ferran Motorsports team that will field an Acura ARX-01b in LMP2. He will team with Simon Pagenaud for the balance of the 2008 season.   -->MORE