The Flying Lizard Motorsports transporters rolled into Detroit earlier this week for a full race week of activities at Belle Isle Park on the Detroit River, starting with an appearance for the cars, drivers, and crew at Audi of Rochester Hills tonight, a transporter parade through downtown tomorrow, and practice and qualifying sessions on Friday of this week, followed by the 1 hour and 40 minute Chevrolet SportsCar Classic starting at 12:10pm ET on Saturday, May 31st. The team enters the race weekend in very competitive shape in the GT Daytona class drivers’ championship, with Dion von Moltke (South Africa) and Seth Neiman (United States) sitting in 4th place, just 6 points behind the championship leaders, in the No. 35 PR Newswire / UBM Tech / eSilicon Audi R8 LMS, and with Nelson Canache Jr. (Venezuela) and Spencer Pumpelly (United States) in 2nd place, 4 points back of the leaders, in the No. 45 Venezuela / eSilicon No. 45 Audi R8 LMS. This race will feature two of the series’ four classes – Prototype and GT Daytona, with 32 cars, of which 21 are in GTD with the two Lizard entries. It will be held on a 2.35 mile, 14-turn temporary road course on which only two of the Lizard drivers, Spencer and Dion, have race experience. Live timing and scoring for the race and all practice sessions and qualifying can be found at imsa and on the IMSA mobile app. In the United States, the race will be televised starting at 1:30pm ET on Saturday, May 31st on Fox Sports 1 and also available on the Fox Sports Go mobile app. Outside of the United States, the full race broadcast will be available at imsa. Driver quotes: Dion von Moltke, No. 35 Audi R8 LMS: “Detroit could be the most demanding track which we go to in terms of what you need out of the car performance-wise and regarding the precision the drivers to have in order to turn a fast lap and have a clean stint. Unlike more traditional street circuits, Detroit has some very quick corners like the turns 1 and 2 complex and at the end of the back straight. It is an extremely bumpy track too, which is where we might have a bit of an advantage. Our engineers had the cars working well over the bumps at Sebring although some of the corners at Detroit can make Sebring look like a conventional, smooth road course by comparison. But you will see plenty of passing and side-by-side racing, and hopefully we can get both cars to the front by the end of the race!” Spencer Pumpelly, No. 45 Audi R8 LMS: “The circuit on Belle Isle is definitely one of my favorites. Like most street courses it presents the challenge of being precise with car placement given the proximity of the concrete walls but unlike many other temporary circuits it does offer some very fast corners. Turns 1 and 2 have a great flow to them and there are long straightaways which lend themselves to passing and side-by-side racing. We have lots of bumps and surface changes to contend with but I think we will have an advantage on terrain like this, and hopefully we can grab our first win of the season after having been so close in two of the three races so far.” ADDITIONAL PHOTOS
Posted on: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 14:59:29 +0000
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