I really look forward to racing at Sebring each year. In addition to the track being the first venue on the American Le Mans Series schedule, it’s one of my favorites, it’s bumpy, technical and a tough circuit with tons of history. The twelve-hour is one of the toughest endurance events out there. I am driving again this season for Flying Lizard Motorsports in a Porsche GT3 RSR. We had an incredible 1-2 finish this year in GT2 (I finished second with Seth Neiman and Alex Davison). Despite the fantastic result, the weekend didn’t start too well, as we tried to figure out the new for 08 RSR chassis with its new suspension and areo package changes for this year. Add to that the fact that the Lizards decided to field a third car, and we definitely had our work cut out for us as drivers and as a team.

There was a pretty big crash during qualifying involving one of the prototype cars that forced a red flag to the session, and so our starting order was based on the practice times, which put us 10th in the GT2 field. During the first hour one of our team cars had contact with a prototype which forced them to the pits for repairs but they did a great job and made up a lot of positions to finish 8th. In my car, Seth and Alex both drove solid stints and we worked our way up to fourth early on and with some good driving and reliability we secured second place and stayed there till the end.

It was all good in the end though, and the #44 car was definitely quick. We finished ahead of the third placed Ferrari by a few laps, and the rest of the year looks promising for the new 08 car. The Risi Ferrari, our main competition from last year left the race early because of contact, they will be still be very tough, but at least we have a leg up on them in points.

It really was a great outcome to the weekend and I’m glad that we could give the crew, who worked very hard the whole time, with some late nights at the track, two podium finishes. I’m hoping that the rest of the year goes as well!