Utah Grand Prix - Practice May 18

4:00 pm - The qualifying session was interrupted with a red flag to remove the No. 61 Ferrari which had stopped on course. Unfortuantely, it cut significantly into qualifying time and has affected everyone's ability to get their fliers in. Joerg was able to put the No. 45 into third, and Lonnie is seventh. Joerg was the top qualifying Porsche in GT2 - just behind No. 31 Ferrari on the Pole and No. 62 in P2.


3:10 pm - Joerg just set the fastest time so far this week in GT2 - 2:43:597 - seven tenths of a
second ahead of the No. 62 Ferrari..

2: 45 pm MT - Greetings from Utah. We are about 30 miles West of Salt Lake City in Tooele Utah (one of the fastest growing counties in the nation, or so I was told by a local..). It's hot here, dry, and very dusty but beautiful desert landscape nestled in between two mountain ranges. The team has been here on site since the weekend - we tested on Sunday.

Miller Motorsports Park - just one year old - is a beautiful facilityand everyone appreciates the focus of the Miller staff on making this a good experience for the teams and the fans.

Back to the cars... The Porsches are both running well so far. The No. 45 has been consistently the fastest Porsche in GT2. The No. 44 crew is still working on finding their race setup and this last session prior to qualifying will be key for them.

Johannes van Overbeek and Joerg Bergmeister are together in the No. 45 and Seth Neiman and Lonnie Pechnik are in the No. 44. Joerg is clocking in a few frequent flier miles going back and forth between Salt Lake City and Laguna Seca, where he is running in a Grand -Am race on Sunday.

Utah is the fifth of 12 ALMS races and our last race in the U.S. before we head to France for the 24 Heures du Mans.

A reminder that we'll be broadcasting our radio communications again here at Utah. Shane is back in the San Francisco Bay Area working on our Le Mans plans, so we'll just broadcast the radio with no commentary. Shane will be back at Road America.

Qualifying session begins at 3:40 pm Mountain Time today. Stay tuned...