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| Founded | 2003 |
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| Base | Sonoma, California |
| Team principal(s) | Tommy Sadler, Thomas Blam, Darren Law |
| Current series | GT America, GT World Challenge |
| Former series | American Le Mans Series Rolex Sports Car Series United SportsCar Championship, GT4 America, Pirelli Trophy West USA, NASA, GT World Challenge Europe, Porsche Carrera Cup, Yokohama Drivers Cup |
| Teams' Championships | 7 (2008, 2009, 2013, 2020x2, 2023x2) |
| Drivers' Championships | 6 (2008, 2009, 2010, 2020x2, 2023) |
The Flying Lizard Motorsports group is a motorsport team from Sonoma, California, formed by Seth Neiman in early 2003. The team competed in the full American Le Mans Series season, as well as the 24 Hours of Daytona, and the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The team went on to win six driver and team championships in the American Le Mans Series, becoming a Porsche factory team and Porsche Motorsport North America's development partner from 2007 to 2012.[1] The team helped develop the first- and second-generation 997 GT3 RSR as well as bring it to victory several times in its six-year run in the series. The team solely raced Porsche cars from 2004 to 2019, becoming a staple in the Porsche racing community.
After ten years of ownership, Seth Neiman sold the team during the 2014 offseason to longtime Crew Chief Tommy Sadler, Chief Strategist Thomas Blam, and current Lizard driver Dylan Breen. Sadler stepped up to become Technical Director, Blam became Team Manager and Law Program Manager.[2] No longer factory-backed or privately funded, the team became a customer racing effort, expanding to a variety of series and manufacturers.
To date, the team holds 14 professional team and driver championship titles as Flying Lizard Motorsport, four additional team and two driver titles managing K-PAX Racing in GT World Challenge America, and one team and one driver title managing TKO Motorsports.
- ^ Gary, Watkins (27 October 2012). "Porsche ends works American Le Mans programme with Flying Lizard". autosport.com. Autosport. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
- ^ Dagys, John (2 November 2015). "Flying Lizard Under New Ownership". SportsCar365. Retrieved 6 December 2021.