Level 5 Team Brings Momentum, Points Lead to Lime Rock

Scott Tucker is never one to back down from a good challenge. He and
the Level 5 Motorsports team will be faced with yet another this weekend
when the American Le Mans Series visits Lime Rock Park in Lakeville,
Connecticut.

This is Tucker's first visit to the 1.5-mile, 10-turn road course.
But, then, new tracks have never bothered him before.

"Lime Rock Park is a shorter road course than most of the ones on which
we race," Tucker said. "It presents unique challenges for a driver.
It's a narrow track, so it's not easy to pass. In turn, it's not easy
to be passed.

"Therefore, we need to be able to qualify well. We need to start up
front in our class, and that's what we intend to do."

Tucker and the Level 5 Motorsports team come into the American Le Mans Northeast Grand Prix - a 2-hour, 45-minute event - on a roll and in first place in the LMP Challenge class standings. The team has won three of the first four races of the 2010 season, including two weeks
ago at Miller Motorsports Park in Utah.

Tucker and Christophe Bouchut, who will drive the No. 55 ORECA FLM09 this weekend at Lime Rock, lead the LMPC standings by 11 points over Gunnar Jeannette and by 27 points over third-place Elton Julian.

The team's second car, the No. 95 ORECA FLM09, will be piloted by
veteran Andy Wallace and Tucker. Wallace has driven the last two
American Le Mans Series events for Level 5 Motorsports.

"We've got a great deal of momentum coming into Lime Rock," said Level 5 Motorsports Team Manager David Stone. "We need to be able to maintain that. Scott has never raced at Lime Rock and neither has Christophe. Andy hasn't been there to race in about 10 years.

"But, nobody else has raced an LMPC car at Lime Rock, so I don't think
anybody has an advantage going in. There is one exception, of course,
and that's Scott and his tenacity to get to Victory Lane. That's an
advantage for us."

Tucker and Bouchut have won ALMS races this season at Sebring, Mazda
Raceway Laguna Seca and Miller Motorsports Park. The tandem finished
second on the Streets of Long Beach, California.

Prior to coming to Lime Rock this week, the Level 5 Motorsports team will be at Watkins Glen International in upstate New York for a test session in preparation for a Ferrari Challenge Series race later this year.

A 20-minute qualifying session for the LMPC class is scheduled for
Friday beginning at 4:40 p.m. ET. The green flag is scheduled to wave
on the American Le Mans Northeast Grand Prix on Saturday at 2:05 p.m.
ET. The race will be broadcast live on the SPEED Channel beginning at
2 p.m. ET, with a re-broadcast scheduled for Sunday at midnight.

The American Le Mans Northeast Grand Prix is the fifth of nine races in
the American Le Mans Series in 2010. Events remain at Mid-Ohio Sports
Car Course (August 5-7), Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin (August
20-22), Mosport in Canada (August 27-29), and the Petit Le Mans
endurance race in Braselton, Georgia (September 29- October 2).