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Who Wants A Private, Behind the Scenes Tour of the Flying Lizard Paddock?

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UPDATE: THIS POST IS FROM 2010. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN A CHANCE FOR SEBRING 2011 THEN SEE OUR POST WITH 3 GREAT OFFERS FROM FLYING LIZARD MOTORSPORT. Some of you may remember an article we published last December where we announced that FlatSixes.com entered into an agreement with Flying Lizard Motorsports naming our site as the first U.S. based Flying Lizard Merchandise Affiliate Partner and gave all of our readers a 10% discount on Flying Lizard Gear to kick things off. The response was so great, we're doing it again! Only this time it's different. Way different.

Flying Lizard Paddock

From left to right: Darren Law, Seth Neiman and Jörg Bergmeister prepare for the start of a race

Not only is Flying Lizard offering a discount to PorschePurist readers on all their excellent gear (see the second half of this post for more details), they are offering our readers a chance at a private and intimate "behind the scenes tour" of the Flying Lizard Paddock. If you're a Porsche race fan and plan on attending this year's ALMS series premiere at the Mobil1 12 Hours of Sebring then don't miss this chance of a lifetime!

Flying Lizard's Team Manager, Eric Ingraham, will lead a small group of PorschePurist's readers on a tour of the Flying Lizard Paddock for a chance to see what really happens as a world class race team prepares for one of the biggest races of the season. In order to keep the tour as intimate and detailed as possible, we want to limit the group to just ten (10). This way, not only can we tour the paddock areas, but we may also enter and explore the trailers*, view the cars, meet more of the team and possibly, just possibly some of the drivers (but no promises).

The tour will be on Thursday the 18th of March from 5:15 pm to 5:45 pm. If you are interested in taking part in this exclusive behind the scenes look, and plan on being at Sebring Thursday afternoon, then here's what you need to do. Simply respond to this post in a comment below letting us know you want to attend - make sure you fill out the form completely to include a good email address (Read this post for help on commenting if you need it). We will then randomly pick the winners and contact each one of you individually by Monday the 15th.

At first we were going to select contest winners from first responders, but that gives an unfair advantage to those of you who receive our newsletter via RSS vs. email. For those of you who do get PorschePurist via email, make sure you click through to the site to leave a comment on the post (don't simply reply to your newsletter email).

As the attendance is so very limited -and exclusive access to the paddock like this so rare - please, please, please only enter if you are 100% sure you can make it! If you have other questions just let us know.

Now about that discount for the Flying Lizard Merchandise

Last, but definitely not least, is a 10% discount on all Flying Lizard Merchandise. This discount is available to any and all FlatSixes.com reader between March 11, 2010 and March 18, 2010. Simply enter “PorschePuristSebring″ (it IS case sensitive) on the first page of your cart and the savings will be automatically applied!

Remember, the discount code "PorschePuristSebring" gets you 10% off all Flying Lizard Merchandise and is only good online. We recently received a bunch of Flying Lizard Gear and were impressed with the overall quality. Included in our bag of swag was a woman's hoodie for me and a couple of co-branded items for John.

What's co-branded? These items (such as the Casual Dress shirt and the Team Cap) are branded with both the Porsche Motorsports and the Flying Lizard logos. It's a great way to show your loyalty to our favorite automotive marque and racing team at the same time. We'll give you a full review on Flying Lizard Gear in our next post.

For now, enjoy the saving, good luck with the contest and I hope to see you at Sebring!

Related Porsche Posts
Interview with Flying Lizard Joerg Bergmeister
Interview with Flying Lizard Patrick Long

*The Fine Print: It's possible some areas of the paddock may be unavailable during our tour if their is any proprietary race set-up taking place or anything else that must remain behind closed doors for competitive reasons. Regardless, it will be a very exciting tour.

[Photo Credit: Flying Lizard Paddock by Andrew Granieri]

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35 Comments

  5. Nice pic, John! 😉

    This sounds like an incredibly fun time, wish I had plans to be in Sebring next week.

    I wonder if anyone planning to attend this could submit a story about it, or at least some pictures!

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  6. I will definitely be at Sebring in the Porscheplatz for the full four days and would very much be interested in attending this Flying Lizzards “behind the scenes” tour. Please enter my name in the pot for the random drawing. Thanks much!

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  13. It would be great to see what a top winning team has put together!

    Hope to make to the Porsche Dream tour!

    It always seems that it’s going to be harder to win ALMS GT2 but somehow you guys get it done..Game On!

    Go Lizards!

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  17. As chaplain I have enjoyed knowing the team but have never had a guided tour of the team’s inner workings so I am placing my name in the hat too. I will definitely be there!

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  18. I think the idea of a tour of the FL Paddock is a great idea. Unfortunately, I cannot make it to Sebring. However, I have my airline tickets for Leguna Seca in May. This will be my first ALMS event!! Is there any possibility FL would consider opening up the contest for all the races they are entered in? If so -I’ll be the first to submit my name for the event in Monterey.

    I’m the proud owner of my very first Porsche – 2010 Cayman S, and I am really enjoying the entire Porsche experience. I know the race at Leguna Seca will be a lot of fun- and my girl friend and I will be wearing our FL t-shirts. See you there!

    You guys are doing a great job- keep it up.

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  21. Hi, Everyone.

    Just wanted to let you know that for any of you that entered more than one name we will need to treat each name separately. In other words, if you entered two, three or four names in your entry, each name will be a separate entry and have the same chance of winning. So, it is possible that you may have entered two names in your entry, but only one of you will be selected.

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  23. @ 993C4S

    Tensions will flare on and off the track! Knowing my luck, if I was able to attend and enter the contest along with my wife, she’d be the one getting the behind the scenes tour!

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  24. The “behind the scenes tour” is a very generous thing to offer your fans at a busy racing event. I’m driving down Wednesday, so please toss my name in the helmet for the drawing. Best of luck at the event. MJ

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  25. My father, my brother, and I will be for the entire weekend. We will be driving up on Thursday, and coming back down to Miami on Sunday. We are huge fans of the Flying Lizards, and have already bought our Lizard gear for this year. Wish I had known about this sooner.

    We would love to have chance to tour the paddock with you guys. Can u please put our names down on the list for the drawing?

    If the drawing is full, and we don’t make the cut, it would still be great to meet with the people of Porsche Purist to get acquainted and trade stories.

    Please let me know if this is possible. We very much look forward to the opportunity. Hope to see you there.

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  27. Thanks to everyone for entering. Your interest and participation is very much appreciated. We’re sorry we can’t take everyone on the tour but a larger group would really limit the experience. We will do our best to work with the good people at Flying Lizard on some upcoming races to see if they can offer a similar experience at another venue.

    We will post the winners at some point tomorrow and send an email to everyone who entered. Thanks again!!!

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  29. Ok, so we’ve drawn the winners. Here’s how we did it. Using a very scientific method, we took the names of everyone entered and assigned it with a number of 1 through 27. We then wrote each number on a slip of paper, crumpled up each slip and tossed them in a Flying Lizard Baseball cap. Paula then randomly picked slips from the hat to get our 10 winner and 4 alternates (in the event someone can’t make it). So, for now, here are the winners in no particular order.

    Jerry Hampton
    Mark Vuletich
    Jim Kessler
    John Pajzer
    Mike Roy
    Kim Ellis
    Mike Jensen
    Peter Nikolakakis
    Steve Kearney
    James Warren

    The 10 of you will each receive an email confirming the times and meeting place for our event (if you don’t get it, be sure to be at the Flying Lizzard Paddock no later than 5:10 pm on the afternoon of Thursday the 18th). In the event that someone can’t make it to the tour we chose the following four alternates. These were the first four people to be chosen, in order, after the first 10.

    Katarina Dorminy
    George Stamatakos
    Bret Atkin
    John Dorminy

    So, if someone can’t make the tour, one of the four above will fill the space (in order).

    We want to thank everyone for entering – for the record, there were 27 of you. As a consolation prize to those of you that didn’t win the tour we would like to offer you each a PorschePurist long-sleeve t-shirt. These are great for DE events, cool nights at the track and just to show your support for our site. We will send an email to each of you with instructions on how to claim your shirts.

    Thanks!!!!

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