Flying Lizard Porsches Featured in Microsoft's Forza Motorsport 3

October 29, 2009 - Sonoma, California - Online racers across North America can now experience firsthand the excitement of racing the Flying Lizard No. 45 and No. 80 Porsche 911 GT3 RSRs in Forza Motorsport 3, which launched this week exclusively on Xbox 360. After more than two years of development by Turn 10 Studios of Microsoft Game Studios, the game extends the experience of its franchise predecessors by taking the genre to new heights in terms of realism, physics, online competition, and user-generated content.

The Flying Lizard 2008 No. 45 Porsche of Joerg Bergmeister and Wolf Henzler won the 2008 American Le Mans Series GT2 championship; with four season race wins including the historic Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring. The Flying Lizard 2007 No. 80 Porsche "Art Car", which raced at the 2007 24 Heures du Mans with Joerg Bergmeister, Johannes van Overbeek and Seth Neiman, is reproduced in full detail with its intricate custom livery designed by Troy Lee. Forza Motorsport 3 hits retail outlets in Europe and Asia this week. The game will be available in North America on October 27.

Flying Lizard worked with the Turn 10 developers to deliver accurate representations of the Flying Lizard Porsches in the game. "We are delighted to work with Microsoft and Turn 10 Studios to make the No. 45 and No. 80 Flying Lizard Porsches available to Forza players in this exciting new edition," said Flying Lizard VP of Marketing, Jennifer Hart. "The game celebrates the leading manufacturers in racing such as Porsche, and lets racers experience the reality of endurance sports car racing at famous tracks like Nürburgring, Sebring, and the Circuit de la Sarthe. Flying Lizard fans have created and raced their own Lizard Porsches online for years. Forza Motorsport 3 extends this community, bringing our racecars to life onscreen with an exceptional level of detail and realism."

Authentic 1/43 scale reproductions of both the Flying Lizard 2008 No. 45 Porsche and the Flying Lizard 2007 No. 80 Porsche by Spark/Minimax are available for purchase at the Flying Lizard online store.

Click here to download a zip file with 1280x720 versions of the screenshots above.

For more on the game, visit www.forzamotorsport.net.

For more on Flying Lizard, visit www.lizardms.com.

About Flying Lizard Motorsports
Flying Lizard Motorsports has finished in the top three in the ALMS GT2 drivers' and team championships every year since 2004, their first year of professional competition. In 2009, the team swept all ALMS GT2 titles: Joerg Bergmeister and Patrick Long won the drivers' championship in the No. 45; Flying Lizard won the team championship; Porsche won the manufacturer championship; and the Flying Lizard No. 44 Porsche won the Michelin Green X Challenge championship (new for 2009). It is the team's second consecutive triple championship: in 2008 Joerg Bergmeister and Wolf Henzler won the ALMS GT2 drivers' title in the No. 45; Flying Lizard won the team championship; and Porsche won the manufacturers' title.

Flying Lizard has also competed in the 24 Heures du Mans from 2005 through 2009, finishing third in 2005, fourth in 2006, and sixth in 2008.

Flying Lizard is sponsored in the American Le Mans Series by ShoreTel, a leading provider of enterprise IP telephony solutions and eSilicon, a semiconductor company, both based in Sunnyvale, California; and RedlineCoffee.com, a premium coffee company dedicated to motorsport enthusiasts, based in Boulder, Colorado. Team partners include Porsche and Michelin.

About Turn 10
Forza Motorsport 3 is piloted by Turn 10 of Microsoft Game Studios. The experienced development team, led by franchise director Dan Greenawalt, is composed of top developers, real race drivers and car collectors whose pedigrees include work on top racing franchises such as Forza Motorsport, Project Gotham Racing and RalliSport Challenge. In 2007, Turn 10 released its most recent title, Forza Motorsport 2, garnering racing game of the year awards from IGN Entertainment Inc., Yahoo! Inc., GameSpot, and the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences.

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