Owner/Driver Jim Tafel and Technical Director Tony Dowe (Cumming, Ga.) have assembled a top-level, professional group to support their pursuit of a GT2 win here at Sebring as well as season-long driver and team titles. In a field full of top professionals, few teams can claim the kind of championship caliber driving talent behind the wheel of the two Michelin tire- shod Ferraris. The No. 71 Bell Micro Ferrari has sophomore driving sensation Dominik Farnbacher (Ansbach, Germany) who turned the lap to place the car second in Saturday's GT2 lineup. He will be joined by 2000 American Le Mans Series GT, now GT2 class, Champion and Sebring winner Dirk Müller (a native of Germany now living in Monaco). Making a formidable trio, 2007 Le Mans Series GT2 Champion Rob Bell (Northants, England) has been brought in to team with the two full season drivers in the 71.

SEBRING, Fla. March 13 2008 - Tafel Racing will start second and fourth in Saturday's 56th Annual Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring presented by Fresh from Florida. Dominik Farnbacher (Ansbach, Germany) turned a lap of two minutes, 1.800 seconds in the No. 71 Tafel/Bell Micro Racing Ferrari F430 GTC in this morning's practice session to take second on the GT2 grid. Allan Simonsen (Danish-born but living in Melbourne, Australia) lapped the No. 73 Tafel Racing Ferrari F430 GTC at 2:02.227 to be awarded fourth. Both of the Jim Tafel (Alpharetta, Ga.) owned cars bettered the standing GT2 track record here at Sebring International Raceway of 2:02.439 set last year. Neither of the times which placed the cars in the top-four on the grid came during today's 25-minute GT2/GT1 qualifying session. Instead, the final grid for the American Le Mans Series season-opener has been set by virtue of practice times turned on the 3.7-mile, 17-turn circuit over the first two days of official activity.

While the GT classes successfully completed the full term of their qualifying session, the LMP1/LMP2 session was cut short as a result of incidents on track. International Motor Sports Association (IMSA), official sanctioning body for the American Le Mans Series, rules demand that a minimum of 10 minutes of the scheduled 25 minute qualifying session be completed under green flag conditions. The LMP session was only able to complete eight minutes. Therefore, the full starting lineup for the 12 hour endurance racing classic reverts to the practice times. Tafel Racing, as did most cars, set their quickest laps in this morning's 55-minute session.