Lakeville, Conn. – Tafel Racing finished sixth and tenth in GT2 today at the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) Northeast Grand Prix at Lime Rock Park.  Contact ruled the day for the team from Georgia.

What began as weather abbreviated weekend on Friday with rain eliminating qualifying, the clouds stayed over the Tafel Racing team.  At the drop of the green flag a fellow GT2 competitor checked-up in front of Robin Liddell in the No. 71 Tafel Porsche, causing him to jump out of line and was called in for a stop-and-go-penalty.  Upon his return to the fray, three laps later, Liddell was giving room to a P2 car and was punted off the circuit in turn three, causing substantial damage to the RSR.  The team affected repairs enabling Liddell and teammate Wolf Henzler to finish the race garnering valuable points.

The No. 73 Tafel Porsche had an equally tough day.  Early contact with a GT2 competitor put team owner and driver Jim Tafel into the spin cycle.  Later, after turning the wheel over to co-driver Dominik Farnbacher, he was hit again by the same deranged driver, this time putting him into the wall in turn seven.  The result was quite a bit of body damage and causing a full course caution.  Farnbacher was able to continue, bringing the damaged RSR home in sixth place.

Lakeville, Conn.-- Tafel Racing will start from the third and fourth row in GT2 for tomorrow’s running of the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) Northeast Grand Prix at Lime Rock Park.  An afternoon rain shower with lightening forced qualifying to be scuttled further limiting the teams track team on already short two-day race weekend.

The ALMS officials decided to set the grid for tomorrow’s two-hour-and-forty-five-minute race based upon this mornings practice times.  This will see the Tafel Racing Porsche RSR sports cars go away from the GT2 grid in sixth and ninth.   Starting position on this short 1.54-mile, 8-turn road course is crucial, as the GT2 competitors are doing 53-second lap times.  The cars took to the track for a one-hour practice session later in the afternoon giving the competitors a chance to test a wet and drying track surface.