GRAF FLEXES MUSCLE (MILK) IN SEBRING TESTING

Company press release.

Muscle Milk Pickett Racing's Klaus Graf set the best time in Tuesday's second

session as testing continued for this weekend's 61st Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of

Sebring Fueled by Fresh from Florida. The defending P1 co-champion in the

American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patrón set a lap of 1:47.789

(124.911 mph) in the team's No. 6 Honda Performance Development ARX-03a.

Graf, driving with fellow P1 champion Lucas Luhr and Romain Dumas, was

0.735 seconds clear of Audi Sport Team Joest's No. 1 Audi R18 e-tron quattro

hybrid prototype. The car - driven by Oliver Jarvis, Marcel Fassler and Benoit

Treluyer - set a best time of 1:48.524 (124.065 mph). Rebellion Racing's No. 13

Lola B12/60-Toyota of Mathias Beche, Congfu Chen and Andrea Belicchi - sat

third at 1:50.198 (122.180 mph).

The only red flag for the session came with 10 minutes to go when the No. 1

Audi ran out of fuel on the opening part of its lap. Just before the stoppage,

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Aston Martin Racing's No. 97 Aston Martin Vantage set the best GT time -

2:01.451 (110.86 mph). Darren Turner, Stefan Mucke and Bruno Senna are

sharing the car.

SRT Motorsports' No. 93 SRT Viper GTS-R of Jonathan Bomarito, Tommy

Kendall and Kuno Wittmer was just 0.357 seconds behind the Aston Martin.

Corvette Racing's No. 4 Corvette C6 ZR1 of Oliver Gavin, Tommy Milner and

Richard Westbrook was third at 2:01.886 (110.464 mph).

In P2, Level 5 Motorsports' two HPD ARX-03b prototypes held the top two

times in class. The No. 055 for Scott Tucker, Ryan Hunter-Reay and Simon

Pagenaud was fastest with a time of 1:53.263 (118.874 mph). The No. 95 of

Tucker, Ryan Briscoe and Marino Franchitti was a second behind. Greaves

Motorsport's No. 41 Zytek-Nissan sat third with a 1:55.362 (116.711 mph).

DragonSpeed Mishumotors' No. 81 ORECA FLM09 set the best time in

Prototype Challenge presented by Continental Tire. The car of Mirco Schultis,

Patrick Simon and Pierre Kaffer posted a lap of 1:56.901 (115.174 mph). BAR1

Motorsports' two entries were second and third, as the No. 8 of Kyle Marcelli,

Chris Cumming and Stefan Johansson led the team effort at 1:57.387 (114.698

mph).

TRG led an incredibly tight field in GT Challenge with its No. 66 Porsche 911

GT3 Cup of Ben Keating, Damien Faulkner and Craig Stanton. Its time of

2:07.821 (105.335 mph) was a slim 0.131 seconds clear of the No. 22 Alex Job

Racing Porsche of Jeroen Bleekemolen, Cooper MacNeil and Dion von Moltke.

Dempsey Del Piero Racing's No. 27 Porsche of Patrick Dempsey, Andy Lally

and Joe Foster was third at 2:07.985 (105.200 mph).

The top four cars in class were within 0.172 seconds.

Wednesday's final test session is set for 5 p.m. ET.

Klaus Graf, Muscle Milk Pickett Racing

No. 6 Honda Performance Development ARX-03c (P1)

'We've made some good progress with our Muscle Milk HPD these last couple

of days. It's too bad the track was wet for the morning test session as we

would have liked to get a little more track time in. It wasn't worth running in the

morning as the forecast for the remainder of the week is nice and it wouldn't

have given us anything. As I've said many times, the track conditions change

here so much that it's hard to compare with lap times that were registered in

another session but overall I feel that we've learned a lot and it's encouraging for

the rest of the week.'

Olivier Beretta, Risi Competizione

No. 62 Ferrari F458 Italia (GT)

'I think yesterday went with no big problems, and the car ran without any major

technical issues. We followed our program and went a different direction to

see what we can gain. Now Rick (Mayer) and the team will analyze all the data.

Today was difficult because we lost one session because of the rain and in the

other we lost 15 minutes with a red flag, but that's the same for everyone. But,

despite all that, I'm quite confident because the team has a lot of experience,

we have had one good day of running, and we'll try to put everything together

and go for it.'

Ryan Briscoe, Level 5 Motorsports

No. 95 Honda Performance Development ARX-03b (P2)

'It feels good. I guess it's been five years since I was last here in a (Porsche RS)

Spyder, but it feels really close. The driving style and the way the car responds and handles is very close to what I was used to with the Spyder. It feels great

out there. I feel right at home. Level 5 is doing a great job of getting through

some setups and trying to get through what we can with these busy sessions

with so much traffic and stuff. The biggest thing is, you've got to get used to

some power steering again. The way the wheel feels different in your hands

is different than an IndyCar. Maybe it took a couple of laps, but it feels good.

These cars are fast, they've got heaps of downforce and they're a blast to

drive.'

Olivier Pla, DeltaWing Racing Cars

No. 0 DeltaWing LM12 (P1)

'For the few laps I had, of course it feels very different than what I'm used to.

But I was expecting that anyway. It feels very stiff in the front, very soft in the

rear. It's not pitching a lot on the braking, so it surprised me a little bit at the

beginning. After a few laps, you get a feeling of what to expect, and you get

more and more confident. It's OK so far. I look forward to doing more mileage

(Wednesday) and Thursday and going from there.'