Corsa Motorsports Joins White Lightning Racing

Tooele, Utah, February 13, 2007 - Dale White (Bozeman, MT) and Steve Pruitt (Sandy, Utah) made the joint announcement today that Pruitt's Corsa Motorsports will join forces with White Lightning Racing in the 2007 American Le Mans Series GT2 class this season. The combined operation, known as Corsa Motorsports/White Lightning Racing, will field the No. 32 EquiWest/Michelin Ferrari F430 GT beginning with the March 17th season-opening Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring. The No. 32 Ferrari F430 GT will run side-by-side with the 2005 and 2006 American Le Mans Series GT2 class Driver and IMSA Cup Championship-winning No. 31 MMPIE/PAWS/Michelin Ferrari F430 GT of Petersen Motorsports/White Lightning Racing. The No. 31 program continues to be owned by Michael Petersen (Las Vegas, Nev.). White will manage both teams as one.

In addition to the announcement of the program, Pruitt and White also announced the primary drivers who will pilot the EquiWest F430 GT; Maurizio Mediani (Reggio Emilia, Italy) and Rui Aguas (Portugal). Mediani comes to Corsa/White Lightning with three American Le Mans Series starts, all coming in 2006 in a Ferrari F430 GT where he finished second twice. As a key development driver with Ferrari for the past four years, Mediani helped develop the F430 GT for Ferrari Challenge and international GT competition. Like Mediani, Aguas also has a longtime tradition with Ferrari. Though he has never competed in the American Le Mans Series, the Portuguese driver earned one victory and five podium finishes driving the F430 GT in the FIA GT series last season.

Pruitt, who is owner of Utah-based commercial real estate development firm EquiWest, is an experienced racer with four podiums finishes in the Ferrari Challenge Series and one start driving a Ferrari F430 GT in the Grand-Am Rolex Series in 2006. 2007 marks the first time Pruitt will be involved in the American Le Mans Series. While the Corsa/White Lightning Ferrari F430 GT will be headquartered in Pahrump, Nev., Pruitt also maintains facilities at the new Miller Motorsports Park in Tooele.

To differentiate the two Ferraris, the No. 32 Corsa entry will use the traditional Ferrari Rosso Scuderia red- the same color that the Scuderia Ferrari Formula One program paints its cars- as its base color. However, the core elements of the long-standing Petersen/White Lightning livery will carry on as the two cars will share the same neon yellow roof and trademark white lightning bolt down their flanks.

The Corsa entry will draw from the impressive talent pool that has been built-up around the two-time 24 Hours of Le Mans-winning Petersen/White Lightning team. Both teams will share not only White’s oversight but the engineering expertise of Frank Funke (Wetter, Germany) and the skills of 2005 GT2 Mechanic of the Year, crew chief Dennis Chizma (Las Vegas). In a somewhat unique twist, the teams will also draw one more element from the world of Formula One; they will share the same pit crew. While some members of the team will be split solely between the 31 or the 32 entries in the paddock, during pit stops, the same “over-the-wall” crew will be utilized to change the Michelin tires and refuel the car. For the last several years, the Chizma-led team has been considered among the elite race-day crews in pit lane giving both cars an excellent opportunity at success. White and Funke will work strategy for both entries.