AT - A - GLANCE

• The Premier Sports Car Team in North America

• Seventeen Championships

• Sixty-Four Victories

• Sixty Poles

• One Hundred Seventy-Nine Podiums

• Rob Dyson started racing in 1974 with a Datsun 510. Thirty-sixth year in racing.

• Ran a Firebird GTO in IMSA in 1983. Twenty-seventh year in professional sports cars.

• 2009 - Second and Fourth in the ALMS LMP2 Driver's Championship

• 2009 - Second in the ALMS LMP2 Team Championship

Facts and Figures:

• Mazda, long recognized as one of the worldwide leaders in motorsports participation, has partnered with one of the most respected names in sports car racing - Dyson Racing - to lead its expanded LMP effort. Sponsored by the BP energy company, the team campaigns their Mazda LMP Lola coupe in the nine-race American Le Mans Series for the 2010 season. The BP Dyson Racing Mazda coupes are powered by the 2.0 liter turbo charged Mazda MZR-R engine prepared by Advanced Engine Research (AER).

• In 2009, the team won at Lime Rock on July 12 and also won the Petit Le Mans on October 4 at Road Atlanta. The win from pole was the first class win for Mazda at the Petit Le Mans, making them the first Japanese manufacturer to have won both the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the Petit Le Mans. The team won three poles in a row: Road America, Mosport (a team one-two qualifying), and Petit Le Mans. In addition, the team had three class fast laps to its credit in 2009: St. Petersburg, Lime Rock and Mosport.

• In a sport known for high turn-over, Dyson Racing has a tradition of longevity: John Pultz, mechanic/fabricator - 30 years; Lou Murasso, mechanic - 25 years; Matt Charland, composites – 23 years; and Michael White, team manager – 15 years.

• In the ALMS LMP2 class, Dyson Racing is second with the most one - two finishes.

• Chris Dyson is the ALMS leader in consecutive starts at sixty-nine, and out of seventy-six starts, he has finished on the podium thirty-three times.

• In the ALMS LMP2 and LMP1 classes, Dyson Racing has a total of twelve class wins. There have been four overall ALMS wins including a one, two at Mid-Ohio in 2005. In the ALMS, here have been 36 overall podiums and 64 class podiums.

• Dyson Racing drivers have won 17 overall ALMS poles led by James Weaver with eight, Andy Wallace with four, Butch Leitzinger with three, Guy Smith with one and Chris Dyson with one. The team has 29 class poles led by Weaver with 15, Leitzinger with five, Wallace with four, Franchitti with three, Smith with one and Dyson with one.

• Dyson drivers have set ten overall fastest laps led by Weaver with five, Guy Smith with three, and Leitzinger and Wallace with one apiece. The drivers set fastest lap in class 24 times led by Weaver with 11, Leitzinger with five, Smith with four, Franhcitti with three, and Wallace with one.

• Dyson Racing drivers led the first lap of an ALMS race 20 times. Weaver accomplished the feat 10 times, Leitzinger six times, Wallace twice, Dyson once and Smith once.

• First Dyson driver to lead an ALMS race overall? Leitzinger in the 1999 Sebring 12 Hours in the No. 20 Riley & Scott-Ford.

• First Dyson driver to win an ALMS overall pole? Andy Wallace in the 1999 Road Atlanta spring race in the No. 16 Riley & Scott.

Driver Championship Standings:

2009:
2nd – American Le Mans Series LMP2, Marino Franchitti, Butch Leitzinger
4th – American Le Mans Series LMP2, Chris Dyson, Guy Smith

2008:
5th – American Le Mans Series LMP2, Marino Franchitti, Butch Leitzinger
6th – American Le Mans Series LMP2, Chris Dyson, Guy Smith

2007:
3rd – American Le Mans Series LMP2, Butch Leitzinger, Andy Wallace
4th – American Le Mans Series LMP2, Chris Dyson, Guy Smith

2006:
2nd – American Le Mans Series LMP1, James Weaver
3th – American Le Mans Series LMP1, Butch Leitzinger
5th – American Le Mans Series LMP1, Chris Dyson
6th - American Le Mans Series LMP1, Guy Smith

2005:
2nd – American Le Mans Series LMP1, Chris Dyson
4th – American Le Mans Series LMP1, Andy Wallace
5th – American Le Mans Series LMP1, James Weaver, Butch Leitzinger

2004:
2nd - American Le Mans Series LMP1, James Weaver, Butch Leitzinger
3rd - American Le Mans Series LMP1, Andy Wallace
4th – American Le Mans Series LMP1, Chris Dyson

2003:
1st - American Le Mans Series LMP2, Chris Dyson

2002:
2nd - Grand American Road Racing Association, Chris Dyson
3rd - Grand American Road Racing Association, James Weaver

2001:
1st - Grand American Road Racing Association, James Weaver
2nd - Grand American Road Racing Association, Butch Leitzinger

2000:
1st - Grand American Road Racing Association, James Weaver

1999:
1st - American Le Mans Series Prototype, Elliott Forbes-Robinson
1st - Can Am Championship, Elliott Forbes Robinson, Butch Leitzinger

1998:
1st - World Sports Car Championship, Butch Leitzinger
1st - Can Am Championship, James Weaver
2nd - Can Am, Butch Leitzinger
3rd - Can Am, Elliot Forbes-Robinson
4th - Can Am, Dorsey Schroeder

1997:
1st - World Sports Car Championship, Butch Leitzinger
2nd - World Sports Car Championship, Elliot Forbes-Robinson
3rd - World Sports Car Championship, James Weaver

1996:
3rd - World Sports Car Championship, Butch Leitzinger

1995:
2nd - World Sports Car Championship, James Weaver

1990:
4th - IMSA Camel GTP, James Weaver

1988:
3rd - IMSA Camel GTP, Price Cobb

1987:
2nd - IMSA Camel GTP, Price Cobb

1986:
2nd - IMSA Camel GTP, Price Cobb
6th - IMSA Camel GTP, Rob Dyson (Most Improved Driver)

Team Championships:

2002:
1st - Grand American Road Racing Association

2001:
1st - Grand American Road Racing Association

2000:
1st - Grand American Road Racing Association

1999:
1st - United States Road Racing Championship, Can Am

1998:
1st - United States Road Racing Championship Can Am

1997:
1st - SPORTSCAR World Sports Car Championship

1988:
Winner Porsche Meister Cup, IMSA GTP (Porsche 962)

1987:
Winner Porsche Meister Cup, IMSA GTP (Porsche 962)

Manufacturers' Championships:

2001:
Ford, Grand American Road Racing Association

1998:
Ford, USRRC Can Am Championship

1997:
Ford, World Sports Car Championship

Porsche Cup (IMSA GTP):

1988:
1st - Price Cobb

1987:
1st - Price Cobb

1986:
1st - Price Cobb

1985:
1st - Drake Olson