Seth Neiman

Seth Neiman, Jörg Bergmeister and Darren Law (from left) at a press conference prior to the 2009 Le Mans 24-hour race

Seth Neiman in the Flying Lizard Porsche 997 GT3 RSR at the Grand Prix of Long Beach 2012

Seth Neiman (born June 27, 1954 in East Liverpool ) is an American racing car driver , racing team owner and entrepreneur.

Entrepreneur

Born in East Liverpool, Seth Neumann grew up in Dayton and studied philosophy and computer science at Ohio State University in Columbus . In the 1980s he worked as a system architect for a software company in Marin County and rose to vice-president of Sun Microsystems after working for other companies .

Since 1994, Neiman has ventured into a variety of computer companies, making sizable personal fortunes. Among other things, he founded Brocade Communications Systems and has been CEO of Facial recognition system , a company that deals with application software for personal data collection, since 2013 .

Flying Lizard Motorsports

Seth Neiman had already been an active driver for two years in 2003 when he founded his own racing team with Flying Lizard Motorsports . The team entered the American Le Mans Series in 2004 and has since been active in US sports car racing and in Europe at the 24 Hours of Le Mans .

Racing career

As a driver, Neiman began his career two years earlier in the Barber Dodge Pro Series . He got into GT racing in 2003 with his own racing team . By the end of his last complete racing season in 2014, he had entered 140 races and celebrated two class wins. He competed nine times in Le Mans and in 2005 he finished third in the GT2 class. His best placings in the Sebring 12-hour race were eleventh in the 2009 and 2010 final standings . At 24 Hours of Daytona , he was in 2010 ninth overall.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2005	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 911 GT3 RSR	Lonnie Pechnik	Johannes van Overbeek	Rank 13
2006	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 991 GT3-RSR	Patrick Long	Johannes van Overbeek	Rank 18
2007	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Jörg Bergmeister	Johannes van Overbeek	failure	transmission
2008	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Jörg Bergmeister	Johannes van Overbeek	Rank 32
2009	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Jörg Bergmeister	Darren Law	failure	accident
2010	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Jörg Bergmeister	Darren Law	failure	cooler
2011	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Spencer Pumpelly	Darren Law	failure	accident
2012	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Spencer Pumpelly	Patrick Pilet	Rank 27
2014	JMW Motorsport	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	Spencer Pumpelly	Abdulaziz Al Faisal	Rank 27

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2004	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 911 GT3-RS	Lonnie Pechnik	Peter Cunningham	failure	Gearbox damage
2005	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 996 GT3-RSR	Lonnie Pechnik	David Murry	failure	Engine failure
2006	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 996 GT3-RSR	Lonnie Pechnik	Darren Law	Rank 12
2007	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Lonnie Pechnik	Darren Law	Rank 27
2008	Flying Lizard Motorsports 44	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Alex Davison	Darren Law	Rank 13
2009	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Johannes van Overbeek	Darren Law	Rank 11
2010	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Richard Lietz	Darren Law	Rank 11
2011	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Marco Holzer	Darren Law	Rank 17
2012	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Andy Lally	Darren Law	Rank 25
2014	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Audi R8 LMS ultra	Filipe Albuquerque	Dion von Moltke	Rank 27

Web links

• Information about Seth Neiman ( Memento of March 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
• Seth Neiman at the Driver Database
• Seth Neiman at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Seth Neiman at Bloomberg