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“Zytek is well known within the motorsports industry for its race-winning prototype cars and engines. However, what most are not aware of is that Zytek is a world leader in gas-electric hybrid technologies for road cars. In fact, many of the largest auto manufacturers are utilizing Zytek hybrid technology in their road car applications. The Zytek / Corsa hybrid LMP1 car represents the cutting edge of hybrid development with technologies being developed on the race car that will soon be transferred to the road cars of tomorrow.

Bill Gibson, Zytek Chief Executive Officer
“We have been working away on this ever since the Q9 hybrid that competed at Petit Le Mans in 1998,” explains Zytek CEO Bill Gibson. “Now Steve and Corsa Motorsports are giving us the opportunity to bring our aspirations to fruition.”

About Corsa Motorsports
Corsa Motorsports is the only professional sports car race team based in Utah operating from a 9,000 square foot race services and technical facility in Salt Lake City.

Corsa was formed in 2005 and has fielded Ferrari F430 cars in the ALMS and Rolex Grand Am Series beginning professional sports car racing with the development and entry of the first F430 in the Rolex Grand Am Series to which Corsa added the F430 LMGT in the GT2 class of the American Le Mans Series.

The team is owned and operated by Utah commercial real estate developer Steve Pruitt.

Corsa Motorsports is a Salt Lake City-based team which has been competing in the GT2 lass of the Series. With support from Dunlop tires, drivers Johnny Mowlem (Charvil, UK) and Gunnar Jeannette (Sandy, Utah) secured 4th-place finishes at St. Petersburg and Long Beach and 8th at Miller Motorsports Park this season in the team’s F430 Ferrari. Mowlem and Jeannette will share duties with a yet-to-be-named third driver for Petite.

Mowlem, with over 60 starts in ALMS including four wins and 21 podium finishes, brings experience to the team which has included competition in a Zytek prototype in 2006 with a 2nd overall finish at Petit Le Mans and a 5th overall at Laguna Seca. Jeannette has the distinction of being the youngest finisher ever at the 24 Hours of Le Mans at just 18 years of age and has piloted numerous LMP1 and LMP2 cars. In 2000 he captured wins at Las Vegas and Laguna Seca in the prototype class and in 2003 earned a podium finish at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

About Zytek Group
Zytek Group is a well-known UK based chassis and engine manufacturer and is one of the world’s leading suppliers of automotive control systems, powertrain management and hybrid-electric and electric vehicles whose clients include many of the world’s leading vehicle manufacturers and tier one suppliers, for whom they deliver outstanding solutions quickly and on budget. These skills have delivered much success in motorsport, where Zytek is widely respected for the reliability of the engines which it supplied worldwide for Formula 3000 (1996-2004) and the A1GP World Cup of Motorsport (2004-2008).

Key Participant Internet Sites
To obtain additional information on key participants to this program, please visit the following:

Zytek Group - www.zytekgroup.co.uk
Corsa Motorsports - www.corsamotorsports.com
American Le Mans Series - www.americanlemans.com
PSE-3 – www.pse-3.com

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