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Team Trans Sport Racing Announces 2007 American Le Mans Series GT2 Program

BOSTON, MA - Jim Bell, of Bell Motorsport, and Tim Pappas have joined forces to campaign a 2007 Porsche 997 GT3 RSR in the American Le Mans Series GT2 class. The new team, Team Trans Sport Racing ("TSR"), will be run out of Bell's Miami Florida shop, with management being jointly coordinated between Pappas and Bell. While Jim's accolades are well known in American sports car racing, Tim's are less so, however, he has been involved in professional sports car racing since 2000. Pappas previously fielded three cars in the Speed World Challenge Touring Car Class in 2002 and 2003, as well as being a co-driver in successful Grand Am Cup teams in 2001, 2004, 2005, and 2006. Though TSR is quite new, it was granted a contract for one of the highly sought after RSR's back in July of 2006, which has given Pappas and Bell plenty of time to plan the season's strategy. Many probably relate Jim to his recent overall victory at the 24 Hours of Daytona or Daytona Prototype Championship in 2004 and 2003 respectively; however, Jim has had an affiliation with Porsche racing cars that dates back to the 1970's. In fact, before Bell was a pioneer in the new DP Class, he was honored with the IMSA Mechanic of the Year title in 1979, while campaigning a Porsche 935. Pappas has long driven and raced Porsche's both in club and pro level competition and has been active in Porsche Club of America since 1991.

Team Trans Sport is busy preparing for the Grand Prix of Long Beach, which begins on Friday April 13th. Tune into www.transsportonline.com for updates.

For more information, contact Jessica Saller, Team Trans Sport PR Manager at (215) 732-3200.