ALMS Bringing Full Field to Long Beach

Total of 35 cars set to dazzle at America's premier street festival

Fresh off a record-setting season opener at Sebring, a full grid from the American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patrón heads west to America's premier street racing festival. A total of 35 cars are set for the Tequila Patrón American Le Mans Series at Long Beach, tying 2010's field as the largest of any kind at Long Beach in more than 15 years.

The ALMS has become a staple of Long Beach's Saturday activities. If you think variety is the spice of life, have we got a show for you. The ALMS grid features sexy, exotic prototype sports cars and the world's best GT racers, ready to tackle the streets of Long Beach for a sixth consecutive year. There are 11 auto and chassis marques represented among the five classes ... and that doesn't count four tire manufacturers!

Purpose-built prototype cars - both open- and closed-top - are featured in three ALMS classes. At the head of the field, Muscle Milk Pickett Racing seeks its second-straight Long Beach victory a year after Klaus Graf and Lucas Luhr won in a Lola-Aston Martin coupe. The team debuted its 2012 Honda Performance Development ARX-03a prototype last month at the 12 Hours of Sebring and finished second among the ALMS' P1 runners.

Dyson Racing seeks its first Long Beach victory with a pair of Mazda-powered Lola coupes. Chris Dyson and Guy Smith, last year's ALMS P1 champions, pilot the No. 16 while Eric Lux and Michael Marsal team together for the first time in the No. 20 Dyson entry.

The P2 grid continues to grow with four entries set for Long Beach. Level 5 Motorsports puts its unbeaten streak on the line with a pair of HPD prototypes. Team owner Scott Tucker drives both entries and teams with last year's winning teammate Christophe Bouchut. The pair also won the Prototype Challenge at Long Beach in 2010.

Black Swan Racing and Conquest Endurance both have P2 entries on the grid at Long Beach. Black Swan races in the class for the first time at the event a season after it won the GT Challenge class. Its Lola-Honda is the one Level 5 drove to victory in 2011.