Long Beach, CA (April 16, 2012)- Following an eventful weekend that saw everything from torrential rains, to cancelled sessions, to an exciting race, Silicon Tech / Dempsey Racing persevered to take fifth position, the first top-five, and first points, of the team’s inaugural season.

Heading into the second round of The American Le Mans Series pesented by Tequila Patron, the no. 025 Freescale / STANDD / Future Electronics / HP / Racer’s Roast / Pounce Consulting Oreca FLM09 came to the historic Long Beach Grand Prix with high hopes for a strong finish in the Prototype Challenge (PC) category. Following the team’s difficult start at Sebring, the driving duo of Henri Richard and Duncan Ende knew that “the real season” began at Long Beach.

Unfortunately, the normally sunny Southern California weather decided to throw a wrench into the plan on Friday. As their only day to both practice and qualify for the two-hour race on Saturday, heavy rains would result in a very damp Friday morning practice. Knowing that the primary use for a wet track would be more about reconnaissance than getting valuable lap information, both drivers would manage only a handful of laps, leaving the real first laps to that afternoons’ qualifying round.

However, qualifying would lead to the same issue. Following a dry start for the GTC qualifying session, a strong downpour before the prototype cars could qualify led to an outright cancellation of the session, thereby giving no one any additional track time prior to the race start.

The result? All teams would literally learn the track in dry conditions when the race started.

With Duncan Ende starting the race, the green flag fell on what everyone was expecting to be a chaotic opening. Though there would be several small dust ups, including Ende with another PC car through the famed “fountain” corner, the much-feared carnage managed to stay away from the no. 025, and Ende would spend the beginning of the race finding a rhythm.

As the stint would unfold, Ende realized that the key to the race would simply be driving smart, with running a conservative pace becoming the ultimate order.

“I realized as the stint went on that I needed to avoid finding the limit, as I didn’t want to make any big mistakes,” stated Ende. “We needed to survive the weekend and make sure we received our points, and luckily we did. It was a crazy opening but luckily we didn’t knock anything big off the car.”

Handing the car over to Henri Richard for the second hour, a similar strategy would be the theme. Avoiding any mistakes that would damage the car, Richard drove within his limits to simply manage the result, eventually settling for fifth.

“We had a lot of guests here this weekend, and we wanted to deliver them a finishing car,” stated Richard. “I know I left quite a lot out there and avoided any real fights, but I also kept in mind that the key would be to simply finish and get some much needed points with the car intact at the end.”

Indeed, with over 100 guests accommodating the Southern California technology industry, Silicon Tech / Dempsey Racing kept to their tradition of providing premium experiences for all of their guests. Featuring everything from a catered lunch, appetizers, libations, as well as transporter tour, to sitting in the actual driver seat of the vehicle, the event was a true success both on and off the track.

Staying to California, the third round of the American Le Mans Series will take place in just four weeks time, on May 12 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey. Live streaming will be featured live on espn3.com on 4:15PM ET, with an ESPN2 broadcast taking place one day later at 2PM ET.

About Dempsey Racing

Dempsey Racing (www.dempseyracing.net) is a professional sports car auto racing team based in the greater Atlanta area in Norcross, Georgia. Owned by actor/driver Patrick Dempsey, the team races in support of the Team Seattle Guild (www.teamseattle.com) to benefit the Seattle Children’s Hospital Heart Center (www.seattlechildrens.org) and the Patrick Dempsey Center for Cancer Hope & Healing (www.dempseycenter.org) in Dempsey’s hometown of Lewiston, Maine.

About Silicon Tech Racing

Silicon Tech Racing, LLC was created by Henri Richard to address the need of high-tech corporations for an opportunity to leverage exciting road racing events with a dedicated marketing platform focused on technology executives interested in an informal and intimate insight into the sport. Silicon Tech Racing brings together selected, C-level executives at each racing event and provides a high value, targeted business to business networking opportunity to our partners. The team’s partners are carefully selected based on ecosystem synergies and common business values. As a not for profit race team, the aim is to provide a unique, cost effective value proposition to our partners and a memorable experience to our guests. General and sponsorship inquiries can be directed to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . All media and press inquiries can be directed to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

About Future Electronics

Future Electronics is a global leader in electronic components distribution, recognized as one of the most respected and innovative companies in the industry. Headquartered in Montreal, and operating in 41 countries, Future Elecronics has earned an impressive reputation for the strength of its commercial and technical competencies, through all stages of the design production cycle, and for developing efficient, comprehensive global supply chain solutions. Globally integrated, Future Electronics has one worlwide IT infrastructure providing real time inventory availability and access, while enabling all integrations of operations, sales and marketing worlwide.

Future Electronics is pleased to introduce the most comprehensive, user friendly and informative web site in the industry. Visit FutureElectronics.com and enjoy shopping for all your component needs 24/7; American orders placed by midnight can be delivered the next morning. Future Electronics is ushering in a new era in online component selection at FutureElectronics.com, empowering engineers by providing domain expert information and advice, combined with vivid imagery and an extensive library of reference material. FutureElectronics.com boasts the most intuitive navigation engine built on top of the richest, most relevant product information in the industry today. Offering the highest level of service, the most advanced engineering/design capabilities and technical solutions, and the largest available-to-sell inventory in the world, the company’s mission is always to Delight the Customer.

About HP

Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ), commonly referred to as HP, is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA. The company was founded in a one-car garage in Palo Alto by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, and is now one of the world’s largest information technology companies, operating in nearly every country. HP specializes in developing and manufacturing computing, data storage, and networking hardware, designing software and delivering services. Major product lines include personal computing devices, enterprise servers, related storage devices, as well as a diverse range of printers and other imaging products. HP markets its products to households, small- to medium-sized businesses and enterprises directly as well as via online distribution, consumer-electronics and office-supply retailers, software partners and major technology vendors.

About Freescale

Freescale Semiconductor is a global leader in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors for the automotive, consumer, industrial, networking and wireless markets. The publicly held company is based in Austin, Texas, and has design, research and development, manufacturing or sales operations in more than 30 countries.

Freescale is the world’s No. 1 supplier of automotive semiconductors, with more than 30 years of experience in the automotive industry. Freescale’s sensors, analog products and 8-, 16- and 32-bit MCU families provide intelligence and connectivity for advanced safety, body electronics, chassis, engine control, powertrain, driver information and telematics.

About Pounce Consulting

Pounce Consulting is an information technology service firm located in Orange County, California with operations in the US, Mexico and Latin America, a Global Delivery Center in Guadalajara, Mexico, and a ERP Support Center in Monterrey, Mexico. Pounce provides its customers with on-site and off-site consulting services and IT resources in the areas of custom application development, systems development, ERP practice -Oracle, SAP, Dynamix AX-, QA/Test outsourcing and IT staffing.