Petersen Motorsports/White Lightning Racing announced today that Dirk Müller (a native of Germany, living in Monaco) will fill-in for regular team driver Tomas Enge (a native Czech who also lives in Monaco) at the next two rounds of the American Le Mans Series.
Müller, the 2000 GT2 (then known as GT) class champion, will co-drive the No. 31 MMPIE/PAWS/Petersen Holdings/Michelin Ferrari F430 GT at the April 14th Grand Prix of Long Beach and the Grand Prix of Houston on April 21st with Tim Bergmeister (Langenfeld, Germany). Enge is recuperating from injuries sustained at the Grand Prix of St. Petersburg on March 31. Despite overwhelming obstacles, the Michael Petersen (Las Vegas, Nev. ) owned team plans on fielding a fully competitive car in the one hour and 40-minute American Le Mans debuted on the streets of Long Beach.
Müller, who raced three seasons in the American Le Mans Series from 1999-2001, has been competing in Europe since 2002. Most recently, he has found a home driving a Michelin-shod, Ferrari F430 GT in FIA GT competition winning the first round of the 2007 GT2 championship at Zhuhai. Müller has eight American Le Mans Series victories including the 99 Petit Le Mans and the 2000 12 Hours of Sebring in 27 starts driving GT cars. The native of Burbach, Germany is tied for fourth on the all-time list for fastest qualifiers with 13 Series pole positions. That distinction also ranks him as the leader in most career GT2 poles, winning at least one pole in each of his three years of competition in the Series to-date. Müller s string of eight-straight class pole positions- dating from Infineon Raceway in 1999 to Silverstone in 2000- is an American Le Mans Series record for any class.
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