Strakka Racing Drivers to join Vitaphone Racing at Le Mans 24 Hours
Strakka Racing’s Peter Hardman and Nick Leventis will co-drive an Aston
Martin DBR9 GT1 with Vitaphone Racing in next month’s Le Mans 24 Hours.
The third driver has been confirmed as former DTM racer Alexandros
Margaritis.
Peter Hardman and Nick Leventis are partners in business with Strakka
Racing, and [...]
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ROMAIN DUMAS, BENOIT TRELUYER AGAIN WITH PESCAROLO SPORT
Henri Pescarolo decided to choose same drivers for next 24 Heures du
Mans 2008.
Henri Pescarolo : “I am specially happy to choose the same drivers for
next 24 Hours. They proved their abability to fight for Pescarolo Sport,
and they are part of the familly. They are the best drivers in [...]
LEMANS: Gavin raised funds for CF in London Marathon
Published May 19th, 2008 in LE MANS. 0 CommentsOliver Completes London Marathon in Personal Best time
Corvette Racing’s ALMS and Le Mans champion, Oliver Gavin, completed the
London Marathon yesterday in a time of 3 hours 9 minutes & 31 seconds.
He just missed his target time of 3 hours, but with training having been
curtailed a little recently he was still delighted with the result.
He has [...]
LEMANS: Sportscar aces, F1 stars lineup for AMR title defense
Published May 19th, 2008 in LE MANS. 0 CommentsAston Martin Racing have announced their driver line up to take on the
famous 13.65km Circuit de la Sarthe for the 76th 24 Heures du Mans race. The
annual event held yearly in Le Mans, France is the top prize for sportscar
teams, manufacturers and, of course, the drivers.
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Source: LEMANS: Sportscar aces, F1 stars lineup for AMR [...]
LEMANS: Aston Martin and Gulf confirm Le Mans drivers
Published May 19th, 2008 in LE MANS. 0 CommentsThe Aston Martin Racing team, which will race in the iconic blue and orange
colours of Gulf, has announced its driver line-up for the Le Mans 24 Hours
in June.
Following an historic GT1 class victory at the endurance classic last year,
the 2008 line-up is once again an exciting blend of youth and experience,
with four new drivers joining [...]
The 24 Hours of Le Mans will be in its 76th edition this year and
two drivers from the Limburg will be at the start. Apart from Jos
Verstappen, our man from Haelen, Jos Menten has also found a safe
haven for this legendary endurance race. Once again the 27 years young
Dutchman has opted for the Team Modena [...]
David Richards visits Prague with gifts for his drivers
When he walked into the Four Seasons Hotel at the very heart of Prague,
cameras started snapping and rolling full throttle. David Richards, who is,
among other positions, the head of the Prodrive Company operating the Aston
Martin Racing team, came to visit his drivers. With a view of the [...]
Audi defends DTM lead
DTM: At the DTM’s Italian round, Audi defended its overall lead.
Although scoring no points at Mugello after a jump start, Audi driver
Timo Scheider continues heading the leaderboard. Tom Kristensen clinched
third place for Audi in an action-packed race. A total of five A4 DTM
cars finished in the top eight, and thus in the [...]
STEPHAN GREGOIRE RETURNS TO THE 24 HOURS OF LE MANS
WITH ROLLCENTRE AND HIGHCO.
Paris — On June 14th and 15th, 2008, Stephan Gregoire will be
back at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in a Rollcentre Racing Pescarolo LMP1
prototype. He has recently been selected to co-drive Rollcentre car No. 18
with Joao Barbosa and Vanina Ickx at the [...]
LOLA’S GOLDEN CELEBRATION ON STREETS OF HUNTINGDON
Lola announce plans to celebrate 50 winning years with town centre
parade
Marking the Golden Anniversary of Britain’s most prolific manufacturer
of racing cars, Lola has today announced exciting plans to stage
a public celebration in its hometown Huntingdon. The event will
feature a symbolic parade of racing cars taking to the streets of [...]
A late 1.31.050 of Timo Bernhard repeating the story of last practice got Penske an amzing pole when everyone thought de Ferran would get it with less than 2 minutes to go. A top 9 within less than a second but it does not get any closer than GT2 where both front row cars had [...]
A rather strange qualifying session saw Jetalliance’s Alex Müller set pole position as the chequered flag fell. Until shortly before the end of the session, it looked as if Emmanuel Collard would become the first GT2 driver to take overall pole since Antonio Garcia in 2001[...]
Source: FIA-GT Monza qualifying report
A very close session in terms of timing with the Acuras dominating until a very late run from Timo Bernhard that left his Penske Porsche RS Spyder on top and the Audis a bit further behind than expected. GT2 was a 1-2 for Porsche even when Ferrari was also close, an exciting qualifying is ahead![...]
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Another very strong performance at the Miller Motorsports Park at Utah by the number 66 Gil de Ferran Acura saw them topping the times in the first practice session on Saturday at 1.32.6, just 1/10th second ahead of the Lowe’s Fernández Racing car completing a 1-2 for the Japanese-powered LMP2 prototypes. Simon Pagenaud put several [...]
Tricky weather mixes grid at FIA-GT Monza qualifying
Published May 18th, 2008 in LE MANS. 0 CommentsIn a very peculiar session with a late touch of rain that had the GT1s fighting for a good lap time Alex Müller managed to get the number 36 JetAlliance Racing Aston Martin on a Hard fought overall pole for tomorrow’s race. There were only a handful of minutes to go in the GT1 session [...]
Like the first free practice session earlier today pre-qualifying started on a wet track with rain still coming down. As the session was almost half way it stopped raining and the track started to dry. After eighty minutes it was once again a Phoenix Carsport Corvette on top.[...]
Source: Phoenix Carsport quickest in Monza pre-qualifying
Friday at the Utah circuit, first outing of the ALMS and already a dream start for newcomers De Ferran racing and their brand new Acura topping the time sheets in 1.32.424. In his last laps of the session on what he defined “a hot track” ex open wheel star Gil de Ferran managed to go [...]
Under the forecasted rain the practice sessions for Sunday’s FIA-GT race started today and it was a Corvette 1-2 in GT1 while the 60 Prospeed Porsche was clearly ahead in GT2. The cars from the Phoenix team were the only ones managing to get under the 2 minutes for a lap of the Lombardian [...]
On May 10 and 11 the third round of FFSA GT Championship took place at the Dijon-Prenois circuit. Like in the previous rounds at Nogaro and Lédenon the battle for the overall win was fought out by two models, the Corvette C6.R and the Saleen S7R.[...]
Source: FFSA GT - Dijon - Weekend Report
The Scuderia Ecosse GT Team heads off to Monza for the second round of the FIA GT championship this weekend, with a spring in their step following a highly successful two-day test last week at the demanding Vallelunga circuit. Valuable information was gathered from the test session which will now be deployed by the team [...]
