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Spyker Squadron 2010 Le Mans Schedule

admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:59:42 +0000

Spyker Squadron have announced they will honor the invitation they have received from the A. C. O. to participate in the 24 Hours of Le Mans 2010. Spyker will enter the event with one Spyker C8 Laviolette GT2R, which will be driven by Peter Dumbreck, Jeroen Bleekemolen and Tom Coronel. The Squadron will also participate in all five Le Mans Series rounds.

Read the full press release here.

2010 Sebring Winter Test Videos

admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:07:32 +0000

A couple very nice video shots from the Sebring Winter Tests and brought to you by the American Le Mans Series and YouTube. Enjoy the horse power!

2010 A. C. O. Regulations

admin — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:10:24 +0000

The A.C.O. have released their 2010 regulations, which can be downloaded here. All contenders to the 24 Hours of Le Mans 2010 will naturally have to comply. Series such as Le Mans Series, American Le Mans Series and Asian Le Mans Series are expected to update their own regulations to reflect A.C.O. changes.

Sora Racing’s Pescarolo-Judd Wins First Asian Le Mans Series Race

admin — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:56:27 +0000

Henri Pescarolo and the rest of the his Le Mans based team must have uncorked some nice bottles yesterday after the results of the first Asian Le Mans Series. That, of course, in order to celebrate the double victory the Pescarolo cars have scored at the Okayama circuit this weekend.

First, Sora Racing’s Pescarolo-Judd driven by Tinseau and Nakano won the overall and LMP1 category in front of Aston Martin Racing’s Lola Aston Martin and Team Oreca Matmut AIM. Then Oak Racing’s Pescarolo-Mazda won the LMP2 category. This is great news for the Le Mans based indie team and should help them to attract more sponsors for the next season. Even though it was Sora and not Pescarolo Sport itself who raced at Okayama, it is obvious the later has put a lot of resources in this project: Sora’s Pescarolo-Judd was no. 17, which is traditionally a Pescarolo number at the 24 Hours of Le Mans and C. Tinseau who drove Sora’s prototype to victory is a regular Pescarolo driver.

The GT1 category went to team JLoc of Japan and GT2 to Hankook Team Farnbacher of Germany.

As per A. C. O. regulations, the winner of each category will be awarded an automatic invite to the 24 Hours of Le Mans 2010.

Asian Le Mans Series goes to Okayama

admin — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:30:07 +0000

Many teams have already signed up for the Asian Le Mans Series race, an event that will take place on October 31^st at the Okayama track in Japan. Some important names have put their names on the list, one of them being Aston Martin Racing. Indeed, the British team is sending over a Lola Aston Martin prototype to compete in its class against a couple of Kolles’ Audi R10s and Team Oreca Matmut’s Oreca AIM.

A couple of French teams – Oak Racing and Ibanez Racing – are competing in LMP2 while GT1 should provide a nice race between Larbre Competition’s Saleen S7R, two of JLOC’s Lamborghini and a Aston Martin DBR9 raced by Japanese team HITOTSUYAMA TEAM NOVA.

The GT2 entry list contains a few cars we’re not used to see at Le Mans or in Le Mans racing series, such as a Ford GT MK7 of Robertson Racing, a BMW E92 M3 of Rahal Letterman Racing and an Aston Martin Vantage of Chinese Team Hong Kong Racing. Besides them we’ll see the usual Ferrari F430 GT and Porsche 911 GT3 RSR lineup.

Even though Pescarolo Sport have not announced their participation yet, the Team from Le Mans will have two cars running at Okayama: Sora Racing’s Pescarolo Judd in LMP1 and OAK Racing’s Pescarolo Mazda.

The stakes here are high, as the top performers in each category will likely see themselves awarded automatic invites to the 24 Heures du Mans 2010.