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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.

Le Mans Series Finale at Silverstone

admin — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:34:40 +0000

Le Mans Series is going to Silverstone this weekend for the last race in the 2009 season. Just like at Nürburgring, Aston Martin Racing will line up three LMP1 prototypes, two of it own plus the one of AMR Eastern Europe. The big fight will be between the Aston Marting 007 and the Pescarolo Sport no. 16 who are leading the series with 33 and 26 points each.

Silverstone Entry List

Aston Martin Racing wins at Nürburgring

admin — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 07:58:35 +0000

Aston Martin Racing takes the LM-P1 and overall win at this year’s 1000 Km of Nürburgring, the 4th event in this year’s Le Mans Series championship. Pescarolo Sport‘s Pescarolo Judd no. 16 driven at that moment by Jean-Christophe Boullion broke the gear box and had to retire permanently.

So, Aston Martin Racing secured the first two places followed by AMR Eastern Europe. In LM-P2 the first three places went to Quifel – ASM Team, Racing Box and Oak Racing, in this order. In GT1 Larbre Competition‘s Saleen S7R prevailed over Luc Alphand‘s Corvette C6.R while in GT2 the winner was Team Felbermayr Proton who raced a Porsche 997 GT3 RSR, followed by Snoras Spyker Squadron and their Spyker C8 Laviolette GT2 – R and team FBR who raced a Ferrari F430 GT.

Pescarolo Wins the 1000 Km of Algarve

admin — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:54:35 +0000

Pescarolo Sport managed to score an important overall win over Aston Martin Racing in Portugal last night by wining the 1000 Km of Algarve, the third race in the current Le Mans Series season. The race lasted a bit more than 6 hours. Both Pescarolo and the Astons have scored 215 laps each.

The first place in LMP2 went to Quifel – ASM, a Portugese team, which I’m sure made a lot of people very very happy.

GT1 went to Luc Alphand Aventures, the team proving it can perform well even when the boss is not 100% available. Luc Alphand’s Corvette has completed 194 tracks in a comfortable win against the rival Saleen S7R of Larbre Competition, which has only completed 179 laps.

The GT2 trophy went to JMW Motorsport, followed by IMSA Performance Matmut and Team Modena.

Next Le Mans Series event will be at Nurburgring in three weeks from now.