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Team Peugeot Total put two cars in the first two places at this year’s second Le Mans Series race at Spa. Audi Sport Team Joest came in third. Detailed results and timing can be found at the Le Mans Series website. In LM-GT1, the first three places were taked by Ford GTs. If you were following what was going on in the Le Mans racing community over the last years you might remember Le Mans legend Henri Pescarolo criticizing the A.C.O. for the inclusion of diesel prototypes in the LMP1 category. Back in 2006 Henri wrote an open letter explaining why it is unfair to have [...] Audi makes a successful return to Le Mans Series by winning the 8 Hours of Le Castellet. The Audi R15 Plus, driven by McNish and Capello finished first in 8 hours and 36 seconds after having completed 266 laps at an average speed of 192.3 km/h. Aston Martin Racing and Rebellion Racing have finished [...] Despite Oreca starting the race in pole position, the Audi R15 Plus driven by McNish takes takes the lead in the 8 Hours of Castellet, one hour after the start. Second right now is the Aston Martin 009 driven by Stefan Mucke, one lap and about 3 seconds behind the Audi. Oreca’s Peugeot 908 [...] Nicolas Lapierre of team Oreca-Matmut’s driver managed to outpace the brand new Audi R15 plus during the last qualifying laps at the Hours of Castellet. Oreca has staged an impressive effort, making good use its Peugeot 908 HDi FAP and its impressive driver line-up including Olivier Panis and Stéphane Sarrazin. The Audi left second [...] AutoblogGreen is reporting that the Audi’s 2011 Le Mans prototype will be a V6 diesel fitted with a kinetic energy recovery system – also known as KERS. This makes sense from a commercial point of view as Audi is about to introduce hybrid powertrains in their production cars and also goes towards A. C. [...] So, plenty of Le Series Mans related news these days. Let me sum it up for you: Former Formula 1 driver Giancarlo Fisichella will race the full 2010 Le Mans Series season. He will drive a GT2 Ferrari F430 GT for team AF Corse. LMP1 team Signature Competition acquired a Lola Aston Martin which [...] When the A.C.O. launched the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup late 2009 many in the endurance racing community applauded the initiative but only a few committed to participate. With races scheduled on three continents, the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup is meant to be a global, high end event, reserved to LMP1 prototypes. Only three races [...] Autolog Green reports that ECO Racing will put a diesel powered Radical SR10 on the grid at Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta. While nobody expects them to win against Peugeot or Audi, ECO Racing should be able to put up a fair fight. Radical has extensive endurance racing experience, including in the 24 [...] If you check out the current Petit Le Mans entry list you’ll notice Audi’s not on it, and we didn’t hear any announcement coming out from Germany after Peugeot confirmed their participation. Autobloggreen has contacted Audi to find out more and the answer was that a decision was not yet made about engaging in the two last races of the American Le Mans Season at Petit Le Mans and Laguna Seca. [...] |
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