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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.

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.

Nürburgring Entry List

admin — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:13:53 +0000

The Le Mans Series championship will continue the weekend to come with the 1000 Km of Nürburgring. The race shows an interesting entry list with no less than three Lola Aston Martin prototypes being entered, two by Aston Martin Racing and one by AMR Eastern Europe. After being beaten by Pescarolo Sport in Algarve, it really seems Aston Martin is very keen to score some valuable points. The Pescarolo-Jud no 16, the only official Pescarolo car to race at this year at Nürburgring, is currently leading this year’s Le Mans Series with 26 points, followed by the Lola Aston Martin 007 with 22 points.

The GT1 category – which will disappear next year – will only see one of Luc Alphand’s Corvettes C6.R racing against one of Larbre Competition’s Saleen S7R

So the question everybody’s going to ask this weekend is: will the three Aston Martins manage to beat Pescarolo Sport, or is Henri’s extensive Le Mans and endurance racing experience going to pay again and lead his team to victory? Can’t wait to see.

Luc Alphand recovers well after his accident

admin — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:23:34 +0000

Le Mans Series is reporting that Luc Alphand is recovering well while his team, Luc Alphand Aventures, is preparing full steam for the 1000 Km of Algarve, this year’s third Le Mans Series event to be held in Portugal. The team had to give up their participation in the 24 Hours of Spa following the accident one of their Corvettes had at this year’s 24 Heures du Mans.
Even though Luc is recovering at a fast pace, he won’t be able to race at Algarve. He’ll be replaced in this race by Julien Jousse who recently did very well at the 2009 24 Heures du Mans. Luc Alpahnd Aventures’ main competitor in Portugal will be Labre Competition and their Saleen S7-R.