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Dyson Racing Petit Le Mans qualifying report

By Marcel ten Caat ⋅ September 30, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

The effort was A-plus but the results were not quite as alphabetical. Chris Dyson and Guy Smith will start eighth in the penultimate round of the American Le Mans Series. The sister car of Butch Le […]

O’Connell and Corvette Claim GT1 Pole at Petit Le Mans

By Marcel ten Caat ⋅ September 30, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Corvette Racing teammates Johnny O’Connell and Oliver Gavin qualified first and second respectively in the GT1 class for Saturday’s Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta. O’Connell repris […]

Dayton Qualifies Seventh in Top Class for Petit Le Mans

By Marcel ten Caat ⋅ September 30, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Duncan Dayton of Danbury, Conn., put the Highcroft Racing Lola EX257 AER No. 9 solidly on the grid for tomorrow’s Petit Le Mans American Le Mans Series (ALMS) race at Road Atlanta Motor Sport […]

Petersen/White Lightning to Start Second in Petit Le Mans

By Marcel ten Caat ⋅ September 30, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Petersen Motorsports/White Lightning Racing will start second on the GT2 class grid in tomorrow’s ninth annual Petit Le Mans. Jörg Bergmeister (Langenfeld, Germany) narrowly missed the p […]

Porsche RS Spyders one-two in LMP2 at Peit Le Mans

By Marcel ten Caat ⋅ September 29, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Lucas Luhr, the German sports car driver now living in Monaco, was the only American Le Mans Series driver to set a new qualifying record on Friday as his put his #7 Porsche RS Spyder on the LMP2 c […]

Positions two and four on the ?Petit Le Mans? grid for Audi R10 TDI

By Marcel ten Caat ⋅ September 29, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

The two Audi R10 TDI sportscars of Team Audi Sport North America will start the "Petit Le Mans” race at Road Atlanta (US state of Georgia) from the front two rows of the grid. Scotland&rsqu […]

Creation on pole for Petit Le Mans

By Marcel ten Caat ⋅ September 29, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Nicolas Minassian, driving a Creation CA06/H race car, showed he meant business today by claiming a stunning pole position for tomorrow’s 1,000 mile Petit Le Mans event. The Frenchman b […]

Alex Job Racing Qualifies 10th in GT2 for Petit Le Mans

By Marcel ten Caat ⋅ September 29, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Alex Job Racing driver Robin Liddell drove the number 23/Alex Job Racing/Bell Microproducts/Porsche 911 RSR to a 10th place starting position in GT2 for tomorrow’s running of the 10-hour Peti […]

Flying Lizard Qualifies 7th and 8th in GT2 for Petit Le Mans

By Marcel ten Caat ⋅ September 29, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Flying Lizard Motorsports No. 45 and No. 44 Porsches qualified 7th (Marc Lieb) and 8th (Lonnie Pechnik), respectively, for tomorrow’s Petit Le Mans endurance race at Road Atlanta. Marc Lieb will […]

BMW Team PT PTG M3s Qualify 5 5th th and 9th for Petit Le Mans

By Marcel ten Caat ⋅ September 29, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Bill Auberlen, driving the No. 21 BMW Team PTG M3 he will share with Joey Hand and Boris Said in tomorrow’s Petit Le Mans, qualified fifth in the 10-car GT2 class with a 1:23.092-minute lap a […]