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Archive for June, 2007

Planetlemans Nürburgring LMGT1 preview

By Marcel ten Caat ⋅ June 27, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

All ingredients for the GT1 battle are back at the Nürburgring. Corvette, Aston Martin and Saleen are all aiming for the win. The American cars scored wins at Monza (Corvette) and Valencia (Sa […]

Primat confident for the German LMS round

By Gabriel Portos ⋅ June 27, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

After finishing the Le Mans 24 Hours for the first time less than two-weeks ago, Pescarolo Sport driver Harold Primat is relishing this weekend’s third round of the Le Mans Series, the Nurburgri […]

Team Modena ready for the Nürburgring

By Gabriel Portos ⋅ June 27, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Team Modena return to Le Mans Series action this coming weekend (June 30th / July 1st) with a 1000km race at the Nürburgring Grand Prix circuit in Germany, and are aiming for a strong finish in the co […]

Planetlemans Nürburgring LMP2 preview

By Marcel ten Caat ⋅ June 26, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

As usual the LMP2 cars suffered a lot of problems at Le Mans and those problems only stopped just after 15:00 on Sunday as the rain came pouring down and the chequered flag was being waved. Just li […]

The Matech Racing Ford GTs show off their performances

By Frank Feenstra ⋅ June 26, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

A few weeks after the first victory of a Ford GT Matech Racing in the FIA-GT3 European championship in the streets of Bucharest, all the protagonists of this competition with a great future found them […]

Team Peugeot Total Nürburgring 1000km preview

By Marcel ten Caat ⋅ June 25, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

With barely a week for the team to catch its breath after its resounding second place in the recent Le Mans 24 Hours, Peugeot Sport returns to the Le Mans Series trail for the 1,000km race at the N […]

Jos Menten FIA GT Monza review

By Marcel ten Caat ⋅ June 25, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Following on from a successful 24 Hours of Le Mans, Jos Menten once again got behind the wheel of the Lamborghini Murciélago R-GT of the German All-Inkl.com Reiter Lamborghini-team. For the […]

The 07-15 IMSA bulletin

By Gabriel Portos ⋅ June 25, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Just before the Le Mans 24 Hours IMSA published an interesting bulletin with new rules to be applied as of the Lime Rock ALMS round. The text of the first paragraph reads: "All "LM"P2 c […]

SRT make it three out of three in Monza!

By Marcel ten Caat ⋅ June 25, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Tom Cloet and Mauro Casadei clinched the season’s third victory for SRT at Monza. The Italian-Belgian combination had a spotless weekend in their Corvette C5-R and after an exciting race Cloe […]

Monza: Moser and Vannelet increase their championship lead

By Marcel ten Caat ⋅ June 25, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

The Corvettes were very fast at the beginning of the race, and maybe too fast. At this track, the fuel consumption is very high, and although Pirri and von Gartzen, in nr 18 Martini Callaway Racing […]