24 Hours of Le Mans

The 2008 Le Mans 24 Hours preselections

© Planetlemans - Milo Kol

The ACO has officially released the initial list of teams invited to the 2008 edition of the Le Mans 24 Hours. Autocon's confirmation as LMP1 second on the ALMS and the invitation for the FIA-GT top 2 teams per class (as was the case last year) are the two areas where there were still some question marks. As it was the case last year the teams with MC12 Maseratis will need to present an ACO-rules compliant car should they want to participate in the race.
The confirmed list is as follows:

LM P1 :
Audi Sport North America (Winner Le Mans 24 Hours)
Audi Sport North America (ALMS Champion and Petit Le Mans winner)
Team Peugeot TOTAL (2nd Le Mans 24 Hours)
Team Peugeot TOTAL (LMS Champion)
Pescarolo Sport (2nd LMS)
Autocon Motorsport (2nd ALMS)

LM P2 :
Penske Racing (ALMS Champion)
Penske Racing (Winner Petit Le Mans)
Binnie Motorsport (Winner Le Mans 24 Hours)
RML (LMS Champion)
Quifel ASM (2nd LMS)
Barazi Epsilon Sport (2nd Le Mans24 Hours)

LM GT 1 :
Corvette Racing (Winner Petit Le Mans and ALMS Champion)
Corvette Racing (2nd Le Mans 24 Hours)
Oreca (LMS Champion)
Luc Alphand Aventures (2nd LMS)
Vitaphone Racing (FIA GT Champion)
Aston Martin Racing (Winner Le Mans 24 Hours)
Scuderia Playteam Sarafree (2nd FIA GT)

LM GT 2 :
IMSA Performance Matmut (Winner Le Mans 24 Hours)
Risi Competizione (2nd Le Mans 24 Hours)
Risi Competizione (ALMS Champion)
Virgo Motorsport (LMS Champion)
Felbermayr-Proton (2nd LMS)
Flying Lizard Motorsport (Winner Petit Le Mans)
AF Corse ( FIA GT Champion)
BMS Scuderia Italia (2nd FIA GT)