24 Hours of Le Mans
Kruse Motorsport becomes International Motorsports in ‘08
© Planetlemans - Marcel ten Caat // Kruse Motorsport Le Mans 2007
Following the disastrous fire prior to the Silverstone LMS race in 2007 in which the teams Pescarolo prototype was destroyed together with a substantial amount of equipment, International Motorsports Ltd has made substantial changes to the team.
Kai Kruse has left the team to pursue other interests and with his departure International Motorsports Ltd (IMS) has appointed Graham Nash as Team Manager. Graham has been involved with motorsport since 1976 and brings many years of experience at this level of motorsport to the team. His team, Graham Nash Motorsport, competed at Le Mans in 2002 as a joint entry with RML and 2003 as its own program with a Saleen GT1 and in 2004 and 2005 in the LMS series.
Team Principle Ian Mitchell previously worked with Graham when his team ran Ian’s car in the Tuscan Challenge Series back in the early 90’s.
The team is acquiring a Radical R9 LMP2 prototype to continue its campaign in the LMS series and the 24 hrs of Le Mans and will continue its successful partnership with Kumho Tyres for the third year. Hong Kong company IMS has agreed to develop the new ‘Racing for Thailand’ team dropping the name Kruse Motorsport. The team has featured Thai businesses since first promoting Phuket in 2005 to help rebuild tourism after the tsunami hit the holiday destination.
Ian Mitchell, who has lived and worked in Thailand for the last 8 years, aims to attract Thai businesses to sponsor the team during 2008 and beyond. “There is great interest in motorsport in Thailand” said Ian Mitchell, “Its association with the advanced technology of a modern race team in the greatest endurance series in the world will promote Thailand’s ability to compete with the best. We are excited that we may have the opportunity to represent Thailand in the world’s greatest motor race, the 24 Hrs of Le Mans for the first time since Thai Prince Birabongse Bhanutej Bhanubandh drove an Aston Martin DBS3 Coupe in 1954.”
(International Motorsports Ltd)
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The team could now move up the order now they have a guy with the knowledge of Graham Nash and the purchase of a Radical SR9. Needless to say Graham.N is very experienced but its the new car car that will help them as the Radical is a bloody quick car out of the box and with the right development could easily be a consistent winner.
We’ve been supporting Kruse Motorsport in 2007 - With their workshop in Cologne they were our home-team. I hope the team has more success in 2008, 2007 wasn’t really their lucky year. I also hope that the Radical will be an improvement, last years Pescarolo-Judd wasn’t a very quick car.