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By Marcel ten Caat ⋅ January 24, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

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Team Cytosport announces 2008 plans

By Marcel ten Caat ⋅ January 24, 2008 ⋅ 7 comments

ALMS team owner and driver of the popular #06 Muscle Milk LMP1 car, Greg Pickett, today announced his 2008 racing schedule. Team plans include LMS race dates in Europe that will culminate with his bid to compete in the 24 hours of Le Mans in June. German driver Klaus Graf will return to the team for 2008, as well as veteran sports car driver and former Le Mans winner Jan Lammers. […]

Sportscar Scene on The Tour Podcast

By Marcel ten Caat ⋅ January 24, 2008 ⋅ 6 comments

Planetlemans.com and The Tour Podcast have a shared passion, a love for Sportscar Racing! Our friends from The Tour have just kicked off the 2008 season with the latest podcast hosted at www.thetour.org.uk but it has been a long journey to get to this point. […]

Highcroft Racing Announces Scott Sharp and Patrón Spirits to join team

By Gabriel Portos ⋅ January 22, 2008 ⋅ 4 comments

Highcroft Racing announces exciting changes for the 2008 American Le Mans Series (ALMS) season. Scott Sharp will be joining the team and partnering with Le Mans-winning driver, David Brabham, with Patrón Spirits as the team’s title sponsor. Patrón Spirits is the distiller of Patrón Tequila, the world’s number-one selling ultra-premium tequila. The team will be known as Patrón Highcroft Racing […]

Tafel Racing Signs Dirk Müller for 2008 ALMS Effort

By Marcel ten Caat ⋅ January 22, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Tafel Racing has signed Ferrari factory driver Dirk Müller to pilot the No. 71 Tafel Racing Ferrari F430 GTC for the full American Le Mans Series season in 2008. Müller, the 2000 American Le Mans Series GT2 Class Champion, will share driving duties in the Tafel Racing machine with Dominik Farnbacher (Ansbach, Germany). Müller, the likable German who now calls Monaco home, has spent recent seasons successfully campaigning several European championships as a factory driver. […]

Toyota plans return to La Sarthe in 2010! (update)

By Marcel ten Caat ⋅ January 19, 2008 ⋅ 12 comments

According to the Japanese Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper Toyota Motors is planning a return to the Le Mans 24 Hours in the near future. The last time Toyota raced at Le Mans was back in 1999 with the Toyota GT-One, back then the Toyota Team Europe entered GT-One finished in second place behind the BMW V12 LMR but ahead of two Audi Sport Team Joest entered Audi R8R. […]

Le Mans 2008: 21 Teams confirmed by the A.C.O.

By Gabriel Portos ⋅ January 18, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

The A.C.O. has released today the list of 21 teams from the original pre-selection that have confirmed their attendance to the 2008 Le Mans 24 Hours in June. After the 7th January deadline for confirmation a number of teams in 2 categories have declined their pre-selection […]

Dyson 2008 ALMS program, Marino Franchitti joins

By Gabriel Portos ⋅ January 18, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Thetford / Norcold Dyson Racing today is pleased to announce that it will campaign two Porsche RS Spyders in the full 2008 American Le Mans Series Championship. Chris Dyson and Guy Smith will co-drive the team’s #16 machine, while Butch Leitzinger will be joined by Marino Franchitti in the #20 entry […]

Spyker Squadron 2008 developments

By Frank Feenstra ⋅ January 17, 2008 ⋅ One comment

Last season Spyker Squadron finished in style with a podium position in the 1000 km of Silverstone and a fourth position in the Mil Milhas of Brazil (1000 miles). As soon as the team returned from Brazil the team worked hard to prepare new cars for the 2008 season […]

Petersen Motorsports turns focus to rally in 2008

By Team Update ⋅ January 17, 2008 ⋅ One comment

Since entering professional sports car racing in 1998, Petersen Motorsports/White Lightning Racing has set the standard for what a sports car racing team should be on the track and off. With all of that success and a renewed enthusiasm in off-road, marathon-style rally racing, such as the Euromilhões Dakar, Team Owner Michael Petersen (Las Vegas, Nev.) has decided to turn the focus of Petersen Motorsports away from international sports car racing to international rally racing for the 2008 season. […]