Are there any other sponsors?

Not to my knowledge… That could change of course.

Great looking car and seems it will be competitive.

Is it Judd powered?
This could be a great way for Mazda to enter Le Mans!

Le Mans is really not the race to pick for unveiling a new car. If anything takes them out in the first hour all that logistical work and effort to put it all together will not feel so good then. They should just take it as a test and marketing session. But they probably already know that.

They got the nod because the ACO wants to diversify the manufacturers and nationalities at the 24h race,

According to Dome’s web (again), Dome said the colour scheme for S102 will be this white. White means/express “make up his mind to showdown fight”.
By the way when I saw the beautiful coupe with lamps, something of image was came up to me. Finally I solved my question that the S102 might be associated with the Shinkansen Superexpress in Japan…(Dome did part of aerodynamic development for this train anyway). Let you image the S102 with blue-line if you know about the train.

Lastly Dome person said “LMS is option” is great. I hope that Dome will knock on the LMS door for the next season.

I see what you mean…

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2a/Shinkansen2.jpg

all that is good and emotional, but how about the task at hand? They are in no way prepared. They should have done some races in LMS (or even in ALMS if the european grid was full).

And Dome has been around for a while with T2M racing, but they could barely run at the GT2 pace at LE Mans last year.

All the other new constructors are better prepared (Euskadi, WF, Luchini) but they don’t get as much attention.

Are Welter Racing’s drivers as top-notch as Euskadi’s drivers? Dome is much more prepared with the new S102 than with T2M’s Dome S101.5 Mader which used the 2007 1,000 km of Valencia as a test session.

Did T2M only race with Dome in 2007 in just three races?

Lucchini Engineering has a revised front suspension for Le Mans.

The new 2009 Asian Le Mans Series would be a good start for Dome.

Dome declared (3)years plan for the S102 program. It is suppose to be this year Dome will try harder to get pole in qualify but they could race slightly cautiously with growth drivers and new organization. Honestly I hope the joint venture with JB M/sport to expand to LMS program for next season rather than this year’s Lemans success. So I suppose that this year’s Lemans would be the key for them to determine their next direction. (I don’t like particular country topic but) History always tells to Japanese teams the Spot apprearance to only Lemans don’t go success…

Dome runs the factory Takata car in SuperGT and they’ve run LM for several years so I don’t question their credentials. Daisuke Ito won the SuperGT Champtionship in 07 generally posting better times than ex-F1 Ralph Firman. I don’t think they can hope for a win at Le Mans considering all of their factory competition but finishing isn’t entirely out of the question. They are a bit short on development time, but that’s not to say that development has just begun as of this event. the R8, R10, Rs Spyder and even the Lola/Aston were competent runners if not outright winners in their respective inaugural races. While a strong debut is pretty doubtful, there is such a possibility.

I still wonder what engine they have in that car!
^But, there hasn’t been any car winning Le Mans in there first outing in the last 10 years! (except the R10). Remember that the R8 had it’s first race in 1999, not 2000.

It has a 5.5 liter Judd V-10