Archive for June, 2008
Gulf livery voted best paint scheme by SpeedTV visitors
For longtime fans of the Le Mans 24 Hours, the iconic colours of Gulf-liveried cars conjures memories of Steve McQueen, the movie ‘Le Mans,’ and his stunning Porsche 917 that carried Gulf’s baby blue and orange design[...]
Rillettes 2008 part 2- The other look at Le Mans
A new issue of our “other” Le Mans pictures featuring a different look at the events around the “big one” at La Sarthe. Details, curiosities or just some seldom image is what you will find once more at our “Rilletes” series. Enjoy….
Ryan Lewis to join Intersport Racing at ALMS Mid-Ohio
It was announced today that British racing driver, Ryan Lewis, will contest the remainder of the 2008 American Le Mans Series with Intersport Racing. The 24 year-old will race a Lola B07/10 AER in the LMP1 class, starting at Mid-Ohio in just over three weeks’ time[...]
Monfardini joins Scuderia Ecosse at 24 Hours Spa
With the 3rd race of the FIA GT Championship at Adria out of the way and a fourth place finish in the bag, Scuderia Ecosse team are pleased to announce that Ferdinando Monfardini has accepted an invitation to come on board as the third driver for forthcoming 24 hours of Spa race at the beginning of August[...]
Scuderia Ecosse Adria report
As the sun set on the tight and twisty Adria International raceway in Northern Italy it was smiles all round in the Scuderia Ecosse garage as Fabio Babini and Jamie Davies battled from ninth on the GT2 grid to take a well earned 4th place finish. After some aggressive set up changes and a calculated race strategy, both Jamie and Fabio were able to carve their way through the field at the first night race of the season[...]
FIA-GT Adria race report
The third round of the 2008 FIA GT Championship, an evening race at the Adria International Raceway in Italy, saw the GMAC-backed Phoenix Racing team take its first win, with victory going to Fabrizio Gollin and Mike Hezemans in the nr 6 Corvette C6R. They finished 9 seconds ahead of the nr 1 Vitaphone Maserati MC 12 of Bertolini and Bartels, with the second Phoenix Corvette, driven by Swiss duo Marcel Fässler and Jean-Denis Deletraz, third, just 12 seconds behind the winner[...]
Bad luck again at Adria for PK Carsport
2008 seems to be a rather difficult year for the ambitious driver pairing Kumpen-Longin. After the bad luck in the Belgian GT Championship and the difficult start in the FIA GT, Kumpen and Longin were confident to put down a strong performance in Adria, the third round of the FIA GT Championship. But things turned out in a different way when Kumpen was hit out after only 11 laps and had to retire[...]
CR Scuderia – racing into the night
Adria’s race into darkness ended tonight with an eighth place finish for Chris Niarchos and Tim Mullen and in retirement for Andrew Kirkaldy and Rob Bell. It was an incredibly hard event for all the teams with soaring temperatures making it tough on everyone[...]
SRT retain championship leadership at Adria
For SRT the relatively quiet period came to an end this weekend. The third race of the FIA GT-championship at Adria (Italy) was on the agenda. And as leaders in the championship SRT travelled on down to this short and sinuous Adria circuit, in the close vicinity of Venice, with no less than a 50 kilo success ballast in the Corvette C6.R. Xavier Maassen and Christophe Bouchut did more than their share of the work and finally the duo finished as fourth and the SRT drivers remain leader in the championship[...]
Gollin and Hezemans win for Phoenix Carsport at Adria
Starting in daylight, finishing in the darkness. Temperatures way into the thirty degrees centigrade range. Twenty-seven cars were ready for the third round of the FIA GT Championship at the Adria International Raceway, some fifty km south of Venice, Italy. Just after 19:45 local time the cars were released by the pace car.[...]
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