Archive for September, 2008
Dario Franchitti joins Patrón Highcroft for Petit Le Mans
Dario Franchitti, the 2007 Indy 500 and IndyCar Series champion, will join the multi race-winning Patrón Highcroft Racing duo of Scott Sharp and David Brabham for the next round of the American Le Mans Series, Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta, on Saturday, October 4. The Scotland native will drive the No. 9 Patrón Highcroft Acura ARX-01b prototype sports car for the first time in the prestigious 1,000-mile event and penultimate 2008 ALMS round.
Planetlemans analyzes the Silverstone 1000km
Within the Silverstone 1000km official program a Peugeot advertisement announced triumphantly: “4 down, 1 to go”. Something tells me that the marketing person in charge of this ad at Peugeot does not get many compliments after Sunday. It was Audi’s day, the same way it had been at Le Mans, reliability and teamwork projecting the Ingolstadt squad once more to the very top.
Penske to run third car at Petit Le Mans with Briscoe-Castroneves
The mantle piece of the American Le Mans Series – starting with the very first Don Panoz race in 1998 – has always been Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta, and the 11th running of this race on Saturday, October 4 will bring together five of Porsche’s most successful race cars to help battle for the LMP2 class drivers and manufacturers title.
Audi wins Le Mans Series
After the triumph at the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the early title win in the American Le Mans Series, AUDI AG performed another feat with the Audi R10 TDI diesel sportscar: At the 1000-kilometre race at Silverstone (Great Britain), Audi Sport Team Joest – clinching victory as well as fourth place – secured also the champion’s title in the European Le Mans Series (LMS)[...]
Silverstone LMS Victory for Team Modena
Team Modena claimed their third win of the five-race 2008 Le Mans Series championship with a hard-fought LM GT1 class victory in their home race at Silverstone. Drivers Tomas Enge and Antonio Garcia led for all bar the first seven laps of the Autosport 1000km of Silverstone race in the team’s Aston Martin DBR9, staying clear of their rivals despite several Safety Car periods that each time saw them lose a lead of over a minute, the driver pairing pulling clear on each occasion to finish the season on a high[...]
RML MG Lola Coupé finishes fourth on race debut
Just a few days after its first roll-out, the fully upgraded RML MG Lola EX265C completed a faultless run to fourth place in the final race of the 2008 Le Mans Series. In a six-hour endurance that was punctuated by dramatic incidents and thrilling nose-to-tail racing, the much-admired new coupé performed without a hitch, rewarding the team’s hard work and meticulous preparation with a reliable and extremely competitive performance[...]
Zytek Motorsport 1000km of Silverstone Race Report
A split second decision, made on safety grounds, has resulted in a penalty and robbed the Zytek-engined Embassy WF01 of its first podium position. The Autosport 1000km of Silverstone had proved to be the team’s best performance of the year. Throughout the season its two WF01s have been developing into front-runners[...]
Charging drive earns points for Primat and Tinseau
A hard-charging drive from Harold Primat and co-driver Christophe Tinseau earned the Pescarolo Sport drivers a sixth place class finish after they stormed through the field in the Autosport 1000kms at Silverstone[...]
Strakka manages only 4th at LMS Silverstone 1000km
Strakka Racing’s return to the 2008 Le Mans Series saw the team’s Aston Martin DBR9 complete a very competitive six-hour run to fourth place in the needle-match battle for GT1 honours. Aston Martin works driver Darren Turner joined the team’s regular pairing of Nick Leventis and Peter Hardman for the DBR9’s last race of the year. The two-times Le Mans winner brought his considerable experience of the car to the squad, and rewarded their faith by nearly claiming fastest GT1 lap of the race, missing out by a mere three-tenths of a second.
SNORAS Spyker Squadron Silverstone Race Report
This morning at twenty minutes past eleven the field of almost 50 cars crossed the starting line for the Le Mans Series ‘Autosport 1000 km of Silverstone’. The last race for SNORAS Spyker Squadron this season was one of mixed results; the #94 Speedy Racing Team car finished 8th after being hit by another car in the early stages of the race. The #85 Spyker Squadron car finished 4th[...]
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