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Archive for January, 2009

Corvette Motorsport: 2008 Review Film - Part 1

The 2009 season is slowly but steadily getting closer. Only a few months and the FIA GT Championship, the Le Mans Series and the American Le Mans Series will be underway again. But before it starts Corvette Motorsport has made something special for the fans.[…]

Quifel-ASM Team testing at Estoril

With all the action from the Sebring Winter Test in the last couple of days as well as the announcements by the Le Mans Series organisers and the ACO regarding the entries for 2009 the fact that Ginetta was testing with Quifel-ASM Team at Estoril almost went by unnoticed. Almost, as Nuno and Hugo Pereira (Estoril Race Photos) were there![…]

Le Mans 24 Hours: 82 entries for 55 places!

The Le Mans 24-Hours event is in rude good health and doesn’t mind admitting it! The ACO has received 82 entry requests for the 2009 race. Despite the quality of all these candidatures only 55 cars will line up on the starting grid.[…]

Dyson Racing ALMS Winter Test Report

It was much warmer for Dyson Racing’s first public running of their new BP Mazda Lola Coupe than it was in Washington DC a week ago. But the fifth-annual American Le Mans Series Winter Test in Sebring, FL provided a similar public stage[…]

Patrón Highcroft Racing complete ‘Wheels Down’ test

Patrón Highcroft Racing’s 2009 American Le Mans Series preparations continued at the historic Sebring International Raceway today as Scott Sharp, David Brabham and Dario Franchitti completed the final day of action at the ‘Wheels Down’ winter test.[…]

Flying Lizard Completes Successful Sebring Winter Test

Flying Lizard Motorsports, the 2008 American Le Mans Series GT2 team champions, completed a successful three-day test at Sebring this week. The team launched their new 2009 Porsche 911 GT3 RSRs during the American Le Mans Series Winter Test, in preparation for the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring, to be held on March 21.[…]

2009 Sebring Winter Test - Day 3 Report

The third and final day of the Sebring Winter Test saw the first action of the Dyson Racing Lola B08/86 Mazda. Despite setting quick times it was still behind the three Acura cars at the end of the day. In GT2 the Porsches were fastest again.[…]

Lowe’s Fernandez Racing wraps up Sebring Test

Lowe’s Fernandez Racing continued its preparations for the start of the American Le Mans Series season with its second test of the year at Sebring International Raceway. Participating in the ALMS “Winter Test” which concluded today[…]

2009 Sebring Winter Test - Day 2 Report

Day two of the Sebring Winter Test ended with another Acura 1-2-3 as the second session of the day ended at 4:20 pm Florida time. Today thirteen cars used the four hours of track time available for the American Le Mans Series. Acura improved yesterday’s fastest time during the session.[…]

Planetlemans analyzes the LMS full season entries

After weeks of rumours and talks behind the scenes the Le Mans Series full season entries were announced today. One year ago the organisers were able to announce 50 cars and despite the financial crisis sweeping world markets and forcing manufacturers to reconsider their commitment the list is only one down on 49 for 2009.[…]

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