Archive for April, 2009
Dempsey and Mondini to join the Le Mans Series
Patrick Dempsey and Giorgio Mondini are the latest two drivers to join the Le Mans Series in the next couple of weeks. While Dempsey will be testing at the Bugatti circuit in a Ferrari F430, Mondini will race the Audi R10 TDI at Spa-Francorchamps.[...]
ACO announces LMP1 and LMP2 regulation changes
Analysis of the performances of the diesel-engined and petrol-engined prototypes after the Sebring and Barcelona races showed that the diesel-engined cars still enjoyed an advantage. In order to guarantee the equivalence between the different engines, the ACO, in keeping with its undertakings, has decided to impose the following adjustments on diesel-engined prototypes from the Spa-Francorchamps race onwards[...]
SRT back in FIA GT and FFSA GT
The Belgian SRT team will be taking on the 2009 season in the same way as they left off in 2008. The team will once again not only compete in the FIA GT, but also in the FFSA GT, the French GT championship. In the SRO promoted FIA GT-championship SRT will be calling on the services of the Belgian Bert Longin and the French FIA GT3-champion James Ruffier, whilst the French drivers Wilfried Merafina and Jean-Philippe Dayraut will be defending their chances on home soil.[...]
GT Open: Swiss conquer Imola with Trottet and Kessel
It was a perfect day for Ferrari and Swiss colors, as the Prancing Horse took victory in both Super GT and GTS in the Imola GT Open, the second race of the inaugural event of the 2009 International GT Open: Trottet Racing with Marcel Fässler and Joël Camathias won another exciting race, on a track drying progressively after a big storm, while Kessel Racing repeated yesterday’s success with Philipp Peter and Michal Broniszewski.[...]
Flying Lizard No. 45 Wins GT2 at Long Beach
The Flying Lizard No. 45 Porsche had their second consecutive win of the season today at Long Beach, running nearly 30 seconds ahead of the second place GT2 finisher, the No. 62 Risi Competizione Ferrari, before the race-ending caution came out. The No. 44 Flying Lizard Porsche finished fifth, having battled through the field from a tenth-place starting position.[...]
Dyson Racing Long Beach Race Report
“The engine, the drivability of the car, the engineers knowing what the car wants – everything is coming together very well,” commented Butch Leitzinger after he and Marino Franchitti finished third in LMP2 at today’s Long Beach ALMS race. “The package is gelling quite nicely,” said Chris Dyson after he and Guy Smith took second in class in the #16 BP Mazda Lola Coupe. “We are getting ur arms around this extremely strong car.”[...]
T-Mobile VICI Racing Long Beach Race Report
Richard Westbrook and Johannes Stuck steered the #18 T-Mobile® Racing™ Porsche 911 GT3 RSR between the unforgiving concrete barriers that lined downtown Long Beach this afternoon to finish in a highly satisfying fourth place in the team’s first race of the year and one that signals the start of an exciting new partnership[...]
Bittersweet day on the Long Beach streets
Patrón Highcroft Racing endured a bittersweet afternoon in today’s Tequila Patrón American Le Mans Series event at Long Beach with a possible race victory taken away by penalty by a race official.[...]
Lowe’s Fernandez Racing Takes Long Beach Class Win
Lowe’s Fernandez Racing finally made it to the top step of the podium at Long Beach claiming a class win and third-place overall result in the Tequila Patrón American Le Mans Series at Long Beach.[...]
Risi Competizione fight through to podium finish
Pierre Kaffer and Jaime Melo put on a great display of driving through traffic on the hot and demanding streets of Long Beach today, bringing their Risi Competizione Ferrari F430 GT through from the back of the grid to finish second in the GT2 class, with Melo recording the fastest lap of the race along the way.[...]
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