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Le Mans press conference LIVE on the internet!
UPDATE: The stream can be found here!
Tomorrow morning, February 4th, at 11 a.m. CET the Automobile Club de l’Ouest will hold a press conference in the Welcome Center at the Le Mans circuit. During this press conference the 55 cars that are selected for the Le Mans 24 Hours on June 12-13 will be announced.
While the press conference was only visited by members of the media and teams in recent years the Automobile Club de l’Ouest and Dunlop have now made it possible for everyone around the world to follow the press conference live tomorrow at www.lemans.org.
After all teams had the chance to send in their entry forms between December 21st 2009 and January 20th 2010 the Selection Committee, lead by Mr. Jean-Claude Plassart, studied all the entries and selected the 55 cars that will be invited to take part in the 78th Le Mans 24 Hours.
Next to the 55 cars that are selected for the race the press conference will also reveal the identity of 10 reserve cars. For the first time the reserve list will be divided in a GT and an LMP list. As a result GT cars will be replaced by other GT cars and LMP cars will be replaced by other LMP cars.
Another announcement will bee the new Pescarolo-Le Mans school prototype. This car, which was announced during the press conference in June last year, is destined for the Automobile Club de l’Ouest’s driving school – Le Mans Driver – for the promotion of the Volant Proto A.C.O.
Tune in to www.lemans.org tomorrow to see it all LIVE.
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Can’t wait
ALMS teams with their bigger budgets and out of pocket costs don’t take rejection well at all.
There are 6 or 7 cars in GT2 that expect an invite if they requested one. Possibly 8 if the Robertsons’ fancied going to France for a couple weeks. And all those teams feels they have paid their dues, because the average ALMS teams spends well more (in its class) than the average LMS or FIA GT team to compete for a full season.
I could understand when Jim Tafel was upset when he was rejected the first time even though it was his first season, and Lou Gigliotti as well even though he never competed full time in his 2 years in the ALMS.
If 6, 7, or 8 GT2 cars in the ALMS wanted invites that would not leave much spot for cars from the FIA or LMS. So all of them can’t be invited. Assuming 8 cars requested invites there will be some very upset heads when the announcement happens.
hope theres a mc12 in the mix, would be fantastic to see one at la sarthe.
What is the link?
It’s at the top of the artical, the audio quality is awefull though, can a
hardly make out what there saying.