BMS are Entering with a Porsche not the Ferrari, im gathering that it is the Brixia lot entering under the BMS banner.

poor Giancarlo!

and Porsche’s best on the reserve list?

JLOC have got an entry …. how on Gods green earth did that happen ?????

no JMB… so sad. i wish Pegasas was on the entry list, at least their at the top of the reserve. Its good Pescarolo is doing this race at least…

Interesting names on the reserve list, but i belive that Felbermayr-Proton wants to run two cars and they’re waiting for the withdraws. If there will be no withdraws, i’m sure that the two factory drivers will join the 77 car. And i think it’s the same at AF Corse, Matech and Spyker.

Im glad Honda/Acura is finally coming to Le Sarthe!!! And with two entries!

Though it looks like Peugeot has lost Brabham.

wow, i can’t wait for Lemans Racing to start, and for Nick Acura has 3 entries for Lemans, you got the Lola Coupe powered by HPD from the RML Team.

Ok, as a Ferrari fan…

1: where is Maserati at in GT1??

2: wtf BMS Scuderia Italia! I know they race Porsche under a differnet banner.

Oh well, Ferrari will still win GT2 class. Dont know about a 1,2,3 finish again.

Oh and why is JLOC on the list in GT1? They are just a waste of space.

Nice GT2 field and a suprisingly interesting GT1 field.
“JLOC have got an entry …. how on Gods green earth did that happen ?????”
@Sideways Bob
They were on the list with invitations because of there result at the Asian Le Mans Series. Pity though, because sofar they haven’t been realy impressive at Le Mans.
@ gabezant
I think you can’t move you designated first driver to another car, new rules this year. Teams had to assign a first driver before 1 February. Correct me if I’m wrong.

@ Gabezant and Marco

When the driver is from the same team they can switch.
But when it’s a another team it’s not allowed.
the 1st placed driver will not be
Spyker is gonna change Tim(85) for Tom(86), I Think….

@milo
Ok, thanks for the info. Then Spyker will change Tim and Tom for sure.

jloc got in cuz they won asian lemans and maserati cant race GT1 any more beacause of rule changes

Ok I’ll go ahead and ask it: Why is the yet to see any racing Jaguar on the list and not a second AF Corse, Felbermayr-Proton, or Spyker? Also, is the RS Spyder ineligible this year? Would have been nice to see Porsche v Acura at Le Mans after the past few in the ALMS.

I was also surprised to see Tim in the Spyker and Tom on the reserve list. I also expect a swap there.

Does anybody know if we can expect Jeroen Bleekemolen in the Spyker?

Furthermore a quite interesting entry list. A shame that J-Loc is on the list, after te very poor performance last year. Unfortunately they did too wel in the Asian LeMans Series.

It will be a nice weekend in June with this list.

@ Coleman. This year, GT1 rules are the same in WC GT1 ( FIA GT ) as in Le Mans ( Series ). There are Maserati’s in WC GT1, 100% adapted to the new rules, so this can’t be the reason that they are not entering a car….

very pleased to see the great lm-1 chassis builders as there alot of differnt ones bit of a shame not to see the full ginetta team but i know that beachdean is factory backed so thats ok i hope to see great battle in all the classes especially in lmp1 ginetta audi peugeot pescarolo dome aston martin gonaa be great come on petrol cars and great to see gt1 comin back but gt2 the ammount of manufacturers is stunning come on jmw with the vantange

Corvette will be hard pressed to match its success in GT1, GT2 (stealing a term from the World Cup), is this year’s “Group of Death.” You can say at least a dozen of the 17 entrants have a legitimate chance to win the class title.

As for the prototypes, I think this could be the year a petrol car runs among the diesels. Aston Martin was extremely impressive in its debut year in LMP1 and may be sitting on a big one this year.

As far as the Maserati goes, it’s possible that even though they had the automatic invite, they probably just didn’t take it; similar to Dyson a few years back in the ALMS.

I have to say that I think this year’s Le Mans is shaping up to be quite the race.

pity about maserati, jloc definately doesnt deserve aplace after last years joke effort.the rest of the field looks fantastic though.always good to have a good variety. we’ll be supporting the astons, looking forward to seeing the ford gt and jag, can’t wait.

Ironic isn’t it, that GT2 has the most manufacturer backed entries. Except for the BMS, Modena, and somewhat the RSR team, pretty much the rest of the GT2 field has links to a factory.

Hankook (farnbacker) and Dunlop (JMW) are manufacturers too: not cars but tires so they count.

The class that was supposedly for the privateer tooling with a small staff in his own shop, actually has more clout than LMP1.

I guess it’s because the cars actually look like the road models so it makes a better selling point. GT1 cars cost almost as much as P1 cars without giving a chance at an overall win.

There’s pressure on Corvette to in GT1 since they have the most cars there. Pratt and Miller better equip those cars with all the performances updates, and maybe even suggest drivers.

Acura I think has pressure to win P2 as well in their first try since Porsche did a 1, 2 in their first race with the Spyder.

I believe Aston can make the diesels start to worry.

Acura needs to build a P1 car to quench their ALMS teams desire to go to LeMans if not they will loose Highcroft as well.

As far as I know, neither Pratt & Miller nor GM are supporting any of the GT1 ‘Vettes that are running. And with the competition they’ll face in GT2, they really can’t afford to.

As for Honda, I’m a little miffed they’ve entered P2 now at Le Mans, me thinks they ducked the Porsche RS Spyders, when they could’ve run the last two years and put on a great battle.

all i have to say is were the hell is luhr and werner and premat for audi !

Matty the didn’t duck them, the case was made to bring the cars over in LMP1 form not LMP2. When the bottom fell out of the economy that plan was scrapped for the time being.

I didn’t know RML switched from Mazda Turbo to Honda N/A, that should give the the reliability they were lacking the last two seasons.

I expect HPD to be on top from day one and race one in the LMS as well as Le Mans.

Should be a good race from top to bottom, I’ll tip Enge to win GT1 right now, but don’t be shocked if the Ford GT’s where on pace, they were the fastest of the two new generation cars constantly in FIA GT last year and ran a full season with the cars, updates should serve them well plus its nice to see the return of the Ford GT/GT40 to the track it has traditionally run well at.

why oh why did they bother with that waste of space GT1 category? Think how much this list could be improved by adding 2/3 to P2 and the remaining 5/6 to GT2.

GT2 just gets better and better by the year; the best thing about this is that of 17 entries, only 10 are Porsches and Ferraris - you wouldn’t have seen that scenario arising a few years ago.

Well they didn’t want to upset the other manufacturers. Corvette, Spyker, Dunlop/Aston, Hankook, BMW, Jaguar, all of the other entries are factory backed.

I think the RML package with the Lola/Acura is a better one than the actual Acura chassis. Hopefuly they have a kit to adapt the engine to the chassis.

No one talks about it, but the ARX chassis is not stable at high speed and fatigues the driver on long drives. Just look at their performances at petit, Laguna and sebring.

@Marco and milo
I don’t know the detailed rules about it but thanks for the info.

@HD and Christopher
It is not enough that the GT1 rules are the same at the FIA and the ACO.
The cars must have a homologisation at the ACO to run at Le Mans and as i know the Maserati MC12 don’t have and never had it. This is why MC12 never raced at Le Mans.

Maserati was officially invited by the ACO for this year.
They were afraid not to be on the same level as the competition back in december, so that’s probably why they didn’t confirmed the invitation.

Words for the inside.

GO MIKE LEWIS CALCLUB

Disgusted to see JLOC allowed back in. Waste of a space.

JLOC is in because of simple politics. The ACO would like all the top level GT racing leagues represented in the greatest race.

So JLOC being the only entry from the SuperGT that enters they get in by default. But this year however they had to be let in because they won the Okayama challenge in GT1 with a full spec car.

The ACO is also hoping that eventually the SuperGT teams will start using real GT cars not tube frame chassis like grand am. So JLOC being one of the few teams there (along with team nova DBR9) they get rewarded for being loyalists from afar. Hopefully that will entice the other teams.

But real GT chassis are way more expensive than the tube frames.

So for the ACO if they have to sacrifice one entry a year to possibly get other superGT teams interested, so be it. It’s an investment.

Why do you think they increased the grid size to 55 cars from 50… They know some entries simply won’t make it pass the first hour, and there might be late withdrawals.