A healthy grid of 27 cars will be in action in two weeks time at the official American Le Mans Series Sebring Winter Test at the Sebring International Raceway. Two LMP1s, three LMP2s, eleven GT2s, five LMPCs and six GTCs will test at the Florida race track before kicking off its season at the same track one month later.[...]
Corvette Racing will take on its most formidable challenge to date when it competes in the GT2 class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in Le Mans, France, on June 12-13. The twin Compuware Corvette C6.R race cars are among the 17 entries in the GT2 class invited by the Automobile Club de l’Ouest (ACO), organizers of the classic endurance race.[...]
After a sensational inaugural season, the world’s fastest one-make series, the Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo, has announced its race calendar for 2010, which will commence in April in Hockenheim, Germany.[...]
PR1 Motorsports and Mathiasen Motorsports are proud to announce that they have joined forces and will be campaigning a brand-new Oreca-Courage FLM09 in the 2010 American Le Mans Series LMPC class. Formed from two former Formula Atlantic Championship top-tier competitors, the team will be known as PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports and will take possession of the car in early March. The team will promptly began preparing the car in anticipation of a full 2010 season.[...]
Pierre Kaffer will join CRS Racing’s Pierre Ehret and Phil Quife in the first two races of the Le Mans Series at Paul Ricard and Spa-Francorchamps as well as the official Le Mans Series Test Days at Paul Ricard early next month.[...]
For many the announcement of Atlas FX Team Full Speed as a full season entry for the 2010 Le Mans Series came as a surprise. The team was shown on the official list with a Saleen S7R and drivers Adam Lacko and ‘Carlos van Damme’. At first sight it looked like the Full Speed entry that was planned for the Le Mans Series in 2009 and that eventually ended up in FIA GT.[...]
It might have looked like the last week was all about the Le Mans Series and the Le Mans 24 Hours as they announced their entry lists for 2010. But there was news from SRO Motorsports Group and its FIA GT Championships as well.[...]
After our LMP1 category analysis it is time to take a look at the second biggest class at this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours. The battle in the GT2 class is set to become a classic fight with seventeen entries from seven makes: Aston Martin, BMW, Corvette, Ferrari, Jaguar, Porsche and Spyker.[...]
As usual Planetlemans analyzes the Le Mans 24 Hours entries. With 21 out of 55 selected cars being LMP1s we will start with the rundown of the top category for Le Mans. Who is in, who is missing and are we surprised?
Audi will start the 78th edition of the legendary 24 Hours of Le Mans on June 12/13 with a total of three diesel-powered racing sports cars. At a press conference of the organizer, the Automobile Club de l’Ouest (ACO), in Le Mans (France), Head of Audi Motorsport Dr. Wolfgang Ullrich announced Audi’s driver line-up for the most important sports car race of the year.[...]